And thats making Companies Take notice. Change is in the air. All of that and more on nightly Business Report for thursday january 30th. Good evening, the u. S. Economy is growing, earnings are coming in strong and that inspires investors to buy stocks today. Stocks came roaring back on news of the u. S. Economy grew at 3. 2 in the final three months of 2013. It was one of the strongest quarters in eight years. And credit goes to solid spending by consumers and businesses and jump in exports. Another batch of healthy earnings contributed to the rally. Today was the busiest day with reports from exxonmobil and visa and 3m and dozens more. Lets rundown pt closing numbers from wall street. The dow rose will 110 points and nasdaq surged 71, a gain of 2 , thanks to a 14 jump in facebook shares and s p was up 20 points. Good earnings across the board but a different story for amazon after the closing bell shares of the worlds Biggest Online shopping site plunging initially after a big profit
And thats making Companies Take notice. Change is in the air. All of that and more on nightly Business Report for thursday january 30th. Good evening, the u. S. Economy is growing, earnings are coming in strong and that inspires investors to buy stocks today. Stocks came roaring back on news of the u. S. Economy grew at 3. 2 in the final three months of 2013. It was one of the strongest quarters in eight years. And credit goes to solid spending by consumers and businesses and jump in exports. Another batch of healthy earnings contributed to the rally. Today was the busiest day with reports from exxonmobil and visa and 3m and dozens more. Lets rundown pt closing numbers from wall street. The dow rose will 110 points and nasdaq surged 71, a gain of 2 , thanks to a 14 jump in facebook shares and s p was up 20 points. Good earnings across the board but a different story for amazon after the closing bell shares of the worlds Biggest Online shopping site plunging initially after a big profit
To bring in transportation. We have c 130s coming in. Authorities say that at least 2 Million People are affected in 41 provinces. We will have more from a live report from the ground. In the meantime, lets send it over to andrew. He has this mornings top stories. Good morning, becky. Thauchk. We have some corporate headlines this morning. Avardis is selling its blood testing units for 1. 75 billion. Its a very busy market for health care deals. Also shire has agreed to buy viro viropharma. The deal should boost shires rare disease portfolio. Trans ocean reached an agreement with carl icahn to settle a proxy battle. They will pay a 3 dividend. The activist investor tweeting his response writing in part, quote, great news for transocean and activism today. Joe, over to you, sir. I think he just likes us to say his name. A lot, in any context. Carl icahn in. Yes, pretty much. Icahn, icahn, icahn. In every story, in every headline. Icahn wants to be an icon. He is an icon already. Is that
Ohio, he was a guy who would give you great advice and would work to get you an answer for the problem. So whether it was the Appropriations Committee or quite frankly the Transportation Committee where he served much of his career, was an area where he knew more about transportation and transportation issues, quite frankly than anybody in this town. He was a walking book on transportation issues. Pretty hard for a buckeye to talk about a university of michigan graduate this way, mr. Speaker, but its going to be a big void for this house for not just all five, but especially Steve Latourette who has really given his heart and his soul for 18 years try to make this body and our nation a better place for our kids and our our grandkids. It really didnt matter who you were or what you were about or if you had an r or a d by your name with respect to steve. If he believed in your cause, he was your partner, and he was going to do everything within his power to make sure that cause, that iss
Nancy posey of step as is almost the drop has kick started in early season and the outlook tonight and moving force is frightening. Pam there are four other brush fires burning right now and that county this picture was posted to twitter showing a few of them calls back and foreground closest to the coast will have the latest on all the big buyers coming up at 530. Pam a recordsetting heat wave most of the bay area under a key adviser today people are trying to stay cool in the summer like conditions kron4 has the Team Coverage on the bay area heatwave. Tonight we begin with a look at just how does it make whether has been. Kron4 chief meteorologist jack land that is moderately the high temperatures jacqueline . Jacqueline sea breeze when is thirty to kick in at the coast line. Talking about record temperatures, not rob houris staying cool out there. Reporter i am very 15 from the breeze. Benefitting reporter as you see they have a big crowd here today. People that have blankets ill he