| This is Bill Roller of BR Capital with the KUIK Closing Market Report for Tuesday, April, 10 | |||||||
| Markets had another big down day. | |||||||
| Direction | Change | Units | |||||
| Dow | Down | (214) | points | 12,716 | |||
| S&P500 | Down | -1.71% | percent | 1,359 | |||
| Nasdaq Composite | Down | -1.80% | percent | 2,992 | |||
| 30 Year Treasury | Down | (4.8) | basis points | 3.14 | |||
| Alcoa reported an unexpected quarterly profit and the shares are up in the after hours session. Alcoa shares rose 5.2% to $9.80 in heavy volume as the company’s first-quarter net earnings were $94 million, or 9 cents a share. Earnings excluding the impact of special items were 10 cents a share, and revenue rose slightly to $6 billion from the year-ago quarter. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected the company to swing to a loss of 3 cents a share on $5.77 billion in revenue. | |||||||
| Always serving the West Side first, I am Bill Roller of BR Capital for AM 1360 KUIK. | |||||||
| http://www.marketwatch.com/story/alcoa-expected-to-swing-to-loss-after-hours-2012-04-10?dist=afterbell | |||||||
| For today’s Closing Market Report click to listen-> | https://beaconrwa.com/audio/Closing-Market-Report.mp3 | ||||||