U.S. stocks closed mixed Friday, wrapping up a forgettable week that featured a lot of anxiety about the goings-on in Europe and a better-than-expected jobs report.
For the day, the Dow Jones Industrial average closed off 2.42 points, to 11,866.39 while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 inched up 14 points and 4 points, respectively.
Here are some more details from Friday’s trading session:
Dow Jones Industrial Average:
- Down 317.87 points this week, or 2.61%, to 11866.39.
- First weekly drop in three weeks.
- Today: DJIA, down 2.42 points, or 0.02%.
- Down four of the past five trading days
- An intraday high of 11968.18 occurred at 10:20:10 today, representing an increase of 99.37, or 0.84%.
- An intraday low of 11819.31 occurred at 12:37:15 today, representing a decrease of 49.50, or 0.42%.
- Twenty of the 30 component stocks rose, 10 fell.
- Today's top five contributors to The Dow's movement and their point contribution: CVX (9.01), HD (7.57), KO (4.16), TRV (3.56), AXP (3.48).
- Today's bottom five laggards: IBM (-29.59), UTX (-8.63), MCD (-4.92), CAT (-3.78), HPQ (-2.42).
- Down 16.22% from its record close of 14164.53 October 09, 2007.
- Up 81.25% from its 12-year closing low of 6547.05 on March 9, 2009.
- Rose 3.26% from 52 weeks ago.
- Down 7.37% from its 52 week high of 12810.54 on April 29, 2011.
- Up 11.37% from its 52 week low of 10655.30 on October 03, 2011.
- Month-to-date: down 1.49%.
- Year-to-date: up 2.50%.
Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index:
- Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index, 12636.46 (prelim)*, down 376.65 points this week, or 2.89%
- First weekly drop in three weeks.
- Today: Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index, up 56.24 points, or 0.45%, or approximately $69.5 billion in market capitalization.
- Up two consecutive trading days.
- Up 108.37 points, or 0.87%, over the two-day period.
- Largest two-day points & percentage gain since December 06, 2011.
- Up 10 of the past 15 trading days.
- Largest one-day points & percentage gain since December 09, 2011.
- Down 3108.93 points, or 19.75% (approximately $4.4 trillion in market cap), from its record close of 15745.39 on October 09, 2007.
- Up 85.83% (approximately $6.8 trillion in market cap), from the 12-½ year closing low of 6800.08 on March 9, 2009.
- Down 2.72% from 52 weeks ago.
- Down 11.68% from its 52 week high of 14308.37 on April 29, 2011.
- Up 11.84% from its 52 week low of 11299.07 on October 03, 2011.
- Month-to-date: down 2.31%.
- Year-to-date: down 3.77%, or approximately $682 billion in market cap.
Data courtesy of Dow Jones Indexes.
