The Dow hit 10,000

The Dow hit 10,000 for the first time in a year and The Washington Post thought it was worth 2 breaking news stories.

News Alert
01:21 PM EDT Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Dow Breaks 10,000 for First Time in a Year

Stock index surpasses key psychological barrier on surprisingly strong earnings reports from Intel Corp. and J.P. Morgan Chase.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com - http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/46MP2V/F23VT/A4B3UE/T81T15/57VOJ/LE/t

 

News Alert
04:01 PM EDT Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Dow Closes Above 10,000 for First Time in a Year

Comeback by the stock market's best-known indicator is the most visible sign yet that investors believe the economy is indeed recovering from the financial crisis and recession.

For more information, visit washingtonpost.com - http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/8VXTM7/QYOYN/XG9XD2/SGUHPQ/Q13RU/KI/t

It hit 10,000 and it stuck -- at least for the day.

The history of rise and fall and rise and fall and rise again is in the Bloomberg article about the Dow hitting 10,000.

I tried several combinations of words and settled on "Dow 10,000." It produced more finds than any of the other combinations. The first search found messages with Dow and 10,000 in them back to September -- though most of them were about the news of the day.

It is not off to an impressive start. Perhaps people who do stocks do not do twitter.

I stopped searching November 1, 2009. At that point 2529 messages had been found.

The final timeline is

The .txt file that can be read by Excel to acquire the data is: dow 10000.txt