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The Fox News Rundown

Business Rundown: May Jobs Report Blows Past Expectations

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The May jobs report showed a swelling American labor market, adding 272,000 jobs last month, which blew past most economists’ estimates. In the housing market, an increasing number of young people are saying housing affordability will be a top voting issue for them in 2024. FOX Business’ Lydia Hu speaks with Gary Kaltbaum, Kaltbaum Capital Management President and FOX Business contributor, breaking down the mixed message sent by the May jobs numbers. Later, they discuss how they would handle a Mega Millions jackpot and reports of a possible Texas stock exchange. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.9

I'm Lydia who and this is the Fox Business Run Down.

0:34.0

Friday, June 7, 2024, the government's highly anticipated jobs report is out today

0:45.8

blowing expectations out of the water. But as jobs are added, American

0:50.8

households report, hundreds of thousands of jobs are vanishing.

0:55.0

What will the Fed do with this mixed view of the labor market?

0:59.0

I'm a big believer, watch the free markets, not the Fed at this juncture. They've been behind so many times

1:06.0

first on the inflation front and the problem going forward is the closer you get to the election

1:11.6

it's going to be tougher with them to make any move. The

1:15.0

American labor market swelled, blowing past expectations.

1:19.0

Friday's jobs report shows employers added

1:21.0

two hundred and seventy two thousand jobs in May.

1:24.9

But the same report also shows the unemployment rate edged up

1:28.8

to four percent, giving us a mixed view of the labor market. The Federal Open Market Committee meets next week

1:35.0

and will release its highly anticipated decision

1:38.0

on whether to finally cut interest rates.

1:41.0

With today's hot jobs report, expectation is that rates will remain unchanged.

1:47.2

With rates higher for longer, what does that mean for housing? This week Freddie Mac reports

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