KQEH Nightly Business Report June 24, 2014
Stocks have been on a tear lately as you know. Reaching historic highs for the dow and s p for friday. Both the averages kicked off the new trading week with some modest declines. A new round of mergers would normally send stocks higher but not today. The dow is down nine points, the nasdaq managed to eke out a fractional gain enough for a 14year high, and the s p was down by about a quarter point. Even with todays decline, the dow is just 63 points from the 17,000 mark. Rallying 2 this year. With a week to go in the first half of this year, dominick chu takes a look at what helped the stocks ...