| The KUIK Closing Market Report for Monday, August 5: | |||||||
| Markets finished mixed. | |||||||
| Direction | Change | Units | Last | Time | Change | ||
| Dow | Down | (46) | points | 15,612 | 2:13 PM | ||
| S&P500 | Down | -0.2% | percent | 1,707 | (2.53) | ||
| Nasdaq Composite | Up | 0.1% | percent | 3,693 | 3.00 | ||
| 30 Year Treasury | Up | 4 | Basis Points | 3.73 | Annual Yield | ||
| Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is buying the Washington Post newspaper for $250 million. He is acting personally and not through Amazon. The Washington Post is the newspaper that broke the Watergate scandal. Like many media properties, it has fallen on hard times. In the second quarter, the newspaper business represented just 13% of Washington Post Co.’s total revenue | |||||||
| Serving the West Side first I am Bill Roller of BR Capital for AM 1360 KUIK. | |||||||
| http://www.marketwatch.com/story/bezos-buying-washington-post-for-250-million-2013-08-05?dist=afterbell | |||||||
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