Within just four years, the Dow hit another key price: 10,000. The average first touched the level on March 16, 1999. However, it took several days of choppy trading for the index to close a session above 10,000 on March 29, 1999.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared well past the 50,000 mark for the first time ever on Friday as Wall Street bounced back from losses across the technology sector taken earlier in the week. The blue-chip index surged 1,

The Dow Jones Industrial Average just closed above 50,000 for the first time in its near 130-year history. Read more here.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was soaring to a fresh intraday high in early afternoon trading, with Nvidia Corp. posting the largest gain in the blue-chip stock index. The Dow was gaining 1,043 points,

Stock Market Today: The Dow Jones index rebounds Friday and hit a milestone. Small caps lead the rally with a more than 3% gain.

The S&P and the Dow are two of the most popular bellwether indexes for the American stock market and economy. Here's how they stack up.