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U.S. Job Numbers, E.U. President Visit, California Weather

Up First from NPR

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4.659K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. releases February job numbers, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meets President Biden in Washington to discuss trade and the war in Ukraine, and California braces for severe weather.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's some ore.

0:07.2

How could a jobs report out today influence what the Fed does about interest rates?

0:13.7

The strength of that report may give Fed Chair Jerome Powell a direction.

0:17.2

We'd be prepared to increase the pace of rate hikes.

0:19.6

I'm Steve Innskept with A Martinas and this is up first from NPR News.

0:23.6

The leader of the EU meets with President Biden in Washington.

0:30.8

Could they make a deal to make European electric vehicles eligible for tax credits?

0:36.1

And California is getting drenched again.

0:38.6

An extreme weather pattern is expected to bring flooding, landslides, and avalanches.

0:43.2

It does have the potential to be a dangerous situation.

0:47.2

So if all that water is hitting the ground is the drought done in California.

0:51.2

Stay with us, we've got the news you need to start your day.

1:04.4

Just how hot is the US job market?

1:06.5

In January employers added more than half a million jobs were told.

1:11.4

The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in more than half a century,

1:16.1

but a single month's numbers can be wrong or a fluke.

1:19.2

So we get some context today when the Labor Department offers another month's worth of numbers.

1:24.8

Here's NPR Scott, Horsley Scott.

1:26.8

So what do we expect to see in today's jobs report?

1:29.4

Good morning.

1:30.0

A forecasters think hiring probably slowed last month,

1:32.7

but of course that's what they're expecting in January too.

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