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With the green arrows, not bothering investors too much but something to keep an eye on as we see stocks move back towards that record. wolf? >> already up 92 points. 15,409. that's the key number. christine, let's talk a little bit about that. let's watch that number. be interesting if it goes above 15409 in the next, in the next few seconds or minutes. look at how quickly it has gone up. there it is -- >> it will need to close above there. >> i know, but, still, pretty impressive. look at how quickly it opened above another 122 points up right now. it's gone above that 15,409. >> i'll tell y...

On 15409. but last time it reached that 15409 number it was back in may. this is all comments from ben bernanke. said the stimulus punch bowl is going to stay on the table. the main factor that has propped up stocks and this stimulus is an $85 billion a month effort where tresh rebonds pushing investors because it's pushing interest rates lower. it's been a real roast roller c ride for stocks and what will happen when the bowl is pulled away from the table. also want to quickly mention weekly jobless claims we found out this morning that they jumped by 16,000 last week to 360,000, but, keep in...

Alison kosik is joining us now from the new york stock exchange. what's fuelling this latest surge? >> you look at the past couple of months, wolf, and it's really been one of those times you've seen stocks really all over the map. look at the dow, it's less than 200 points away from the record high that it hit in may. that record high was 15,409. the major averages are taking their cues this morning from world markets. we saw gains in both europe and asia overnight, so investors are hoping for a decent corporate earnings season, as well. second quarter earnings season after the closing bell l...

All-time high today on some good news for americans trying to sell their homes. the dow jumped to 15409. ending up for the 20th tuesday in a row. that after a new report showed home prices in march rose the most they had since april of 2006. fox business network jolene kent is live in our new york newsroom. jolene? >> john, if it's tuesday it must be good news it seems. markets got a healthy bump today when a new report showed housing prices rose 1.1% in march. prices in the 20 is i index composite jumped 11% last year which is the biggest gain since april of 2006. and further boosting the mar...