Why are retailers hiring fewer seasonal workers?
Marketplace Morning Report
Marketplace
4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In a word: uncertainty. Retail chains like Target are pulling back on hiring temporary workers ahead of this year’s holiday shopping season as tariffs take their toll, consumer sentiment slumps, and little government data leaves them with little guidance. We’ll hear more. But first: there’s a lot riding on Nvidia results, and investors are split on predictions for the Fed’s next rate decision.
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| 0:31.1 | There is a whole lot riding on one company's earnings report. |
| 0:38.8 | From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshore, in for David Bruncaccio. |
| 0:42.6 | NVIDIA's latest earnings results are due today after markets close. |
| 0:47.7 | Many a hope and a bet have been placed on this company and on the AI boom overall. |
| 0:51.8 | This industry has single-handedly driven markets to new highs, |
| 0:55.9 | and NVIDIA is the bellwether for all of it. So, investors, we'll be watching this earnings report |
| 1:01.4 | especially closely. Marketplaces Nancy Marshall-Genser has more. |
| 1:05.8 | There's been a lot of speculation about the trajectory for NVIDIA and the AI boom. |
| 1:12.5 | Prominent investors like Peter Thiel and the SoftBank Group have sold Nvidia stock. Michael Burry, famous for shorting the |
| 1:18.1 | housing market during the 2008 financial crisis, is now betting against AI. Some investors are worried |
| 1:24.6 | about an AI bubble. They'll be watching today's InVidiya results for signs of trouble, |
| 1:29.3 | looking to see if it's been able to keep up with demand, and how hard it's been hit by the Trump administration's efforts to restrict computer chip exports to China. |
| 1:38.4 | Some analysts, like Daniel Ives at Wedbush Securities, are still bullish. He points to robust demand for the company's |
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