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Motley Fool Money: 10.05.2012

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2012

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The unemployment rate falls to 7.8%.   Facebook crosses a new milestone.   Zynga hits a new low.   And a hedge fund manager tells investors to short Chipotle.  Our analysts discuss those stories and share some stocks on their radar.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.

0:09.0

From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money.

0:19.0

Welcome to Motley Full Money. Thanks for being here.

0:21.0

I'm your host, Krystal, and joining me in studio this week for Motley Full Inside Value,

0:25.0

from Motley Full Asset Management, Tim Hansen, and from Million Dollar Portfolio, Charlie Travers.

0:30.0

Good to see you guys. Hello. We got a lot going on.

0:33.0

We've got retailers hiring. We've got one beverage stock hitting an all-time high,

0:37.0

and we've got email piling up in the full mail bag.

0:40.0

We will get to all of that as well as the stocks on our radar.

0:44.0

But we begin with the big macro. On Friday, the Labor Department said the U.S. economy added 114,000 jobs in September.

0:52.0

The unemployment rate fell to 7.8%. That's the lowest it's been since January 2009.

0:58.0

Tim, I'll start with you. We also saw the numbers for July and August being revised upwards.

1:04.0

What do you think of the numbers?

1:06.0

I think, first of all, it's unequivocally good that more people are working now than where a few months ago.

1:11.0

I think that goes without saying in terms of the economic health of the country.

1:15.0

I thought this was an interesting job report, though, for two reasons.

1:19.0

The first is that everybody's really excited about 7.8% unemployment.

1:23.0

If I had told you in 2000 that in 10 years, 12 years, we'd be amped about 7.48% unemployment.

1:32.0

Expectations have been reset for a time being, so 7.8% is still not great.

1:36.0

And the other thing is that it looked like the biggest gain in jobs came from part-time work.

1:42.0

And these are economic part-timers, which means either the job they found couldn't afford or didn't want to take them on full time,

1:47.0

or they got downsized from a full-time job to a part-time job for lack of work.

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