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Good morning. Today is Wednesday, June 8th, and I'm your host Julie Morgan.

Our top stories, Consumer Credit, Consumer Spending, and Uranium.

But first, let's take a look at market futures. Dow, S&P and NASDAQ

futures are down. The Dow down 173 points, the S&P down 21 points, and the NASDAQ down 50 points. We'll take another look at futures as

well as the world markets crude oil and commodities in a few minutes. In the earnings spotlight today, Thor Industries, Campbell Soup,

Bosch and Lome Corporation, and five below. In our day watch, ExxonMobil closed up 4.6% in Tuesday's trading to easily breach $100 and reach

its highest level in eight years, closing less than a dollar from its all-time closing high of $104.38, said on June 23rd of 2014.

Now our top stories. Consumer credit expands more than expected in April.

April Consumer Credit expanded by more than $38 billion month over month versus the $35 billion

consensus. Total outstanding consumer credit of $4.57 trillion

gained from $4.48 trillion in March.

Revolving credit, which includes credit card debt debt grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 19.6% to 1.1 trillion dollars.

Non revolving credit which includes auto and student loans,

climbed at an annual rate of 7.1% to 3.5 trillion.

Meanwhile, consumer spending remains strong.

The CFO of Visa says people are starting to spend more on services after that sector was suppressed during the pandemic.

He said the greatest growth right now is for things people couldn't do before like travel, restaurants, entertainment, and so on.

Hand in hand with this info, Tuesday Target announced additional markdowns to come

as they tried to offload excess inventory in cancel orders.

The U.S. is reportedly looking for funding

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