The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at record highs on Monday, as investors eyed an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and awaited cues from the United States Federal Reserve this week amid caution over rising borrowing costs.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.53 percent to end at 32,953.46 points on Monday in New York.
The broader S&P 500 index – a proxy for the health of retirement and college savings accounts – gained 0.65 percent to land at 3,968.94 and the Nasdaq Composite Index vaulted 1.05 percent to close at 13,459.71. However, the Nasdaq remains down almost 5 percent from its February 12 record high close.
The Globe and Mail Biff Matthews and Doug McCutcheon Special to The Globe and Mail Published February 15, 2021 Bookmark
The person most responsible for China’s extraordinary economic growth over the past 50 years is Deng Xiaoping, who led that country from 1978 to 1989. His most famous quotation was a homespun comment about a distinction without a material difference. “No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; if it can catch mice, it is a good cat.”
The investment world is rife with this type of unhelpful distinction. One of the oldest has lately had a lot of play – the distinction between value investing and growth investing.