Dow soars past 13,900

Wall Street ended an extraordinary and record-setting week by surging higher again today, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 index past a trading high set in March 2000 and thrusting the Dow Jones industrial past 13,900 for the first time.

Both the S&P and the Dow logged record closes for the second day in a row and the Dow’s gains put the blue chip index within about 70 points of 14,000. But the technology-laden Nasdaq composite index lagged both in today’s session and in the broader recovery from the dot-com collapse at the start of the decade.