Subcommittee meets today to receive testimony from under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, ellen lord, concerning supply chain integrity for the department of defense in the United States. Since our her initial confirman as the undersecretary of defense, secretary lord has overseen significant acquisition reform at the department of defense, and a chill well talk about some of that today. As the u. S. National armaments director she has traveled to see the u. S. , throughout the u. S. And to see our allies and partners with regard to the development and Manufacturing Activities around the world, and, unfortunately, has seen firsthand just how reliant the u. S. Defense Industrial Base chain has become come to class relates to china. With the rise of china and Great Power Competition of the global covid19 pandemic, the vulnerabilities and gaps in our supply chains particularly as relates to National Security have taken on a new urgency. What you think Ranking Member k
This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss friendship or in washington coming up the jobless claims in the United States have fallen to their lowest point since the beginning of the coven 19 pandemic straight ahead we dive into the numbers and follow the trend on the cases as they continue to fall plus volatility has surged over the last few months causing safehaven assets to jump but is the bull run here to stay later on were going to bring in some expert analysis to break down the performance of safe havens and the gold big divide with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with those better than expected job numbers out of the United States new jobless claims came in at 881000 for the week ending the 28th of august according to United States Labor Department now analysts had expected 9950000 new claims for the week continuing claims thats the measure of those who have filed claims for 2 weeks or more fell by 1240000 to just over 13000
Going to happen then kristie. Well this one to be really interesting because after world war 2 we had a massive growth and that was predominantly. Done by the u. S. And also with china we relied a lot on the trade between like us and china in order to revive growth in order to boost a lot of that post the world war 2 in order to prevent this massive recession in order to get us out of the deficit but the problem is right now the entire world has kind of plateaued in this because theres no country that is currently in this v. Shaped recovery that every single economists predicted and theres absolutely very little chance that theres going to be a vaccine ready by the end of this year as many people have been optimistically hoping for so in that vein there is going to be a lot of heavy reliance on the u. S. As the global g. D. P. Power in order to try to in order to try to spur on additional growth but and right now with the conflict between us and china its going to be very detrimental b
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Covid vaccine trial has been put on hold after a patient suffered a serious reaction. Australian corporate earnings set for a tough recovery after their worst slump. Will be asking about the challenges ahead including tensions with china. Shery lets get a quick check of how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures again under pressure. Down 7 10 of 1 . This as we continue to hear more reservations coming from these vaccine makers. We heard from astrazeneca after the close. We already had some skepticism over what happened to those vaccine approvals. We also had the text selloff accelerating. We saw the s p 500 sinking to a four week low. Not to mention ongoing u. S. China tensions. Every sector on the s p 500, 11 of them were down, led by tack and energy. We had the nasdaq composite losing more than 4 during the regular session. Take a look at some of the biggest decliners. We have tesla sinking almost 20 . This after shares were not added to the s p 500. A had news that rival