North korea will reject the results of what it calls the forced autopsy which it says was not witnessed by north korean officials. Who knows if the north korean will ever get that body back or what that autopsy will say about the cause of death. Brian, thank you. Im brianna keilar. Erin burnett out front starts right now. Out front next, breaking news, the dow hits an all time high again seven days in a row. Trump taking the credit. Does he deserve it . And the secret Service Investigating an incident tonight involving trumps mor or the cade, what happened, and trumps twitter tirade. He tweeted, deleted, retweeted. Lets go out front. Good evening. Im erin burnett. One thing going right for trump. An alltime high. These are the facts. Stocks hit a record today in the midst of their best streak in 25
years. Its a dramatically different headline than the ones about chaos and turmoil in the white house. Those headlines are true, but so is this one. The economy is surging. Another fact. A s
but could our strength become our weaknesses? these are some of the sectors that saw gains between april and june, including retail, hotels and restaurants. they rely on households feeling flush. but those figures refer to the past. higher interest rates are now affecting more than half of borrowers. the sectors in red are those that are particularly vulnerable to a squeeze on spending. there s a lot of overlap with those who were doing well. 0ur resilience means the bank of england may feel comfortable raising rates again, but growth is a fraction of what it used to be. the question for all politicians is, how do we turbo boost prosperity? so some qualified good news, but are these figures that have an impact on people s lives. these figures that have an impact on peeple s lives- people s lives. people will be askinu people s lives. people will be asking what people s lives. people will be asking what growth? - people s lives. people will be asking what growth? we - people s live
inflation and a strong jobs market joining me now is nbc s business and data reporter brian cheung walk us through these numbers and what it means for the economy. there s a lot of numbers. 236,000 jobs added in the month of march, how does that compare to previous months it s a bit of a slower pace compared to the over 300,000 we saw added in the month of february this is still what a lot of economists would consider to be a healthy clip of adding jobs. now, where do we see the job gains specifically in this economy? we saw a lot in bars and restaurants, leisure and hospitality adding about 72,000 jobs in the month. we also saw some job gains in health care adding about 34,000 jobs not all industries saw gains in the month of march when you take a look at retail trade, for example, actually contracting by about 15,000 jobs this would be jobs at the mall, for example. now, the story on the way to market still looks good with the unemployment rate at 3.5%. when you take a look at wher
a little down time will happen here depends of can lift you right up. course on the consumer. consumer spending accounts for about 70% of economic activity flights, hotels, cars, in this country. now, we heard from macy s on activities, vacation rentals. expedia. wednesday, a bad mix for a lot everything you need to go. of company-specific reasons but the company also highlighted that tariffs are a concern. president trump: i think sleepy it said consumers won t fare joe may be able to limp across well absorbing higher prices should that happen but then the finish line, but today, they walmart on thursday, a big beat. 20 consecutive quarters of sales announced that they re going to gains the second round of tariff cut way back on his appearances, s though could hurt because he is such a disaster, walmart, but the way things stand at the moment they re they re going to have fewer doing okay. on friday, deere, farmers are appearances. you heard that, right? they re going to cut way bac
this is popular wisdom pushed by many, modern democrats are more electable. here is what nate silver had to say on thursday. quote, i don t know, but they seem to be polling better with general election voters. and we got a new national poll and joe biden is leading the pack of 20 plus candidates. according to the late either monmouth poll, he is at 33% with a sizable lead over bernie sanders. there is also by the way good news in the data for kamala harris and baelizabeth warren, they both saw gains. but how much does that matter? in the context of what we ve seen surrounding joe biden, you talk about the electability factor and you write candidate closest to the median voter will scoop up the biggest share. what is wrong about what nate silver is talking about, what these polling are telling us at this point? not everyone in america