US Markets Make Record Start to 2017

The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and NASDAQ Composite all touched record highs to start off 2017, with the Dow coming within 0.37 points of the key 20,000 level, and the S&P 500 and NASDAQ closing at all-time highs. The S&P 500 has now gone 59 consecutive days without a 1 percent drop, one of the longest streaks going back 45 years and the longest such streak since 66 in a row during the summer of 2014, according to LPL Financial Jobs Data. The key monthly Employment...

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