Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Off The Charts

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Wall Street is enjoying its third record-setting run of this year, with the major stock indexes delivering a string of all-time highs in recent weeks.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq composite have each set new highs 23 times this year through Monday, up from last year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has set 12 record highs, down from 15 a year ago.

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are now up by more than 20% since the start of the year, while the Dow is up nearly 19%.

The indexes’ latest record-setting run has extended the life of the longest-ever bull market for stocks, which marked 10 years in March after nearly falling 20% in December.

The gains have been concentrat­ed among the market’s biggest companies. Apple, Microsoft, Google’s parent Alphabet, Walt Disney, AT&T and JPMorgan Chase all hit all-time highs this month.

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