Surprising Jobs Numbers and Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke
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🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money. |
| 0:07.0 | From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money. |
| 0:10.0 | It's the Motley Fool Money radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me this week. Jason Moser and Ron Gross. Good to see you, gentlemen. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey, Chris. We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street. Shopify CEO Toby Luki is our guest. |
| 0:32.0 | And as always, we've got some stocks on our radar, but we begin with the big macro. |
| 0:37.0 | The jobs report from may showed a surprising increase of two and a half million jobs. |
| 0:42.0 | This brings the unemployment rate down to 13.3% run. |
| 0:47.0 | We take the long view as investors unemployment is still nearly four times higher than it was a year ago, but this was still good to see. |
| 0:55.0 | And evidence or at least indications that PPP worked. |
| 1:00.0 | PPP worked. The recovery has begun. Let's hope we continue on that road and don't fall back a bit. |
| 1:08.0 | But this is the biggest one month gain in history. Perhaps not surprising because we started from such a low base. |
| 1:16.0 | So obviously, once things start to open up, things kind of get back pretty rapidly. |
| 1:21.0 | Love to see where the jobs were created. Leisure and hospitality made up almost half of the gain. |
| 1:27.0 | 1.2 million jobs in that sector. Bars and restaurants. Again, these gig workers, as we call them, 1.4 million jobs in that sector. |
| 1:36.0 | Construction was big. Labor participation rate ticked up a bit. I think it's nice to see that. |
| 1:43.0 | Sometimes we talk about the U6 unemployment number, which is a more all-encompassing unemployment number that the government puts out. |
| 1:50.0 | That actually fell as well, but still at 21.2%. Because it includes discouraged workers that have kind of stopped working and includes part-time workers that would like to be full-time. |
| 2:02.0 | So that's over 21% still, but again, it was down. And this is all within the backdrop of a stock market that has been anticipating this recovery. |
| 2:13.0 | We're down only about 1.5% on the S&P 500 for the year of remind listeners that we were up 30% in 2019. |
| 2:21.0 | So we're still unbelievably strong from a two-year perspective. The NASDAQ is actually up 9% this year. |
| 2:28.0 | Jason, what stood out to you? |
| 2:30.0 | Yeah, I mean, the timing does seem maybe a little bit early. It was a little bit of a surprising report. I guess, but this generally was or is the idea, right? |
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