The. 5 million jobs to the economy in the month of may. The expectation was a loss of 8 million jobs. In fact, we had a growth in jobs, and the Unemployment Rate fell to 13. 3 . That is still in the double digits, but it is a lot better than an expectation of 20 unemployment by economists. So all in all, a much better than expected report. Joining me now so talk about this is the former jpmorgan chief economist, anthony chan. Great to have you this morning, your reaction to this jobs number. Its certainly encouraging. I think when we break it down, it really tells us that the brunt of the bad news on employment is probably behind us, but that doesnt mean that things are completely copesetic, because what you see in this employment report is virtually all the gains in jobs were due to those people that were laid off, on temporary layoff and now recalled back. When you look at the number of people that were not on temporary layoff, that category of unemployment has continued to move high
The. 5 million jobs to the economy in the month of may. The expectation was a loss of 8 million jobs. In fact, we had a growth in jobs, and the Unemployment Rate fell to 13. 3 . That is still in the double digits, but it is a lot better than an expectation of 20 unemployment by economists. So all in all, a much better than expected report. Joining me now so talk about this is the former jpmorgan chief economist, anthony chan. Great to have you this morning, your reaction to this jobs number. Its certainly encouraging. I think when we break it down, it really tells us that the brunt of the bad news on employment is probably behind us, but that doesnt mean that things are completely copesetic, because what you see in this employment report is virtually all the gains in jobs were due to those people that were laid off, on temporary layoff and now recalled back. When you look at the number of people that were not on temporary layoff, that category of unemployment has continued to move high
The. 5 million jobs to the economy in the month of may. The expectation was a loss of 8 million jobs. In fact, we had a growth in jobs, and the Unemployment Rate fell to 13. 3 . That is still in the double digits, but it is a lot better than an expectation of 20 unemployment by economists. So all in all, a much better than expected report. Joining me now so talk about this is the former jpmorgan chief economist, anthony chan. Great to have you this morning, your reaction to this jobs number. Its certainly encouraging. I think when we break it down, it really tells us that the brunt of the bad news on employment is probably behind us, but that doesnt mean that things are completely copesetic, because what you see in this employment report is virtually all the gains in jobs were due to those people that were laid off, on temporary layoff and now recalled back. When you look at the number of people that were not on temporary layoff, that category of unemployment has continued to move high
Come friday, thats mayday, with spring weather, getting out of the house and back to work will surely take another step forward. Look at this. Investors love it. We know we are in the middle of a seriously shrinking economy but back to work means a way out of the mess. Top officials including the president and the treasury secretary expect a vigorous recovery later this year. And soon, we will see the Financial Statements from the allimportant big tech companies. Investors are expecting solid results and that, too, is helping the overall market. Heres the big negative of the day. The tumbling price of oil. We dropped to 10 a barrel. Now we are at 11. 87. At the moment, its not hurting the stock market, but the possibility of going back to a zero price or a negative price as we did two weeks ago, that is still on the table. Gas, yep, keeps on falling. Not quite quickly enough, maybe. 1. 76 is your National Average. Wisconsin still the cheapest. The average price today actually went up i
President s chief economic adviser larry kudlow. Hes going to join us. Thats the question we will ask, when, where and how will some americans be able to get back to work. Now, check out the market. It reopens today after a threeday weekend. Last week was one of the best weeks in decades, with the dow rising 12 . No significant pullback this morning. We are down just maybe 70 odd points for the dow industrials and well above 23,500. How about that. The s p down about. 33 and the nasdaq, same thing, down about. 33 . That is not a significant pullback. Not helping the stock market is a forecast from jpmorgan. They suggest that gdp could fall 40 this quarter and unemployment could reach 20 . Now, that is a dire prediction. Check out the price of oil. The u. S. , russia, saudi arabia and other Oil Producers have announced an agreement that would take 9. 7 Million Barrels of oil a day off the world market. However, that has had very little impact. It may put a floor under the price of oil b