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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

Welcome to the show. Thanks for being here.

I'm your host Chris Hellen. I'm joined by Motley Fool,

Senior Analyst Seth Jason, James Early, and Tim Hansen.

Guys, good to see you. Hello. Hi Chris.

It's the Labor Day weekend, summer, officially over,

so we got a lot to get to this week, including the latest from Apple,

Dell, HP, and Burger King, but we begin with the big macro.

On Friday, the latest jobs numbers came out.

Private employers added 67,000 jobs, which was higher than expected,

but the unemployment rate ticked up to 9.6%.

And earlier in the week, the August retail numbers were released,

and we're surprisingly solid, Seth Jason.

I mean, I don't want to jinx us, but are we actually seeing some good news here?

You know me, I'm a hater in this.

There's some decent news, or at least news that's not as bad as I thought it would be,

and I read a lot of doom and gloom economic commentary,

and it was better than those folks have been predicting as well.

So the jobs number 67,000, you know, that's not a lot of jobs added,

and it's a net loss after all of those census workers disappear from the payrolls.

But you know, it's better than creeping back in the other direction,

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