Future U.S. stock markets were flat on Sunday at the end of the first trading session of the new year.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00,
S&P 500 futures ES00,
and futures NQ00 of Nasdaq-100,
they were little changed, two days before Georgia’s by-elections that would decide control of the Senate and probably the fate of the Biden administration’s economic policy.
US equities ended higher on Thursday, the last trading day of 2020, with the Dow and S&P 500 setting new records as investors reached a wild year that saw stocks plummet in a bearish market before recovering historical highs.
The Dow DJIA,
closed the year at 8.3%, the S&P 500 SPX,
finished 16.3% and the Nasdaq COMP,
ended the year at 43.6%.