Alltime high. The blue chip dow index breaks above 18,000 for the first time this year and not to be outdone, small caps also finished the day at a record. Strong Economic Data out of europe gave the markets a lift early on and hopes that greece and its creditors will reach some sort of deal when they talks on monday. Dow jones rose to 18,019. Nasdaq gained 36 points to fresh 15 year high and the s p 500 was up 8. For the week the dow rose 1 . The nasdaq up more than 3 best week since last october and the s p 500 gained 2 . The Energy Sector was helped by a 3 rise in west texas crude. It is now up nearly 20 from its lows last month. Brent crude back up above 60 a barrel actually above 61 for the first time this year. Both benchmarks have now risen for three consecutive weeks. Whats behind the broad based runup and is a sign the bulls will stay in control . Dominic chu reports. Reporter it may not feel like it for many investors but we are once again at record high levels in the stock m
Alltime high. The blue chip dow index breaks above 18,000 for the first time this year and not to be outdone, small caps also finished the day at a record. Strong Economic Data out of europe gave the markets a lift early on and hopes that greece and its creditors will reach some sort of deal when they talks on monday. Dow jones rose to 18,019. Nasdaq gained 36 points to fresh 15 year high and the s p 500 was up 8. For the week the dow rose 1 . The nasdaq up more than 3 best week since last october and the s p 500 gained 2 . The Energy Sector was helped by a 3 rise in west texas crude. It is now up nearly 20 from its lows last month. Brent crude back up above 60 a barrel actually above 61 for the first time this year. Both benchmarks have now risen for three consecutive weeks. Whats behind the broad based runup and is a sign the bulls will stay in control . Dominic chu reports. Reporter it may not feel like it for many investors but we are once again at record high levels in the stock m
Alltime high. The blue chip dow index breaks above 18,000 for the first time this year and not to be outdone, small caps also finished the day at a record. Strong Economic Data out of europe gave the markets a lift early on and hopes that greece and its creditors will reach some sort of deal when they talks on monday. Dow jones rose to 18,019. Nasdaq gained 36 points to fresh 15 year high and the s p 500 was up 8. For the week the dow rose 1 . The nasdaq up more than 3 best week since last october and the s p 500 gained 2 . The Energy Sector was helped by a 3 rise in west texas crude. It is now up nearly 20 from its lows last month. Brent crude back up above 60 a barrel actually above 61 for the first time this year. Both benchmarks have now risen for three consecutive weeks. Whats behind the broad based runup and is a sign the bulls will stay in control . Dominic chu reports. Reporter it may not feel like it for many investors but we are once again at record high levels in the stock m
Kitchen. Well show you how. Okay. Lets get to it. We begin with what could be Ground Breaking development in the war against alzheimers, the biggest news event in biotech this year and bet your Bottom Dollar investors and us watch closely. Biogen releasing full data tomorrow on the drug. Shares are rising, and in fact high today at 1. 8 as we speak. What is at stake here . Hey, mandy, a lot. Start with the size of the problem, more than 5 million americans currently have al timers disease, and that could triple by 2050 according to the alzheimers association. Its now the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Treatment options are limted. The only drugs in the market work on the symptoms rather than slowing the course of the disease. In recent years rs theres been a number of high profile failures of drugs making this a very risky bet. Agents data in december were positive. The study was small and named primarily to evaluate safety. It shows signs of ethics as well, removin
Shiller and auto sales. The nikkei closed up 56 . The best performance in 41 years. This final shortened trading week, all the major indices coming off big gains last week. As we look back on this great year for the equity markets, did 2003 end up stealing gains from 2014. Well take a closer look. But this year was not a good one for gold. The precious metal having its worst year in more than three decades breaking a 12year winning streak. Google and apple are expanding their fight for tech supremacy to a new front behind the wheel of your car. I want to welcome dan joining us for the entire hour. The reason we did play fish at the top of the show. It is great to have you this morning. You have actually written a lot over the weekend about the rally that we are seeing and whether or not it is pulling forward some momentum from 2014. This is one of the biggest concerns that Market Participants have now, the end of year rally has been stronger than normal. As such, you are borrowing from