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The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday crossed 20,000 for the first time.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday crossed 20,000 for the first time. The S&P 500 and the tech-focused Nasdaq clinched new highs Tuesday, but the Dow failed to climb above its old record of 19,999.63.

An earnings beat by Boeing pushed its shares and the overall Dow higher. Donald Trump, for one, is pumped about the historic move. Jon Garber, Business Insider's markets editor, is not.

Elsewhere on Wall Street, t

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JPMorgan just landed a $1 trillion win in a growing business. And RBC Capital Markets has hired three senior Deutsche Bank bankers

We published big interviews with Jack Bogle, founder of fund giant Vanguard, and Terry Duffy, CEO and chairman of CME Group, earlier in the week. If you didn't get chance to read them, here are a couple of bite size chunks.

  • We asked an investing legend if mutual funds are doomed and his answer was just brutal
  • The founder of a $3.9 trillion investment giant has some advice for wannabe money managers
  • DUFFY: Bringing money back from overseas could help rebuild our "crumbling nation"
  • The CEO of a giant Chicago company says big business has "a moral obligation" to help struggling cities

We also caught up with Victor Shvets,

ere are the seven key economic trends to watch for in 2017, according to Jim Glassman, head economist for commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase.

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  • Trump is about to sign off on a border wall with Mexico — here's how much it could cost
  • Trump reportedly has a list of $137 billion in infrastructure projects he wants to build
  • Trump claims the
  • SCHUMER: If Trump wants to put America first he should label China a
  • Trump's deal with automakers is lopsided
  • Soon there could be a Trump hotel in every major US city

Yahoo’s massive hack had very little impact on traffic — and likely won’t kill the Verizon deal.

Lastly, one of the best low-cost airlines in the world is finally coming to America

IEX: "We have been operating as an exchange for over four months, and chaos has yet to descend on the world" - A change in administration and at the helm of the SEC typically encourages conversation about regulatory reform.

HBO's new documentary dives deep into the daily life of billionaire Warren Buffett -

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Gary Cohn will get at least $100 million for leaving Goldman Sachs to join Trump's administration - Outgoing Goldman Sachs chief operating officer Gary Cohn will pick up an exit package worth at least $100 million as he moves to work for the Trump administration.

There's a key risk in Europe that everybody is missing -

Here's why the Chinese love bitcoin - Bitcoin trading in China has exploded over the last few years and the country today accounts for as much as 99% of all volume by some estimates. Why?

Lyft is about to launch a massive expansion across the US -

Elon Musk is getting serious about digging a tunnel under Los Angeles -

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