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thanks for joining us today diane swonk kpmg steve liesman. and we'll. >> see what happens now with the fed. amazon meantime is the biggest drag on the dow after those mixed results and weak guidance. >> last night. >> they reported slowing cloud growth similar to what we've heard from microsoft and alphabet. tech is still the only sector in the red year to date, which my next guest says reminds him of the post 2000.com bubble when other sectors outperformed. joining me now is rich bernstein, the ceo and chief investment officer at richard bernstein advisors. rich, how can this be the.com crash? when. now. what is amazon spending $100 billion. it's like $300 billion. i know that the other side of that may look bad, but aren't we still on the upward climb. >> so kelly remember the. >> market's going to anticipate a lot of this. >> the market's not going to wait. and you know. >> in the tech bubble. >> you had extensive amounts of capex as well. you had. >> capex on storage. >> you had capex on on. >> fiber optics. >> there were there was a lot.

will the prime minister today demand to see that kpmg report before giving another one pound of taxpayers money? p.m. starmer: thank you for raising this. it is an important issue. of course, we will look at the reports. but i do not join in her description. we will look at the report. >> thank you, mr. speaker. lancashire is a wonderful county full of great businesses and hard-working people. [laughter] but for too long we have been held back by an out dated two-tier council system. the governments evolution bill is a massive opportunity for us to get back in the fast lane and catch up with manchester and liverpool. the prime minister call on leaders to work together in the interest of our residents, putting aside political differences and self-interest and move forward in good faith to unleash lancashire's potential? p.m. starmer: you've course was given decades of service to his community, mr. speaker. i'm a firm believer in living out of westminster. into the hands of those with skin in the game. that is how you boost growth, create opportunities, and driver form. i'm pleased we are e

joining us now is cnn's matt egan and diane swonk, the chief economist and managing director at kpmg. that's a global firm that provides audit, tax and advisory services. so, matt, to start with, you walk us through these numbers and what they signal. >> well, pamela, january has a history of having really messy jobs reports. and this one definitely lived up to the hype right. there were a lot of revisions, a lot of mixed signals here. the big number is 143,000 jobs. that's how many were added in january. now that's not a bad number. that's kind of in line with where things were before covid 19, but it was worse than expected and it was a significant slowdown from the gangbusters growth that you can see on your screen at the end of last year in december, the economy added about 307,000 jobs. so this is less than half that pace. the good news, though, is the unemployment rate went down to 4%. that is historically low. you can see on your screen there's been so much improvement on the unemployment front. and it's just stayed low for a long amount of time. and so when you put those thing