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(47,535 posts) Wed Jan 2, 2013, 06:28 PM Jan 2013

All the Numbers You Need to Know: Dow Notches Fourth Straight Winning Year

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/12/31/all-the-numbers-you-need-to-know-dow-notches-fourth-straight-winning-year

And who was at the helm during these four years?

Yes, I know, might have happened anyway, under - shudder - McCain. But it did under Obama.

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And look at it go today! Warpy Jan 2013 #1

Warpy

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1. And look at it go today!

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Wed Jan 2, 2013, 08:37 PM

Jan 2013

Part of it is jubilation over the Senate agreement on taxes. A larger part of it is investors buying back the stock they sold late last year to take advantage of lower capital gains taxes.

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