Stocks Bounce Back

After the disaster of last week, yesterday all three major indexes came back strong. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1,293.96 points, or 5.1 percent — its largest one-day percentage rise since March 23, 2009. The S&P 500 rose 136.01 points, or 4.6 percent, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 384.80 points, or 4.5 percent, marking the biggest one-day percentage gain for both those indexes since December 26, 2018. 

The biggest winners for the day among individual S&P stocks:

1. Costco, up 10.0 percent
2. Apple, up 9.3 percent
3. S&P Global, up 9.2 percent
4. Crown Castle International, up 9.0 percent
5. AES Corporation, up 8.9 percent
6. Cincinnati Financial Corp., up 8.7 percent
7. Gilead Sciences, up 8.7 percent
8. Digital Realty Trust, up 8.6 percent
9. Eversource Energy, up 8.3 percent
10. CVS, up 8.2 percent