How major US stock indexes fared Thursday, 12/28/2023

Stocks wavered on Wall Street in muted trading as 2023 nears its finish

Stocks wavered on Wall Street in muted trading as 2023 nears its finish.

The S&P 500 rose less than 0.1% Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 53 points, or 0.1% and the technology-heavy Nasdaq fell less than 0.1%. Treasury yields edged higher.

Markets have held on to slight gains for the week so far, and the S&P 500 is hovering just below its all-time high set in January of 2022. The benchmark index is headed for a ninth-straight winning week and is up more than 24% for the year.

On Thursday:

The S&P 500 rose 1.77 points, or less than 0.1%, to 4,783.35