Stocks Rise to Start Last Trading Week of Year

Main indexes superior to start out the holiday-shortened buying and selling week, with shares trying to shut out a optimistic yr after a bruising 2022.

The benchmark S&P 500 gained 0.4% Tuesday, leaving it inside 0.5% of a document shut. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 0.5%, and the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Common rose 0.4%, or about 159 factors. The small-cap Russell 2000, which has outperformed the main indexes in December, climbed 1.2%.