of march today it couldn t have been more bullish had i fabricated the darn thing myself. yet the labor department gave you goldilocks number with just the right amount of job growth and just the right amount of wage inflation, meaning robust and meager adding 196,000 new jobs allows us to take the recession fears off the table. and tepid wage growth tells us there s no reason for the federal reserve to raise interest rates there s no data point more important to the stock market than this employment report. if the numbers to inflationary, that could be devastating because there will be immediate calls for the fed to tighten if the number is too weak, everyone goes on recession watch. as investors in the stock market, a labe report that shows strong growth with little wage growth is the perfect combination. it s not so great if you work for a living and were hoping for a raise. great for the stock market, though the amazing thing is you would expect full employment to sky roc
despite the chatter about tariffs and trade most stocks seem uneffected including today. s&p drifted .05% higher. in fact, the market has been robust that you have to think hard about stocks that log behind two losers stand out tesla and facebook tesla s stock got hammered because elon musk, the founder chairman and ceo turned down the settlement that the sec offered for his extremely ill advised tweet about taking the company private at $420 a chair. now they re throwing the book at him. no wonder the stock plummeted 14% later. facebook the most hated company in silicon valley, revealed there had been a security breach one that allowed hackers to take over 50 million accounts this is the kind of thing that makes shareholders worry that facebook needs to spend more on security because it hasn t been spending enough. when that splits, the stock comes down with it that s why you saw a 2.6 decline today. join the action alerts club. it s become quite a distraction to the process
one of the scientists responsible for developing the astrazeneca vaccine in britain has warned that a future pandemic could be even more contagious or more lethal. professor dame sarah gilbert said funding was needed to ensure the knowledge gained over the last two years in fighting deadly viruses was not lost. on the omicron variant, she said steps to slow down its spread should be taken until more was known about it. mark lobel has this report. a stark warning from the creator of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine that the advances made could lost without more funding for future pandemics. without more funding for future pandemics- pandemics. this will not be the last time a pandemics. this will not be the last time a virus pandemics. this will not be the last time a virus threatens - pandemics. this will not be the last time a virus threatens our| last time a virus threatens our lives and livelihoods. the truth is that the next one could be worse. it could be more contagi
occasional buy opportunity it does exist. but the window closes so fast, that if you blink, you will miss it still, if you re ready to pass, you can pick up some high quality stocks at discounted prices the dow briefly went into the red rebounding to close up 143 points you had it in your grasp when the market opened. yet, markets don t go up in a straight line. you still get dips but it is frustrating. no dips whatsoever the stock of netflix as analyst after analyst raised projection after projection denying everybody a chance to get in except for the bold people who dipped and bought many other visible opportunities where the window opens and you have to jump and jump quickly provided you did the homework. the brief government shutdown. will benefits be paid. doesn t a postponement mean we are going to be worrying a lot more over the next few weeks now, nobody would think it is good for business when the government turns the lights off. so the market opens slower today. why