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Laura. Jim, one of those every now and then we get a day that is truly consequential and that certainly fits at least the expectations for powells speech. I wish that we hadnt come in so hot when you have a company that gains 50 billion in one day, salesforce, when you have a tremendous number of nasdaq stocks that have just kind of out of control to the upside you dont want to have anything that could disrupt that i think its heightened, im glad were covering every minute of t david, you know that this is a day that we would normally be talking about abbott labs and talking about the mysterious tiktok mayor issue which are both huge stories but we have to defer to jay powell. We do we have to defer to powell we have to continue to understand what the fed Balance Sheet will look like with that 3 trillion thats been added to it which is a staggering sum, guys jim, your point is well taken. Yesterday salesforce i have rarely seen any ....
Joining us momentarily and to open the show we have to get news that developed moments ago and that is the president invoking the defense production act to encourage or force some American Companies to make ventilators. Lets get more on that breaking news right now with Kayla Tausche in washington, d. C kayla . Brian, President Trump has done this just a handful of times during the coronavirus crisis, but this afternoon he issued an order that targets six medical Device Companies to procure the elements and materials they need to expedite the production of ventilators and personal protective equipment. The companies include general electric, hillrom, medtronic, resmed, philips and vy aire so they can make things like ventilators and the personal propektipr pro ....
Since after election day. Our road map begins with the big jobs number. The monthly job report come in under expectations. What now . And the u. S. Launches an air strike on syria. Trump and chinese president xi continue to meet at maralago. Well take you live there for the latest. Weighing in on the payroll number, retailers were a big part of this slashing 30,000 jobs last month in addition to the month before. Construction adding the fewest jobs in seven months. We did see an increase in average hourly earnings, jim, but its the worst two months for retail since december of 09. We can figure out why. Yeah. This is what you call a secular trend. This is not something thats going to come back. I think that what you had was that you had a weak you had a weak Holiday Season for bricks and mortar. It got weaker. Jpmorgan they do incredible analysis of the mall and its down double digit traffic. You cant sustain your stores in bad ma ....
It is 8 00 a. M. At disney headquarters headquarters 11 00 a. M. In new york and this is squawk alley. Welcome to squawk alley for a tuesday. Dow down 109. Breaking news to start the hour. This time on ford. Phil lebeau is in chicago with that. Ford in a move expected for months is announcing that it is building a new small car plant in mexico. This plant will be located in the san luis section of mexico an investment of 1. 6 billion. It will create 2800 jobs with cars expected to roll off that Assembly Line in 2018. Some of those cars will be sold in the u. S. And sx ported to other countries away the world. No doubt is this a move that will get a lot of attention on the campaign trail from the president ial candidates. Just a couple weeks ago, heres what donald trump had it say about ford and its plans to expand around the world. Companies are leaving our country rapidly. Rapidly. Whether its carrier air conditioning whether its ....