Yesterday, the Dow increased 22.92 points (0.09%) to 26,112.53, the NASDAQ gained 48.37 points (0.62%) to finish at 7,845.02, and the S&P 500 was up 2.69 points (0.09%) at 2,889.67. The Russell 2000 climbed 10.25 points (0.67%) to 1,532.75, and the Wilshire 5000 closed 50.44 points (0.17%) higher at 29,735.20.

The price of the 10-year Treasury note was down 1/32, increasing its yield to 2.086%. The price of the 30-year Treasury bond increased 25/32, bringing its yield down 2.573%.

ON THIS DATE: In 1778, Britain evacuated Philadelphia during the U.S. Revolutionary War. In 1812, the War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain. The conflict began over trade restrictions. In 1863, J.J. Richardson received a patent for the ratchet wrench. In 1873, Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for attempting to vote for a president. In 1927, the U.S. Post Office offered a special 10-cent postage stamp for sale. The stamp was of Charles Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis.” In 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean as she completed a flight from Newfoundland to Wales. In 1942, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson. In 1948, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights adopted its International Declaration of Human Rights. In 1979, in Vienna, President Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) 2. In 1983, Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

No TRIVIAL PURSUITS this week.