reporting that hamas decided to delay the second round of release of hostages, after yesterday, that included 13 women and children. i m jacqui heinrich. griff: i m griff jenkins. despite the delay of the release. a delegation arrived to meet with israeli officials where they re discussing possible extension of the cease-fire. hey, alex. hi, jacqui and griff. the officials say they will not release the hostages or delaying it until there s more aid that comes into gaza. we will have to continue to monitor this. it s worth noting yesterday that the hostages were released a couple of hours after the initial expected release time. now, what we re also seeing are those heart warming photos and videos of families being reunited with loved ones and who has successfully made it home and who is back on israeli soil. and danielle and her daughter, and adina, and magda, and we re seeing them hugging families members as they arrived and this is a 9-year-old boy who celebrated his birt
209,000 jobs, marking the lowest monthly gain since december of 2020. meanwhile, the unemployment rate is sitting at 3.6%. so for a closer look at what all these numbers mean for you at home, let s go live to jonathan hoenig. he is a fox fox business contributor and a founding member of capitalist pig hedge fund. jonathan, always, always so good to have you here. okay. so help everybody at home understand. 209,000 jobs, lower than expected. the president says biden economics is working. [laughter] is it? what s interesting is most americans actually don t agree with him, almost half think that we re in a recession. as you said, look, the jobs report was strong but nowhere near as strong as had been expected, 230,000 jobs create, only about 209,000 were actually created, 230 # expected. and this is the smallest growth in jobs since december of 2020. in fact, job growth has slowed every month this year. the biggest industry in which jobs were created in the last
suit and you can hand wash it every night. maybe one facial product. how does that sound? i don t know, that is awfully light. that is a light packer. if you can get view trip on that, more power to you. arthel: by the way, socal is always open to mr. casey stegall. i will have to come visit, thank you, arthel. take care, bill. bill: the problem as it is not sunny and delayed, overcast. aaa says 37 million people will drive to their vacation spot. that is up 6% from 2022 but gas prices are lower this year. starting to trend back up this year which could cause americans to hit the brakes on their summer road trips. let s bring in bill, and senior market analyst also fox business contributor.
april s job report shows unemployment dropping 3.4%. more on the new numbers and latest interest rate hike from the fed, joining us now fox business contributor and founding member to have capitalist pig hedge fund, jonathan hoenig. my pleasure. rich: this is a job s report about what was going on in april but it also looks back a couple of months. in february there were 78,000 fewer jobs than forecast and 71 march than first thought. does this begin to show a little bit of weakening on the job front, in other words, fewer jobs created and isn t this what the fed is looking to do, slowing the economy so that we don t have so much inflation? indeed, rich, there s many indication that is the economy is slowing. you can t discount, 3.4.
By Piero Cingari U.S. bank stocks were taking a heavy hit in Friday trading following the sharp pullback in European financial equities, dragged down by the sell-off in Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank’s U.S.-listed shares fell about 6% after the firm said Thursday that it will forgo an AT1 call this year, causing a spike on the cost of