The Labor Department reportling the economy created 160,000 new jobs in the month of august, slightly below expectations. The Unemployment Rate still fell to 3. 7 , the lowest since december of 2008. But the decline came mostly because fewer americans are actually looking for work. The number of jobs created for the few previous months revised downward as well. The holidayshortened week saw light volume. The dow up 90 points on wednesday on strong auto sales. The s p 500 and nasdaq having their best days in almost two weeks. The u. S. Auto sales had great numbers in august. Ford and chrysler were each up 12 . Big news in telecom and tech. Firefighter came home with a phone company of its own. The Software Giant acquiring Finnish Company nokias handset business for 7. 25 billion. Verizon acquired vodafones stake in Verizon Wireless for 130 billion in cash and stock. Huge deal. The deal is the Third Largest merger and acquisition transaction ever. The markets had been waiting and watchin
The Labor Department reportling the economy created 160,000 new jobs in the month of august, slightly below expectations. The Unemployment Rate still fell to 3. 7 , the lowest since december of 2008. But the decline came mostly because fewer americans are actually looking for work. The number of jobs created for the few previous months revised downward as well. The holidayshortened week saw light volume. The dow up 90 points on wednesday on strong auto sales. The s p 500 and nasdaq having their best days in almost two weeks. The u. S. Auto sales had great numbers in august. Ford and chrysler were each up 12 . Big news in telecom and tech. Firefighter came home with a phone company of its own. The Software Giant acquiring Finnish Company nokias handset business for 7. 25 billion. Verizon acquired vodafones stake in Verizon Wireless for 130 billion in cash and stock. Huge deal. The deal is the Third Largest merger and acquisition transaction ever. The markets had been waiting and watchin
Initial read. Initial jobless claims fell. They beat estimates. That is good news. It remains at a five year low. Cheryl jpmorgan assembling a task force. A judge says he is leaning towards confirming a on mars the judge said he will rule later t. Cheryl nfl players have reached an agreement ensuing over concussion related injuries. After the bell starts right now. 16 to the plus side. The biggest wall of worry at all is war. We have piper and jeffreys senior analyst. We are calling for an alltime high. Mark, lets start with you. We have gdp numbers. Tapering now seems to be more likely because of the strong gdp numbers. If you take it out of the equation, the underpinnings have been pretty decent. The s ps would be pushing 1700 right now. The guys behind me are all really bullish. After tomorrow, they have to keep themselves neutral because who knows what will happen over the next few days with syria. The bias really is to the upside. Todays higher numbers aside, we have one more trad
Been in session in earnest distance they passed the third coronavirus bill on the 25th of march. Theyre not going to do anything quite that big today, but theres a lot of apprehension from senators as they back to the capital because the cases of coronavirus continue to rise in the washington, d. C. , region. Here is democratic maryland chris van hollen. I am very worried about all the capital staff and putting their health and lives at risk. A lot of them are my constituents. One vote on the docket today, the confirmation of robert vital to serve as the Inspector General for the Nuclear Regulatory commission, thats at 5 30 p. M. A lot of senators will hitandrun, only coming to the capital for that vote and then immediately leaving. Work on actual legislation is weeks away. Republicans like John Barrasso of wyoming are worried about whos responsible in the coronavirus aftermath. What republicans arent talking about however, his Liability Reform to try to give some protection to our hea
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