Market Update: Dow Edges Toward 11,000 in Late-Day Trading

No one told the Dow Jones Industrial Average that there's an election tomorrow. The major market barometer was up strongly -- nary a pre-election jitter in sight -- with just two hours until the trading bells go ding-ding and all those traders go bye-bye. Tomorrow, all those voting machines go clang-clang, and the new President thanks America.

The Dow's been rampaging all day long. Right after the open, it spent a grand total of three minutes in the red and then took off like Evel Kneivel with a brand-new death wish. By 1:10 p.m. EST, the Dow briefly touched the magical 11,000 barrier. That's much better than that freakish mid-October slip below 10,000, now isn't it?

Major Indices INDEX CHANGE % VALUE Dow 159.26 1.47% 10,977.21 S&P 500 7.51 0.53% 1434.20 Nasdaq 16.74 -0.48% 3434.84 Russell 2000 1.75 -0.34% 506.00 TSC Internet 3.43 -0.54% 634.47 NOTE CHANGE PRICE YIELD 10-Year Treasury 8/32 99 5/32 5.863% Market data as of: 2:25 p.m. EST, Nov. 6, 2000

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