CNBC Business News Update - Market Open: Stocks Mixed, Caterpillar Earnings Disappoint, US Economic Growth Slower Than Expected, Blowout ADP Jobs Report 10/30/24

Episode Date: October 30, 2024

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I'm Jessica Edinger, CNBC. Major averages mixed this morning on Wall Street. The Nasdaq opened at a record high and popped slightly higher. The Dow's being pulled lower because of disappointing earnings from Caterpillar, among others. The Dow down 32 points. The S&P 500 index down 5. The Nasdaq now up 3 points. Bitcoin over $73,000, very close to its record high. Gold opened at another record today.

The U.S. economy grew at a solid 2.8% pace in the third quarter. Slightly disappointing, though, in the new GDP report on gross domestic product. Second quarter growth was 3%. This was the first read for Q3. There are two more to come. Inflation came in at one and a half percent for the third quarter in the new personal consumption expenditures price index. That's the Fed's preferred inflation gauge and that's below the Fed's two percent target. Nearly a quarter million new jobs were created in October in the new ADP report on private sector hiring. It's a blowout. For the private sector, up 233,000. That's against a forecast of just 113,000.

Now, there's the non-farm payroll estimate for Friday, which is government and private sector at 100. And I don't know what the street does with that. CNBC senior economics reporter Steve Leisman. ADP counts strikers differently than the government and there are 30,000 Boeing workers out on picket lines. Here's ADP chief economist Neela Richardson. This is the most important point. The economy is having its cake and eating it too. It's creating all these jobs while at the same time wage growth is coming down and that's good news for inflation.

So we're really in a sweet spot in October. I don't know how long it lasts, but I'll take it this month. We get the government's, the Labor Department's October employment report on Friday morning. Mortgage demand stalled last week as rates are now up almost a full percent from where they were at the end of September. But mortgage rates are still down more than a full percent from where they were at the end of September, but mortgage rates are still down more than a full percent from where they were one year ago. Eli Lilly shares tumbled 10 percent after the drug maker missed estimates and cut its profit outlook. Lilly makes the diabetes and weight loss drugs Manjaro and Zepbound, which Lilly says are no longer in shortage, but sales disappointed. Demand for the drugs is high.

Lilly's urging the FDA to crack down on compounding pharmacies, selling unapproved, cheaper versions of drugs containing terzapatide. That's the active ingredient. Many would-be patients, however, cannot get their health insurance plans to pay for that. The real issue is coverage of these medications on insurance. I think that's really what's happening is people want to buy a lower-priced product, even though it's lower quality. It's not a real medicine.

It's not an approved medicine. That's what compounding is. What we need to do is bring those people into the insurance system. And, you know, if we have other diseases like diabetes or hypertension, we expect our medicine to be covered by insurance. Why is this different? You know, that we have other diseases like diabetes or hypertension, we expect our medicine to be covered by insurance. Why is this different? You know, that needs to change. I think that's the primary thing I'm worried about.

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