S&P 500 finally does it

The widely followed stock index - generally a better measurement of Wall Street performance than the Dow - reached an all-time record today in an otherwise ho-hum session. The S&P closed at 1,530.23, up 12.12 points. It's up almost 8 percent for the year. The previous record came on March 24, 2000, in the midst of the dot-com boom. NYT

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