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  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    S&P finished at its highest level since Sept 2008
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    S&P finished at its highest level since Sept 2008

    I thought this thread was about the Dow :)
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    FTSE closes above 6000 after late spurt.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Dow breaches 12,000 for the first time in thirty one
    months.
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/848f78c4-2778-11e0-a327-00144feab49a.html#axzz1C31LUzsZ
    Wednesday 16:35 GMT The Dow Jones Industrial Average has breached 12,000 for the first time since June 2008 as investors welcome corporate America’s ability to ride the rebound in the global economy following the worst recession since the 1930s.


    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • SPX in Gold still relatively depressed

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    Dow chart pretty much identical
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    You can see in 2007 it stayed this way for while though
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    Dow breaches 12,000 for the first time in thirty one
    months.
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/848f78c4-2778-11e0-a327-00144feab49a.html#axzz1C31LUzsZ





    Not sure about the Dow but apparently in the average 3rd year of a presidency, the S&P rises by 23%.
  • Because they are desperate to be reelected? Thats been the theme the whole time
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Mr Dow is bouncing on his trampoline :)
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Mr_Mumble
    Mr_Mumble Posts: 1,758 Forumite
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    Quite a week so far. It's easy to become desensitised to these moves. The 135 point fall in the last fourteen minutes today starts looking like a tiny blip.
    "The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.
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