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Text: Last year notched a series of new records in the U.S. stock market and its major indexes. The S&P 500 gained 26.9% for full-year 2021, excluding dividends, and while many of the high-flying “pandemic stocks” from 2020 sputtered out and fell, the overall market trend was undeniably positive.
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