The Dow Jones closes above 19,000 for the first time in history. The S&P 500 also set an all-time high, closing above 2200.
Recall that after Brexit, the prediction was that the British economy would go into a tailspin. Didn’t happen.
And after Trump’s election, the US economy was predicted to go into a tailspin. Instead, we hit the highest Dow closing ever.
Get out the Dow 19,000 rally caps. The Dow Jones industrial average, arguably the world’s best-known stock market gauge, closed above the 19,000 barrier Tuesday for the first time in its 120-year history.
For the second straight day, all four major U.S. stock indexes touched new record-high territory. The Dow jumped 67.18 points, or 0.4%, to close at a record high of 19,023.87.
In a day of milestones, the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index closed above 2200 for the first time ever as it rose 4.76 points, or 0.2%, to 2202.94. The Nasdaq composite rose 0.3%, to an all-time closing high of 5386.35 and the Russell 2000 gained 0.9% to 1334.34, its thirteenth straight session of gains — its longest winning streak in 20 years.
The assault on Dow 19,000 has taken nearly two years, or 700 calendar days, since it took out the 18,000 barrier back on Dec. 23, 2014. It was the slowest climb from one 1,000-point milestone to the next since taking nearly six years to climb from 14,000 in July 2007 to 15,000 in May 2013. (That long drought, of course, coincided with the Great Recession and the worst stock market decline since the Great Depression.)
Via the Des Moines Register