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And are we going to possibly see wages growth as well? >> well, wages -- >> sorry. >> wages are growing. wages are growing. the question is whether this increase in the labor force participation will continue. jared? >> yeah, no. it is exactly right. we got a little tiny bit of an acceleration in wages. they were up 2.8% year over year. go back a year, theyre growing 2.5%. so thats a little bit of a bump and thats why the federal reserve is talking about a rate hike when they meet next week. so,...

All right. we just got the monthly jobs report. lets go to sarah eisen of the yooi yooi stock change chlgt what does it show? >> healthy job growth. the first full month of jobs under president trump, 235,000 jobs added. its better than expected. the unemployment rate drops to 4.7% from 4.8%. some signs of wage growth is something we have been looking for throughout the jobs recovery. wages increased 2.8% from the year before. we need to see a number that goes more like 3%, but still, it is heal...

4.7%, thats considered full employment. >> melissa: do we read from the construction numbers in terms of optimism or -- >> it was a warmer month, so they are gearing for projects. i think it also has to do with expectations of the business community. as this is in general are feeling pretty confident about things. theyre feeling confident about tax cuts, regulations. that is inspiring them to hire and higher and a more aggressive rate. >> melissa: one optimistic sign was wages, 2.8%. that is it ...

Have been phony in the past but its very real now. >> lets get analysis now from liz clay man in new york. very real. >> this was a blow out jobs report. big upside beat. really good news any way you look at it. 235,000 jobs versus the expectation of 190,000 which would have been a good number. januarys number was upwardly revised. sometimes that happens when they get more information and they change the number. it had a gain of about 230 thousand. we had wages climbing, average hourly earnings ...

Rate, 4.7%, relatively steady. when i look inside these numbers, i see people coming off the sidelines and into the labor market. you might have seen this number fall. its strong enough -- the labor market is strong enough for this number to keep falling. people being lured off the sidelines to look for work. here is the labor force participation rate, very sticky here, barely moving. here is why. lots of people are retiring every day. youve got 10,000 baby boomers hitting retirement age. we hav...

Stronger. >> what we white house and what we are going to do with our tax plan and what were doing with hiring and what were doing with corporations and getting them to move jobs back to america, i think it will be easy to get to 3% growth in the fort quarter this year. >> another bright spot in the report, wage growth continues to accelerate, hourly wages up 0.2% last month, now up 2.8% year-over-year, closing in on the 3% rate that any economists consider healthy. >> jon: peter barnes in washi...

>> well, interesting enough, the rise in hate groups was pretty much white noise. it was a 3% increase. what i think was interesting is the same time that we saw a 67% increase in anti-muslim hate crimes, and we went from a range that we had over -- well over a previous decade, to well out of that range, anti-muslim hate crimes went from about 2.6% to 2.8% of all hate crimes up to about 4.5%. so they really went out of a range at the same time that anti-muslim groups tripled and of all the group...

Europe and canada by 2.8% or $10 billion. but we still have a long way to go. all allies must speed up their efforts to spend 2% of gdp on defense. this will be an important point when allied leaders meet here in brussels in may. so mr. vice president, thank you for our excellent discussion. we agree that nato is the most successful alliance in history because nato has been able to adapt and change when the world is changing. and we agree that we must continue to change to keep our people safe. ...

Nasdaq adding 48 also hitting a new high. al co. with a shares are higher. they fell short of estimates with bub revenue came in ahead. the stock has been up more than 4%. existing homes sale slumped in december falling to the lowest levels since 1999. sales dropped 2.8%, economists were expecting a much smaller decline. thats it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. i mean wish i had time to take care of my portfolio, but.. well, what are you doing tomorrow -10am? staff meeting. noon? eatin...

Employs deported workers. >> reporter: thats right. when donald trump talks about deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, people thought that was a huge departure from president obamas policy, which it was but president obama deported more than any president, about 2.8 deportees. half were criminals, those who says donald trump will get out of the country first, the minute he takes office, but the other half were not. there are places springing up in mexico, just across the border in tijua...