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Dow Scrapes 12,500

The Dow Jones Industrial Average tagged a big, round intraday trading high today, poking just above 12,500.  It's been all of 5 sessions since the most recent all-time closing high of 12,471.32.  If the market holds on to the bulk of its intraday gains, the Dow is poised to notch up its 22nd all-time high in just three months.

All the stars aligned for a nice move higher today - yet more M&A activity, an unexpectedly strong housing report, easing oil prices, and perhaps the effects of so-called "window dressing" (a practice employed by some investment managers to expand their holdings of winning stocks just before year-end to present more attractive performance figures), conspired to shove the market higher, despite the light trading typical of the final few trading days of the year.

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Dow Scrapes 12,500

The Dow Jones Industrial Average tagged a big, round intraday trading high today, poking just above 12,500.  It's been all of 5 sessions since the most recent all-time closing high of 12,471.32.  If the market holds on to the bulk of its intraday gains, the Dow is poised to notch up its 22nd all-time high in just three months.

All the stars aligned for a nice move higher today - yet more M&A activity, an unexpectedly strong housing report, easing oil prices, and perhaps the effects of so-called "window dressing" (a practice employed by some investment managers to expand their holdings of winning stocks just before year-end to present more attractive performance figures), conspired to shove the market higher, despite the light trading typical of the final few trading days of the year.