KQED Nightly Business Report January 5, 2016
Equities did end off their lows. Lets get right to the closing numbers on this, the first trading day of the new year. The dow industrials dropped 276 points to 17,147. It had been off as much as 467 points earlier in the day. The nasdaq declined 104 points. Thats 2 . And the s p 500 lost 31. The trigger, china and more evidence of slowing growth in the worlds second largest economy. A new report out of that country showed the Manufacturing Sector contracted at the end of 2015. The shanghai stoc...
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