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Squawk on the Street

Cramer's Morning Take: The Fed and Jobs 11/3/23

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Investing, Business, News

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Cramer’s take on the latest Fed moves and today’s jobs report. Become a CNBC Investing Club member to go behind the scenes with Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks as they talk candidly about the market’s biggest headlines. Signup here: cnbc.com/morningtake CNBC Investing Club Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Jim Kramer here to share with you a sample of my take on the market from today's

0:06.7

CNBC Investing Club morning meeting.

0:08.6

We have what I call a market where we say, did it miss the quarter?

0:14.1

Let's go buy it.

0:15.1

Now what's happening really is that people are reevaluating companies that reported through

0:19.9

a prism of lower rates.

0:21.5

We're getting lower rates because we have less situations for Treasury next year.

0:26.3

Fed Chairman Powell was somewhat less hawkish.

0:29.9

And then this morning, I have to tell you that if I wanted to see a number going the right way for employment, it would be this one.

0:37.2

Yeah, seeing softer data, jobs report was amiss, 150,000 jobs added, looking for

0:43.2

180,000 but big negative revisions in the prior two months, 101,000 lower, and unemployment

0:50.5

ticked up, 39 versus 38, and also wage growth slowed.

0:54.4

And I think that's very important as well.

0:56.7

I asked Treasury Secretary whether wage growth slowing could be immigration, and she completely

1:01.5

punted and wouldn't answer it.

1:03.0

I was going to follow up, but I felt there was a futility in that effort.

1:07.8

But there are a huge number of immigrants that have come in the most and you could add all

1:13.1

them from six years yeah and they would be less than what's come in and believe me they are

1:18.0

playing a role in keeping prices uh wage price down yeah and I wouldn't call this necessarily

1:22.6

negative news but it's softer news and it's softer news is what is bringing down yields you

1:28.1

it's not deflation it's a slowing of in yeah so you had the 10 year back to 4-5

1:32.3

it was at 5% two weeks ago and a whole lot of stocks rally when yields move lower

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