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Dow Breaks 13,000 for First Time Since 2008 Stock Market Crash

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Dow Breaks 13,000 for First Time Since 2008 Stock Market Crash
The Dow Jones industrial average, powered higher all year by optimism that the economic recovery is finally for real, crossed 13,000 today for the first time since May 2008 -- a number with symbolic power that couldn't be dismissed.

The Dow Jones industrial average, powered higher all year by optimism that the economic recovery is finally for real, crossed 13,000 today for the first time since May 2008.

It came and went in a flash, a number on a board for seconds at a time, but its symbolic power couldn't be dismissed.

 

(READ the AP story in the Washington Post)

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