The nasdaq up 1 and s p 2. 7 and dow declined 86 points were about to get a set of u e unbelievably set of big numbers but frankly, its horrifying if you think about why they are thriving this week we hear from walmart, from home depot, lowes, and target and if their stocks get hit for any reason, you have to buy them because these major operators are up against general merchandisers, hardware stores, Sporting Goods and lumberyards that cant compete because they were deemed essential and i fear they will never get lost customers back, not with prices big guys charge. The winner haves so many advantages over the little guy im amazed there is any competition whatsoever i feared that there wont be and thats driving me nuts i love when these big household names go higher, but i hate when the reasons they are going higher their Small Business competitors are being wiped out. A lot of these smaller outfits have been able to hold their own before covid, but now the big guys have crafted pheno
Charlie breaks it for us this hour. Plus, could the tiktok saga be distracting from an even bigger china stock drama . In a countdown exclusive, one of the markets best known and feared short sellers, Citron Research founder andrew left reveals the stock he says is the biggest fraud right now in that country and whether shopify will really add stamp. Com to its cart bus he plus the names hes long on today. The ceo of the second largest gold miner in the world is here. And blitzing covid19 fears. The former nfler whose wildly popular masks he was making way before the pandemic, now has the cdc saying touchdown. Your masks score. By the way, we have some breaking news on a report that the big ten has now canceled its football season. We will ask our nfler about that. He played for the s. E. C. Plus, buffett goes big on berkshire and the latest from chicago where looters are targeting the miracle mile. Lets start the claman countdown. Liz and yes, we need to take you to chicago right now.
Cases continue to surge at home and abroad. The World Health Organization reports a oneday high for global infection. Japan plans to pitch for ancial workers under g workers uneasy about their future. Lets take a look about a look at how markets are setting up. Asian risk assets likely to see a selfstarter this monday as a sections are weighed up against improving Economic Data. We have a calendar today with hong kong pmi and indonesian Consumer Confidence on cap. Kiwi stocks, little change. Fluctuating. P moving to a 10th of 1 . Haidi to our top global stories, one that is going to preoccupy markets in the second half. Local coronavirus cases topping 11. 3 million. The World Health Organization reports a single day record in new infections globally. Cases any the u. K. , south africa, japan and the philippines continue to rise. The u. S. All the daily infection rates low. Calling for more restrictions to curb the outbreak. In australia, nine Public Housing tower blocks with 3000 peopl
The. 5 million jobs to the economy in the month of may. The expectation was a loss of 8 million jobs. In fact, we had a growth in jobs, and the Unemployment Rate fell to 13. 3 . That is still in the double digits, but it is a lot better than an expectation of 20 unemployment by economists. So all in all, a much better than expected report. Joining me now so talk about this is the former jpmorgan chief economist, anthony chan. Great to have you this morning, your reaction to this jobs number. Its certainly encouraging. I think when we break it down, it really tells us that the brunt of the bad news on employment is probably behind us, but that doesnt mean that things are completely copesetic, because what you see in this employment report is virtually all the gains in jobs were due to those people that were laid off, on temporary layoff and now recalled back. When you look at the number of people that were not on temporary layoff, that category of unemployment has continued to move high
The. 5 million jobs to the economy in the month of may. The expectation was a loss of 8 million jobs. In fact, we had a growth in jobs, and the Unemployment Rate fell to 13. 3 . That is still in the double digits, but it is a lot better than an expectation of 20 unemployment by economists. So all in all, a much better than expected report. Joining me now so talk about this is the former jpmorgan chief economist, anthony chan. Great to have you this morning, your reaction to this jobs number. Its certainly encouraging. I think when we break it down, it really tells us that the brunt of the bad news on employment is probably behind us, but that doesnt mean that things are completely copesetic, because what you see in this employment report is virtually all the gains in jobs were due to those people that were laid off, on temporary layoff and now recalled back. When you look at the number of people that were not on temporary layoff, that category of unemployment has continued to move high