. >>> let's bring in brad mcmillan now. he is going to talk more about today's jobs report, the economy, the stock market. we a lot to talk about here brad. you are chief investment officer at commonwealth fin network. thank you for joining us tonight. >> glad to be here. >> first of all, the jobs. herky-jerky kind of -- maybe we attribute it to the winter weather? what do you see going on right now? >> i think this is really noise. on the one hand, it was the lowest number in the past six months. but on the other hand in february we had the strongest number in the past two and a half years. >> right. >> just because things around aa go february they are not as march. on average we are actually doing better than we were in 2017 and i'm not worried about that. >> the feds said after their m lastting they could see the unemployment rate dropping maybe to 8% by the end of the year. do you see that as well. do.i right now you are seeing employers desperate for workers. they are going out, they are they need to get people just to

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. >> let's talk about that brad mcmillan joins us, chief investment officer and cnbc contributor davideberg, managing director at cowan what's the buzz? how do you weigh those big, looming geopolitical risks, not to mention a potential trade war with what we're about to see starting with the banks and earnings tomorrow? >> yeah, i mean, i think we've talked about it on the show a few times. it's about earnings coming in now. you saw what happened at 1:10. they were just talking about and discussing the news that came out on some service, essentially, saying that we were about to, you know, launch missiles on eight targets in syria. the tape reading out shows that. we saw a blip in the s&p but quick to rebound afterwards. it shows you there's a lot of response on this tape based on algorithmic trading. so the near-term moves back and forth don't really pay attention to it's really the set-ups going into certain events and the event right now is earnings and i think that are we going get headlines from the standpoint of president tweets, they're going to rattle the narcotmarket no questi