What item has closed higher every year since 2000?

Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Gold prices rose, capping an eighth straight annual gain. This year, gold climbed 5.5 percent, the smallest increase since 2004. Recessions in the U.S., Europe and Japan sent the Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index of 19 raw materials to the biggest drop ever and erased more than $30 trillion in value from global equity markets. Silver fell 24 percent in 2008, while platinum dropped 38 percent and palladium plunged 50 percent.

“In a world where material weakness is the obvious sign of the times, to be up even by this barest of margins is really quite impressive,” said Dennis Gartman, an economist and the editor of the Suffolk, Virginia-based Gartman Letter.

2000 -- $273.60

2001 -- $279.00

2002 -- $348.20

2003 -- $416.10

2004 -- $438.40

2005 -- $518.90

2006 -- $638.00

2007 -- $838.00

2008 -- $884.30

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