Stocks end lower Friday, with S&P 500 still booking 26.9% annual gain for 2021

Shares ended modestly decrease on New 12 months’s Eve, with the Dow Jones Industrial Common
DJIA,
-0.16%
shedding its grip on slight positive factors late within the 12 months’s ultimate session. The blue-chip index shed about 60 factors Friday, or 0.2%, to finish close to 36,338, nonetheless sufficient to solidify a 1.1% weekly achieve, 5.4% advance for December and a quarterly climb of seven.4%. For the 12 months, the Dow rose a sturdy 18.7%. That compares with the S&P 500 index
SPX,
-0.26%
gaining 26.9% on the 12 months, after additionally ended Friday’s session decrease by about 0.3%. The Nasdaq Composite Index booked a 21.4% achieve for 2021, whereas closing down 0.6% Friday.