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Extra day, extra pay?

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

Business, News

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

2024 is a leap year, and tomorrow, Feb. 29, is a regular ol’ work day. So what does that additional day mean for your paycheck? It’s pretty straightforward for hourly workers but gets a little more complicated for salaried employees. We’ll also take a look at how recalls impact carmakers, hear about hope for averting a partial government shutdown, and look at why markets aren’t looking at revised GDP figures.

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0:00.0

The challenge of an extra large size February.

0:05.0

I'm David Brancaccio. First, there's news today.

0:08.0

The government has revised economic growth down a tick in the fall to winter quarter.

0:13.0

Gross domestic product is now labeled as 3.2% annualized growth versus 3.3.

0:19.2

But last year is last year, and the focus now is on where inflation and interest rates go from here.

0:24.7

Susan Schmidt analyzes companies and stocks at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board.

0:29.2

Susan, GDP equals NBD. It's old. markets are not looking at that. That's last

0:36.1

three months of a year gone by. They ended seven weeks ago. So the investors

0:40.6

have really moved past this. Anyway, you're riding or at least people in your business seem to be riding this wave of, I guess, euphoria about the potential for artificial intelligence.

0:50.7

Some of that continues?

0:51.7

Absolutely.

0:53.0

And Vidia is still fresh on everybody's mind having reported earnings last week.

0:58.2

Investors are really focused on what AI can bring to the table and excited about the growth this means for businesses going forward.

1:05.6

We're in the heat of earnings still. It's starting to taper, but so far overall news has been positive.

1:11.6

And we're back to just listening to the Fed

1:14.0

governors come out and make comments about what they think is going to happen with

1:18.0

interest rates or how they feel about the economy. Big news hits tomorrow

1:21.8

with that PCE personal consumption expenditure. big news the Dow down 194 points half a percent the S&P down 3 tenths percent

1:35.1

NASDAQ is down 7 tenths percent but stock in the plant-based protein company

1:39.9

Beyond Meat is up 42 percent right now. This after the company reported sales that were

1:45.7

better than expected but outside of the United States US sales were weighed down.

1:50.1

The company is also promising to cut costs and has a new patty on the way with less saturated fat and salt

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