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not the way most people talk about it instead, you ve got a market of stocks that s an important distinction, particularly in carmerica. stocks are like snowflakes, no two are the same sure everybody loves index funds as a low-cost way to get ebbs posure to the whole asset class. i m one of them. i please guilty. including today where the dow and s&p both notched new all-time highs former fall of 119 points. s&p gained 1.5%. nasdaq dipped 0.19% as the rotation continues but i think the totality is a lot less illuminating than looking at individual companies and what actually drives them. for example, just last week, we did a two-part interview from the new york stock exchange with boeing s ceo dennis muilenberg where he told us that his company is having an extraordinary year maybe told us in seven or eight different ways it s spewing cash and he made it pretty clear that this is the healthiest boeing s ever been. so he wants to reward you, the shareholder. sure enough ....
stocks give that i base almost all my work on fundamental factors related to the companies i study and not the shape of their charts, the off-the-charts segment is both theoretical and antithetical to my traditional stock-picking methods, but i know from your feedba feedback @jimcramer on twitter, that you re interested in this analysis and importantly, it s proven itself time and time again to really get a lot of people involved at the right level, say? not for a minute, as i explain in get rich carefully, where i devote a whole chapter to charting, have i become a chartist myself. i still single out stocks to highlight and teach about after studying the fundamentals, the research, the annuals, the sectors, and i overlay them on my broader world view at the moment charters can care less about this stuff they often don t care what the company does i wonder if they could do their jobs with the companies names blacked out. in fact, i am sure they could. some of them ha ....
those markets are doing today. it s a red day for the most part, spain is in the green. 10-year note yield we re always watching that and that is at 2.42 boy, it s a big start to the year for crude we ll talk a lot about that. crude over 60 bucks even though it s ticking slightly lower today along with brent and wti and brent at the bottom of the screen the roadmap starts with the new year and new rally futures rising as we said as wall street shrugs over geopolitical concerns and the tax effect bp taking a major q2 earnings set but bullish on the tax laws long term impact apple s mea culpa, looking to quickly make amends with angry customers. stocks coming off the best yearly performance since 2013, including 71 record closes for the dow, 72 for the nasdaq and 62 for the s&p the dow posting a 25% gain for 2017 and s&p up 19%. the nasdaq leading the three major indexes up 28% jim, happy new year to you. happy new year. thank you very much. it would certainly seem ....
in the low to mid-50s. here s sue. more about those winds. winds over the altamont pass as well. we have extra traffic over there. i ll tell you why in a little bit. we do have an overturned blocking the eastbound 580 lanes near grand. it s still in the middle lane there with crews trying to get the car out of there. we have a sig-alert on tesla road. this is livermore in the hills near carnegie. it s also both lanes, both directions, i should say blocked. that s what s causing a few more people to get on 580 that would normally take that as their morning commute. slow and go off the altamont pass. they pick up a little bit once you re into livermore headed into dublin pleasanton. you re looking at a smooth ride on 580. we ll have an update for you about that sig-alert in a few. ment. thank you, sue. the weather changed so quickly over the weekend. gusts of up to 40 miles per hour left a man seriously hurt after a fence landed on top of him. this morning, a wind ....
apparently several lanes blocked here with a couple of cars. we re not seeing any slow traffic yet. we re going to check back with the chp to see the status of that. north 101 near mckee, we have a couple of lanes blocked here. you can see very slow traffic here headed northbound. we ll zoom in with the 3d view and you can see the slow and go. just at a crawl northbound 101 at this hour. hopefully it will get that cleared out. otherwise, we ll advise you take 280. thank you, sue. the wind was a big story over the weekend. gusts of more than 40 miles per hour left one man seriously hurt in san francisco after a fence landed on top of him. this morning, a wind advisory on the san mateo bridge. amy hollyfield has the story. reporter: it is cold here, reggie. it is windy. something to be aware of as you cross this bridge. as we saw yesterday in san francisco, the wind can be dangerous. that s where the wind grabbed a fence, shook it loose and carried it across the str ....