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Or fin tech was the u. K. s leading Investment Sector like in the us for last year firms like trans wire Funding Circle and nonzero lead the pack raising hundreds of millions of dollars in capital u. K. Artificial Intelligence Companies also had a strong year with raising more than two hundred seventy Million Dollars in funds for the for a first thats a first for the sector. The december jobs report is just out the Unemployment Rate remains at four point one three times in a row three months in a row there were one hundred forty eight thousand jobs created which is still very positive but it is fifty thousand jobs be low what the experts had anticipated in the consensus and two hundred and its less than the two hundred thirty nine thousand jobs created in november lets get into the ditch with dr Mark Thornton a senior fellow at the meat isnt to dr thornton thanks again for joining us it seems like a pretty good report but not a tony the tiger great report whats your take on some of the
Or fin tech was the u. K. s leading Investment Sector like in the us for last year firms like trans wire Funding Circle and nonzero lead the pack raising hundreds of millions of dollars in capital u. K. Artificial Intelligence Companies also had a strong year with raising more than two hundred seventy Million Dollars in funds for the for a first thats a first for the sector. The december jobs report is just out the Unemployment Rate remains at four point one three times in a row three months in a row there were one hundred forty eight thousand jobs created which is still very positive but it is fifty thousand jobs be low what the experts had anticipated in the consensus and two hundred and its less than the two hundred thirty nine thousand jobs created in november lets get into the ditch with dr Mark Thornton a senior fellow at the meat isnt to dr thornton thanks again for joining us it seems like a pretty good report but not a tony the tiger great report whats your take on some of the
A little leery of that figure these figures are almost guesstimates that have to be revised two times and i would not be surprised if retail is revised upward in a significant way if retail goes up twenty five thousand and set it down twenty thousand then my estimate was was right on the money yeah i was surprised by the retail number two that it wasnt higher going into the Holiday Season but you know weve talked with some retail experts in the past and they say people are moving more and more to online purchasing so it might be lower than us and i thought back to the construction though are some of those Energy Sector jobs that were created in construction really due to those unfortunate hurricanes that we had this year. Oh yes weve weve had a naturally increase in construction jobs and then as we get into this boom of course theres even more construction jobs and then the hurricanes just come right on top of that in texas and south florida and and puerto rico where theyve added a gre
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