upswing. i just want to end on the price of oil, at the moment. the fact that in october it was $75 a barrel, right now, we are seeing it higher today. $46.22. so much lower, but definitely an upswing. it may not be so good for gas drivers, the average is $2.31 per gallon, and may be climbing up in the near future. but still, nowhere near those highs of october. trish: i like today. i will take a few more of todays. let s go to our market watchers. good to see all. alan, there seems to be a real divide, here between what is happening economically, and what is happening but between the markets. to go different things. you have all of the volatility in the market, and yet the economy looks pretty good, right? definitely. it has been a sentiment shift. the psychology has changed to very negative. the beginning of possibly, a bottom. we were negative, early in the
health care. this was stable, construction, manufacturing, retail. retail has been losing a lot of jobs so it s good to see it was a little bit same. important number here, 62.9, workforce participation rate. this should be in the high 60s. some people turned away. they decided they re not getting a job. that s why that number is low. $26.19, average hourly earnings, up 2.5% compared to a year ago. that s good. that shows we re soaking up some of the extra labor. here s a problem, maybe not for all of you, but $46.22 for a barrel of oil. it was under $44 overnight. it s a problem because when it s under sort of $ 55, we don t produce as much oil in the united states. i do want to give you a point of reference, though, going back to 2012, take a look at the price of oil. it dropped down in 2015, much lower about a year ago. we re hanging around this level. oil here, needs to be about here for american oil jobs to be present. i want to make sense of all of this with a guy who knows more