WHYY Nightly Business Report June 9, 2014
The s p 500 and the dow transports to close at fresh alltime highs once again. Investors got a lift of another round of major mergers and the spin enough of a batch of some household magazine titles from one of the nations oldest and biggest media companies. Heres how stocks ended the day. The dow up sl points. Nasdaq added 14. And the s p ended one point higher. One of the biggest deals announced today was the drug giant merck. Agreeing to buy specialty drugmaker identix. Shares of dow component merck ended fractionally higher today. So what does identix have that made merck pay all that mone...