that's tonight's market focus. >> susie: higher taxes and a consumer shift to premium beers helped molson coorsues in the first quarter. but volume was-- you'll excuse the expression-- "flat" for the maker of brands including coors lite, molson canadian, and blue moon. the beer industry has been in an aggressive cost-cutting mode for several years, and as scott gurvey reports, that has brewed up several mergers and marketing partnerships. >> i like to switch off once in a while, different beers. heineken or budweiser, i switch on and off. >> reporter: some people, like raymond reder, don't really care which brand of beer they are drinking. they are in the minority. for everyone else, there are far more than 99 bottles of beer on the wall. people can be passionate about their favorites. for israel low, that beer is molson. >> it tastes very good. high alcohol content. it's an all-around good beer. >> reporter: all beer is mostly water, a grain which can be fermented, and yeast. but different flavorings, like hops, are added. the result is literally thousands of beers to choose from. some are imp

we talk with molson coors c.e.o. peter swinburn. >> susie: financial reform continued working its way through the senate today: lawmakers voted to drop a controversial $50 billion fund that would have reimbursed taxpayers for the cost of any future big bank failures. the money in that fund would have come from the big banks themselves. republicans worried that money would become a permanent bailout fund. the obama administration was also opposed to the idea. so the fund is out of the senate bill, but k.b.w. washington analyst brian gardner says big banks will still be on the hook when the next financial crisis hits. >> instead of ponying up some money ahead of time, now they are going to have to pay for everything after the fact. it's really just a question of timing. it doesn't really affect the government's power to shut down a failing institution. not to mention, we still have a house bill out there, which people have kind of forgotten about, which has a $150 billion pre-funded resolution fund. and that's all goin