Sep 24 Watch Wall Street Closes Out the Week on a Strong Note The Dow Jones gained more than 197 points and the Nasdaq rose 54 points at close Friday. Stock numbers shot up after news that factory orders and business spending went up in August. Continue watching
Sep 16 Watch News Wrap: Pope Begins U.K. Visit Amid Uproar Over Abuse Scandal In other news Thursday, the Pope began a visit to Britain with his strongest admission about how the Catholic Church failed to deal decisively with sexual abuse by priests. Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch News Wrap: Wall Street Rally Rolls on as New Banking Rules Take Effect In other news, the Dow Jones industrial average and the NASDAQ both closed higher Monday. In Venezuela, a plane carrying 51 people crashed and killed at least 14. Continue watching
Sep 03 Watch News Wrap: U.S. Markets React Positively to Jobs Numbers In other news Friday, U.S. markets rose ahead of the holiday weekend on news of the latest unemployment reading. Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch News Wrap: Obama Calls for Small Business Assistance In other news Monday, President Obama called for new action to help the sluggish economy and urged new assistance for small businesses. In Pakistan, thousands of refugees began to head home as flood waters receded in some areas. Continue watching
Aug 19 Watch News Wrap: Weekly Jobless Claims Highest Since November In other news Thursday, the Labor Department announced jobless claims rose to 500,000 last week. On Wall Street, there were disappointing numbers as well. Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch Wall Street Suffers Bad Day Over Fears of Stalling Recovery Major indexes on Wall Street gave back more than two percent of their value Wednesday over concerns about the strength of the U.S. economy. Gwen Ifill discusses the plunge and the Federal Reserve's acknowledgment that the recovery has slowed with… Continue watching
Aug 10 Watch News Wrap: Economic Growth ‘More Modest’ Than Previous Projection In other news Tuesday, the Federal Reserve projected U.S. economic growth will be "more modest" than its June estimate. Continue watching
Aug 06 Watch News Wrap: Wall Street Up for the Week Despite Bleak Jobs Report Amid the grim job numbers from the Labor Department Friday, Wall Street managed to come out of the week ahead. The Dow is up nearly 2 percent and the NASDAQ rose 1.5 percent. Also, BP is waiting for cement to… Continue watching
Aug 05 Watch News Wrap: Supermodel Campbell Testifies in Taylor War Crimes Trial In other news Thursday, Senate Democrats passed a $26 billion aid package for state and local governments, supermodel Naomi Campbell testified at the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, and several U.S. citizens were charged for supporting… Continue watching