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On Wednesday, Bitcoin shot past $20,000 for the first time. "Some of the biggest investors in the world have been singing Bitcoin's praises in recent weeks," said an author of a bestselling book on cryptocurrencies. Business Insider reports that Bitcoin surged more than 5% to trade around $20,550 as of 09:30 a.m. ET. This breaks its previous record of $19,857 set in late November. "We will be visiting the $20,000-$22,000 level at least half a dozen times before we break through to the $30,000 range later in 2021," a CEO at a cryptocurrency firm said.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke above 20,000 points at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time Wednesday morning, setting a new record on Wall Street. The second-oldest stock market index in the US nearly reached this landmark on two previous occasions before reaching the once evasive mark at the opening bell. At the trading day's closing bell, the index had set a record high of 20,068. The DJIA, also known as the Dow 30, measures the performance of the 30 largest publicly owned companies trading in the US. Apple, Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil are among some of those companies.
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