Dow 18,000 beckons, but a bottom in oil prices does not
December 08, 2014 at 05:30 AM EST
Back when the Dow was last trading under 7,000, you’d have to have been a bonafide nutjob to predict blue chips would hit the big, fat, round number of 18,000 in less than six years. Of course, there’s no shortage of those when it comes to stock-market predictions.