Is the US economy weaker than expected?

美国经济是否比预期更弱?

World Business Report

2025-09-10

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The number of jobs created in the United States has been revised down. Not as many people got jobs as expected during the last months of Joe Biden's presidency and the first months of Donald Trump's return to the White House. It suggests the world's largest economy is weaker than expected, but could it also mean that Donald Trump will get his way and the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates? Roger Hearing speaks to two businesses in North Carolina and Ohio caught up in the tariff chaos. Elsewhere, we hear about Apple's latest tech offering. And, how a high murder rate is threatening tourism on a Caribbean island paradise. The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC.
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  • Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Rodgy Hearing and on this edition a weaker jobs market in the US suggests the economy is doing less well.

  • But could that lead to interest rate cuts?

  • Also we hear from two businesses caught up in the tariffs chaos.

  • Apple's latest tech is unveiled, we'll tell you what it is,

  • and how a high murder rate is threatening tourism on a Caribbean island paradise.

  • But first, the US has fewer people in work than it thought.

  • Now, it added 911,000 fewer jobs than initial estimates had suggested in the year up to March,

  • according to revised figures from the Labor Department.

  • The jobs market had been growing at a slower pace than previously thought at the end of the Biden administration and in the first months of the Trump administration.

  • So does that mean the world's biggest economy is weaker than economists had hoped?

  • Here's the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt.

  • This revision proves two things.

  • Number one, the president was right.

  • And this is why we need new leadership at the Fed.

  • And this makes it very clear that President Trump inherited a much worse economy by the Biden administration than ever reported.

  • And it also proves that the Federal Reserve is holding our monetary policy far too restrictive.

  • Interest rates are too high.

  • The Fed needs to cut the rates because of the mess that we inherited from the Biden administration.

  • Caroline Levitt.