Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff with 25 days left until the yearend fiscal cliff, and just 19 days until christmas, president obama warned lawmakers today not to add to the holiday pressures americans already feel, by letting the political stalemate drag on. But he also again insisted there would be no deal unless tax rates went up on the wealthy. The closer it gets to the brink, the more stressed were going to be. Woodruff president obama made the short trip to Northern Virginia today to underline his plan to avert the fiscal cliff. At the home of what the white house called
Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff with 25 days left until the yearend fiscal cliff, and just 19 days until christmas, president obama warned lawmakers today not to add to the holiday pressures americans already feel, by letting the political stalemate drag on. But he also again insisted there would be no deal unless tax rates went up on the wealthy. The closer it gets to the brink, the more stressed were going to be. Woodruff president obama made the short trip to Northern Virginia today to underline his plan to avert the fiscal cliff. At the home of what the white house called
Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Th and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff with 25 days left until the yearend fiscal cliff, and just 19 days until christmas, president obama warned lawmakers today not to add to the holiday pressures americans already feel, by letting the political stalemate drag on. But he also again insisted there would be no deal unless tax rates went up on the wealthy. The closer it gets to the brink, the more stressed were going to be. Woodruff president obama made the short trip to Northern Virginia today to underline his plan to avert the fiscal cliff. At the home of what the white house cal
Brown we assess the latest diplomatic moves to end syrias war, as secretary of state Hillary Clinton meets with russias foreign minister. Woodruff and ray suarez has the story of a program that aims to put students at lowachieving schools on a path to High School Graduation. Were here to make things better. Were here to tutor kids. Were here to make sure that they stay on track. We are here to make sure that they graduate. We want to prepare them for high school. Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Th
Ukrainian police crash proiranian demonstrators. We look at the catalyst behind the chaos. All that and more coming up. First, lets get the market. A mixed market with the dow just barely in market territory. The s p is up a quarter of a percent. A little bit of a rebound in the nasdaq up 7 10 of one percent. Up 25 points right now. Want to get to the big three. Stocks and watches as we had to the close. Olivia stearns is watching them for us. Lets start with amazon. It has been bearing the brunt of the selloff in the past couple of days. Facebook google also up high today. Investors are buying back into amazon. Amazon still has a price to earnings ratio about 578. A different story in biotech. Biotech is still down today. Leading and lowering the shares off about three percent. Come undernuing to pressure to lower its price tag of its 84,000 new pill to treat hepatitis c. Scripps came out saying, they will not reimmerse customers reimburse customers. This is an interesting story. A li