I think its going to be significant, 46,000 or 48,000 but you have the supply chain for gm, all of the construction around gm, so youve got a lot of ancillary folks that have been out of work and manufacturing isnt necessarily what drives the economy, its the consumer primarily and we are a service economy, and even though the numbers might be good, its the manufacturing thats really going tamp down here. Neil john, one one of the thins that im hearing to daniels point, not just 48 to 50,000gm striking workers impacting this but up to 200,000 more in ancillary business suppliers and the rest. What do you think of that . I think the estimate that roughly 75,000 to 80,000 jobs being temporarily lost because of gm strike. Neil okay, so if thats the case and they factored that in, is this just a oneoff, what do you think . A lot of reasons it can be a oneoff, results of slowdown at boeing, census workers who were temporarily hired and maybe are coming off the rolls, a lot of noise in the n
Week price premier will lead negotiations for china is telling dignitaries his offer to the u. S. Will not include commitments on reforming chinas industrial policy. These are some of the big demands the Trump Administration has been making in the trade talks. Update now on the crisis in hong kong. The city is struggling to recover after a night of violent clashes. Protesters defied government threats with Wearing Masks and were met with tear gas they were threatened with a year in prison for hiding their faces. Police arrested dozens of protesters and bussed them away under new emergency laws chinas military threatened to arrest protesters who aimed laser lights more protests planned for tonight. Some grocery stores, other businesses have reopened after closing early yesterday. The metro is only partially functioni ining hooch of serious and in the just dont tweet about anything anymore section of our news today, also making news the general manager of the Houston Rockets of the nba h
Tracking here defying concerns for investors. We have seen a big advance from the 18 1989 peak from last months and onward past the 40 saddles and the 40,000 mark. Despite concerns investors thought the gains were too rapid. You had the rsi above 80. It has been above 70 for almost three weeks now. Certainly in overbought territory, perhaps, from that indicator. Still we are above the 40,000 mark for the first time, very much erasing taking us all back to the levels we were at, as we said, during the early 90s when you had that bubble bursting. Japan, the gains you are seeing in the session, the nikkei up point data presented broadly. We will be watching that one. To Holding Around 150. We know that that weakness the yen weakness has been supporting Japanese Equities given the large number of exporters. Company profits up 13 on the year end sales as well increasing, and positive indicator lending to Japanese Equities. Now, not to forget. As you said, japan, the focus on Corporate Gover
bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell said dona
welcome to the special edition of hannity countdown to iowa. it will kick off in exactly one week from tonight. we should have full results from the republican iowa caucus next monday, but don t expect any numbers from democrats with a very complicated mail-in voting system and the reshuffling of the democratic party s primary calendar, we will get an official tally for months. of course barring a major trip in the fall biden will almost certainly be the democratic nominee. the big question to men, why. joe biden has been a terrible president. his approval numbers show it. they are at record lows. his cabinet doesn t even bother to keep them in the loop on major issues. no one even bothered to tell your president joey biden that his secretary of defense actually incapacitated in the icu for several days. just wondering out loud. what if we had a national emergency or some international crisis and we need our secretary of defense and we don t know where he is? i guess it w