It's Friday the 13th. It's Wall Street Roundup. Welcome back. Brian Stewart, Seeking Alpha's

Director of News. Great to be here. Always great to have you. Talk to us. What are you looking at this week? What are you thinking about? So I think this week was more about macro factors. I'm thinking

especially about the jobs data, the inflation data that just came out today. So looking at the jobs

data, added 130,000 jobs in January. Unemployment rate dipped to 4.3%. Those are both better than expected.

Unfortunately, we saw revisions lower in previous months. So December went down 2000 from 50 to 48,000,

and November was down to 41,000 job gains. So pretty modest there. Also we saw a downward revision for the

2025 as a whole and that was pretty large revision lower. So previously the the total number

of jobs added in in 2025 was slightly less than 600,000, so 584,000.

And that was revised down to 181,000.

So something like a third of the job gains that we thought we had.

You saw revisions lower in each of the months except for one.

And in 2025, we had losses in four of the 12 months with the new revised data.

So as it turns out, the situation in 2025 was pretty anemic in terms of job growth.

So I think people are balancing the better than expected news for January with the realization that 2025 was probably not as good as we

expected and even even in the moment didn't feel that great and I also think there's a bit of skepticism

about the January report just because there has been this habit of revising lower in the future

so we might see that number come down in coming months. So we'll have to

see. It's still a pretty other jobs data has been pointing to weakness. We saw the higher layoffs. We

saw the lower job openings. So all in all, it seems like a pretty, pretty rough job market for people out there right now.

Meanwhile, looking at inflation, CPI came in cooler than expected.

2.4% for the headline number, 2.5% for core CPI.

It's a little, it's not what you want when the core is higher than

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