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What were watching very closely. Would set the tone for tonight and tomorrow morning. Watch for the intel earnings. Thanks for joining us here. The dow is up 88. It will not be a fiveyear high for the dow but it will be for the s p. See you tomorrow. Heres hour two with maria. And it is 4 00 on wall street. Do you know where your money s. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the closing bell. Im Maria Bartiromo on the floor of the new york stock exchange. A big real on the street today pushes the s p 500 to another fiveyear high. The dow also trying to close at a fiveyear high as well with an 85poin...

Theres also a whole lot more coming up from delivering alpha. We have activist investor nelson pelt, coming up in a few minutes. He may be making headlines at what he is looking at now. Well bring that to you live as soon as it happens. Right, bill . Leaders of pepsico will be listening to that. And another activist investor, carl icahn, and the dell letter getting hot. He issues a letter ahead of the vote tomorrow. Hell have a lot to say on that surely issue coming up. That will be a little while from now. Stay tuned. And an hour from now, buckle up, because ibm, intel, American Express, ebay...

Points and the s p up by 4 1 2 points. Lets break down this market and find out whats going on. Bill . With us right now is amy wu from rbc capital market, george young and our own rick santelli, but joseph is standing by. Well get analysis of ibms numbers when they are released momentarily here. Amy, whats your version of why we got such a quiet market today, so much news . Housing starts were down sharply. The beige book looked pretty good. And chairman bernanke spoke today, and the market took everything in stride. Why do you think that is . Hey, bill. I think a lot of it has to do with thi...

Economy with a specific goal of achieving a substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market in a context of price stability. Stocks didnt react much to his comments. Trading in a narrow range. But this is probably exactly what the chairman had been hoping for. He stressed volatility has come down in the markets as heny th the markets have gotten a better understanding of what it needs to do. The futures at this point are indicated up for the dow futures and s p futures. Dow futures up by 33 points. S p futures up by 1. 25 points. Nasdaq futures indicated down by half a point. Beyon...

Others, but at this stage, david, what do we know . Well, the votes are crazy and as i tweeted even crazier than usual is what people are telling me, carl. So i think that im loathe to conclude one thing or another in terms of who has changed their vote. We have seen reports out there, and yes, i had the information a while ago, but things can change back. In is not the typical go to the polling booth and vote. You can, if you are black rock say you are voting against and pull the vote and then say you are voting for and they can keep the polls open by the way for as long as they want if they ...