On the day, the Dow rose 54.83 to 9041.11, while broad yardstick Standard & Poors 500 Index added 5.20 to 1144.52.
As technology shares continued to weigh on the Nasdaq Composite Index, the yardstick fell another 0.1% following yesterdays 3.9% setback.
As technology shares continued to weigh on the Nasdaq Composite Index, the yardstick fell another 0.1% following yesterday's 3.9% setback.
It measured two basic yardsticks: a government restrictions index, and a social hostilities index.
Place of incorporation is the yardstick for some other indexes, including the Frank Russell Company's Russell 3000, which excludes Schlumberger, Carnival and Tyco.
So far this year, the Russell 2000 index, a key yardstick for smaller issues, has lost some 8.99%.
Computer-oriented heavyweights depressed the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, sending the yardstick 44 points lower to 2449 amid broad selling.
This momentum-driven style of investing may partially explain why two of the market's best-known indexes, the blue-chip yardstick Dow Jones Industrial Average and the technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index, seem to have forked this spring.
Tech gauge Nasdaq Composite Index and big-cap yardstick S&P 500 also dominated in large part by technology heavyweights are now deep into record territory.
One of them is called the exposure index, and by this yardstick, black and white students are still rarely learning together, though it's been over six decades since Brown v. Board of Education made segregated schools illegal.
Mervyn King revived the spectre of deflation when he said yesterday that one of the government's yardsticks of inflation, the retail prices index, would go negative in 2009.
