Los Angeles Times | March 10, 2009 | 1:21 p.m. --- Dow soars 379 points on recovery hopes Stock prices shot up today after Citigroup's chief executive said the troubled banking company was profitable in January and February and was having its best quarter in two years. The Dow Jones industrial average surged 379.44 points, or 5.8%, to 6,926.49, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 stock index climbed 6.4% and the Nasdaq composite index rocketed up 7.1%. An index of financial stocks in the S&P gained 16%.
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