The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 32.01 points to finish at 12.534.67 Tuesday while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq added 6.27 points and 17.90 points, respectively.
Here are some more details from Tuesday’s trading session:
Dow Jones Industrial Average:
- Up two of the past three trading days.
- An intraday high of 12576.41 occurred at 15:16:29 today, representing an increase of 73.75 points, or 0.59%.
- An intraday low of 12452.03 occurred at 11:10:38 today, representing a decrease of 50.63 points, or 0.40%.
- Sixteen of the 30 component stocks rose, 12 fell, two were unchanged.
- Today's top five contributors to The Dow's movement and their point contribution: CVX (14.08), XOM (8.78), MCD (7.42), DIS (4.47), WMT (3.03).
- Today's bottom five laggards: IBM (-6.89), KFT (-6.51), DD (-3.48), HPQ (-1.44), CAT (-1.21).
- Down 11.51% from its record close of 14164.53 on October 09, 2007.
- Up 91.46% from its 12-year closing low of 6547.05 on March 9, 2009.
- Up 2.84% from 52 weeks ago.
- Up 3.58% from its 2012 closing low of 12101.46 on June 04, 2012.
- Down 5.61% from its 52-week high of 13279.32 on May 01, 2012.
- Up 17.64% from its 52-week low of 10655.30 on October 03, 2011.
- Month-to-date: up 1.14%.
- Year-to-date: up 2.60%.
- DJIA crossed zero 10 times during today's trading session.
Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index:
13648.29, up 68.39 points, or 0.50%, or approximately $83.0 billion in market capitalization
- Up two of the past three trading days.
- Down 13.32% (approximately $3.3 trillion in market cap), from its record close of 15745.39 on October 09, 2007.
- Up 100.71% (approximately $7.8 trillion in market cap), from the 12-½ year closing low of 6800.08 on March 9, 2009.
- Up 0.34% from 52 weeks ago.
- Up 3.34% from its 2012 closing low of 13206.64 on January 04, 2012.
- Down 7.41% from its 52-week high of 14740.15 on April 02, 2012.
- Up 20.79% from its 52-week low of 11299.07 on October 03, 2011.
- Month-to-date: up 0.46%, or approximately $86.1 billion in market cap.
- Year-to-date: up 4.83%, or approximately $696 billion in market cap.
Data courtesy of Dow Jones Indexes.
