NEW YORK (AP) — The pattern looks eerily familiar.

The stock market scampers up to historical heights to start the year then gets knocked on its back. Last year, worries about Greece and the U.S. economy helped flatten a rally by June. The year before it was an earthquake and tsunami in Japan, along with a political fight in Washington.

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