index that is normally, joe, thought of as a leading indicator for a bold market. what time do you get up in the morning? that was a great segue. that just flowed right into that. what time did you get up? 3:30. did you watch this show yesterday? yeah. if we analyze that, what kind of return it is is? that s incredible. so you don t know. you need a ti calculator. sorry. i wasn t taking notes. well, you would remember. you re a mathematical genius, right? it is 1250%. you do it on the ti calculator. you get three and a half times your money. pretty good. i thought that was interesting. you didn t like the facts? we probably won t. i don t think so. but it would be nice. we do need, like you should probably have that program. what is 5% impounded over 12 months? it is a lot more than 60. yeah. it is the eighth wonder of the world. we need a ti 83 calculator. i think mine got sold at a garage sale for like $10. that is not a good return to ou
there it is. and you see about two-thirds of the dow stocks are higher. united health leading the way. and trailing down there, let me see, i can t see over there. home depot. home depot. let s get more on today s market action. bob pisani on the floor of the new york stock exchange. hello, tyler. mixed market today, but something unusual s happened. oil dropped and the market didn t fall apart. take a look. we had a disappointing inventory numbers here. it wasn t as big as expected, gasoline inventories went up. oil dropped a buck and a half in the middle of the day, but look at the s&p. really very moderate response to that. in fact, took a while for it to drop at all. you can see it s come back a little bit on top of that. energy stocks, like the xop, oil and gas exploration sector, did drop on that. it s just coming off the lows, but even that it s not that dramatic overall. if you look at sectors here back to the slightly more defensive posture with telecom, utilit
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about how far we ve come in a market for the s&p 500 that has just about tripled. the dow jones not nearly as much, but still a huge move higher. the charts, this is in real tile. the dow industrials, yes, up 160% since that march 9th closing low. the s&p 500, 193%, so yes, nearly a triple 676, that was the closing low price on the 9th, 666, the number of the beast, day low the day before. nasdaq composite setting it up 267%. if you take a look at the next layer of the onion, where we saw the biggest winners and losers overall from a sector perspective, the retail stocks, consumer stocks, up 377%, and of course, we know over the last couple of years, with the sharp drop in oil prices energy stocks have been the big lagguard, up but since marlowes in 2009. put it in perspective, stock winners and losers. delta airlines, 1,000% gain since then. netflix yes, it was around, up 1667%. general growth properties, once a 38 sent stock, was thought to be going bankrupt. up nearly 10,0