20,000 may just be a number, but it's a big, round one. It took 42 days for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to move from 19,000 to 20,000, the second fastest thousand-point rise in the history of the index. (The quickest occurred in 1999, when it took just 24 trading days for the Dow to rise from 10,000 to 11,000.) The most recent leg up in the market has been referred to as “Trump Bump,” because the index has jumped by about 9 percent increase since Election Day.
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