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Gains of the day two weeks ago the dow hit 25,000 for the first time now lets get to bob pisani on the floor. I want to point out the dow is price weighted, the biggest prigs stocks te price stocks tend to move the index. Let me show you the five dow stocks that contributed most this is a 1,000 point gain from 25,000 to 26,000 boeing is 34 of the gain. One stock is a third of the gain caterpillar, united health, home depot, 3m. Eight of the highest priced stocks in the dow. Put it together, 60 of the dows gains from 25 to 26 were five companies five out of 30 companies here. What is more interesting is the days to the rally are getting small eastern smaller. Each 1,000 point increment is getting small eastern smaller. Look, it took 109 to go from 21 to 22,000. After that, 53 dpays to go to te next 1,000, 23 days, 7 days. You get the point. This is more than just easier to hit the target this is definitely an acceleration it is euphoria, some people say it is. But its an acceleration th ....
Welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. The bulls are in charge firmly today. The index up triple did you get right now, up about a half percent. We are off session highs s p also hitting 2800 for the first time ever. Its a broadbased rally also hitting record highs. Heres whats moving this hour ge is down about 3 , teak a 6 billion hit related to the reinsurance biggs. Fellow dow member, unitedhealth going in the opposite direction. The stock is rallies and amazon take a look at that, trading at alltime highs. That is the highest on the street brian . Thanks, mel here is what else is happen, a Big Hedge Fund eyeing twitter. Greenlights taken a small position in twitter. Its not helping the stock, though we have called the energizer bunny. Now theyre getting into the rally, buying ray ovac with specter and were going to head live to the Detroit Auto Show later this houring ....
It was like five sessions between 25,000 and the zeseventh trading sessio. From january 4th to yesterday is when we saw the 1,000 point move in the dow oil breaking, which is a weird Reason Energy stocks came down as a result just the idea lets hold off for a second nevertheless, with all of that, the s p 500 still remains on pace for its biggest monthly gains since march of 2016. The nasdaq is still on its biggest monthly gain since july of 2016. Look at what happened overnight in asia, you will see the nikkei was down by a third of a percentage point back to this morning sorry, flipflop back to this morning, you are look at double digit gains or triple digit gains once again for the dow. This comes after last night the nikkei down by a third of a percentage point hang seng and shanghai stocks both ended higher bay quarter percentage point in europe, where you see the early trading this morning, you will see at this hour theres a ....
Its the biggest gainer of the major averages look at treasury yields, this is where the action has been. Yesterday the twoyear sitting at the highest level since 202000 the tenyear at the highest level since 2014 the yield on the tenyear is 2. 632 couple big stories were watching, the u. S. Government is officially reopen for business after President Trump signed a bill to end the shutdown hundreds of thousands of federal employees will return to work. The bill funds the government but only for 17 days its the product of an agreement in the senate to reopen government and tackle immigration within three weeks well watch that its a busy day for ponentse the opening bell Johnson Johnson, Procter Gamble, travelers and verizon. We will hear from capital instruments and united netflix shares are popping the streaming compan ....
Eastern, we get existing home sales data. At 1 00 the u. S. Treasury is auctioning 35 million in fiveyear notes. Now the turn to our first take away, these are big stories. That great treasury sale continues with twoyear yields in the option yesterday the highest in 10 years. Continues toconomy struggle to get wage increases to keep up with inflation. Glencore reports earnings with catholics flow and earnings the turnaround in that company is so dramatic. It was on deaths door just a couple of years ago. Come inside the bloomberg. We had all those auctions yesterday, and this is what we saw. Yields rising to the highest level in 2008 print much across the board. Ira, what did we learned yesterday . We learned demand was maybe a little higher than perhaps people feared. I cant say there werent a little hiccups here and there. The threemonth bill demand maybe wasnt quite up to standard. But otherwise when you look at the 2year note and six months bill auction, they went ok. I think today ....