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
Of the pandemic. Well talk to mayor of miami about what his city is doing to get back to business in these very tricky times. Power lunch begins right now bob has more on the markets today. Bob. Were grappling with that right now, four to one advancing to declining stocks. The market continuing to believe the primary thing affecting them is the rope ieopening the market believes its going well you heard about the president s tweet. Is that heetsing up. There are people questioning over the weekend any need for more fiscal stimulus saying we sit back and see what happens at this point thats an issue. Three of the four, an issue over the weekend. The russell 2000, small cap. Were seeing banks, retailers doing well were seeing transports doing well today those are airlines this is all the roping stoe ing and the market believing that is koptsing. Most markets are at the highest level since early the first or the second week of march were not seeing dramatic break outs its the same old nam
Conversation, what jack dorsey told barrons. My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. So, ben, according to lpl, the market had its best 50day streak in all of history, and that was before fridays 800point jump. Is this all about jobs . Whats going on . Yeah, i mean, the market certainly sniffed out something, Something Big happening, and it really, i think, was shown in this jobs report. 2. 5 million jobs were created last month, and to show just how crazy that number is, the most optimistic economy who was surveyed expected a job loss of 800,000. I mean, its just an enormous dishes, and this is difference, and this is fantastic news showing that the recovery from the coronavirus shutdown is going faster than anybody really expected except for maybe the stock market. [laughter] jack so as investors, with we a always want to think about risks, right . There could be a second wave of pandemic, we still have three times as many people collecting Unemployment Insurance
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