KQED Nightly Business Report August 16, 2013
Optimistic than they have been in eight years. Nightly Business Report for thursday, august 15th. Good evening everyone and welcome. The drip, drip, drip of sliding stock prices turned into something more today, Something Like a tarrant. Investors digested troubled news with walmart and cisco and claims mean the Federal Reserve will reduce stimulus sooner rather than later. The dow is 546 points or 3. 5 below the alltime high hit on august 2. The s p 500 is 48 points or 2. 8 below the peak set that day. New todays sell off accounts for half of those declines from the alltime highs, the dow dow...