you see um people who are sort of more at the margins. So, kids coming out of college and and younger people, minorities are are uh uh having a hard time finding jobs. The overall fi job finding rate is very very low.However, the the the layoff rate is also very low. So, you've got a low a low firing, low hiring environment. And the concern is that if you start to see layoffs, the people who are laid off won't there won't be a lot of hiring going on.So that could very quickly flow into uh into higher unempl ...

We'll turn now to Cracker Barrel. Company reporting its fourth quarter results and Yahoo Financ's Brooke Depal joins me here to break it all down. Investors don't look so happy with this one.Brooke, investors not too pleased and that's largely because of the outlook that the company provided. The company did say that they now expect total revenue for the fiscal year between 3.35% billion to 3.45% billion. that they said assumes a comparable sales or rather a comparable store traffic decline of between 4 to ...

Hello and welcome to Asking for a Trend. I'm Josh Lipton and for the next half hour, we are breaking down the trends of today that'll move stocks tomorrow. There's a lot to keep track of, so we're focusing on what you need to know to get ahead of the curve. Here's some of the trends we're going to be diving into.It was a mixed day on Wall Street. Despite investors getting the news they wanted a first Fed Reserve rate cut of the year, at the end of the session, the Dow did end higher. The S&P and the NASDAQ ...

Mortgage rates are at the lowest levels we've seen in a year. Well, the Federal Reserve's benchmark interest rate does not directly affect mortgage rates. They are connected.So, how will a cutting cycle affect the housing market. Lawrence Yu, National Association Realtors chief economist is joining me now. Good to see you, Lawrence.We also have the backdrop of uh housing starts which showed some weakness, the lowest since May last month. So, that reflecting one part of the housing market as well. But as the ...

I think you could think of this in a way as a riskmanagement cut because if you look at the SEP actually the projections for growth this year and next actually ticked up just a little bit and inflation and unemployment didn't really move much. So what what's different now. What's different now is that you see a very different picture of the risks to the labor market.You know, we were looking at 150,000 jobs a month at the time of the last meeting. And now we see the revisions and we see the new numbers. And ...

Market Domination host Julie Hyman and anchor Josh Lipton speak with Wall Street and Federal Reserve insiders following the central bank's September FOMC meeting, its decision to cut interest rates 25 basis points, and key takeaways from Fed Chair Jerome Powell's latest remarks. For more Market Domination videos, please visit: https://finance.yahoo.com/videos/series/market-domination/ #youtube #stocks #fedratecuts About Yahoo Finance: Yahoo Finance provides free stock ticker data, up-to-date news, portfolio ...

In support of our goals and in light of the shift in the balance of risks today, the Federal Open Market Committee decided to lower our policy interest rate by a quarter percentage point. We also decided to continue to reduce our securities holdings. While the unemployment rate remains low, it has edged up.Job gains have slowed and downside risks to employment have risen. At the same time, inflation has risen recently and remains somewhat elevated. ...

25 basis point rate cut. The Federal Reserve lowering their benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to a new range of four to four and a quarter percent and signaling two more rate cuts this year. The decision was not unanimous.Newly minted Fed Governor Steven Myron dissented preferring to cut by 50 basis points instead of 25. As for the breakdown for rate projections this year, nine officials seeing three rate cuts in total this year. Six officials seeing one cut, one saw no cuts, and one saw ...

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I'm Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Saus and you're taking a look at a live shot of the opening bells on Wall Street on this Fed decision Wednesday morning. StubHub ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate its IPO day. Aco getting things popping over at the NASDAQ. You can see friend of the show Dan Eyes ringing that bell. I think he's the chair of that company. Good uh good stuff Dan there with your pink outfit. Uh, all right. Having said all that, the holiday officially has arrived f ...