Or fin tech was the u. K. s leading Investment Sector like in the us for last year firms like trans wire Funding Circle and nonzero lead the pack raising hundreds of millions of dollars in capital u. K. Artificial Intelligence Companies also had a strong year with raising more than two hundred seventy Million Dollars in funds for the for a first thats a first for the sector. The december jobs report is just out the Unemployment Rate remains at four point one three times in a row three months in a row there were one hundred forty eight thousand jobs created which is still very positive but it is fifty thousand jobs be low what the experts had anticipated in the consensus and two hundred and its less than the two hundred thirty nine thousand jobs created in november lets get into the ditch with dr Mark Thornton a senior fellow at the meat isnt to dr thornton thanks again for joining us it seems like a pretty good report but not a tony the tiger great report whats your take on some of the
A little leery of that figure these figures are almost guesstimates that have to be revised two times and i would not be surprised if retail is revised upward in a significant way if retail goes up twenty five thousand and set it down twenty thousand then my estimate was was right on the money yeah i was surprised by the retail number two that it wasnt higher going into the Holiday Season but you know weve talked with some retail experts in the past and they say people are moving more and more to online purchasing so it might be lower than us and i thought back to the construction though are some of those Energy Sector jobs that were created in construction really due to those unfortunate hurricanes that we had this year. Oh yes weve weve had a naturally increase in construction jobs and then as we get into this boom of course theres even more construction jobs and then the hurricanes just come right on top of that in texas and south florida and and puerto rico where theyve added a gre
The consensus and two hundred and its less than the two hundred thirty nine thousand jobs created in november lets get into the dates with dr Mark Thornton a senior fellow at the me season just to dr thornton thanks again for joining us it seems like a pretty good report but not a toadie the tiger great report whats your take on some of the highlights in terms of specific sector specifics. Well i was thinking that it was going to be a tony the tiger type report of two hundred thousand or more new jobs added and as you said the consensus amongst economist was for one hundred ninety thousand. And on the downside the Retail Sector surprisingly lost twenty thousand jobs in december im a little leery of that figure and these figures are almost guesstimates that have to be revised two times and i would not be surprised if retail is revised upward in a significant way if retail goes up twenty five thousand and set it down twenty thousand then my estimate was was right on the money i was surpr
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Perhaps somewhat more swollen economies the large ones put all of us have to take into account the International Repercussions of what we do because we are. Which is of it is streaming kind of getting more and more independent not just the past hundred years despite what some people say but marco polo already was it greasy going to defend its way back when its been going on ever since and even before that well but i dont mean sort of neighbor politician on taking advantage of your neighbor but i think whats interesting about the United States is that one appeared on the scene of his slogan putting America First it was very difficult for me to explain to my russian friends what he means because in many countries you are supposed to do that anyway you are not making that into your election slogan this is something that is presumed he will not be voted in if you are in my opinion the only way we were putting America First was the old policies we are not with the new policies because i thi