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benefits. it s been really at 400 or higher since april. that s really not conducive to cutting the unemployment rate but a good number this week. it fell to 391,000 and that s better than we had expected. another important report, the final read on how fast the economy grew in the second quarter. this is the gdp report. gross domestic product. the sum of everything that this economy puts out and it grew at 1.3%. so, for all those people who are talking about a double-dip recession, this number shows it isn t technically a double dip recession right now. in the second quarter you had economic growth and economists are telling me that for the third quarter there was growth there, as well. so, you have an economy that is growing and you have fewer people than expected who filed for jobless benefits. it sounds like a couple of nonnegatives, which is, but taken together, that s positive for the market, at least this morning, kyra. we ll watch all the numbers and we ll kno ....

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