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(AP) - The Standard & Poor's 500 index broke through 1,700 points Thursday for the first time.
It's only been three months since the S&P 500 first closed above 1,600. The previous 100-point gain took much longer to achieve. The index first closed above 1,500 more than a decade ago, toward the end of the dot-com bubble in March 2000. The S&P then slumped twice before starting on its current bull run in March, 2009.
Here's a look at the previous times that the S&P 500 index, a broad measure of large-company stocks, first closed above round-number levels, measured in increments of 100 points.
1,600 --- May 3, 2013
1,500 --- March 22, 2000
1,400 --- July 9, 1999
1,300 --- March 15, 1999
1,200 --- December 21, 1998
1,100 --- March 24, 1998
1,000 --- February 2, 1998
900 --- July 2, 1997
800 --- February 12, 1997
700 --- October 4, 1996
600 --- November 17, 1995
500 --- March 24, 1995
400 --- December 26, 1991
300 --- March 23, 1987
200 --- November 21, 1985
100 --- June 4, 1968
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Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices
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