KQED Nightly Business Report January 11, 2011
captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening everyone. solid earnings tonight from alcoa and a bullish forecast for this year. the world's largest aluminum company is the first dow component to report quarterly numbers, and tom, analysts are hoping these strong numbers will set a positive tone for the upcoming corporate earnings season. >> tom: susie, the results also beat analyst estimates. excluding special items, alcoa earned 21 cents a share in the fourth quarter-- two cents more than estimates. revenues were in line with expectations-- $5.7 billion. alcoa also said it exp...