Were on strike. They were counted out of work. Temporary census workers were laid off. Going to underlying strength ever economy. Look at net revisions for august and september, number of jobs was revised up by 95,000 jobs. You look at wage growth at 3 over the past 12 months. Low enough where the Federal Reserve is not seeing inflation pressures. White house Economic Advisors taking a victory lap on the report playing a little politics. White house Economic Advisor larry kudlow starting to talk about tax cuts 2. 0 to be proposed next year. The president would love to see another round of lower taxes to help middle income workers and wage earners give them as much, disposable income as possible. We are talking, again, informally at this moment. Reporter but nothing formal at this point. Ism manufacturing number. It came in at 48. 3. Anything under 50 is contraction. This may have also been impacted by the gm strike as the bureau of labor statistics wrote in the report, quote, within ma
By president bush. Have a listen. Always prepared, never haas been a country more prepared. I spent, i spent 1 1 2 trillion dollars. Were spending another 738 billion now. I spent 1 1 2 trillion dollars rebuilding our military. Obviously china is a threat to the world in a sense because theyre building a military faster than anybody. And frankly theyre using u. S. Money. Neil all right. So the president linking these two developments. Keeping an eye on both, iran and china, two very Different Cases to say it mildly, the target of iran is its central bank. Iran is all about black markets. Doesnt deal traditional fashion shipping out money. The central bank, trying to freeze assets coming in and out of there, the flow of funds there, might do that in the sort of the official diplomatic way but the fact of the matter, iran is notorious for finding endruns around that, working with other countries that help them find endruns around that. Well get the sense what this means with former trump
Manufacturing was steady with 8,000 jobs added there. Adp numbers coming out at a time where some people are worried about recession. It Shows Confidence businesses continue to higher despite those recession fears. It was the best month for private sector hiring since april. It is interesting, because yesterdays ism manufacturing number was a little weak. It showed some contraction. People were worried about that. This counters it a little bit. I want to look at Mortgage Rates as well. According to freddie mac the fixedrate for a 30 year down to 3. 49 . That is the lowest level in almost three years. What this is telling us, refinancing activity that weve seen will probably continue and low Mortgage Rates like this should stimulate the housing markets. Take a look at the top three dow component today. Intel, caterpillar, 3m, showing some significant strength there. So its a broadbased rally but you have got technology and industrials leading the way. Tomorrow of course, weve got nonfar
Announcements, still a couple hours away. Edward lawrence where things stand. Reporter the Federal Reserve has not cutrate since december of 2018. Nowed administration would like to see 2008. The market is pricing in a 25 basis point rate cut at this point. If you look at the speeches over the past month or so, of the 10 voting members on the federal open Market Committee six of those, those six on the screen, have indicated they would favor a rate cut. Now this Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell says that the Federal Reserve will use its tools to keep the expansion going. This is important, his language is important, not to head off a downturn but keep the expansion going. That could signal the Federal Reserve could act before they saw any numbers that represent a downturn. They are slow and deliberate in the moves up. A Senior Administration official says the president will call for a more aggressive Monetary Policy. The official says the president want a 50 basis point cut today
Making money. Charles another good day for the market. Investors getting more evidence of a rate cut on the way. President trump pointing out the world is cutting rates, the fed should as well, because of faulty thinking process there at the Federal Reserve. He is worried saying we pay much higher Interest Rates in countries no match for us economically. Another words our Interest Rates are much higher than other countries when they should be lower. This comes from comment from three fed officials that boosted expectations after rid cut. Edward lawrence at the white house. Reporter you are talking about James Bullard, john williams, new york fed president and Richard Clarida, and Jerome Powell in a speech today. He pushed Federal Reserve to have a rate cut during their next meeting. I want to zero in on the third tweet that he made. The president said in that tweet, quote, this is our chance to build unparalleled wealth and success for u. S. Growth which would greatly reduce the percen