U.S. Stock Market Bounces Back
March 4, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Business
After five straight days of losses, the United States stock market finally broke that streak on Wednesday. Of the stocks that saw their prices move, approximately 75% of the stocks became more valuable. At the bell, the Dow Jones industrial average gained almost 150 points to finish at 6,875.84.
The other indexes also showed improvement. The S&P’s 500 gained 16.5 points to go back over 700 and finish at 712.9. Indexes for Nasdaq and the Russell 2000 also posted gains.
Most of the good news in the stock market is being attributed by market experts to the Chinese government. In China, it …read more




