Good evening, everyone. And welcome. Soucie has the night off. The major averages just wrapped up their fifth week in a row of gains and there were more record closing highs for the dow and the s p 500 today thanks to major move the ls moves by two. The peoples bank of china cut benchmark Interest Rates for the first time in two years looking to combat slowing economic growth. Then European Central Bank President mario draghi promised to use whatever means necessary, even buying up sovereign bonds, to boost that regions struggling economy. And with that, investors plowed into stocks in asia, in europe, and right here in the u. S. That sent major averages surging right out of the open before they lost a little bit of steam later in the session. Nevertheless, at the close, the dow was up 91 points, record high, closing above 17,800 for the first time. The nasdaq up 11 and the s p tallied a tenpoint gain. For the week with the dow it was up 1 . The nasdaq up half a percent, and the s p up
Good evening, everyone. And welcome. Soucie has the night off. The major averages just wrapped up their fifth week in a row of gains and there were more record closing highs for the dow and the s p 500 today thanks to major move the ls moves by two. The peoples bank of china cut benchmark Interest Rates for the first time in two years looking to combat slowing economic growth. Then European Central Bank President mario draghi promised to use whatever means necessary, even buying up sovereign bonds, to boost that regions struggling economy. And with that, investors plowed into stocks in asia, in europe, and right here in the u. S. That sent major averages surging right out of the open before they lost a little bit of steam later in the session. Nevertheless, at the close, the dow was up 91 points, record high, closing above 17,800 for the first time. The nasdaq up 11 and the s p tallied a tenpoint gain. For the week with the dow it was up 1 . The nasdaq up half a percent, and the s p up
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