This hour of markets now. Connell governor christie wrapping up a news conference, so we are ready to go on markets now. Dagen you were treating last night. Connell people staring at these devices. We will talk that in a minute. Now to the market first of all before we get through any of that, Nicole Petallides, good morning. Nicole good morning, connell and taken. We started off with a very tough job this morning, less than anticipated coupled with Participation Rate, the challenges of 1977. The economy is not as good as people thought it was. The dow is in the negative territory right now. 16,014. The nasdaq higher slightly. Most of the names have down arrows, some squeezing out some gains. Take a look at intercepts, pharma up 300 . On a Liver Disease drug, tacking on further gains. Back to you. Dagen the jobs report last month was terrible. People were expected the fewest number we have seen in less than three years. The Unemployment Rate did fall to lowest since october, 2008. That
Country. Ive been more successful than almost any administration. And from from that world body, he has he receives spontaneous laughter at that claim. Even trump, in an unusual moment had to acknowledge it. But its a snapshot of where the United States is right now. The United States has significantly changed its position in my judgment for the worst. We are not seen as the leader of traditional institutions. Trump was bragging about how hes pulling the United States out of them, out of the International Criminal court, out of the Human Rights Commission. He was siting those as advantages of his policy. The rest of the world for the most part feels very differently and thats what we saw yesterday. Interesting, too, sam, the president was jarred by that moment. Hes used to get ago cheer like at that boy. But there he kind of paused and stopped in his tracks and later said well, it was meant to be a joke. But if you look at the content of the speech, it was not unlike the one he made la