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welcome to "the lead." im kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with the money lead. wall street closing this hour mostly flat after todays jobs reported exceeded expectations. great news, obviously, but not slowing rising prices and fears of a recession. according to the bureau of labor statistics, the united states added 372,000 jobs in june and on average american paychecks are up 5.1% in the last year. but thats not keeping up with inflation, which jumped 8.6% annually in la...

A big bearing on the consumer spending side of the economy and it also affects what the bank of england does in terms of its interest rate decisions. i think another upside of it sister element is that the bank might nowjudge it does need to raise interest rates as aggressively as it previously thought and that will help to bring down mortgage rates we have seen recently. irate down mortgage rates we have seen recentl . ~ ., ., recently. we saw from the governor ofthe recently. we saw from the g...

Years. so thats on the labor market side. on the household balance sheet side, consumer spending side, some cooling but it remains historically strong and people are in a relatively strong position to deal with what are real challenges. none of this is to diminish the uncertainty and the challenges that people are facing when they are going to the grocery store, going to the gas station. but if you look at where we are economically right now, we have continued sources of strength and resilience....