Dow closes well above 24,000 in yet another milestone

Dow closes well above 24,000 in yet another milestone | 30 Nov 2017 | Stocks powered to new highs on Wall Street today, giving the Dow Jones industrials index its biggest gain since March and vaulting the blue-chip benchmark to finish above 24,000 points for the first time. The Dow Jones industrials gained 331 points, or 1.4 percent, to close at 24,272. Other market indicators also reached milestones on Thursday. The broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 index, which is widely followed by professional investors, had its biggest monthly gain since February.