| This is Bill Roller of BR Capital with the KUIK Closing Market Report for Wednesday, April, 18 | |||||||
| Markets finished down today. | |||||||
| Direction | Change | Units | |||||
| Dow | Down | (83) | points | 13,033 | |||
| S&P500 | Down | -0.41% | percent | 1,385 | |||
| Nasdaq Composite | Down | -0.37% | percent | 3,031 | |||
| 30 Year Treasury | Down | (2.9) | basis points | 3.13 | |||
| Argentina shocked a global investors by announcing a takeover of YPF, its largest oil and gas company, earlier this week. The Argentine government accused YPF of not investing enough in its local oil fields and for not producing enough oil, which led to a 110% increase in country’s oil imports last year. Shares of US listed YPF SA, resumed trading today after being halted Monday and dropped almost 30%. | |||||||
| EBay reported a fiscal first-quarter profit that rose 20% from a year ago on strong revenue gains from its online-payments and auction businesses. EBay said it earned $570 million, or 44 cents a share, on $3.3 billion in revenue. | |||||||
| Always serving the West Side first, I am Bill Roller of BR Capital for AM 1360 KUIK. | |||||||
| For today’s Closing Market Report click to listen-> | https://beaconrwa.com/audio/Closing-Market-Report.mp3 | ||||||