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Dec 31, 2003

Leader: The Dow's flirtation

When the Dow Jones soared briefly above 10,000 on December 9, there was an instantaneous flashback - this was, after all, a high not seen since the heady days of the internet bubble

When the Dow Jones soared briefly above 10,000 on December 9, there was an instantaneous flashback - this was, after all, a high not seen since the heady days of the internet bubble. Even though it fell back 41.85 points to close at 9,923.42 that day, the Dow's surge created quite a buzz. As the most widely recognized index, the Dow behaves like the market's psychological barometer with figures of 5,000 and 10,000 the attention-grabbing symptoms marking depression and mania. Individual investors

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