I say that with hesitation because you never know with these numbers anymore. Here is more. Is not highfrequency data. But they are coming in stronger than expected. 6. 2ory orders up by percent. The forecast was for 5 . Percentages dont mean a lot right now because data is always volatile. It is even more so now. We are seeing wide swings in orders for both factory goods, durable goods and nondurables. Durable goods orders, we already got a report on that. That gets revised. It is revised stronger. 7. 3 earlier. Tothe end of july, it is up 7. 6 now. These are june numbers. Orders, that is the one economists like to look at because it tells you what business orders are and what business spending is in gdp and that comes in at 3. 4 . That is up from 3. 3 . Not a lot of new information. Slightly stronger. The reopening started to bring rebound into the economy. At this point, we have no idea if that has continued. The new yorku that ism number which represents this 53. 5 four july. At le
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Labor department reported on thursday now this came in below economist estimates of nearly 1500000 jobs lost and fell 249000 from the previous week marking the lowest level since the start of the pandemic now while this all sounds very positive keep in mind the continuing claims are still at what 16100000 despite dropping 5844008 couple this with that massive contraction in us g. D. P. By 33 percent for the 2nd quarter of this year and you would think markets should be in shambles but thats not the case since testing lows in march at the onset of the pandemic here in the u. S. The 3 major indices are thriving the nasdaq is continually pushed a new record high and now the s. And p. 500. 00 well its just a few percent away from setting new records which were established previously in february of this year while the dow hasnt been able to quite get to precocious teen levels the index has made substantial gains over the last. What so why is that well to break it all down this disconnect th
Very positive keep in mind the continuing claims are still at what 16100000 despite dropping 5844000 couple this with that massive contraction in us g. D. P. By 33 percent for the 2nd quarter of this year and you would think markets should be in shambles but thats not the case since testing lows in march at the onset of the pandemic here in the u. S. The 3 major indices are thriving the nasdaq has continually pushed a new record high and now the s. And p. 500. 00 well its just a few percent away from setting new records which were established previously in february of this year while the dow hasnt been able to quite get to precocious teen levels the index has made substantial gains over the last 4 month so why is that well to break it all down this disconnect that were seeing lets bring in some expert analysis from cohost christiane a moslem chief market analyst at the trade thank you both for being here its great to. Have you back so lets start off with you whats propping up this mark
Hackett was brought in, he was a board member, previously he had done a great job at steel case the Office Furniture company in michigan and when he came in and he said, look, we are going to transform ford, get it ready for the future for Autonomous Vehicles, for electric vehicles. That hasnt happened ford has been mired in really not being making the move that its needed to make since 2017 they are starting to change that a little bit some of that because of the moves that jim farley has made as coo, he becomes the ceo effective october 1st and the marching orders are pretty clear. Transform this company, get ready for a future with electric vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles at some point, not immediately, but at some point, but, guys, this is the most interesting stat that i can find. If you go back over the last, what, 20 years, 19 years, only one ceo at ford, alan malaly posted a positive gain in ford shares there you see hacketts performance since may of 2017, down 38 , similar to fi