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1st LD-Writethru: Chinas surveyed urban unemployment rate drops in April Xinhua 17 May 2021, 13:30 GMT+10 BEIJING, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinas surveyed urban unemployment rate stood at 5.1 percent in April, 0.9 percentage points lower than the same period last year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Monday. Compared with the March level, the April figure was 0.2 percentage points lower, said the NBS. A total of 4.37 million new urban jobs were created in the first four mon...

Tuesday aboard the fedex jet dubbed the panda express it. was part of an agreement with the chinese government. they move to china when they turn 4. lets take a look at markets around the world. negativity here mostly about concerns. on wall street trading leaning down. it was a mixed day on tuesday. the dow ended 102 points lower, dragged down by weak sales from home depot. they cited concerns about tariff and the u.s./china trade war. major averages are really near to territory weve never se...

Points to close 1,035 points lower. so the dow and the s&p 500 entered correction territory yesterday. the s&p still in correction mode. that is a 10% drop from a recent high. >> thank you so much. coming up, president trump this morning clearing the final hurdle to end a short-lived government shutdown that happened while you were sleeping. but at what cost to the nations debt and the key republican principle? this congress finally ready to tackle immigration. well be live for you on capitol ...

Learned about these questions over rob porters security clearance as these domestic violence allegations surfaced this week in the press. the white house says that the president was saddened and surprised. now, as for these questions about john kelly, the white house still says the president has confidence in him, david. >> all right, cecilia vega, our thanks again to you tonight. and as the white house was riding out this latest storm, traders on wall street were riding out the latest plunge ...

Bell on wall street. if futures are any indication, it could be a bit of a wild ride. >> maybe a few hundred points off the dow at the open. its been a couple days where youve seen all the years gains evaporate. a quarter of the trump rally disappear. a lot of volatility and fear on wall street. dow fewer tours right now 241 points lower, that would suggest a five or 600-point decline if it lasts over the next six minutes. it looks like it will. the concern here is that inflation might be coming...

4% is a big move in nikkei. europe opened an hour ago. all down. less than 2% right now. we will watch to see if it stabilizes. dow futures are up 79 points. they turned higher. they were down more than 700 points overnight. it gives you the sense of how erratic it was. the dow lost more than 1,800 points in the past couple days. monday was brutal. look at that decline. that is a 1,600 point decline. in the end, 1,175 points lower. that is 4.6%. that is actually a rebound. the average had been d...

Not we see some of the selling in the dow jones industrial average and the nasdaq, whether that spills over into the etf market because that is where regular investors have put their money recently. we have seen just an enormous amount of money go into etf and -- >> and so ill just interrupt you. we have a thousand points. the dow has now dropped 4%. 1,000 points lower. again, i always ask to look very carefully and the s&p 500. it is broad tore look more like your market. but on a day like toda...

Perspective, we had a 700 point drop when the first financial bailout bill went down in 2008. but the market was at such a lower level, so this is a smaller percentage wise drop but it is a jolting drop for market participant and i think everyone is looking at this as, won, the end of some of the irrational exuberance the market had been showing and secondly and concern about where the economy is headed, inflation, the potential for overheating. >> so that is really where the conversation have t...

Later on "mtp daily," some u.s. diplomats in cuba are mysteriously losing their hearing and u.s. investigators think either cuba or russia may be involved. im not making this up. but first here is hampton sear r pearson. >> thanks, chuck. we had stocks closing lower on wall street as those geopolitical tensions heat up with north korea. lost 204 points. the s&p 500 shed 35. the nasdaq frnd 135 points lower. retail stocks continue to fall as more shoppers move online. macys earnings beat wall str...

People bought more things and thats how our economy continued to churn. it is not clear that this stock market is going to have that effect. and thats what i think -- >> its a different economy. its a sharing economy. its not like millennials to want buy homes or cars or goods. were living in the experienced economy where it doesnt just mean hey, these companies are making more money, people will buy more products. look at target. target, macys, retailers are suffering. if you then throw the bor...