c.e.o. klaus kleinfeld in our exclusive interview. you're watching "nightly business report" for monday, january 10. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening everyone. solid earnings tonight from alcoa and a bullish forecast for this year. the world's largest aluminum company is the first dow component to report quarterly numbers, and tom, analysts are hoping these strong numbers will set a positive tone for the upcoming corporate earnings season. >> tom: susie, the results also beat analyst estimates. excluding special items, alcoa earned 21 cents a share in the fourth quarter-- two cents more than estimates. revenues were in line with expectations-- $5.7 billion. alcoa also said it expects 12% growth this year for aluminum products, and it's calling for global demand to double by 2020. >> tom: here are the stories in the

c.e.o. klaus kleinfeld joins us with the results. and with the valuations of online firms like facebook and groupon expanding exponentially, are we in the midst of another dot com bubble? >> susie: on monday, auto supplier visteon will again trade here at the new york stock exchange. the company will use its old ticker symbol v.c. visteon's shares haven't traded on the big board since march of 2009. it emerged from bankruptcy reorganization in october wiping out $2 billion in debt from its balance sheet. >> tom: the u.s. supreme court will decide if a group of halliburton shareholders can pursue a class-action lawsuit against the oil services company. the investors claim halliburton inflated its stock price when former vice president dick cheney ran it. cheney, who is not named in the lawsuit, was halliburton's c.e.o. before he joined george w. bush's presidential ticket. the merits of the lawsuit are not at issue before the court, only whether it can proceed as a class action. a ruling is expected in june. >> tom: investors still do