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Dow Jones Averages

By The Associated Press

30 industrials 18087.38 up 49.11 or 0.27 percent

20 transportation 8905.77 up 42.70 or 0.48 percent

15 utilities 592.03 up 4.53 or 0.77 percent

65 stocks 6432.24 up 26.40 or 0.41 percent

Major Market Indexes

New York Stock Exchange unchanged

NYSE MKT Composite 2552.06 up 17.20

Nasdaq composite 5050.66 up 15.49

Standard and Poors 500 2114.31 up 6.35

Volume for unknown hour

Today Previous Session

NYSE

NYSE MKT

Nasdaq 855,462,262 804,028,810

NYSE – Market Did

Advanced 2062 1777

Declined 977 1284

Unchanged 113 148

Total 3152 3209

New highs 92 98

New lows 11 26

NYSE MKT – Market Did

Advanced 232 211

Declined 141 189

Unchanged 30 24

Total 403 424

New highs 7 8

New lows 2 10

Nasdaq – Market Did

Advanced 1487 1478

Declined 1131 1265

Unchanged 188 146

Total 2806 2889

New highs 87 114

New lows 36 41

Business Journal reporter to run for cancer as he battles it

By WTOP Staff
WASHINGTON - It is a race in more ways than one for one of our own at WTOP. And you can help. Tucker Echols, the Washington Business Journal's reporter normally heard on WTOP every morning, is battling diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a type of cancer that was discovered after he found a lump on his neck. "The very good news here is that it's very treatable," says Echols. "There is a chemotherapy regimen that has worked more than 10 years, almost 15 now, to give lots of folks like me, who catch it early, a good chance of survival." When the cancer is caught early, patients have an 80 percent chance of survival. But Echols, who is 51, has lost his hair to chemotherapy. And he has had a few difficult moments, like telling his two kids, who are 6 and 8. They asked him if he was going to die. "I said, 'No, I'm not going to die. That is the good news here.'" Now after consulting his oncologist, and despite the side effects that often accompany his treatment, Echols is preparing for the EagleMan Triathlon competition, a 70.3-mile race held in Cambridge, Md., June 9. "The key with chemotherapy is that you listen to your body and if you think you can do it, go ahead and do it," Echols says. Echols will run to raise money for three charities that are trying to cure cancer, and his goal is to raise $30,000. Click on the links below to donate: American Cancer Society; Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; Cure Starts Now Foundation. Follow @WTOP and @WTOPliving on Twitter.
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