The Year in Review: 2007

Daily Breeze - The Dow Jones industrial average peaked at 14,280.00 in October, from a low of 11,926.80 in March. Then the index plunged to below 13,000, before recovering somewhat. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite was also hit by worries of economic slowdown more details

Birmingham News - The state's publicly traded companies also failed this year to match the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. That hasn't happened since 1999, when Alabama stocks fell 1.3 percent, against a 25 percent gain in the Dow more details