Happy hump day, readers. I'm senior reporter Phil Rosen.
This time last year, the S&P 500 was coming off its all-time closing high, which had arrived on 2022's first day of trading. That didn't exactly happen yesterday.
Stocks showed early promise Tuesday, but by the close they had turned as red as Santa's garb, carrying on December's sluggishness.
Of course it's still early, but if 2023 doesn't see a rebound, then history tells us that we could be in for more pain than last year.
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