Market and White House Reaction: Jobs Report and End to the Port Strike 10/4/24
Squawk on the Street
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Market Moving Insight and Analysis joined Jim Kramer, David Faber, and me, Carl Kintanilla, on the opening bell hour of CNBC Squawk on the Street. |
| 0:08.7 | Good Friday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Carl Kintanaia with Jim Kramer, David Faber, Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. |
| 0:14.6 | Futures getting a boost today from a blowout September jobs number. 2504,000 beats even the highest estimate on the street. Unemployment down for a second |
| 0:24.4 | straight month to 4-1, got some positive revisions. A roadmap's going to begin with the |
| 0:29.3 | stabilizing labor picture. Far more jobs added than expected. What that could mean for the fed's |
| 0:34.0 | rate cut path ahead. Plus, the port strike comes to an end, but the container ship backlog remains. |
| 0:39.3 | We're going to be joined by a key White House official |
| 0:42.3 | who helped both sides get to that deal. |
| 0:44.3 | And of course, we're keeping an eye on EVs. |
| 0:47.3 | Tesla's got a debt sale. |
| 0:50.3 | The EU slaps big new tariffs on China-made cars, |
| 0:53.3 | and Rivian shares are under pressure |
| 0:55.7 | this morning after that company cut its guidance. Let's begin with the market reaction to this |
| 1:00.7 | jobs report. Household survey, Jim, up 430, and we say 4-1 on employment. It's actually 40-5-1. |
| 1:08.2 | It's a strange number because we do see these areas the pockets of |
| 1:12.4 | of great strength but they're the ones that usually find when when things are slowing down |
| 1:16.7 | I mean health care acts 45,000 jobs I thought this is interesting the average work week for |
| 1:22.7 | all employees is down point one David even though the wage increases point four, maybe that's why people |
| 1:28.8 | just kind of say, you know what, this is a good number, good number for the stock market, |
| 1:32.1 | because we're not having, we're not having stack inflation. |
| 1:36.0 | All right, well, yeah, go back to that for maybe, because you see a number like this, |
| 1:39.8 | which is far ahead of expectations, the unemployment rate falls. |
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