Stocks Surge, Ending Week Higher

November 11, 2011, 6:10 p.m. EST 2 Min Read

Stocks rose 2.19%, or 259.89 points, Friday on positive news out of Italy and Greece. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the week 1.42% higher.

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Up 170.44 points this week, or 1.42%, to 12153.68
Up six of the last seven trading weeks.
Today: DJIA, up 259.89 points, or 2.19%.
Up two consecutive trading days and four of the last five.
Biggest points and percentage gain since October 27, 2011.
An intraday high of 12179.72 occurred at 11:18:48 today, representing an increase of 285.93 points, or 2.40%.
An intraday low of 11896.28 occurred at the open.
All 30 component stocks closed up today and have done so 10 times previously in 2011.
Today's top five contributors to The Dow's movement and their point contribution: IBM (30.50), CAT (29.74), UTX (17.86), BA (15.82), DIS (15.59).
Today's bottom five contributors and their point contribution: BAC (1.36), VZ (1.44), PFE (1.51), GE (1.82), T (1.97).
Down 2010.85 points, or 14.20% from its record close of 14164.53 on October 9, 2007.
Up 8.59% from 52 weeks ago.
Up 85.64% from its 12-year closing low of 6547.05 on March 9, 2009.
Down 5.13% from its 2011 closing high of 12810.54 on April 29.
Up 14.06% from its 2011 closing low of 10655.30 on October 3.
Month-to-date: up 1.66%.
Year-to-date: up 4.98%.

Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DOW JONES WILSHIRE 5000)

Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index, 13102.04 (prelim)*, up 73.41 points this week, or 0.56%
Up five of the last six trading weeks.
Today: Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index, up 259.05 points, or 2.02%, or approximately $299 billion in market capitalization.
Up two consecutive trading days and four of the last five.
Biggest points and percentage gain since October 27, 2011.
Down 2643.35 points, or 16.79% (approximately $3.8 trillion in market cap), from its record close of 15745.39 on October 9, 2007.
Up 92.67% (approximately $7.4 trillion in market cap), from the 12-½ year closing low of 6800.08 on March 9, 2009.
Up 5.25% over the past 52 weeks.
Down 8.43% from its 2011 closing high of 14308.37 on April 29.
Up 15.96% from its 2011 closing low of 11299.07 on October 3.
Month-to-date: up 0.74%.
Year-to-date, down 0.22%, or approximately $124 billion in market cap.

*The index values for the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index are in price return and float-adjusted. Full market capitalization will continue to be used in this factoid.

Data Courtesy of Dow Jones Indexes