NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- All three major U.S. financial markets surged on Wall Street's first day of 2017, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average closer to the historic 20,000-mark.
The Dow spent December flirting with the unprecedented level -- coming within 25 points at its peak -- but never achieved it, spurning many analysts' predictions that the mark would be reached before the end of 2016.