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gains of the day two weeks ago the dow hit 25,000 for the first time now let s get to bob pisani on the floor. i want to point out the dow is price weighted, the biggest prigs stocks te price stocks tend to move the index. let me show you the five dow stocks that contributed most this is a 1,000 point gain from 25,000 to 26,000 boeing is 34% of the gain. one stock is a third of the gain caterpillar, united health, home depot, 3m. eight of the highest priced stocks in the dow. put it together, 60% of the dow s gains from 25 to 26 were five companies five out of 30 companies here. what is more interesting is the days to the rally are getting small eastern smaller. each 1,000 point increment is getting small eastern smaller. look, it took 109 to go from 21 to 22,000. after that, 53 dpays to go to te next 1,000, 23 days, 7 days. you get the point. this is more than just easier to hit the target this is definitely an acceleration it is euphoria, some people say it is. but ....
an 11% rise in exports for january. still both were higher than economists expected. over in europe, a check on how we re doing there. the dak dox down better than 1%n germany. down about 1% across the board in political news, well, you want to look at these first? what? treasuries. of course. don t want to jump past those. the ten-year it was sitting there. i didn t see it i was so excited for the political news 2.831% is the number on the ten-year recent high was 2.88 that happened in the midst of that payrolls report then the market turmoil. after that soft auction yesterday and the budget agreement with the raising of the spending cap, that s when you saw yields take that little bit of a jump higher should we do political news now? let s do it the clock is once again ticking in congress. lawmakers having until mid night tonight to pass a spending bill and avert another government shutdown this time there s a major bipartisan budget deal in the work ....
the first officers heard the gunshots and they still ran through that theater. they do an amazing job protecting us every single day. i m grateful for their heroism and i think we ll hear other stories from folks inside the theaters as details come out. we re switching gears this morning. we have breaking news right now. it is now official anthem is buying cigna for $188 in cash and stocks. the transaction valued at $54.2 billion on an enterprise basis. this of course, a transaction that s been long in the making. we ve talked about it over and over as other deals have come and gone. we ve seen etna now merge with humana. there will be issues and questions in washington about regulatory questions, about consolidation. just to give you a couple quick breakdowns, it s $143 per share in cash 0.5152 shares in anthem stock. you might remember this deal was held up for at least a bit because of questions about the roles of the different ceos in this. questions about what wa ....
meeting. policy announcement coming up at 2:00. in global news chinese stocks rallying overnight. this morning snapping the three-day losing streak. the shanghai composite closing up 3.5%. big growth. in europe greece s stock market will not be reopened today as some had expected. the exchange is waiting for an okay from the ecb and government decree. that s 6 or 700 points. huge. stocks to watch this morning, twitter earnings and revenue are both above estimates but it was the monthly average user number and it grew at its slowest pace since it was public and that is accounting for a pretty substantial selloff today. 32. i don t know the last time it was there. jack dorsey this weird beard, calls this unacceptable. have you seen the beard he s sporting? i have. it s like does the not pass by mirrors? people don t talk. he has a lot of yes people. yeah it looks good. yeah, it looks good. i like that egg yolk. right here. more of his comments and reaction f ....
economists were expecting 2.5%. recent gdp was also lowered. you can see red across the board with the s&p followin falling .. the nasdaq down .8%. not only the gdp reports weighing on stocks, but you have social media dragging the market with twitter yesterday and facebook today. olivia: nobody likes how much money mark zuckerberg is spending. matt: his employees like it. olivia: probably. here s what s happening on the treasury market. the short end off the yield on the 2-year note up i two basis points. note, little bit of money flowing into that, so yields coming down. stronger off the back of 2.3% growth in the second quarter. the dollar index trading around a four-month high. top stories crossing the bloomberg terminal at this hour the u.s. economy picking up pace in the second quarter, gdp , slightly less than what economists were looking for. the commerce department revised the first-quarter figure upward. grew by out the economy .6% in the first three months ....