rockdale securities analysts says it's unfair. >> when you're suing these banks, you're suing the individual americans who own their stocks and they don't deserve to be sued. >> reporter: it seems unlikely the department of justice is done. for "nightly business report" i'm jackie dean gles. >>> the dow and s&p 500 brushed off and snapped the three-day losing streaks. microsoft and caterpillar contributed up 2% making them the best performing stocks. optimism crept into the market tonight when china reported strong trade data and the positive news continues here at home. jobless claims rose but the four-week average of claims hit the lowest level since 2007. at the close the dow up 27, the s&p 500 gained six and nasdaq higher by 15. >>> in the bond market, an important message today from bill groves founder of pinco the world's largest bond fund company. he says bond investors are in a quote bloody war right now n. a message laced with references to the world war i battle, gross defended bonds as a class for investors, something he emphasized in an interview today. >> going forward we're tal

man: right now, we're at the bottom of the rockdale construction shaft. we're 310 feet below grade, deep under atlanta in hard rock. in the downtown area of atlanta, the sewer system and the stormwater system are combined and there are overflows during storm events, and so the purpose of this system is to relieve that flow, take it into the tunnel, transport it to a brand-new treatment plant, clean up the chattahoochee river. narrator: instead of the combined sewage overflowing into the river, it will flow into this tunnel that acts as a storage tank. the water will then slowly empty into the new plant for treatment before it's released back into the river. man: the system in total is about 8 1/2 miles, 27 feet in diameter. most of the time it will be dry. the only time it will fill is when the sewer system is overwhelmed by the storm. it is a massive project. our budget was $210 million. we've worked about a million and a half man-hours. hunter: it is an incredible amount of work. our capital program right now is $3.9 billion. over a period of less than

bruce simon chief officer at city rockdale. thanks to everybody, you are on set. i will go to you first, you are a pretty smart guy. >> thank you. >> you have done very well. >> buttering up the guests. >> he's a friend of mine. tom is my boy. he s. you invest all over the place, where are you finding the best opportunities right now? >> we're specifically in the bond market. we don't fine a lot of opportunities within the bond market, even though you had a significant sell-off in the last couple of months. that said, you can find pockets of opportunity, whether you lend with a bond that's backed by shipping containers. >> what? >> shiching containers. >> you are here on "squawk box," the most watched program in the history of the world to recommend shipping bonds? >> it's a commodity needed by every shipper out there. whether you put it on a truck, a train, a ship, it has to be the exact same size. >> how do bond like that match up against buying straight into the shipping companies themselves? . >> one much better. you get a better loan to value, you may get les