tear. the dow up 138 points here as we speak, two hours away from the closing bell. this is a big deal because the dow jones has hit a record high, smashed through the old record. we talked so much about that over the last couple of days, that old high set in october of '07. cnn business anchor christine romans is with me now in new york. christine, we have been watching. i feel like we have been flirting. i don't want to cry wolf here, but today, finally, the big jump. why now? >> overnight china said that it was going to keep its economy moving forward at about 7.5% growth rate and that seems to be the fuel of -- the kindling that was the dow jones industrial average that was so close to the highs. remember the dow is 30 stocks. 30 stocks. so your 401(k) is probably more represented in the stocks portion by the s&p 500, still about 1% away from its high, but that's 500 stocks. i want to show you some of the dow stocks and how much they're up from the low. brooke, look at this, american