Kai Ryssdal

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In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizal.

It is Thursday, today, 7 May.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

It doesn't get a whole lot of headline love.

Worker productivity doesn't.

It's not one of the A-listers like jobs or GDP, though it probably ought to be given as critical as it is to the growth of this economy.

We learned this morning productivity growth slowed a bit in the first quarter.

It increased just eight tenths of one percent growth did.

That's according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Year on year, though, growth comes in at a satisfyingly more robust two point nine percent.

And that's happening as marketplace Elizabeth Troval reports to get us going at a time of massive investment in AI and accompanying massive productivity promises.

Oh, I feel much better now.

Wall Street on this Thursday, the robots, that is the algorithms that do so much of the trading.