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year-end edition of the closing bell. we are finishing the sixth year in a row of gains for the dow. by my math of the last six years, this year will only come in number five. it will rank the fifth best performance. the only one that was number six is 2011. the others outperformed what we did this year with the gain on the dow thereabouts. here we are. the dow down 82 though. just off the lows aft session. s&p down 13 and the nasdaq is down half a percent today down 25 points. let s wrap up what we saw today in the markets and in 2014 overall with the closing bell exchange. keith fitzgerald and david sourbee. everyone happy new year to you. absolutely. thank you for joining us. monica hindsight is always 20/20 but if we have rewound to january of this year people were saying okay the market s going to cool down for equities. we are going to see yields start to rise. 10-year around 3% where we started and oil stable and almost none of that proved to be the con ....
well ut dow posting its biggest one-day gain since early february. all ten s&p 500 groups are higher with energy leading the way. we ve got bob pasani on the nyse floor, dominik right here at hq. what can key technical levels and josh lipton on the very tough month for tech. bob, you first. blast-off around the globe this week. china from the outset ended near the highs. germany starts early today. u.s. starts at 9:30 eastern time. there s a pat he were here. global buying. you can blame it on comments from the people s bank of china officials. whatever. there s the s&p futures. we actually gapped up twice. once at 330 when europe opened and once at 9:30 when we opened. we re at the highs for the day. in terms of sectors, i have been of the opinion that we are seeing some end of the month rejiggering since the beginning of last week. we re seeing it again today. the biggest losers for the quarter are energy financials utilities, and industrials. those are the only f ....
and carl quiis live at the performing arts center in california, just 1.3 miles from apple. you know, carl, there is a real historical sort of echo that they re having this event at the flint center, a place they haven t used for product launches in quite sometime but some of the most important ones actually were unveiled. absolutely true, tyler. this is where steve jobs unveiled the mac in 1984. 30 years ago. it s been four years since apple introduced a completely new product category and four years since this is the first new category for tim cook, of course, who succeeded steve jobs as ceo. this is the world s biggest tech company, guys. brought us the modern graphic based pc, modern smartphone, the tablet, the music player. so over the next hour, we are going do get some specifics finally after a lot of speculation about a bigger phone, about a watch, about a payments product. about a health product and even though the stock traditionally does not act well on ....
liz: countdown to the countdown. as records continue to fall, our stocks the only game in town? the hedge fund manager taking it from zero to 80 billion gives you his best money making ideas. john brynjolfsson exclusively with us. venezuelan hugo chavez is on. what will that mean for his local oil prices? what is the trade? s&p capitalize director pinpoints how to pick the winners. the countdown starts right now. liz: good afternoon, everybody. i am liz claman. it is the last hour of trading. another record for the dow. after we got the facebook indicator from from the federal reserve. a positive adp employment reports more workers than expected. market watchers, as you see on the screen as they look at these records once again, spinning forward to friday when the labor department releases the february jobs report. let take a look at the s&p. the nasdaq which has been down earlier is up about two points. we have the russell 2000 of a third of a percent today. in ter ....