dow jones industrials

The Dow Jones industrials looked to plunge below 10,000 Tuesday as investors worried about a global economic slowdown and tensions between North and South Korea.

Investors are starting to believe that the stock market is on the verge of another big rally. The Dow Jones industrials rose 103 points Tuesday, their biggest point gain in five weeks.

Optimism about the government's February jobs report sent the Dow Jones industrials back into the black for 2010.

Investors are aiming to resume a recent rally that took the Dow Jones industrials to a new high for the year earlier this week.

How far the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen or advanced each trading day since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 15.

Since Lehman's fall, which touched off a paralysis of the credit markets and deepened the recession, the stock market has gone through an extended period of volatility before kicking into a big rally starting this spring.

The numbers are the closing levels for the Dow:

Investors are taking a breather after a surge in stocks that sent the Dow Jones industrials above the 9,000 mark for the first time since January.

How far the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen or advanced each trading day since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 15.

Since Lehman's fall, which touched off a paralysis of the credit markets and deepened the recession, the stock market has gone through an extended period of volatility before kicking into a big rally this spring.

The numbers are the closing levels for the Dow:

How far the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen or advanced each trading day since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 15.

Since Lehman's fall, which touched off a paralysis of the credit markets and deepened the recession, the stock market has gone through an extended period of volatility that subsided during December but that has returned in 2009.

The numbers are the closing levels for the Dow:

The stock market has run out of reasons to rally, at least for now. After a two-month surge that saw the Dow Jones industrials average soar 31 percent and the Standard & Poor's 500 index shoot up 37 percent, investors gave up some of those gains last week.

As the new week begins, there doesn't seem to be any catalysts that could restart the rally.