| This is Bill Roller of BR Capital with the KUIK Morning Market Report for Friday, April, 20 | |||||||
| Markets are up this morning. | |||||||
| Index | Direction | Change | Units | Last | 7:42 AM | ||
| Dow | Up | 110 | points | 13,073 | |||
| S&P500 | Up | 0.70% | percent | 1,387 | |||
| Nasdaq Composite | Up | 0.84% | percent | 3,033 | |||
| 30 Year Treasury | Up | 3.9 | basis points | 3.15 | |||
| Stocks opened higher after better-than-expected quarterly results from General Electric and Microsoft. GE shares rose 1.5% on earnings that topped Wall Street estimates and Microsoft was up 4.2% after the company said net income fell from the year-ago period, but its profit and sales topped expectations. | |||||||
| The euro came under pressure yesterday as bond yields rose on fears Spain or Italy could be consumed by the debt crisis. It rebounded after the Munich-based Ifo Institute said its business-confidence gauge rose to 109.9 in April from 109.8 in March. Economists had forecast a decline to 109.5. | |||||||
| Always serving the West Side first, I am Bill Roller of BR Capital for AM 1360 KUIK. | |||||||
| http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-indexes-climb-on-earnings-2012-04-20 | |||||||
| http://www.marketwatch.com/story/europe-stocks-rise-after-german-ifo-data-2012-04-20?dist=markets | |||||||
| For today’s Morning Market Report click to listen-> | https://beaconrwa.com/audio/Morning-Market-Report.mp3 | ||||||