When the curtain closed on 2024, investors were all smiles. The mature stock-driven Dow Jones Industrial Average, benchmark S&P 500, and growth-fueled Nasdaq Composite ended last year higher by 13%, 23%, and 29%, respectively.

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Nvidia still carries the stock-boosting power, but its strength may be waning as some investors wonder how long it will last. According to a recent Bloomberg report, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang’s praise of Samsung Electronics memory chip capabilities last Wednesday prompted a 3% jump in the company’s shares.