The biggest market winners and losers of 2020, at home and abroad
The Nasdaq Composite, the tech-heavy index, gained the most among these three US indices, rallying more than 43 percent in 20202.
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The year 2020 was off to a bad start as the coronavirus began spreading from Wuhan, where the first case was reported late in 2019. As the virus spread, countries including India, opted for lockdowns to curb infections as the human toll began to mount. The restrictions wrecked economies and benchmark indices crashed 40 percent in March but after hitting multi-year lows, markets started rebounding in the last week of March.