Later, stop trading. Thats the message to the aging generation well tell you why it could be a warning sign power lunch starts right now i feel so good being part of the aging generation yo boomers out there im standing tall with you all here is where we stand stocks are taking a breather from record highs. The company gave a grim out look saying its facing increased economic pressure. We dive right in now with walmart. The retail giant and d ow component hitting all time highs. Same store sales strong. Online sales surge 41 and they are seeing strong growth in snacks and beverages and fresh food digital and grocery Growth Drivers are the key. Does the stock still have room to run lets talk about that. Groceries have been a big driver theyre the largest grocer in the country and not by a small margin now they are going to orders and delivery and they will put it in your refrigerator. Sure. 56 of walmart sales in the u. S. Come from grocery. Just to put that into p perspecti perspective
Burning in amazons brazil rain forest. The council on Foreign Relations hosted this hourlong event. Hello, everybody. We good to go . Hi, my name is mark. Until recently, i was the ceo of the nature conservancy. Im delighted to berece nthere, the moderated of todays s discussion. We have a greattdi scupanel. To my left is monica. She is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for international economics. To monicas left is daniel, director of programs at the climate and land use alliance. And then on the screen is my good friend peter, the cofounder and ceo of neoterro, a new ngo focused on a lot of the issues well be discussing today. Petetedaniel, direct ser wer is founder and ceo of Conservation International, where he is the chairman. Our topic today is the Global Impact of the amazon rain forest. Weve been reading about it in the news. Of course, this raises so many issues. First of all, whats really happening . Its hard to tell on the basisl of the news how much ofl this due to
The message of inflation is going up in part because of wage pressures and the big drive is driven by shock. So i would kind of do that after the regional whats interesting under further study is that the wage for the u. S. Seems to be working very well. Thats the point and even over time it hasnt flattened very much thats t what mathew made in a nice discussion. Maybe more to see. It might be the call date has changed and they are left out for the cpi or city basket. But in terms in waste space, it sends to be working well and it is left here. Yes, you have raised many important points with your question. I think one way of thinking about it. I think the points you alluded to, those are price changes that are very salient, important for daily life and easy to measure. Its that, if you think about an iphone, lets say you have a price of 999 for the last 15 years, even though an iphone today is a very different animal than an iphone like 50 years ago. So official statistics takes this i
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Of the trade war was slipping as well so we probably are slipping into a Global Economic shutdown slowdown whether its a recession is is unclear at this point so many factoring slows does this mean that people are actually unemployed and out of work. No and well we will get the next piece of important Economic Data later on this week on friday were getting at the jobs data for the month of august you know we have still continued to see a fairly robust jobs market right now although its slowing down as well the numbers 429000 are i think about 160000 jobs created per month thats down from about 220000. 00 just the jobs that were created each month and 2018 so on balance you would still say that the economy is doing well but there are certainly storm clouds on the horizon just so that the audience understands the Manufacturing Sector of the Manufacturing Sector makes its one of the top 5 employment categories in the United States is it not and what are the one of the subcategories of man