gold rose tuesday for the first time in a week. copper jumped almost 5%. not surprisingly, freeport copper and gold was up 4%. specialty metals company allegheny technologies led the s&p up over 7%. oil spiked more than $4 tuesday in new york. but fell overnight in asia to just over $83 a barrel. research in motion led the nasdaq surging on speculation investor carl icon has taken a stake in the blackberry maker. walgreen fell 6% after ending its relationship with express scripts. home prices rose for a fourth straight month in july. consumer confidence improved slightly in september after plummeting in august. after the bell, tech services company accenture was up on quarterly earnings. higher after the bell, payroll processor paychex posting stronger than expected earnings.
since recanted or recounted their stories. they ve also pointed out that they ve had people come forward saying that someone else was responsible for this murder. all of that was before the board. everyone came back from that meeting with the board thinking that they got their point across, that the board was definitely listening, asking a lot of questions about this case. apparently, had they had done their homework and were very, very familiar with this case. so, both sides coming out thinking that they had made their case very strongly. of course, the people who had the last word before that board were the family members of the officer macphail who was murdered that night in 1989. they spoke to us after they had spoken to the board and they said that they wanted justice. they wanted to make sure that this execution went through. they have believed all along in the guilt of davis. contrary to what hundreds of thousands of other people have apparently believed. the hundreds
markets were higher on news of the euro deal. unexpected bang upearnings from morgan stanley sent shares spiking 11%. union pacific jumped almost 5% on higher profits. alexion spiked, but intel dropped. also due to soft pc sales, after the bell microsoft fell. in deal news, express scripts is buying med co-health, combining the nation s largest pharmacy benefit managers. six years earlier than expected, the government has sold its entire investment in chrysler to italy s fiat, now the majority shareholder. and finally, prince william and wife kathrcat catherine fle
hashed out a new massive bailout for greece with banks and other private contributors. they radically reformed the rescue fund to help countries before a crisis flares. oil surged above $100 a barrel. the euro rose against the dollar, and u.s. government bonds fell. also overnight, asian markets were higher on news of the euro deal. unexpected bang upearnings from morgan stanley sent shares spiking 11%. union pacific jumped almost 5% on higher profits. alexion spiked, but intel dropped. also due to soft pc sales, after the bell microsoft fell. in deal news, express scripts is buying med co-health, combining the nation s largest pharmacy benefit managers. six years earlier than
of space shuttles. stay tuned. lit take as you little while. we are still working on it but keep watching. we will be launching again. we will stay in the business, as they said, the united states is not out space business. absolutely. we have proven for 30 years that we know how to get to lower orbit. we built this fantastic international space station. lit keep operating at least through 2020, conducting research in this incredible laboratory with the micro gravity environment of space we cannot replicate here on earth. we are going to still explore and research there but we have proven we know how to get to lower orr. it next step is we need to go on. absolutely. that s going to be the challenge for you and the rest of the folks at nasa. as we see atlantis sitting on the edge of the runway, it is, in fact, over for the space shuttle program. that s right. thank you for that. we want to get the take of what it is like in haas ton at mission control where i