Stocks Stagger Into New Year

According to Reuters, Wall Street is searching for a direction heading into the New Year.
Within a single trading session, the story of 2018 was played out again on Jan. 2nd.
Opening the day trading down, the top three markets on the New York Stock Exchange managed a rally by the afternoon, pairing its morning losses with gains.
But the markets were about flat on the day, with each market gaining less than 1-percent each.