Dow hits record

• New high erases Great Recession losses

By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette

Associated Press • Trader John Bowers smiles Tuesday as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in the closing minutes of trading. The Dow closed at a record, beating the previous high it set in October 2007, before the Great Recession hit the country.

NEW YORK—The stock market is back.

Five and a half years after the start of a frightening drop that erased $11 trillion from stock portfolios and made investors despair of ever getting their money back, the Dow Jones industrial average has regained all the losses su...

Published: 03/06/2013