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See the jobs report, francine. I see all sorts of numbers modeled. 6 rate be looking at the u. I do not see any forecast of where that statistic is going, but it harkens back to an american job economy of 1933. Francine we will have a big look on whether we will go back to those depression years. Lets get to first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Francine, andd, tom, as you were saying, todays jobs report expects to see the u. S. Unemployment rate surge to almost 20 last month after reaching the highest level since the Great Depression in april. The may report is likely to show the jobs slump has extended into whitecollar positions. By 7. 5s publicly shrank million positions. The jobs report comes out at 8 30 new york time. In buffalo, new york, two Police Officers have been suspended after a video of them pushing an elderly protester to the ground went viral. Th ....
This for bloomberg on the economy. I am going to lose the introductions this morning and get right to the moment. Weve got great markets. Yields higher, dow futures up 300, etc. No one is focused on anything but an update on this grim labor economy. Jonathan how quickly can this labor market hell is the question we ask every single month now, and we will ask it continually through the morning . Maybe we getting median estimate , maybe it comes outside of that. But the question hasnt changed. It is how quickly we will heal after a big downturn in a very short space of time. Tom a lot of opinions on that, and of course, as i was just mentioning, across the 10 of the american demographic, it will be a different rate of change for the haves and the havenots. And, what is so important, you nailed this a number of weeks ago, is the damage to the broad middle class. We are focused on the elites at bloomberg, and we are focused on maybe the people that service the elites, but it is a broad swa ....
The markets are clearly telling us that the markets are not pricing in the worstcase scenario when it comes to iran, or at least Portfolio Managers not. Stoxx europe 600 gaining some 0. 6 . On bloomberg surveillance, we will be speaking to the president of euler hermes, Wilfried Verstraete. That discussion is up very shortly. Lets get straight to the blumberg first word news. In new york city, heres Viviana Hurtado. We begin with the first stage of the u. S. China trade deal, set to be signed next week. China says its top negotiator is visiting washington, d. C. It is the latest move towards a detente. Contradictory reports this morning are emerging about what caused the ukrainian boeing 737 to crash and iran. Initially blaming a technical issue, then an engine fire. Ukrainian embassy running out terrorism, but ....