less than one week away from the mid-term elections. the market cloefsing out oh tough month, on a high note. joining me with the read on all of this, from the new york stock exchange, fox business network deirdre bolten. hey, you showed the green on the screen, we have back-to-back gains for the first time since september, for the s and p500 and the nasdaq. as the month have october goes, one of the worst. for the dow the worst since 2016. s and p500, worst since 2011. the nasdaq, the worst since november 2008. as we know, all too well, it s never really a good thing to have 2008 be a reference for anything in the markets. take a look at the cow winners. for the month, walgreen s, walmart, procter & gamble, consumer connection. unemployment, near record lows. lows. consumer confidentiality an 18 year high. that gave a lot of support to the companies. all of them in the consumer sector, reporting strong earnings, strong sales.
from there he will head down to florida. but before he left the white house, of course, as he s apt to do, he took questions. earlier today, he had a major event at the white house, on their commitment, their pledge to the american workers, 164 companies, that have plenged to train, retrain, or hire or create jobs for 6.3 million americans, many of them who have given up on working ever again. the president has been on television a lot today. touting the economy, here he is, moments ago. president trump: so, i m going to one of my favorite places in the world, florida, to speak on behalf of hopefully governor desantis, who s running a very good campaign. they have it going now. and also, as you know, rick scott, who s been a great governor, hopefully will be a new senator. i m going to florida, we ll spend time, going to make a speech tonight, a rally, and we
like fox con in the car companies, they are moving back to michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania, south carolina, north carolina, they are coming back and nobody s ever seen this. you ve never seen it before. they left and they had no intention. we just signed a deal with mexico and with canada. a new deal with korea. laura: he s called the trump of south america. president trump: i m honored. we had a great conversation. laura: ideal? president trump: i could see that happening. brazil has been very tough because the charge tariffs. we have of course what s happening with china. china has been really hurting our country economically. and you see, we are going to win that one. laura: how confident are you? president trump: i could make a deal right now, they are just not ready. laura: $250 billion.
the market this year. flat for the year, down a little bit, off its record high. the s&p and the dow. i know you ve complained about the fed before, how much is chief credit globally part of the problem? president trump: president obama had the worst recap that we ve ever had since the great depression in terms of coming back. he was dealing with zero money, zero interest money. we actually created value for money so the people that have money in the bank and did it the way you were supposed to do, they are actually getting interest on the money now. the fed is being very tight. in one way you have to say that s very conservative. that s a good thing from the standpoint of conservative. i don t like it because it closes it down a little bit. but we were up almost 50% from the time i got elected. almost 50. in fact, more in some instances and now we re down just a little tiny bit. we have such a strong when you go to job numbers, companies moving into our countries, we have so many
fox con. set up a factory think in minnesota wisconsin, yeah, wisconsin. yeah, wisconsin. 4,000 jobs. people making $53,000 a year. and one of the things we got to set is ford to have the highest design. the dopest cars. the most amazing. i don t really say dope. i don t say negative words. we just say positive lovely divine universal words. the fliest, freshest, most amazing car. what we want to start with is i brought a gift with me right here. this right here is the i-plane 1. it s a hydrogen powered airplane and this is what our president should be flying in. look at this, jerry. we ll get rid of air force one. can we get rid of air force one? well, we re going to have apple, an american company, work on this plane. you know what i don t like about it s not that i don t