Such an investment would create jobs in engineering, construction and computer fields, and have indirect effects on manufacturing and component assembling employment.
As much as Pfizer helped lift stocks, fellow Dow component Caterpillar was weighing on the market, after the construction equipment maker's fourth-quarter results came up short of estimates.
By the same token the thirty-year hiatus in construction of new nuclear plants following Three Mile Island limited another important component of our energy mix and reduced our current options.