| This is Bill Roller of BR Capital with the KUIK Closing Market Report for Thursday, April, 12 | |||||||
| Markets finished up today. | |||||||
| Direction | Change | Units | |||||
| Dow | Up | 181 | points | 12,987 | |||
| S&P500 | Up | 1.30% | percent | 1,388 | |||
| Nasdaq Composite | Up | 1.38% | percent | 3,056 | |||
| 30 Year Treasury | Up | 2.2 | basis points | 3.21 | |||
| Google reported after the close. It had a 61% jump in first-quarter profit on strong sales The Internet powerhouse reported a first-quarter profit of $2.89 billion, or $8.75 a share, compared with a profit of $1.8 billion, or $5.51 a share, for the year-earlier period. Chief Executive Larry Page also announced that the company is creating a new class of non-voting stock, a move he described in a letter as “effectively a two-for-one stock split.” | |||||||
| Always serving the West Side first, I am Bill Roller of BR Capital for AM 1360 KUIK. | |||||||
| http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-net-soars-61-on-strong-sales-2012-04-12?dist=afterbell | |||||||
| For today’s Closing Market Report click to listen-> | https://beaconrwa.com/audio/Closing-Market-Report.mp3 | ||||||