Editor's note: Each week Mountain Business Journal will take a look at the local stock index (located on the left-hand side of page 1) and compare it to changes in both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ. We will also look at a few local and national industry indicators to comment on potential reasons for positive, negative and neutral changes in all three indices.

Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ saw gains over last week, with the Dow seeing a 3.53 percent increase over last Tuesday's closing and the NASDAQ seeing a 3.01 percent spike. The local stock index, however, more than doubled those numbers with a gain of 6.78 percent.

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