The Dow Jones Industrial Average
Source: Yahoo! Finance.
Is this the beginning of a bull market? Perhaps, but we're technically not there yet. While performance has been strong during the day, it's really the numbers at the end of it that matter, and we simply haven't crossed that 20% threshold yet.
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