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By Evan Applegate

April 5, 2013 at 1:46 AM UTC

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This article is part of the April 8, 2013 issue of businessweek.

The economy was so-so, but markets roared in the first quarter of 2013. Both the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index passed their all-time highs.