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<p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;" data-flag="normal"><span>The Dow Jones Industrial Average or DOW is a stock market index thatmeasures the stock performance of 30 large companies listed on the US stockexchange. On the day, DOW jumped 464 points, or 1.5%, passing the 32,000 levelfor the first time ever. The S&P 500 rose 0.6%, and the Nasdaq Compositewas essentially flat, a positive sign given the recent volatility for techstocks.</span></p><p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;font-size:16px;line-height:30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;hyphens:auto;text-align:justify;" data-flag="normal"><span>TheDow's 1000-point milestones don't mean all that much these days. Going from31,000 to 32,000, after all, is a mere 3.2% gain. Not quite the 25% gainrequired for the Dow to break 5,000 back in November 1995.</span></p><p style="color:#333333;font-weight:normal;fon...