The Russell 2000 small-stock index reached record ground in January, too.
The Wilshire 5000, the broadest U.S. stock market index, breached record territory in late January.
In Europe, Germany's main DAX index touched a record of 8, 195, bouyed by surprisingly strong industrial orders.
The heavy smog and haze that enveloped Beijing this weekend pushed the pollution index to a record high.
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That eclipsed the index's record closing high of 1, 569.19 set Thursday.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 38 points to 14, 127 a matching gain Tuesday would put the index above its record close of 14.164.53 and the Nasdaq added 12 points to 3, 182.
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And over in Moscow, a new trading record was set on the RTS Index future contract, the most liquid instrument of the Russian financial market.
If you've been distracted by whether the Dow Jones stock index will stay in record-setting territory, there's a less-noticed but raging debate about the future of commodities.
On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Transportation Index hit its own record high, which "absolutely" confirms to Mr. Saut and other believers in so-called Dow Theory that stocks still have room to climb, he said.
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The Index shows that after a record five years of home price declines, some metropolitan area housing markets are beginning to find their bottom.
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But as troubled euro-zone member Cyprus reopened its banks Thursday, there was little sense of panic, which calmed investor nerves and set the stage for the index's push into record territory.
All that will weigh heavily on the bourse, and, current bargains aside, no one expects the blue-chip Hang Seng Index to recover its August record closing high of 16, 673 any time soon.
Accounting for the effects of inflation, the stock index hasn't been in record territory for more than 13 years.
Yet on Friday, January 26, 2013, the Wilshire 5000 Index hit an all-time record high, breaking through the previous record set on October 9, 2007.
The index started the week with a record-shattering 936-point gain.
But the small-cap index immediately reversed course from its new record peak of 859.08, and closed the week below the 850 level.
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That pushed the percent of Index loans with only incurrence test to a record 30%.
Despite the flooding, the 30-share benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange hit a record high on Tuesday.
The benchmark stock index rose 1.4% to a record 1776.73 on Tuesday, after surging 3.4% on Monday, while Malaysia's ringgit currency gained 1.9% against the dollar in the first two trading days of the week.
The average yield for senior unsecured bonds issued in dollars by non-U.S. banks and insurers was 2.95% Wednesday, just 0.02 percentage point higher than the record low level hit Tuesday, according to a Markit index.
Wall Street shares plunge, with the Dow Jones index slumping 7% or 770 points, a record one-day point fall.
Following a buoyant start to the year, many stock indexes around the world are near multi-year highs and the Dow Jones index is not far off its all-time record.
The FAO's food index last week was reported to have risen above the record registered in 2008 after jumping 6% in July.
The Stoxx Europe 600 reversed earlier declines to finish with a 0.4% gain, while Germany's DAX index rose 0.7% to close at a record, despite a disappointing reading of German economic expectations.
By June 26, 1962, the index had fallen 27 percent from the previous year's record, to 535.76.
The Russell Investments index of 2000 small-capitalization companies, meantime, notched a record on the first day of the year, and has climbed higher since then.
Historically low interest rates and bottom-of-the-trough housing prices have combined to increase the Housing Affordability Index (as reported by the National Association of Realtors) to record highs.
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The Institute for Supply Management said its non-manufacturing index came in at 40.6 in December after November's record-low 37.3.
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