On Thursday, the US index roared to its biggest points gain, ending the day more than 4 percentt higher and pushing communications shares in particular sharply higher at the outset of trading.
The broad-based Standard & Poor's 500 managed a slight 0.03% gain, ending the day at 1342.97.
In the overall market, the Nasdaq Composite continued its winning streak by notching an impressive 4.61% gain, ending the day at 2,640.54.
Gateway shares, which by November 1999 sported a 1,700% lifetime gain, ended their first eighteen months trading at the December 1993 IPO price after trading below it 55% of the time.
The disappointing gain ends 2013 on a weak note and could raise questions about the economy's recent strength.
The 1989 2003 NA smoothing gain ended with the advent of the "swine flu" strains, which appeared in successive outbreaks, first in Hong Kong 1999 and next in New York in 2003 and in Berlin in 2005.
Few believe that this has worked.Many hospitals, lacking the managerial capacity to instigate big efficiency gains, end up with longer waiting lists.
Many of these tax schemes are run by British companies, while the ill-gotten gains end up in tax havens such as the British Virgin Islands, Jersey and Guernsey.
The gains ended a six-day losing streak and were the first time stocks rose in June.
The Dow Jones industrials and the Standard & Poor's 500 both eked out negligible gains, ending at 10,629.87 and 1,367.72, respectively.
