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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Hillen joining me in studio this week

for Million Dollar Portfolio Jason Moser, for Motley Fool Pro and Options Jeff Fisher

from Motley Fool Deep Value Ron Gross. Good to see you as always gentlemen.

We have got the latest from the auto industry, specialty retail, financial services and more.

We will dip into the full mailbag and as always we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin this week with the big macro. The monthly jobs report was the loan bright spot

and what was otherwise the worst week to start the year in Wall Street's history.

We continue to slow down in China along with a crazy week for China stock markets scared a lot of investors.

There's a lot to get here Ron Gross. Happy New Year Chris. Happy New Year for all the investors.

Let's start with the jobs report. Really strong 292,000 jobs added and the previous two months revised up.

Things looking pretty strong for the US economy.

Yep things look good. I like unemployment. I'm staying steady at 5% I'm fine with that number.

I think economists think of that pretty close to full employment. The fuller look at unemployment, the USICS measure, flat at 9.9%.

I'd like to see that lower but still pretty good historically. Again this is a common theme.

The only kind of dark side to the employment report was wages.

What you're growing at about a 2.5% now and you will clip right now not so bad but that was actually down just a bit.

And we want to see that number going in the right direction.

Jason we saw in the employment report spread out over a bunch of industries. No one single industry sort of leading the way here as we've seen in the past.

This was increases in health care and construction. A really pretty robust report.

Yeah I think it's still good about it. I mean we've come from a pretty dark place here with unemployment over the past.

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