500 stocks, they rose more than 5% to start the year and here's maybe an rbi worthy stat from keith lerner since 1950, we have seen the s&p 500 gain more than 10% in the fourth quarter a total of 12 times. last year, of course, was one of them now following those periods, history says the index also moves higher 11 out of 12 times in the first quarter and with an average return of 5% hey, at 5:00 a.m. it's always about the five, right. of course, history does not always repeat itself but again, it is on your side after a big fourth quarter, the first quarter, 92% of the time also goes higher >>> you know what else is higher that is the price of oil and energy that was a big part of the market story on monday energy stocks, they boomed the xop, oil and gas etf, it rose more than 4%. opec meets today, and they are expected to down play the impact of covid and global economies and keep their plan to raise output by 400,000 barrels per day. that meeting will kick off right around 10:00 a.m. new york time, but it is opec so don't hold us to that. >>> there's records here, there's stock records