
By Assif Shameen
When key US stock indices, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500, tore through new record-highs, rising above the milestone levels of 16,000 and 1,800 respectively. At the height of the global financial crisis in March 2009, the Dow plummeted to 6,547 and the S&P to 666. A third Wall Street barometer, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite, which hit bottom at 1,108, has been hovering around 4,000, the highest level since the tech bubble burst, with the index at 5,132…