KQED Nightly Business Report May 4, 2016
Eurozone may be weaker than previously thought. That pressured stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 140 points to 17,750. Nasdaq fell 54. The s p 500 was off 18. As bob pisani points out, the very things that had been driving the market higher for nearly three months seem to be starting to shift. Reporter stocks were down today as three key parts of the recent rally reversed a bit. First the china problem. Chinas been stable recently but the Economic Data has been choppy, kind of hard to read. Overnight the manufacturing numbers were weaker than expected. And that is predictably ca...