Inventory markets are on brink of greatest win streak in 1 / 4 century. U.S. shares on Wednesday had been their longest record-setting streak in 25 years because the Dow industrials, S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite all climbed. If all three indexes shut larger on Wednesday, it would mark 5 consecutive days of all three setting report highs on the similar time, the longest such streak of simultaneous data since a six-session string ended Jan. 3, 1992, based on Dow Jones knowledge. (marketwatch.com)