Reacting to the April US Jobs Report
Bloomberg Surveillance
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Bloomberg Surveillance hosted by Tom Keene & Paul SweeneyFriday, May 8, 2026
Featuring:
1) Claudia Sahm, Chief Economist at New Century Advisors, John Stoltzfus, Chief Investment Strategists at Oppenheimer, and Kristina Campman, Senior Portfolio Manager at Invesco, react to the April jobs report.
2) Kevin Gordon, Senior Investment Strategist with Charles Schwab, brings us into the market open and talks about the now "K-Shaped Market."
3) Atsi Sheth, Chief Credit Officer at Moody's, talks steady US GDP growth and potential for a bounce back in sentiment.
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| 1:20.9 | Claudia Somm joins us right now to begin our Jobs Day coverage. What an interesting report here. |
| 1:26.8 | Shout out to Stephanie Roth to Wolf |
| 1:28.4 | Research who was edging up above consensus on that as we clearly saw that. We're just getting |
| 1:34.2 | in some of the secondary statistics that Alexis was unable to see on the Bloomberg. Terminal |
| 1:40.1 | three months average change, $48,000. |
| 1:44.9 | The survey was the previous month was marked down as well. |
| 1:49.2 | And over on the wage side, you get to Claudia Samh here, earnings month over a month a little light, |
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