Belatedly, the stock market woke up. What many thought might have been the natural reaction to the Federal Reserve's sharp half-point drop in interest rates didn't arrive on Wednesday. But on Thursday ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 1.25%, or 522 points, to settle at a lifetime high of 42,025 points, hitting a record high of 42,160 during the session. The S&P 500 index surged 1.7%, or 95 ...