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The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly surpassed 29,000 on Friday for the first time, setting a new record. The index hit the record earlier in the session following a moderate December jobs report, which found 145,000 new jobs created in 2019 and the unemployment rate staying unchanged at 3.5 percent, the lowest level in nearly 50 years. The Dow then retreated and was down slightly as of late morning. President Trump has frequently touted strong stocks as a sign of a booming economy, which he has made a central theme in his case for reelection. He has also cited the...

DJIA crosses 26,000 for the first time Dollar rebounds after three-year low Bitcoin selloff accelerates The Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed 26000 for the first time Tuesday, with U.S. stocks echoing broad-based gains in Europe and Asia-Pacific as they continued their speedy leap higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 221 points, or 0.9%, to 26025 shortly after the opening bell. The S&P 500 added 0.5%, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.7%. Meanwhile, the dollar rebounded from Monday’s three-year low. Tuesday’s historic rise builds on the Dow’s 25% gain last year and its seemingly unstoppable climb to start 2018. The...

Wondering why the DJIA just passed 13K again? Wonder no more: as the chart below shows it is entirely due to the nearly $7 trillion pumped by global central banks into the world stock markets just in the past 4 years. As Sean Corrigan from Diapason notes, the aggregate global central bank balance sheet has doubled in four years, after doubling in the 5 years before that. We would add that with the entire centrally planned ponzi scheme hell bent on preserving the illusion of nominal gains, global liquidity is now fungibly sloshing from one market to another with absolutely...

The Dow closed below 10,000 on Thursday for the first time since early July a day ahead of an expected downward revision in U.S. second-quarter economic growth and a major speech by the Federal Reserve chairman. According to the latest available figures, the Dow Jones industrial average (DJI:^DJI - News) dropped 74.25 points, or 0.74 percent, to 9,985.81. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (^SPX - News) lost 8.09 points, or 0.77 percent, to 1,047.24. The Nasdaq Composite Index (Nasdaq:^IXIC - News) fell 22.85 points, or 1.07 percent, to 2,118.69. The last time the Dow finished below 10,000 was July...

The Dow just closed above 10,000.