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MEASURING THE MARKET

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by Hector N. Fertig
The day that Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 7,949.09 and the S&P500 was at 805.22.  These two indices are used, often blindly, to gauge the “health” of the US business environment.  On March 9th, 2009 these indices both reached [...]