The Dow Jones Industrial Average moved up 15.82 points to close at 12.965.69 Tuesday after briefly rallying past the 13,000-point level in early trading. The Nasdaq lost 3.21 points to finish at 2,948.57 while the S&P 500 inched up 0.98 points to end at 1,362.21.
Oil prices continued to soar Tuesday as U.S. light sweet crude surged about $105 a barrel amid supply disruptions.
On the bright side, eurozone finance ministers agreed on a 130 billion euro bailout for Greece that will avoid a default in March after convincing private bondholders to take greater losses and the Greek government committed to deep spending cuts.
Here are some more details from Tuesday’s trading session:
Dow Jones Industrial Average:
- Up three consecutive trading days and five of the last six sessions.
- Up 184.74 points, or 1.45%, over the three-day trading period.
- Largest three-day points and percentage gain since February 03, 2012.
- A new 52 week high.
- Highest closing value since May 19, 2008.
- An intraday low of 12926.11 occurred at 14:55:52 today, representing a decrease of 23.76 points, or 0.18%.
- An intraday high of 13005.04 occurred at 12:05:42 today, representing an increase of 55.17 points, or 0.43%.
- The last time The Dow reached an intraday level of 13000 or more was on May 20, 2008 at 13026.04.
- The last time The Dow closed at or above 13000 was on May 19, 2008 at 13028.16.
- The first time The Dow closed at or above 13000 was on April 25, 2007 at 13089.89.
- It took 127 trading days to reach 13000 from the first close above 12000.
- On a closing basis – The Dow has crossed the 13000 level eight times (one-way going up).
- It took only 59 trading days for The Dow to reach 14000 from the first close above 13000 – second fastest 1000 point advance.
- The fastest 1000 point milestone run was from 10000 to 11000 with just 24 trading days.
- Nineteen of the 30 component stocks rose, 11 fell.
- Today's top five contributors to The Dow's movement and their point contribution: CVX (13.24), CAT (7.95), XOM (7.19), KFT (4.24), MCD (3.78).
- Today's bottom five laggards: WMT (-18.24), TRV (-4.39), PG (-3.71), MRK (-3.25), HPQ (-1.82).
- Up 98.04% from its 12-year closing low of 6547.05 on March 9, 2009.
- Down 8.46% from its record close of 14164.53 October 09, 2007.
- Up 6.16% from 52 weeks ago.
- Up 4.90% from its 2012 closing low of 12359.92 on January 06, 2012.
- Up 21.68% from its 52-week low of 10655.30 on October 03, 2011.
- Month-to-date: up 2.63%.
- Year-to-date: up 6.12%.
- DJIA crossed zero 35 times during today's trading session.
Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index:
- Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market, 14200.45, down 7.78 points, or 0.05%, or approximately $22.5 billion in market capitalization.
- First drop in three trading days.
- Down 9.81% (approximately $2.6 trillion in market cap), from its record close of 15745.39 on October 09, 2007.
- Up 108.83% (approximately $8.5 trillion in market cap), from the 12-½ year closing low of 6800.08 on March 9, 2009.
- Up 3.36% from 52 weeks ago.
- Down 0.05% from its 2012 closing high of 14208.23 on February 17, 2012.
- Up 7.53% from its 2012 closing low of 13206.64 on January 04, 2012.
- Down 0.75% from its 52 week high of 14308.37 on April 29, 2011.
- Up 25.68% from its 52-week low of 11299.07 on October 03, 2011.
- Month-to-date: up 3.93%, or approximately $625 billion in market cap.
- Year-to-date: up 9.07%, or approximately $1.4 trillion in market cap.
Data courtesy of Dow Jones Indexes.
