Robert Hum is the Markets Producer at CNBC.
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Since the beginning of the year, buying the losers and selling the winners seems to have paid off.
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Utility, material and industrial companies led the gains in the Standard & Poor's 500 Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve announced it will keep interest rates near zero in the long-term.
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Financial stocks in the first S&P 500 sector turned positive Thursday, as Bank of America crossed the $6 mark.
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Dow investors can thank the strong performance in IBM, McDonald's and Chevron this year for almost all the gains in the Dow. In fact, of the 576 point gain this year, 564 points came from those three stocks.
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Nearly half of the companies in the S&P 500 raised dividend payments so far this year, a 38 percent increase from 2010. At the current level, about 77 percent of the index components, or 393, pay a dividend.
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Global stocks are rallying strongly today as Eurozone finance ministers meet today and ahead of the EU leaders’ meeting on Sunday. All that will likely come to a head by Wednesday, when a second summit among EU leaders is expected to result in a “definitive agreement” on the EFSF.
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Since October 6, the Dow has consistently alternated between gains and losses. That’s a rare feat, happening only a few times in history.
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For the first time in history, Apple’s sales may top $100 billion in a fiscal year.
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So far this month, the NASDAQ is up 8 percent, while the S&P 500 and Dow are up 7 percent and 6 percent, respectively -- all three major averages have not been able to post a monthly gain since April.
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The Dow is putting together its third straight triple-digit/1 percent gain today, rising nearly 4 percent over the past 3 days as some of the immediate concerns over Europe have eased…for the time being at least.
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The Dow is smashing records left and right, and it may still not be ready for a big correction.
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Despite gold prices bouncing off their April lows, investors continue to leave gold for equities.
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The Dow is up 20 percent since Nov. 15, but 12 stocks kicked out of the index are up an average of 30 percent.
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The S&P 500 is up 19.3 percent since mid-November. Since the low, these five S&P sectors are already in bull market territory.
