The Dow Jones Industrial Average knocked out yet another record yesterday in its rise to new heights. After knocking out a round-number milestone at 25,000, the index then posted its fasted run to a midpoint milestone. It reached 25,500 in just seven trading sessions.
The previous record for such a midpoint advance was the move to 24,500, hit after December 12 after a blistering eight sessions for the Dow. By contrast, the Dow took 17,476 days to reach its first midpoint, when it went from zero to 500, which it finally hit on March 12, 1956.
Perhaps a more fair comparison would be when the Dow took 1,423 trading sessions to go from 14,000 to 14,500. That took place after the Dow crashed at the outset of the recession; it hit 14,000 in July 2007, but didn't reach 14,500 until March of 2013.
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