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November 24, 2008

List of Biggest Two-Day Dow Advances: New Entry

In case you were thinking "Good God, this has been a huge two-day advance in the Dow", you're right. It has been a huge two-day advance in the Dow index. Here is the top fifteen list of all-time two-day advances in the index, including today, which is highlighted in dark yellow. Note that this was the largest two-day advance since 1987, and, more importantly, the rest of the entire list is populated by the Great Depression.

Until the Dow lost 200 points in the closing minutes of trading, we were up more than 13% over the two days, which had us in the top ten.

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