All that and more on nightly Business Report for friday, february 14th. Good evening, im sue herera. Good evening from me as well. Im tyler plath son by the way. For stocks today capped the best week so far this year. The dow, nasdaq and s p 500 all gained more than 2 . The week. Nasdaq touched its highest level in nearly 14 years and ran its win streak to seven consecutive sessions. The longest such streak since last july. Now all ten of the s p 500 sectors were positive for the week led by utilities, health care and materials. Investors shrugged off a drop in Industrial Production data and today at least said, snow what, to winter weather. The dow gained 126 points. The s p 500 rose more than 8. The nasdaq picked up 3. Gold was higher by 19 an ounce closing at 1319. In the process it broke through a key level and traders say look for gold to rise now in small increments. Lets turn to Chris Gaffney for his market analysis. Hes Senior Market strategist with everbank. Nice to have you h
Woodruff and its friday, mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the weeks news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. Friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff this was the day after for much of the eastern seaboard, digging out from the latest winter storm. In parts of the northeast, snowfall topped two feet, and in the south, nearly halfamillion customers spent a third day with no power. The storm was also blamed for 25 deaths. Hari sreenivasan reports on the days developments. Reporter heaps and heaps of snow made a messy aftermath as the big storm moved on. Plows and trucks worked overtime to clear streets from the deep south, all the way to the northeast and new engla