The Dow made another push into positive territory around noon ET on Monday. The blue-chip index was up 56 points, or up 0.1%, after trading lower for much of the morning. The S&P 500 was still down 1.
Indeed, the blue-chip bastion of Dow stocks generated a price gain of 19% through Dec. 30. To get a sense of what an outlier 2021 was for the blue-chip average, the Dow's 30-year annualized price ...