Top 10 Forces Pushing U.S. Stock Market Prices

By Jeffrey Cohen, President and Founder, US Advanced Computing Infrastructure, Inc., Highland Park, Illinois
A consultancy and registered investment advisory firm.

These are the top forces acting on US stock prices. Overall, when these move, stock prices are moving. These are casual relationships maintained over the past one or five years against the S&P 500 Equity Index or SPY ETF. We have seen a few of them break with longer-term trends lately, which could change the trajectory of stocks.

These factors are not necessarily causes of stock market movements. They are correlated with stock market movements.

In our opinion, a few of them significantly influence stock market attractiveness for new capital, and we will highlight those in bold.

This is a continuation and evolution of our original Top 10 Stock Market Drivers story. Here are the current pressures impacting US stock prices.

We would suggest tracking these ten factors each day that you have an active investment with significant capital at risk, and to see where the market forces are leading the market (if at all).

We see many views on these metrics in the popular media, so we publish BETA values where possible so you can see where the correlations historically have been, not where they should or could be.

Factors that put pressure on stock prices when they move.