this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening everyone. susie gharib is off. i am joined by my colleague suzanne pratt. suzanne, a whipsaw day for wall street. it began with heavy selling on fresh worries about the economy and ended with a late day comeback for stocks. susie: tom, the services sector is the latest worry. today we learned a key measure of service activity fell to its lowest level since february 2010. and, investors shrugged off better-than-expected data on private sector jobs. a.d.p. reported that private employers added 110,000 new jobs in july. tom: by the closing bell, the blue chips had turned an 150- point loss into a gain. the dow rose almost 30 points, the nasdaq was up 23 and the s&p 500 added six. volume was heavier, with 1.3 billion shares moving on the big board and 2.6 billion on the nasdaq. suzanne: investors big and small have had their c
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening everyone. susie gharib is off. i am joined by my colleague suzanne pratt. suzanne, a whipsaw day for wall street. it began with heavy selling on fresh worries about the economy and ended with a late day comeback for stocks. susie: tom, the services sector is the latest worry. today we learned a key measure of service activity fell to its lowest level since february 2010. and, investors shrugged off better-than-expected data on private sector jobs. a.d.p. reported that private employers added 110,000 new jobs in july. tom: by the closing bell, the blue chips had turned an 150- point loss into a gain. the dow rose almost 30 points, the nasdaq was up 23 and the s&p 500 added six. volume was heavier, with 1.3 billion shares moving on the big board and 2.6 billion on the nasdaq. suzanne: investors big and small have had their c
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening everyone. susie gharib is off. i am joined by my colleague suzanne pratt. suzanne, a whipsaw day for wall street. it began with heavy selling on fresh worries about the economy and ended with a late day comeback for stocks. susie: tom, the services sector is the latest worry. today we learned a key measure of service activity fell to its lowest level since february 2010. and, investors shrugged off better-than-expected data on private sector jobs. a.d.p. reported that private employers added 110,000 new jobs in july. tom: by the closing bell, the blue chips had turned an 150- point loss into a gain. the dow rose almost 30 points, the nasdaq was up 23 and the s&p 500 added six. volume was heavier, with 1.3 billion sharesinhe big board and 2.6 billion on the nasdaq. suzanne: investors big and small have had their confidence
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening everyone. susie gharib is off. i am joined by my colleague suzanne pratt. suzanne, a whipsaw day for wall street. it began with heavy selling on fresh worries about the economy and ended with a late day comeback for stocks. susie: tom, the services sector is the latest worry. today we learned a key measure of service activity fell to its lowest level since february 2010. and, investors shrugged off better-than-expected data on private sector jobs. a.d.p. reported that private employers added 110,000 new jobs in july. tom: by the closing bell, the blue chips had turned an 150- point loss into a gain. the dow rose almost 30 points, the nasdaq was up 23 and the s&p 500 added six. volume was heavier, with 1.3 billion shares moving on the big board and 2.6 billion on the nasdaq. suzanne: investors big and small have had their c
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt susie: good evening everyone. my colleague tom hudson will be along later in the program. a verdict today in the largest probe of insider trading at a hedge fund in u-s history: billionaire investor raj rajaratnam was found guilty of all 14 counts. a jury convicted him on five counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and nine counts of securities fraud. the conviction, after an eight- week trial, is a huge win for the government s efforts to punish insider trading on wall street. we ll get analysis from a legal expert in just a moment, but first, erika miller was at the courthouse and has details on today s verdict. reporter: once a high-flying wall street investor, raj rajartnam is now a convicted felon. the founder of the galleon group hedge fund was convicted in a scheme that netted him $64 million in illegal profits. outside the courthouse, his