As the bull market in US stocks gets set to celebrate its eighth birthday this week, it is stunning to consider how far we have come. On March 9, 2009, here was the closing level of the three major indexes:
- Dow: 6547 – lowest level since April 15, 1997
- S&P 500: 676 – lowest level since Sept 12, 1996
- NASDAQ: 1268 – lowest level since Oct 9, 2002