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to learn more. Let's go to Vinny Dell Judice at the first word desk for today's numbers.

Surprising data, Michael, on jobless claims are up up by 20,000, a 294,000.

Economists had expected a lower reading and this coming on the heels of last week's report

on payroll growth showing April payroll growth slowed.

Now that was March payroll growth sold, I'm sorry. Now let's look at inflation, the

import price index up 0.3% in April month over month, lower than forecast year over year,

a drop 5.7%. Again, you know what I was wrong. I mean talking about April, May, March,

I've been on vacation. It was the April employment report and these are April import numbers and jobless claims

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