. ♪ 'cuz the harder you run, the harder you fall ♪ ashley: little bit of genesis for you, or phil collinsny back in the if day lacking at -- looking at a wet sixth avenue on this groundhog day. all right, let's get right to the jobs report. 35 if 3,000 the jobs -- 353,000 jobs added in january with. that took everyone by surprise. good morning, lauren simonetti. take us through it. lauren: yeah. that was the most in a year, ashley, good morning. and december was revised higher to 330,000 jobs created. november revised higher to 182,000. right side of the screen, unemployment rate falls 3.7% in january, wages up averaging $34.55 an hour. they're up 4.5% in the past year. finish inflation is running at 3.4%. where are the jobs? if you look at health care and social assistance, the most there, more than 100,000. retail, 45,000. government, 36. manufacturing added jobs but mining and logging fell, declined by 6,000, ashley. ashley: remarkable report though. all right, next one for you, lauren. amazon, apple, meta, all reporting after the bell. what did they do? lauren: all double beats, right

>>> the nikkikkei at an all-tim for the first time in 34 years phil collins ruled the airwaves. a lot has changed since then, but one top investor says these stocks are actually cheaper now. >>> later on, restaurant stocks rally. a gold miner loses its shine, and moderna mets up, best day in a year on the desk tonight, bonawyn eison, dan nathan, and guy a adami. >> c.q., you drew the short straw yet again, but we're thrilled to you have here. >> we're going to start with the massive post earnings rally. nvidia shares surging more than 16% to a new record close. stock adds more than $720 billion in market cap, just today. that's bigger than the size of one whole b of a and the single biggest gain for any single company. it's added a trillion to its value since just last june is the gains today, ripple effects across tech, the semis, supermicro arm, all notching outsized gains. and the megmegacaps seeing strength did nvidia justify the rally we've seen let's bring in deepwater asset management's gene munster, get some thoughts. gene, a lot of four-digit targets around today you go

years, a month and 16 days ago was the last time for the number one song, i think on the chart was phil collins. that's not important. nikkei was trading about 38,000. those levels are in focus. we are within 3.5% of all-time highs. a good week away from ticking up. it goes to show really what happens when you wait 34 years. a lot of things can take place. haslinda: elections in indonesia, we had elections in pakistan working closer to get a new government. let's get more with bloomberg's pakistan bureau chief, take us through the latest. >> the latest is yesterday there was a breakthrough to recall in the elections, nobody was able to get a simple majority. in out of the main parties, two of them had to join hands to make a coalition. so families of the political party have joined hands to nominate but it will be a weak government because the party has said that we will support the prime minister candidate for them, but we won't join the government. that means that it will be a weak and unstable administration and they will support them of on a day-to-day basis. that also means negotiations be

caitlin collins and poppy harlow, and after lemon was fire thed and collins moved to prime time, it was left to pop poppy harlow and phils the last of which hosted by the opinionated liberal jim acosta who is openly hostile to president trump. that's quite a break from a chummy show without an ideological edge. >>> instagram will stop promoting political copy cat along with threads and later on sister company facebook. if you decide to follow accounts that post political content, you don't want -- we don't want to get between you and their posts, but we also don't want to proactively recommend political content from accounts you don't follow. >>> hbo's bill maher sat down for a lengthy interview with khan kanye west -- kanye with a long series of anti-semitic comments. we won't get to see that interview with ye. maher is spiking it. this is from tmz investigates streaming on hulu. >> i thought it was going to be a learning moment. i mean, we were here for two hours. we, by the way, we had an amazing, fun time. he's a very charming anti semite appointment. howard: and with that decision, maher or is taking a stand agains

collins for a place in the quarterfinals. naomi 0saka's also through to the last 16. manchester city have one 3—1 thanks to the third goal from philg conditions too, along with a brisk south—westerly wind. but the colder air hung on for much of scotland, also to the far north of northern ireland. some hazy sunshine on and off. but even here, it will be turning milder and more unsettled now as we head through the rest of the week, as that warm front continues to drag the mild air in from the south—west, displacing the colder air to the far north of scotland, where even here, it'll disappear by the time we get to the end of the day tomorrow. but overnight tonight, still some showery outbreaks of rain on and off for much of the night across england and wales, more cloud being thrown across northern ireland. eventually, a wet start to the day here tomorrow. cloud, too, into the borders of scotland. but for many across scotland, clear skies, temperatures set to drop perhaps as low as —5 or —6 celsius in those sheltered glens. compare those temperatures to the double figures further south, where it's a very mild start to the day indeed.