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    Fed chair Powell says U.S. economy is in a good place

    September 6, 2019

    Jobs report revealed 130,000 jobs were added in August, missing economists' expectations of 160,000 jobs. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.7% and average hourly earnings increased 3.2% year-over-year. Joe Song, U.S. economist at Bank of America, and Chris Macke, founder of Solutionomics join Yahoo Finance's Akiko Fujita to discuss.

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