In front of congress. Whats causing the widening income gap and what are possible solutions . All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report for tuesday, jan 28th. After six losing sessions in a rows dow found muchneeded gains after the selloff in emerging market currencies levelled off. A batch of strong earnings reports before the opening bell prompted investors to buy stocks again. Todays gains happened despite a surprise drop in december durable goods orders and a big selloff in shares of apple following disappointing earnings late monday. Heres a look at the closing numbers. The dow jumped more than 90 points, nasdaq added 14, the s p up almost 11 points. More now on those earnings from some bigname companies out before the bell today. That gave investors something to cheer about. Morgan brennan has our report. Reporter four companies posting Fourth Quarter earnings that beat wall streets expectations today. Starting with pfizer. Increased sales of drugs for cancer and arthr
Thats right. Whether you like it or not, a vital part of who you are may now belong to someone else. Let me just examine him. People are worried more than ever about how the chemicals were exposed to are affecting our health. Among them, a family of chemicals used in everyday plastics known as phthalates, which congress banned in toys after a study by dr. Shanna swan. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. Well be exploring the world of science in this episode. Later well bring you Morley Safers story about the human genome patents being awarded to Biotech Companies and the proprietary control they now have over part of who you are. And then my report on a ubiquitous chemical called phthalates, which is in everything from perfume to childrens toys, but which may also be causing birth defects. But first, steve krofts story on the enormous amount of money being spent to treat people as they approach the end of their lives. How much money . Well, in 2009, medicare paid 55 billion
Thats right. Whether you like it or not, a vital part of who you are may now belong to someone else. Let me just examine him. People are worried more than ever about how the chemicals were exposed to are affecting our health. Among them, a family of chemicals used in everyday plastics known as phthalates, which congress banned in toys after a study by dr. Shanna swan. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. Well be exploring the world of science in this episode. Later well bring you Morley Safers story about the human genome patents being awarded to Biotech Companies and the proprietary control they now have over part of who you are. And then my report on a ubiquitous chemical called phthalates, which is in everything from perfume to childrens toys, but which may also be causing birth defects. But first, steve krofts story on the enormous amount of money being spent to treat people as they approach the end of their lives. How much money . Well, in 2009, medicare paid 55 billion
Have been patenting human genes. Thats right. Whether you like it or not, a vital part of who you are may now belong to someone else. Let me just examine him. People are worried more than ever about how the chemicals were exposed to are affecting our health. Among them, a family of chemicals used in everyday plastics known as phthalates, which congress banned in toys after a study by dr. Shanna swan. Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im lesley stahl. Well be exploring the world of science in this episode. Later well bring you Morley Safers story about the human genome patents being awarded to Biotech Companies and the proprietary control they now have over part of who you are. And then my report on a ubiquitous chemical called phthalates, which is in everything from perfume to childrens toys, but which may also be causing birth defects. But first, steve krofts story on the enormous amount of money being spent to treat people as they approach the end of their lives. How much money . Well,
Nasdaq was strong. Technology, one of the better performers on the day. Investors betting lawmakers will reach a deal on the debt ceiling and avoid default dont. John harwood with the latest developments out of washington. Down to the wire, what can you tell us . It is down to the wire, but they are going to reach a deal. The senate expects to vote within the next few hours on that deal. Expect an overwhelming bipartisan vote in favor of the deal struck between harry reid, democratic leader, mitch mcconnell, that would reopen the government, extend funding through january 15th, lift the debt ceiling through february 7th. And that deal is expected, as i said, to go some time between 5 00 and 8 00. The house will take it up. They could be done in the range of 10 00 to 11 00. The bill would then go to the president. I just spoke to a House Republican who said that the at the Leadership Meeting just concluded. Speaker boehner, entire leadership indicated they were supporting this deal. The