• 05 Mar 2013 at 12:09 PM
  • Dow

Call the Close: It’s a Record

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It’s like the last five-and-a-half years never happened, if you can keep it.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average powered to an all-time high, riding a resilient 2013 advance and putting devastating declines of the financial crisis in the rear-view mirror….

The Dow rose 130 points, or 0.9%, to 14258 in midmorning trading, surpassing its earlier intraday high of 14198.10, set in October 2007. The benchmark has more than doubled from its March 2009 low of 6547.05 in the wake of the financial crisis. A close above 14164.53 would be its the highest finish ever.

Dow Breaks Record, Keeps Going [WSJ]
Dow Reaches Record High, Spurred by Fed and Profits [NYT]
Dow Average Jumps to Record as Profits, Fed Stoke Rebound [Bloomberg]

Comments (6)

  1. 1
    Posted by JS =/= Team DB | March 5, 2013 at 12:54 PM

    Wow, Shazar doesn't even have the authority to grant a visit from the Sandwich Fairy.

  2. 2
    Posted by thatguy | March 5, 2013 at 2:00 PM

    It's been so long that no one remembers how this works.
    -UBS Finance Tabloid Analyst

  3. 3
    Posted by Mrs Shazar | March 5, 2013 at 2:04 PM

    No one wants to play with you Shaz, go clean your room.

    -Mom

  4. 4
    Posted by DingALing | March 5, 2013 at 2:06 PM

    A Jos. A Bank suit, white Van Heusan Shirt, and a red tie from Kohls

    -UBS MD

  5. 5
    Posted by Dick | March 5, 2013 at 4:06 PM

    Bess, why does Shazar have to ruin everything?

  6. 6
    Posted by Guesticle | March 5, 2013 at 4:22 PM

    Instead of call the close, let's play "call the number of days that Shazar will writing for DB going forward?"