Wall Street on Thursday is looking forward to a farewell to a pandemic-stricken year in the last trading day of 2020.
Equity markets are aiming to wrap up December, the fourth quarter and 2020 on a high note after a historic, gut-wrenching year that will go down in the annals of financial-market history. See: Stock-market timing expert DeMark ‘confident’ S&P 500 surges 5% in next 2-3 weeks—then watch out! Perhaps even more impressive, the small-capitalization Russell 2000 index RUT, -0.79% has gained 8.8% in December and nearly 19% in the year to date, capped by a record-setting return in the final three months of the year of more than 31%.Still, the economic and emotional toll in a year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic has been great, and is likely to continue into 2021. It’s unclear what lies ahead as the viral spread continues even as vaccines from Pfizer PFE, -0.79% -BioNTech BNTX, -0.
I can't remember if the rule is 2021 will be an up stock market year if the 1st 2 weeks or 1st month (January) DOW is up, anybody remember?
it’s open & it’s taking a beating
bitcoin is always open