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From fool global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money. It's the Motley Fool Money

radio show. I'm Chris Hill and joining me in studio this week for Million Dollar Portfolio

Jason Moser from MDP and Supernova Simon Erickson and from Motley Fool Pro and options Jeff

Fisher. Good to see you as always gentlemen. We have got the latest headlines from Wall Street.

We will talk international investing with Portfolio Manager Bill Mann and as always we'll give

you an insight and look at the stocks on our radar. But we begin this week with the big macro.

The jobs report surprising Wall Street with 287,000 jobs in the month of June much higher than

the consensus Jeff and nice to see after that report we had in May which was disappointing

always good to see more people working Chris. It means more money in their pockets more money

to spend on retail which has been suffering from months on end more cars being purchased and whatnot

and the the confluence of more employment with really low interest rates and really cheap money

to buy your car for example should help the economy at least maintain this very slow rate of

growth that we have seen the past couple years here in the states. Now for many people who are

thinking well it doesn't feel like a recovery. Part of the reason maybe the U6 unemployment rate

which Ron Gross frequently references that thank you for stepping in for him on that course.

That remains stubbornly around or actually above pre-recession levels so above 2008 levels around

almost 10%. So that means about 10% of people are disengaged not looking for work or under employed

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