Posted by
Team Turk on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:38:41 PM
Kansas City Star reports
financial milestone.
The Dow Jones industrial average tiptoed to record heights Tuesday, exhibiting little of the exuberance that had marked the old January 2000 peak.
A 56.99-point gain Tuesday in the Dow pushed it to 11,727.34 at the close, barely higher than its 11,722.98 close on Jan. 14, 2000.
“It does seem like we’ve been here before, though conditions are a lot different,” said Tom Laming, president of TrendStar Advisors LLC in Overland Park. “We got here with much more skepticism this time.”