| The KUIK Market Update for Tuesday, November 19: | |||||||
| Markets are up. | |||||||
| Index | Direction | Change | Units | Last | Time | Change | |
| Dow | Up | 27 | points | 16,005 | 7:53 AM | ||
| S&P500 | Up | 0.07% | percent | 1,793 | 1.19 | ||
| Nasdaq Composite | Up | 0.08% | percent | 3,952 | 3.00 | ||
| 30 Year Treasury | Up | 0 | Basis Points | 3.77 | Annual Yield | ||
| The Labor Department reports compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis in the third quarter, following 0.5% growth in the second. Economists polled by MarketWatch expected 0.5% growth. Wages and salaries rose 0.3% while benefits picked up by 0.7%. Over 12 months, compensation costs grew 1.9%. | |||||||
| Problems with his health-care law have pushed President Obama’s disapproval rating to a new high of 55% in a Washington Post-ABC News poll. And opposition to the law itself hit a record high in the survey, with 57% saying they oppose it. | |||||||
| Selfie beat out twerk for the 2013 word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. A selfie is a self-portrait usually taken with a camera phone was traced back to an Australian Internet forum in 2002, but it didn’t catch fire until this year. Since 2013 started, we’ve endured a 17,000% surge in use. While still not in the print version, “selfie” was added to Oxford Dictionaries Online in August. | |||||||
| Serving the West Side first, I am Bill Roller of BR Capital for AM 1360 KUIK. | |||||||
| http://www.marketwatch.com/story/employment-cost-index-up-04-in-third-quarter-2013-11-19 | |||||||
| http://blogs.marketwatch.com/capitolreport/2013/11/19/new-low-for-obama-in-poll-after-health-care-mess-and-more-morning-reads/ | |||||||
| http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2013/11/19/justin-bieber-rihanna-the-pope-help-to-make-selfie-the-word-of-the-year/ | |||||||
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