brent schutte is market strategist with bmo global asset management. and let me congratulate you. while other analysts were wringing their hands in woe over the past couple of months, you were somewhat of an optimist thinking that perhaps by year's end the jobs picture would improve and lo and behold it has. > >i actually watched tthe old tapes to make sure i didn't wear the same tie every month. suprisingly i found september and october where i mentioned a lot of the indicators were pointing to stronger job growth in the near term. we actually have had that. and a lot of those same indicators such as manufacturing are continuing to point to stronger growth in the future. you have seen export orders tick higher, new orders tick higher. in fact, this month manufacturing actually added 27 thousand jobs to the payroll. > >where will we be in a few months? do you see the trend continuing? > >sure. last year i mentioned that i thought 2013 would look a lot like 2012, and it actually did. this year to date you have had 2 million 74 jobs added. last year you had about 2.2 million jobs ad