As leaders of what are deemed to be the world’s twenty largest economic powers gathered in London to discuss the worsening global financial crisis, with the goal of establishing new measures to stabilize the global economy, U.S. markets kicked off the new month, and second quarter of 2009, on a reasonably positive note, seemingly unaffected by the history-making G-20 summit taking place on Thursday. By the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had risen 151.65 points, with the Nasdaq Composite adding 23.01 points and the Standard & Poor’s 500 climbing 12.92 points, being...
