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Squawk on the Street

The October Jobs Surprise, Google’s Bet on Fitbit & Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, David Faber & Jim Cramer discuss the October jobs surprise, 128,000 jobs added, easily topping estimates. Plus, Google’s Apple challenge, set to acquire Fitbit, valuing the smartwatch maker at about $2.1B. Plus Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson on the company’s growth strategy, cold brew, China and the competitive landscape.

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0:00.0

It's Jim Kramer here. You're listening to the opening bell of CNBC Squawk on the Street.

0:04.7

Don't miss a minute of the action.

0:10.6

Good Friday morning. Welcome to Squawk of the Street. I'm Carl Kintanio with Jim Kramer. David

0:14.5

Faber, the New York Stock Exchange. Strong jobs number, not only for October at 128, but revisions up as well.

0:20.6

Dow futures bounce more than

0:22.2

100. We'll wait to see if ISM in an hour can also rebound. Europe is green in the meantime,

0:27.4

10-year yield just north of 1-7. Our roadmap begins with that big beat for jobs. Stock futures jump

0:32.4

as October gains far surpass expectations. Investors now eye another key read on manufacturing in the next hour.

0:39.7

Plus streaming wars, Apple launching its TV Plus platform today. It's the latest volley in the

0:44.5

original content battle between media and tech giants. And Pinterest plummeting pre-market.

0:50.4

Company stock now losing nearly a third of its value since peaking in August.

0:55.9

And the growth strategy for Starbucks. CEO Kevin Johnson will join us first on CNBC this hour.

1:01.5

Let's get to the jobs number. October payrolls well above expectations at 128K, despite the GM strike,

1:07.4

September and August, each with their own sharply upward revision. Unemployment goes

1:11.7

down, goes up to 3-6, wage growth 3% from a year ago. Jim, hard to find things to quibble

1:18.0

about this month. Look, I'm going to come back and say that you're going to have the beginning

1:23.0

of cracks in manufacturing. I think there's still two economies. The two-thirds of the economy

1:27.6

that is consumer is doing very well. The other third is not doing it. And we can, I don't

1:34.2

know how long we can go with only two-thirds, I think, pretty long. But when you, if, if they

1:40.8

shut down the Boeing 37-37 max, you're going to see very different numbers.

1:45.8

And I just think that these numbers don't have that yet.

1:48.1

There are some places that are cutting back production.

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