Encouraged by a slew of positive firm and market reports, investors pushed the Dow Jones above its fifty-two-week high of 10,753 a short time ago.

EVEN BETTER: Today's peak was the best level since June 2001.

FORGOT TO CARRY THE 'TWO': Blue chips did well today, as did the NASDAQ. Standard & Poor's did, too, but both Bloomberg and Yahoo show a slightly different reading.