The Dow Jones Industrial Average moved up 11.54 points Wednesday to finish at 13,047.48 while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 fell 5.79 points and 1.50 points, respectively.
Facebook, the once-promising social media stock that generated so much buzz ahead of and during its IPO before plummeting in the months that followed, gained 85 cents a share, or 5%, to close at $18.58.
Here are some more details from Wednesday's trading session:
Dow Jones Industrial Average:
- Up two of the past three trading days.
- An intraday high of 13095.91 occurred at 10:30:18 today, representing an increase of 59.97 points, or 0.46%.
- An intraday low of 13018.74 occurred at 09:45:26 today, representing a decrease of 17.20 points, or 0.13%.
- Nineteen of the 30 component stocks rose, 10 fell, one was unchanged.
- Today's top five contributors to The Dow's movement and their point contribution: DIS (8.75), BA (8.13), IBM (3.87), HPQ (2.17), KO (1.78).
- Today's bottom five laggards: AXP (-11.00), CVX (-3.48), UTX (-2.48), HD (-1.94), KFT (-1.32).
- Down 7.89% from its record close of 14164.53 on October 09, 2007.
- Up 99.29% from its 12-year closing low of 6547.05 on March 9, 2009.
- Up 14.30% from 52 weeks ago.
- Up 7.82% from its 2012 closing low of 12101.46 on June 04, 2012.
- Down 1.75% (rounded) from its 52-week high of 13279.32 on May 01, 2012.
- Up 22.45% from its 52-week low of 10655.30 on October 03, 2011.
- Year-to-date: up 6.79%.
- DJIA crossed zero 30 times during today's trading session.
Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index:
14538.61
Down 14.06 points, or 0.10%, or approximately $12.4 billion in market capitalization
- First loss in three trading days.
- Down 7.66% (approximately $2.4 trillion in market cap), from its record close of 15745.39 on October 09, 2007.
- Up 113.80% (approximately $8.8 trillion in market cap), from the 12-½ year closing low of 6800.08 on March 9, 2009.
- Up 16.65% (rounded) from 52 weeks ago.
- Up 10.09% from its 2012 closing low of 13206.64 on January 04, 2012.
- Down 1.37% from its 52-week high of 14740.15 on April 02, 2012.
- Up 28.67% from its 52-week low of 11299.07 on October 03, 2011.
- Year-to-date: up 11.67%, or approximately $1.7 trillion in market cap.
Data courtesy of Dow Jones Indexes.
