. >>> this is "nightly business report" with tyler mathison and susy gering. >> learn more at the street.com/nvr. >>> improving picture, american businesses are hiring and fed policymakers are optimistic about growth. >>> so if the economy is picking up why are stocks falling down this year? >>> microsoft shares drop michael mulally says he's staying put. >>> going once, going twice. the first foreclosure auction of the year is luring big money investors. but what happens when they open the front door for the first time after buying the property sight unseen? we have all that and more tonight on" nightly business report" for this wednesday, january 8th. >>> good evening and welcome. temperatures may be warming if only by a little, and the job market too seems to be heating up. just two days ahead of a labor department's december jobs report, the payroll firm adp said a far better than expected 238,000 private sector jobs were added in the month of december, the most in 13 months. nearly 11 million americans, though, remain out of work. but the hopeful moves in the labor market were not lost