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radio show. I'm Chris Hill joining me this week's Senior Analyst, Maria Gallagher, and

Ron Gross. Good to see you both. Nice to see you.

Chris. We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street. We've got the hot toys for

the holidays with industry expert Jackie Breyer, and as always we've got a couple of stocks

on our radar. But we begin with the big macro. The unemployment rate fell to 4.2%, which is

2 percentage points lower than where it was in January. The number of jobs added in November

was just 210,000 well below expectations. But Ron, the one thing we know about monthly

job numbers, they get revised. And I'm going to be stunned if a month from now this number

is not revised higher.

Yes, that's just perfectly with what I was thinking. I will first point out that this

report differs pretty dramatically from Wednesday's ADP private payroll report, which was better

than expected. The reports often diverge from that report from the government survey. So

I'm guessing, as you said, we may see an upward revision. It's not unlikely that the two

things diverge, but I do agree that this seems a little extra week here, and we may see

upward next month. Despite that miss, as you pointed out, the unemployment rate fell to

4.2%. Professional and business services and transportation and warehousing led the way,

but hiring in leisure and hospitality, which were really strong in October, which was nice

to see were weak this time around. Unfortunately, retail jobs were down despite hiring for the

holiday season, scratching my head a little bit on that one. Labor forts, participation

rate increased for the month through 61.8%, notably highest level since March of 2020,

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