How Major US Stock Indexes Fared Dec. 31

Stock indexes closed mostly lower on Wall Street on the final day of another record-setting year.
The S&P 500 slipped 0.4 percent Tuesday, but still managed to rack up a gain of 23.3 percent for the year, its second straight year with gains of more than 20 percent. The last time it had back-to-back yearly gains that big was 1998.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1 percent, and the Nasdaq composite lost 0.9 percent.
Big Tech stocks led this year’s rally, pushing the Nasdaq composite to a yearly gain of 28.6 percent. The Dow, which is far less weighted with tech, rose 12.9 percent for the year….



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