The crazy week of Wall Street: after the meltdown, the race to new heights. Positive quarterly and small traders behind the recovery

MILANO – Starting under the worst auspices with the Black Monday costing Europe 240 billion of capitalization and Wall Street the worst session since last October, the lists then recovered so much that the week ended with the American indices at new records. The Dow Jones, the principal of the New York Stock Exchange, crossed the 35,000 points mark for the first time in its history: it took him only 165 days to climb the last 5,000 points, it had never been so fast.