but a spring in vonnie quinn, this is the fourth time that -- let us bring in vonnie quinn, this is the fourth time that antony blinken has returned since the attack. he said that things will be -- these will be difficult conversations. what is he hoping to achieve? >> it is difficult to know, what he would love to have happen is it would be, and he would bring words of calm to all of these countries. it is his fourth extended port and he has talked to qatar, this is followed by israel, the west bank, and egypt and he had already been to jordan, turkey, and greece. desperately trying to form allied ships in the region and get everybody on the same page. in a news conference he issued some stark warnings and he said this is a moment of profound tension in the region, a conflict that could easily metastasize, causing even more insecurity and even more suffering. there is many sides in this conflict and not is on the same page. practically several pages, actually. the prime minister gave a separate news conference on the same day in which he calls for a broader cease-fire that would end th

let's bring in vonnie quinn. we had some indication with all the data out today. what are analysts thinking we are going to get in terms of the payrolls numbers? vonnie: you can update your estimates. i was having a look across the estimates. if you look at j.p. morgan, looking for a 150,000. pantheon looking for 125,000. the median estimate for growth of 175,000 jobs in december. that is relatively healthy. very healthy i would suggest in terms of the unemployment rate. economists are looking in the median for that to tick up a notch from 3.7% to 3.8% should if you look at all of the data, that points to a still very healthy job market. i look across the commentary to see what some of the economists are saying. goldman pointing out the mild winter we have had in the united states may be beneficial to the monthly data. snowfall was be minimal in the major cities of that would be go that team pointing out we will be getting striking workers returning to the workforce in december but that will only add to 8000 casino workers. in the previous month that was 38,000. we

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for more let's bring in bloomberg's vonnie quinn. this is i think his fourth major trip since october 7 when the attack happened. what is he hoping to achieve? it's a pretty protracted difficult situation. vonnie: vonnie: bottom line, preventing outright war, that is initiative taken here, haidi. broader initiatives would include coleman tensions in the region and trying to find out what may be a solution post the war for gaza. we know nobody's on the same page on that at the moment. but this is a very widespread tour, he landed in doha on saturday. before that he had spoken to the jordanian king. also he had been to turkey and greece. after doha, he was headed to the u.a.e., followed by stops in saudi arabia, israel, the west bank and egypt, trying to talk to parties around the region. we know qatar has been helpful with the hostage situation, helped broker the release of more than 100 israeli hostages. qatar, though, given in this conference, there prime minister colin firth a broader cease-fire that would end the violence. that is

let us get more with vonnie quinn. what is the latest in what has been the key takeaways so far?the israelis have been clear that they would like to find a diplomatic solution but fencers are saying the time is running out for israel and hezbollah to find a diplomatic solution. this is coming on the heels of the latest attack which was by israel on hezbollah targets. a commander in the latino group died and was struck by an airstrike in an suv according to the associated press. the most senior has blocked militant killed since the attack by hamas and it has not gone down in lebanon. it is not clear that lebanon will respond, but this has been the pattern so far. one seida strikes and the other side strikes something else and it continues on like that. the israeli prime minister was in the north of israel today and he was saying we prefer that this be done without a wide-ranging campaign. he is referring to returning the displaced families to the north of israel in a secure, environment. he said that israel will not stop without this being safe for those families. that will not st

expect rates to go from here and what clues we got for the fomc minutes, let's bring in bloomberg's vonnie quinnith the latest on what was that by fed officials. what was your key takeaway? vonnie: no huge surprises. you outlined the major points. this was the power pivot that markets cheered that the federal done and indeed, the minutes seem to indicate that the fed is at or near the week of the rate michael -- the peak of the rate michael. forward guidance was indicate that the fed could increase, but it doesn't look like participants are expecting an upside surprise. the data includes a data such as like that i and prices paid which showed a decline of more than expected. job applications were down 11% in the last week of the year. it appears that fed policy is working. don't forget, for the first time in more than three years, the fed's preferred underlying inflation gauge rose in november. it was below the 2% that the fed was looking for, for the first time in more than three years. so it has broad optimism according to these minutes, clear progress was one phrase, for example, the particip