Chapter 1: What news updates are shaping the stock market today?
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News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Nathan Hager. Thursday morning trading officially underway on Wall Street. That is the sound of the opening bell from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks are opening in the red with the S&P 500. Little change to the downside, a drop of about five points. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, though, is lower by 0.4%.
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Chapter 2: What events are unfolding in Minneapolis that are causing public unrest?
So we could see a jump up in the weeks after that.
Bloomberg's Mike McKee reports the U.S. trade deficit shrank the most since 2009. In October, $29.4 billion. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg were looking for 58.7. Labor productivity jumped to 4.9 percent in the third quarter for its strongest pace in two years. adding to signs efficiency is keeping wages from driving up inflation.
Right now, the markets are pricing in about two rate cuts from the Federal Reserve this year. Fed Governor Stephen Myron says he'd go way further than that.
I'm looking for about a point and a half of cuts. A lot of that is driven by my view of inflation. I gave a speech about this about a month ago in December at Columbia University. My view is that almost all of the excess inflation over Target is due to quirks of how we calculate inflation.
Fed Governor Stephen Myron tells Bloomberg surveillance the economy could add about a million jobs without adding to price pressures. You can catch our full conversation on the Bloomberg podcast page on YouTube. And that's news when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm Nathan Hager. This is Bloomberg. I'm Carol Masser.
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