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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

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

Million Dollar Portfolio Jason Moser from Motley Fool Income Investor James Early.

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

Good to see you. Good to see you.

Earnings Paloza Rolls-On this week. We will head to Australia to talk with our

Man Joe Mayger about investing down under. We will dig into the business of

Valentine's Day and as always we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our

radar. But we begin with the big macro. The jobs report for January kept the

greatest three month jobs gained in 17 years. Unemployment ticked up slightly

5.7% Ron. But these numbers pretty amazing. Yeah, I really like this report despite

the fact that the unemployment and the broader range of unemployment the U6

Number ticked up for good reason actually it's because the labor participation rate

actually increased. So it's good to see people instead of leaving the work force

coming back in plus we saw wage increases which we keep saying has been the

real linchpin. As unemployment has ticked down over the months we haven't seen

the average. So we're not going to be able to do anything. We're now at an

kind of an annualized increase for wages of 2.2%. Not fantastic but also not

terrible. So I think this report is really strong. You know James biggest wage

increase since 2008. Yeah, I mean that's great. That's what the Fed wants. I

think everybody's going to be watching what does the Fed do now? What point do we

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