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Gains despite low trading volume, struggling economies in europe and deepening troubles in ukraine and the middle east. On this final trading day of the month, the dow added almost 19 points, the nasdaq rose 22 and s p up 6. 5 closing at 2003 and by the way, tomorrow will be the 2000th calendar day since the bull market began on march 9th of 2009. What a month august has been. The dow is up 3 , nasdaq posted a gain of 4 pblt 8 and the s p hirer by more than 3. 5 . Only february posted higher gains for those big indexes. So why do the markets keep rising in spite of the headline risks . And what are investors looking forward to in september . Bob takes a look. Reporter despite turmoil in the mideast and ukraine, what could derail the rally. The market is up because of continuing low interest rates. Secondly, the low Commodity Prices like oil. Third, a slowly improving economy. Fourth, we have record earnings and finally, the u. S ....