Agreement with china, and the night, mexico, canada, agreement, the two biggest trade deals ever made. These agreements represent a new model of trade for the 21st century. A time for skepticism is over. People are flowing back into our country. Companies are coming back. The United States is by far the strongest economic power in the world. It is not even close. Neil blake burman at the white house. The president is half a world away. He is cognizant what is going on in washington, d. C. Blake . Reporter indeed. This was part victory lap you heard from the president , neil, at the World Economic forum in davos, still ongoing by the way. Also part sales pitch from the president touting economic successes as he has seen it, taken place in the u. S. Over the last three years. Of his administration. The president today, for example, highlighting two big trade deals in the headlines last week. Along with record low unemployment and economic growth. Listen here. Investment is pouring into o
Backdrop for good couple years. Only now are we seeing it pop up. Am i missing something in the president s poll numbers . I think youre right, neil. Always been there. The economy is in good shape, right . Not spectacular shape as many some of the president s defenders would say. It is in good shape. Unemployment seen recently down 50year low. Market likes it. That is a pretty good backdrop from president running for reelection. I think what making it particularly powerful for him, he is up against candidates of a party seems not to just be replacing the president , seems, democrats have been going through this process, talking about replacing nature of the u. S. Economy. They are proposing many of them, pretty radical transformation. Some more radical than others to be tear. Medicare for all, wealth tax, significant regulation. Neil least among them has dramatic plans to raise revenue. Were talking even in joe bidens case, 3. 2, 3. 4 trillion over 10 years. So the challenge i think f
I could go on and on. Growing china trade uncertainty. Things are getting a little violent right now in hong kong. For next two hours well put it all together. We say boo, you decide whether you still want to buy. See what we did there . Neil boo were down 226 points just like that. Starting off the first day of this problematic month. It is not traditionally the worst month for stocks but more memorable from some of those crashes, crashettes whatever you call them. Im not saying it will end up this way but it is starting out that way and scaring some folks. We have had big drops this month. October of 18 we can remember 1342 hit. In 081525 point hit. We could go on and on. In percentage terms the big one to beat is 25 plus hit in the dow in october of 1929. In 1987 we lost a quarter of the dows value. I only mention that, this is a spooky month. We have a lot of spooky developments were getting into. Not only widening search for subpoenas on capitol hill and people resisting those sub
Virtually all subpoena 500 sectors are down. S p 500 sectors. Thisjackie deangelis is here wat breakdown. Reporter good afternoon, neil. October has gotten off to a rocky start i would say. The fundamentals of the u. S. Economy had been holding up but the data is signaling that there are some cracks there. Today es nonism manufacturing number is important, showing slowing growth in the Services Sector. Reading of 52. 6 is down from 53. 4 in august. Fed cutting Interest Rates, reacting sharply, forecasting another quarterpoint move lower at the fomc meeting at the end of the month. The number is essentially neutral but it indicates sloyer growth here. We earlier saw a slip in manufacturing as well. You combine two of those things there is definitely a red flag. Meantime bed, bath beyond, increasing number of stores it is planning to close. In april it said it would close 40 stores. Now that number bumped up to 60. Retailing in general, 4600 store closures for the year announced by u. S.
Are slowing down, the Manufacturing Sector in this Country Contracting a little bit. To the wall street journals Jillian Melchior who follows this very closely. Our own susan li as well. Susan, one thing surprised folks with the china data, this was not something to be expected and were seeing more and more data like that, less ominous than thought. Now stronger than thought. Reflation as well in the month of august. I love to remind people that china is no longer just a manufacturing hub. Services like here in the u. S. Account for more than 50 of the economy now. So it is not cheap factory floors. If you go to shanghai, beautiful skyscrapers, really fast train this is very positive, especially for an economy that saw the weakest growth in 2years. Neil one of the reasons why the futures was up. Hang seng was up 4 . It owed itself as well to the talk that they will meet some of the protesters demands. Well get into that in a second. Couldnt you flip it around, say Better Things look fo