ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. Nice to see you. I'm Ashleigh Banfield. Welcome to the show. We'd like to start with the December jobs report or at least the jobs report. The U.S. economy ended the year by adding 155,000 jobs while unemployment held steady at 7.8 percent. And for those of you who are keeping track at home, the U.S. economy added 1.84 million jobs for 2012. So, if we take a look at the big board, well, that's maybe not what we all expected to see, we're in the red, but only by a wee bit, Christine Romans is here with me and she's far better at analyzing whether we should have an up or down arrows today. Should we have had enough arrows.</s>CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: That should be exactly what you see right there, because I'm going to tell you, this is a job market that is treading water and it basically exactly in December looked just like November. The end of the year you saw just enough job creation, Ashleigh, to absorb new workers into the workforce but not to meaningfully lower the unemployment rate. So you've got -- I would say a job market that's treading water here overall. That's how I would describe it.
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