Dow Explores Record Territory
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Blue-chip gauge passes the 14,000 mark for the first time with help from familiar drivers.
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World stocks bumped along near record  highs on Wednesday while investors' search for yield kept  emerging market and corporate bonds closer to government debt  than ever before.
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The Dow soared about 280 points to a record close Thursday, posting its biggest gain in nearly 5 years, on a flurry of takeover activity and some upbeat retail sales numbers.
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The Dow Jones industrial average and the S.&P. 500 both closed at record levels for the second straight day, capping a week which saw the Dow surge 295 points.
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Ever wonder how the Dow can be an average at more than 11,000?
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The Dow closed at a record on Tuesday, striking above the 14,000 mark for the first time, and the Nasdaq rose to a six-and-a-half-year high on a cascade of stronger-than-expected earnings.
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Stocks rallied Wednesday, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average to a new all-time record and the S&P 500 to a fresh 6-1/2 year high, after investors cheered comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Wall Street&#39;s blue-chip index, briefly topped 14,000 for the first time early Tuesday on strong corporate results.
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With Wall Street coming off a record week that saw the Standard &amp; Poor's 500 index and the Dow Jones industrials barrel to record highs, investors will be waiting to see if earnings and economic reports justify the market's huge advance.
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U.S. stock futures nudged higher on   Wednesday with the Dow Jones industrial average within 100   points of a record high after marking its second-highest close   ever in the last session.
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The Dow Jones industrial average may not be the most comprehensive measure of the stock market, or even the most accurate, but when investors want to know how the market is doing, they invariably ask, ``Where's the Dow?"
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NEW YORK -- The Dow Jones industrial average surged past its all-time trading high of 11,750.28 Tuesday, taking yet another step in its recovery from seven years of market turmoil.
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NEW YORK, May 30 -- The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index hit a record high today, marking the end of a four-year healing period for U.S. stocks battered by the burst of the tech bubble, the collapse of Enron and WorldCom, the Sept. 11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The Dow Jones index is close to its highest ever level as worries about US inflation ease.
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Stocks rose Wednesday afternoon, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average within a whisper of its record closing high, before the world's most widely watched stock market gauge pulled back.
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The Dow Jones industrial average posted its best week since Nov. 19, rising slightly Friday to another record close.
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Equities set new records as takeovers, earnings, and friendly economic data cheered on the market.