Raytheon stock rose quickly last Fiday morning

59 of their Tomahawk missiles were used in the strikes against Syria. Their share value jumped almost a billion dollars. Other US weapons makers had their stock value rise and gained almost 5 billion dollars while all major indexes dropped because the latest jobs report was the weakest in almost a year.

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Mamapolo2016 · F

Your last sentence confuses me and I have a question anyway.

Do you draw any conclusions from the facts you listed above?

And could you expand on the 'jobs report' statement?

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Mamapolo2016 · F

@lorne13 First, I fully admit the NYTimes and the Wall St Journal have different dogs in the hunt. And these numbers are a little newer, so maybe that partially explains the discrepancy. But there is a discrepancy.

The U.S. economy added 313,000 new jobs last month, the strongest monthly gain since July 2016. The unemployment rate remained at 4.1% for the fifth straight month. Wage growth rose by 2.6% from a year earlier.

WSJ, March 9, 2018.

I am not a mathematician.

lorne13 · 61-69, M

@Mamapolo2016 which was a major disappointment to economists who'd been expecting more because the numbers usually go up in spring

Mamapolo2016 · F

Okay. Thank you for clarifying things for me, and have a good day.

SW-User

It is always about the money, isn't it?

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

Cheney is a stock holder?

lorne13 · 61-69, M

@MrBrownstone or maybe trump, there have been rumours but of course he has always refused to show any documents

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