#PreMarket Primer: Wednesday, January 15: Big Earnings Day
January 15, 2014 at 07:07 AM EST
Better than expected retail sales and a possible buy-on-the-dip mentality propelled the markets higher despite a luke-warm start to earnings season Tuesday. The Dow ended up three-quarters of a percent to close at 16,376.86. The S&P gained more than one percent to finish at 1,838.88, and the NASDAQ saw the largest
