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  • fiscal stimulus hopes helped the Dow squeak out a new all time high Tuesday.

  • Investors scooped up stocks and cyclical sectors like energy and financials, betting they would gain the most from a reopening economy.

  • Others picked a Bitcoin, sending the Cryptocurrency soaring past $50,000 for the first time before paring its game.

  • But investors sold bonds, driving up the yield on the benchmark 10 year Treasury to its highest since last February.

  • That propelled financial stocks higher.

  • But pressure tech stocks, utilities and real estate stocks also fell because they're often considered bond proxies.

  • At the close, the Dow was up 1/5 percent, but the S and P 500 was flat and the NASDAQ lost a third of a percent.

  • The rise in Treasury yields and interest rates worries Vestibular Capital CEO Jeff Thomas alot.

  • When you have interest rates start to tick up the way we've seen today, now is this a trend or is it not?

  • I'm not sure, but if it continues, we're gonna definitely see some issues in the overall market, and I think that's what we're seeing a little bit today.

  • As Bitcoin briefly topped the 50 k milestone, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain related stocks soared, among them Silver Gate Capital, Riot, Blockchain and Marathon Patent Group.

  • Investors also been on shares of travel related companies ahead of their earnings this week.

  • Hilton Hyatt Marry it and Norwegian Cruise Lines rose.

  • Bank stocks jumped, but Citigroup shares rose less than 1%.

  • Ah federal judge ruled that the bank was not entitled to recruit the half a billion dollars it had mistakenly wired lenders of Revlon.

fiscal stimulus hopes helped the Dow squeak out a new all time high Tuesday.

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