{"id":3580,"date":"2024-05-18T15:11:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/the-dow-just-hit-40000-heres-a-look-at-how-it-got-here\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T15:11:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T15:11:59","slug":"the-dow-just-hit-40000-heres-a-look-at-how-it-got-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/the-dow-just-hit-40000-heres-a-look-at-how-it-got-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dow just hit 40,000. Here\u2019s a look at how it got here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=''>The&nbsp;Dow Jones Industrial Average&nbsp;reached a milestone Thursday that seemed unfathomable a year ago.<\/p>\n<figure class='styles_inlineImage__yAWZ0 styles_medium__OMa6x'><figcaption class='caption styles_caption__Pe5JC' data-testid='caption'><span class='caption__container' data-testid='caption__container'>A trader at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, May 16, 2024, as the DOW reached 40,000.<\/span><span class='caption__source' data-testid='caption__source'>Courtney Crow \/ NYSE<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=''>The 30-stock benchmark broke above 40,000 for the first time. The move comes as investors cheer the prospects of artificial intelligence boosting corporate profits and the Federal Reserve possibly cutting rates later this year as inflation eases further from its pandemic highs.<\/p>\n<div id='taboolaReadMoreBelow'><\/div>\n<p class=''>It\u2019s been a long and winding road for the Dow to climb to these levels. Here\u2019s a look at the Dow\u2019s trajectory over the past 20,000 points.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Dow Jones Industrial Average&nbsp;reached a milestone Thursday that seemed unfathomable a year ago. A trader&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}