KQED Nightly Business Report August 18, 2017
Wall street hasnt seen a down day like this for months. Investors sold stocks and bought bonds. They also put money into gold, a socalled safe haven. Lets get into the closing numbers for this thursday. The industrial average plunged 274 points to 21750. Nasdaq tumbled 123. And the s p 500 was off by 38. It wasnt just one reason for the sell washington uncertainty contributed, so did some weak earnings reports. And the losses intensified midday on news of a deadly terror attack in the heart of ba we watched the selloff today from the floor of the new york stock exchange. Are the markets in tro...