aluminum giant alcoa led the dow, adding nearly 3% after snapping up an aerospace fastener business for40 million. >>> massey energy, the coal producer at the center of last year's mining disaster, soared 10% on news of a $7 billion buy-out by alpha natural resources. >>> the dow notched its best january since 1997, thanks, in part, to a report that consumers spent more than expected in december. on tap today fresh auto sales figures, manufacturing data, and more earnings. embattled automaker, chrysler, predicts it will return to profit this year after reporting it lost less money last quarter than the previous year. tech bellweather, intel, cut its short-term revenue outlook to account for the cost of correcting a design flaw in one of its chips. >>> and facebook may have started out as a campus-based social network, but a surprising new study claims women over 40 tend to have up to four times as many facebook friends as their kids. all those high school sweet hearts, i guess. >>> well, coming up, carm elo shows the nets what could have been, and one step closer to the big game in dall

stock hit a one-year high, gaining 5.5% that made pfizer the dow's best gainer, followed closely by alcoa, bank of america and exxon, all up at least 4%. in other earnings news, archer daniels midland served up tasty results. the food processor is in a sweet spot, benefiting from global shortages of grain. a-d-m earned $1.06 a share, well above estimates, and up sharply from last year. investors were hungry for the stock-- shares rose over 6% to $34.70, a 2.5 year high. also delivering strong fourth quarter results-- ups. the shipping giant earned over a billion dollars, or $1.08 a share, three cents above estimates. ups says the broader economic recovery meant it delivered more packages. record profits helped baidu shares surge to an all-time high. shares of china's biggest web search firm rose over $10 to $118.73 a share. baidu still sees room for growth, especially in e-commerce and online video. meanwhile, an fda rejection took a big bite out of orexigen therapeutics. the stock tumbled 72%. it closed at $2.50 a share after the regulator rejected the company's experimental weight loss

in this particular case, the alcoa building, the structural members are on the outside of the building. so you can see it right away. what's the danger with this building? glass. good. glass. so you have your typical office. what are some of the hazards here? remember, earthquake island, what are some of the hazards? the lights, glass windows, yeah, glass we already talked about, the bad things. how about all the book stuff? building is still standing but everything else will fall right on top of you. bookcases, you want to secure those; right? this is what's going it happen. if you as nerts you went in there and got a report that there may be people trapped, where would you start looking for them? upper floors and void spaces. again, we talked about glass. are these people a little too close, do you think? did they give you a rule of thumb how far away to stay from buildings. well, actually 1 1/2 times the height of the building. so if you are in a 30-foot building -- you already did the math -- you want to be 45 feet away. glass falls out, too, do you think it just falls straight dow

today's session deep in the red as crew continued to decline to around eighty seven dollars and the alcoa. quite significant from russia. now russian equities have been stalling lately prices and high rates in china are dragging on the market as certainty as an uncertainty about how well some locals has placement will go these include russia second biggest bank b.c.b. and industrial. type the key thing the market's going to look for over the next few days obviously is how how these placements go through primarily with a view to the place that's the biggest stock placement so the market's going to be very just in seeing how that is absorbed. beyond we're going to be looking at fun flowed from asia over the last two weeks there's been about ten billion dollars worth of outflows from global merging market funds if that continues it's going to be very difficult for russia to keep its head above water mergers and acquisitions rose by a third in russia last year although activity still hasn't returned to pre-crisis levels david cranfield a partner at corporate law firm cns russia says he expect

this year now to discuss the alcoa plan vestment inflow into russia i'm joined by killed me c.e.o. of like an equity fonthill thanks very much for coming to the program so how much for investment is russia really likely to attack this year from your point of view i think thirty billion is a very realistic target and i just came from a meeting in divorce in bric countries for very much a focus of the investment targets in russia specifically because of the address of president did of the children there are very many specific interest in investment opportunities in peru which is a show program and beyond preposition program in russia and i want when we're talking about investment opportunity what sectors are the most promising in the russian economy you think for that foreign investment well you just three examples agriculture is a very interesting sector and we'll all know what's happening to food prices in the world is increasing dramatically in russia is one of the most dominant agricultural players infrastructure is definitely a great actress while were also infrastructure invest

it was a white gold rush and all kinds of derelicts from the city came and descended into alcoa one.hese villages were overrun by people that had criminal records and escaping from the law themselves and working for -- they take their hands and they scrape the coca leaves all day and they get paid, i don't know, what the pay scale was at the time but a few dollars a day for this work that it was a windfall compared to what they were making otherwise. because of this there was so much crime in the city's. these men would work all weekend at the end they would have gun fights on the weekend. everyone was drunk and the farc started to take over. that is when the farc really started grilling this territory in this area. and so, the whole area now and your question was to people have opportunity? they have opportunity to be at the lowest level of the drug trade or they can be a member of the guerrilla. there isn't really much else going on at all or joining the paramilitary which is the other side and equally as violent. spivak here. >> i am with the colombian newspaper current. back in c