We're hoping to shelve the word 'unprecedented' for a while as 2021 gets underway — but first, one final look at a 2020.
The Dow and the S&P 500 ended the year at record highs and the Nasdaq Composite logged its best performance since 2009 with a whopping 43.6% jump. Overall, the indexes registered gains for the second year in a row.
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