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Were sad to have the director not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this wil
Explained to us what is going on here. Guest they certainly were surprising numbers. Economists said it was the most surprising report of his lifetime. At the wall street journal we surveyed economists. They expected 8 million jobs to be lost. Gaining 2. 5 million is a dramatic swing. I think that tells us the worst fears about the economic shock and the labor market shock induced by the pandemic were not realized. Some lower number of jobs had been lost i think americans are getting back to work, perhaps in larger numbers than we expected. But i also do just want to say it says where we are, which is still the second highest Unemployment Rate recorded since world war ii, and 20 million americans are unemployed. So, a very strong month, but still a very unstable labor market overall. Host do we see job gains in any particular sector . Was there an area responsible for these gains, or was this an overall rise across all sectors . Guest no, it was a little bit disparate. Half of that gai
Hold on. This is a tease. Stealing the thunder already this thats right, we are going to talk about this in just a moment anybody still on radio has to wait a second. Take a look at the futures this hour dow futures down about 170, s p off by 2 and nasdaq down by 81. Yesterday, nasdaq down about 1 . Crude oil prices, lets check that quickly we had been watching that contract build up. The july contract build up to just over 34 yesterday. Lets call it even at 32. Then there is the treasury market weve been watching youll see the 10year note has been yielding 0. 64 . A little pressure there too. Take away. With that tease, it feems like months now, weve had really big guests and corporations a big interview at 8 00 a. M. Eastern. Well talk all things economy with former Vice President joe biden about the pandemic, the race for the white house and so much more. Well do that at 8 00 a. M. Live with him a big interview to look forward to on this friday. Tgif i know all the days roll togethe
Over. And we hit the road with one of the Contact Tracing teams helping south africa flaps in the cab of infection despite the risk to his own health. Announce on the all the sporting colluding Top Level School continues in north america with the ultimate fighting championship gearing up for the set at all 3 of just 8 days. Now the government of a city in northeast china is warning of a major new coronaVirus Outbreak 7 cases have been reported in gielen and the vice mayor says theres a huge risk it could spread further more than a dozen new cases have also been recorded in nearby should land city the clusters are raising fears of a 2nd wave of outbreaks in china but our correspondent katrina you now joins us live from beijing katrina it does seem that those fears of this potential 2nd wave were well founded just what do we know about whats going on in gita. Thats right well it could be no deal it is the biggest city in the Northeastern Province of g. L. And they have the same city the