har, she s a global business columnist and associate editor for the financial times. why so few jobs added in august? well, it s all about delta. companies are really pulling back on hiring, on in a mvestme there s a concern we may see peak cases in the fall, september and october. this is dovetailing with labor shortages in areas like some of the lower paid service sectors, so you ve got this sort of vice that companies are in where they don t know how much to spend. they also can t always find the people that they need to keep their businesses open. i think that you re probably going to see another september number that is lower than expected. i think things are going to get a little worse before they get better. yeah, in part because we re seeing other elements that are changing. those long-term unemployment benefits are ending tin a coupl of days. the supreme court came out against the eviction moratorium. so how bad do you expect it will get next month?
cnn international business correspondent and host of quest means business richard quest is joining us live from athens and ra nay far rue har is here also. richard, you are on the ground. you are seeing the lines of folks at atm machines. what s happening there right now? what s the reaction? reporter: dignified, calm, collected with a sincere sense of worry about what happens next. a demonstration is just getting under way behind me which is what you can hear. there s no sense of crisis or panic because there is a feeling that, yes, there is another week before the referendum takes place, but be under no illusion, kate, there are difficult decisions that must be taken, and there is no easy way out. all avenues eventually lead
recalled, which could cost the company more than $1 billion to handle. just left government ownership. could this whole scandal break the company? if you look back at history, companies do a lot of recalls. what happens is, you need to do them all at once and you need to get out in front of it. if you let things go in drips and drabs and do recalls over the course of a year or two as toyota did, that s when you start to lose and see a more severe impact longer term for the company. one thing that s interesting, after mary barra testified on the hill, the stock price went up. the markets are confident in here. how confident they will be in g.m. after all the facts come out remains to be seen. they are going to swear the witne witnesses and make their opening statements. ran na far rue har, thanks for your insight. first, breaking news out off