Dow’s rocky road

When the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped again at Monday’s start of trading, the index dipped below the 7,000 mark for the first time since 1997.

Here’s a list of where the Dow stood at the end of the first day of trading for each month over the last year:

March 3, 2008: 12,258.9004

April 1, 2008: 12,654,3604

May 1, 2008: 13,010

June 2, 2008: 12,503.8203

July 1, 2008: 11,382.2598

August 1, 2008: 11,326.3203

Sept. 2, 2008: 11,516.9199

Oct. 1, 2008: 10,831.0703

Nov. 3, 2008: 9,319.8301

Dec. 1, 2008: 8,149.0898

Jan. 2 , 2009: 9,034.6904

Feb. 2, 2009: 7,936.8301

Source: Yahoo! Finance

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