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Specifics. you buy the s&p 500 in a spdr? >> yes. buying the spdr is a great way to go. i love oil and gas. oil and gas, energy stocks undervalued. there are etfs out there. there are different areas in a market. if you don't know, get in the market. all markets are going up. be in stocks. >> we started this setting up three things, your house, in your stock portfolio and your job. you get to be the bearer of good news to say everything is better. we have all three of these legs of the stool not wobbly here? >> the jobs report that came in today is bifurcated like everything else in the econom...

Things. your house, your stock portfolio, and in your job. so you get to be the bearer of good news and say everything's better. will we have all three of these legs of this stool not wobbly at some point here? >> at some point, but the question is when. the jobs report that came in today is really bifurcated. >> know three-handed economists, please. >> there's no spring slump. that's good news. the report was stronger than we expected. 165,000 jobs. also february and march were revised upwards, so that's really great news. if you strip out the public sector, which is still slagging behind and...

You know, i think obama believes this is a compromise, but republicans are going to view this as a starting point and they're going to want obama to move even more towards them in this negotiation. so i think the strategy for the white house right now is to emphasize that this is a deal that is very similar to one that was very close to being agreed to when it came to the fiscal cliff. and that republicans should view it as such. >> yeah. let's get with the jobs numbers, elise, because only 88,000 were added last month, which is way below the estimates of 200,000. democrats are going to blame ...

We begin today with the money lead. the bell ringing on wall street ending the week on a sour note after a dismal jobs report dragged the dow to a loss. nearly 500,000 people gave up looking for jobs last month. their exit from the work force had the deceptive effect of dropping the unemployment rate to 7.6%. the economy only added 88,000 jobs in the month of march. not enough to keep up with population growth. our alison kosik is standing by at the new york stock exchange. alison, companies have money. why are companies not hiring? >> you know what this is about, jake? it's about uncertainty ...

The month of march. the smallest gain in nine months. and it's about half of what economists were predicting overall. the jobless rate fell to 7.6% because that's because a half million people gave up looking for work. that's all factored in. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange for me. what is spooking the companies on the hiring front? >> you know what it is, it's about the uncertainty of what's ahead, what's to come. we saw companies rein in their hiring plans because they aren't completely sure how the government spending cuts will impact the economy when they really get going. so t...