KQED Nightly Business Report October 16, 2015
For stocks, all other news being equal. Here are the numbers for thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial average rose 217 points. It finished at 17,141. Nasdaq notched an 87point gain. And the s p 500 was 29 points higher. As for that iffy Economic Data the Labor Department said its index of Consumer Prices fell a seasonally adjusted. 2 in september. Its not much, but its the biggest drop in eight months, and it leaves inflation well below the Central Banks 2 target. Now, the reason for the decline is primarily because of falling gasoline prices. And it is that drop in gasoline prices that caused m...