MSNBC MSNBC Live With Hallie Jackson December 6, 2019 15:27:00
Wall street where stocks are sharply higher after a much stronger than expected jobs report. right now the dow jones industrial average is up nearly 300 points. here are the headline numbers. you've got 266,000 jobs that were added in october. economists were expecting around 1887,000. and the unemployment dipped down to a 50-year low, 3.5%. let's bring in cnbc's steve liesman. what does this mean for the american consumer? >> these are very good numbers. they far out strip the expectations of wall street. forecasters, they were much better than prior months that we've had. i think what it mea...