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These siblings took over the lighting industry. Here’s how they did it
podcast | Dec 21, 2020 |
Andy Singer moved from Brooklyn to Texas in the 1970s and started selling lighting and home goods. There was one problem: Most of it wasn’t any good. And what was good, the lamps, weren’t right for the market. “The lamp line was actually a really cool modern lamp line,” he tells host
Dennis Scully on the latest episode of the
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the s&p. then there s the dow. take a look at the dow right now, again triple-digit rise, 128 points right now. that is an almost 1% change for the dow. it s a gain, at least, 14,829. and the nasdaq, we re now at 2000 levels for the nasdaq, 3342, more than a gain of 1%. november 2000, a long time ago, but we re back there right now. now, all of these numbers and this rally today following strong u.s. jobs data, and, of course, the european central bank s decision to cut interest rates. all that happening before the markets opened. big movers today that we re watching for you, some stocks to watch, you ve got linkedin. that stock is up about 2.25% right now. and can take a look at facebook, up 28.86, that is $1.43 raise. that s more than a 5% gain for facebook. we re going to have much more on those two stocks including linkedin s earnings coming up after the pell for you. two good stocks to watch as we to through one more hour of trading on this thursday. but let s get right