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On the other, other hand, wages came in a little shot. not as hot as would have been severely problematic. does that change any dynamic here? no one has a good read on what the fed does next. to your point, all the data is so noisy and doesn t necessarily correlate with what we ve seen for decades. so tell me what it means. picky, picky, picky. every day! he has to dive in and pick out the bad i know you know the answer. what is jerome powell going to do? you re right. the average hourly earnings number is too high. 4.4% year on year. but the hope is that as the number as the number of jobs created slows, therefore, this clearly is a cooling in the work force, and inflation s coming down anyway, that will moderate and will break the spiral of wage inflation. i would say the federal look at this report, and be very smug ....
That is as they say crazy good. it is crazy good. and i mean, just to start with, that earnings figure that you gave me, i mean that is better than 140% and i m doing quick math. versus the third quarter last year. cannot overstate what a win that earnings number is. and then revenue, if you like it exactly in library and what wall street was looking for. the story that most investors care about is exactly what you just talked about, neil, and the number of subscribers added. this was the big question mark. okay. sure, you know, the skeptics were saying we know that netflix can continue to add subscribers but just how many. is it going to peter out? if this is the answer, that s why you are seeing the stock move up 13% after hours. you said it, neil, close to 7 million new subscribers, as far as what the analysts even the most optimistic analysts throughout were looking for slightly more than 5 million. i mean, netflix had given 5 million as guidance. ....
That was what everybody was looking for and neil, they re forecasting aluminum demand to be up 7% in 2013, mostly because of airplane orders. remember, that s what this stuff goes into. building those airplanes and they are forecasting that there s going to be more need for it. that s somewhat of a good sign. we were talking in general scott, about how alcoa kicks off this parade. what kind of parade do you think it will be for companies the first quarter this year when all is said and done? kind of a lackluster one, neil, i think. i really look, yes, on the overall, say, earnings number, they did beat. on the top line, which is really the number that looks good to me, that s the revenue number. it doesn t look so good. as far as that s the number i like looking at. that tells you how well the company is doing, neil everybody can be on the bottom line with profit margins so high. that s a concern to me. if you look at aluminum alone, ....