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captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. "technology" was the word of the day on wall street. intel, yahoo and ibm reported solid quarterly earnings after the market closed. but apple was the sweetest stock of the day, and tom, that helped ignite a powerful rally in the major averages. >> tom: susie, it was the best day for those indices in more than a month. the dow surged almost 200 points, the nasdaq added 54, and the s&p was up 21. after the bell, a flurry of earnings reports. yahoo first quarter profits jumped 28%. it earned 23 cents a share, six cents high...

captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. "technology" was the word of the day on wall street. intel, yahoo and ibm reported solid quarterly earnings after the market closed. but apple was the sweetest stock of the day, and tom, that helped ignite a powerful rally in the major averages. >> tom: susie, it was the best day for those indices in more than a month. the dow surged almost 200 points, the nasdaq added 54, and the s&p was up 21. after the bell, a flurry of earnings reports. yahoo first quarter profits jumped 28%. it earned 23 cents a share, six cents high...

captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. "technology" was the word of the day on wall street. intel, yahoo and ibm reported solid quarterly earnings after the market closed. but apple was the sweetest stock of the day, and tom, that helped ignite a powerful rally in the major averages. >> tom: susie, it was the best day for those indices in more than a month. the dow surged almost 200 points, the nasdaq added 54, and the s&p was up 21. after the bell, a flurry of earnings reports. yahoo first quarter profits jumped 28%. it earned 23 cents a share, six cents high...

digging ourselves out of. >> tom: from the president and the fed chairman to a woman who got a job by changing her game plan. we measure the job market. you're watching "nightly business report" for friday, january 7. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. from wall street to washington the talk today was about the job market. the nation's unemploy...

this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. from wall street to washington the talk today was about the job market. the nation's unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in a year and a half-- slipping to 9.4% in december. and american businesses added a disappointing 103,000 jobs. >> tom: susie, those job numbers came as president obama announced the new leader of his economic team. he named gene sperling as the new head of his national economic council-- the top...