May 2, 2024

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 4:47 pm ET

Almost no one thought 2023 would be a blockbuster year for stocks. They could hardly have been more wrong. 

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates at the fastest clip since the 1980s, a regional banking crisis felled Silicon Valley Bank, and war broke out in the Middle East. Yet stocks kept climbing. 

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