Dear Subscribers,

At 8:30am Friday morning I was tuned into CNBC to see the release of the January Employment Situation report. Most of the experts on the show predicted that the number of new jobs created would top the 145,000 estimate. Then everyone's jaws hit the floor when it turned out that we only gained 36,000 jobs. And just as amazing, the unemployment rate somehow plummeted to 9%.

How is this even possible? Plain and simple, the government's methodology is flawed and you should disregard it just like the investment community disregarded it today on the way to another new high. Note, that I am not saying that the US employment picture is thriving by any means. I am just stating that the employment picture is getting better and the government's employment survey does not properly account for these gains as well as other methods.

The jobs picture is the final piece of the recovery puzzle. As that stays on the improvement track it means there is more income in the hands of consumers which begets more spending which begets higher corporate profits which begets higher share prices. Hopefully you have been cashing in on this trend to date and ready for more gains in the months ahead.

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Best,

Steve Reitmeister
Executive VP, Zacks Investment Research

Today's Top Stories: Monday- February 07, 2011

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