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Joining us this morning with some reaction. First from the White House is the National Economic Council Director Kevin Asset. Kevin, good morning.Good to have you. >> Great to be here. >> Uh, lot of information uh that the streets trying to absorb.How do you characterize both October and November. >> Yeah, I think it's best to sort of combine the two. And if you do that, then you're looking at private sector gains of about 120,000, maybe 121.And then uh we dropped about 160,000 government workers, federal g ...

Joining us now for more on the markets and jobs, Joe Mato, president CIO at Newberger Berman. Joe, great to have you with us. Good >> to be here.Thank you. >> Um, it's interesting to get the jobs report now after the Fed decision. How important is this for you.>> I think the data is really important. I think the state of the labor market is one of the critical issues in terms of determining what the Fed path is going to be. And, you know, our sense is you're going to continue to see a grinding, weaker labor ...

RT Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion)“It’s a huge psychological jump, right,” @keds_economist explains.“4.4 and 4.6% are very close, but they’re not the same at all, and I think this will get in people’s heads that we are creeping close to 5%. And I don’t think we are.”https://t.co/fbjzWB1IjJ ...

Copper edged lower as investors turned cautious ahead of US data that will be scrutinized for signs of where interest rates are headed https://t.co/sjbOnSq679 ...

Stocks moved to the upside at the start of trading on Monday but quickly gave back ground early in the session. The major averages pulled back well off their early highs and spent much of the rest of the day lingering near the unchanged line.The major averages eventually ended the day modestly lower. While the tech-heavy Nasdaq slid 137.76 points or 0.6 percent to 23,057.41, the S&P 500 dipped 10.90 points or 0.2 percent to 6,816.51 and the Dow edged down 41.49 points or 0.1 percent at 48,416.56.The initia ...

>> WELCOME BACK. OUR NEXT GUEST ISSUED A DISSENTING VOTE AT LAST WEEK'S BIG FED MEETING, PUSHING FOR EVEN STEEPER RATE CUTS. JOINING US HERE AT POST NINE IN A CNBC EXCLUSIVE IS FEDERAL RESERVE GOVERNOR STEPHEN MYRON.GOVERNOR, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE YOU BACK AT POST NINE. WELCOME. >> GOOD DAY.THANKS FOR HAVING ME BACK. >> SO I KNOW YOU JUST GAVE THIS BIG SPEECH AT COLUMBIA ABOUT INFLATION. AND BEFORE WE DIVE INTO THAT, MAYBE YOU COULD JUST EXPLAIN WHY YOU DISSENTED FOR EVEN SHARPER RATE CUTS WHEN SOME OF YOUR CO ...

Weaker-than-expected Chinese economic news is negative for global growth prospects. China's Nov industrial production unexpectedly eased to +4.8% y/y from +4.9% y/y in Oct, versus expectations of an increase to +5.0% y/y. Also, China's Nov retail sales rose +1.3% y/y, weaker than expectations of +2.9% y/y and the smallest pace of increase in 2.75 years. In addition, China's new home prices fell 0.39% m/m, marking the 30th consecutive month of declines.Today’s US economic news was mixed for stocks. The Dec E ...

After failing to sustain an initial move to the upside, stocks have shown a lack of direction over the course of the trading session on Monday. The major averages have pulled back well off their highs of the session and have recently been bouncing back and forth across the unchanged line.Currently, the major averages are narrowly mixed. While the S&P 500 is up 7.97 points or 0.1 percent at 6,835.38, the Nasdaq is down 10.22 points or less than a tenth of a percent at 23,184.95 and the Dow is down 14.31 poi ...