As January Goes, So Goes the Year?
The S&P 500 (SPX +0.40%) rose 7.29 points, or 0.4%, to end 2013 at 1,848.36 Tuesday. The index ended the year with a 29.6% annual gain, its biggest yearly jump since 1997. The S&P 500 gained 5 percent in the first month of 2013, logging its best January performance since 1997. Looking back, also in…