Of Consumer Spending. Many Factory Services continued to show modest to moderate gain. Construction expanding, Energy Activity generally improved except for call. Employment continued to show modest to moderate pace of expansion. Industriesge of reported, difficult to find qualified workers, particularly for construction and i. T. Jobs. Labor shortages are a barrier to expansion. Case, thet is the labor market continues to tighten which groups only at a modest to moderate pace for low and high skilled workers. Overall prices continue to rise modestly across a majority of districts. In some districts, they may ease. Report thatoderate should have a modest impact on wall street. Mckee. Ks so much, mike lets get a check on where stocks are trading following Janet Yellens testimony earlier. Julie more reaction to janet yellen. We have got the dow that has flirted with a record close today. We have included here. Big and small, looking good. Today. Aining by 1 for the fourth session after t
Of Consumer Spending. Many Factory Services continued to show modest to moderate gain. Construction expanding, Energy Activity generally improved except for call. Employment continued to show modest to moderate pace of expansion. Industriesge of reported, difficult to find qualified workers, particularly for construction and i. T. Jobs. Labor shortages are a barrier to expansion. Case, thet is the labor market continues to tighten which groups only at a modest to moderate pace for low and high skilled workers. Overall prices continue to rise modestly across a majority of districts. In some districts, they may ease. Report thatoderate should have a modest impact on wall street. Mckee. Ks so much, mike lets get a check on where stocks are trading following Janet Yellens testimony earlier. Julie more reaction to janet yellen. We have got the dow that has flirted with a record close today. We have included here. Big and small, looking good. Today. Aining by 1 for the fourth session after t
Thats right this is just the start of course we have Different Things that causes different allergies different times of year and this time of year that was hard to deal with those trees were looking at some of the trees out there juniper and maple and ash those of the trees that are causing all the pollen that is out there and tomorrow will be around the nine point five category as well. Food on a thursday and friday over eleven with twelve being the highest level so were certainly looking at those higher pollen levels through the next few days looking a lot of heavy rain and the extended forecast but there is some rain that will help clear the skies just a little bit of sun that pollen jeff will be back with a full seven day forecast coming up in a few minutes right in the number two civilian leader at the pentagon came to naval station off this morning and affirm the u s commitment to Israels Deputy secretary of defense robert work visited the uss stout he was joined by his israeli
But we hear they are still confident on china. I dont see people pulling out of china but i continue to see people putting money into china. G20 leaders warn russian president Vladimir Putin more sanctions could be on the way as they meet in brussels to discuss possible measures. Now to our top story, a quite astonishing story in japan. The gdp number shows a 1 president 6 contraction against the expectation of 2. 2 growth. One of the analysts said theres a big drop as businesses cut back on investing. Key consumption is another weak quarterly factor. Japan is now back in a technical recession following the drop in q2 after the sales tax came through. The latest fall is cementing last weeks rumors of the second tax hike to be delayed and a snap election will be called. Now what does that mean for the markets . The nikkei, sorry, the yen hit a sevenyear low of 117. 06 but they are currently up. 92 . Does this mean we get more easing or have a snap election . Or a sales tax hike is delay
Cookbook. Stephanie what a way to start off with a great show and eriks haircut. Erik the top business stories of the day. General electric getting back to its roots. Sawing off the bulk of its finance unit to refocus on the industrial businesses. Ge will sell almost 27 billion dollars of real estate assets and most of it is going to blackstone. Some going to wells fargo. Ge announced the Share Buyback of about 50 billion which would tie apple for the largest of all time. The ceo spoke on a Conference Call earlier. This is an excellent time to sell financial assets. We think the performance in the Australian Consumer value demonstrated our platforms may be worth more outside the company. Erik ge shares up a. 7 five quarters a. 7 a. 75 . If you have not bought the computer for a while, you are not alone. According to Market Research more consumers are turning to smartphones and tablets when they went to go online. Corporate spending helped slow declines and the cycles will be over. Hill