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Jobs report reaction; LinkedIn & momentum stocks; Super Bowl ads for millennials

Stocks (^DJI^GSPC^IXIC) are stumbling after the Labor Department reported just 151,000 jobs were created in January, fewer than economists had forecast. The unemployment rate, however, dropped to 4.9%, beating expectations.

Yahoo Finance's Alexis Christophorous talks about that and some of the other big stories of the day with Yahoo Finance's Nicole Sinclair and David Nelson, chief strategist at Belpointe Asset Management.

Momentum stock woes - "FANG" and "BAGEL" indices down in 2016

It's been a bad year for stocks overall, but especially so for some of the high momentum winners of 2015. We're talking about the so-called FANG stocks, which include Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX) and Google/Alphabet (GOOGL) as well as for the lesser-known BAGEL stocks, which include Alibaba (BABA), Amazon, Google, Expedia (EXPE), and LinkedIn (LNKD). While the S&P 500 is down about 7% this year, FANGs are down nearly 14%, and the poor BAGELs are down more than 24%.

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Wall Street is THE issue for Democratic presidential hopefuls

With four days to go to the New Hampshire primary, Wall Street has suddenly become the number one issue in the Democratic primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. In the debate last night, Sanders again criticized Clinton's financial support from financial firms, while Clinton accused him of mudslinging.

Super Bowl ads target millennials

And the big game is Sunday. Of course, the Super Bowl ads are as much of a story as the game itself. And, like just about everything else in business marketing these days, the key word is "millennials." Nicole Sinclair also discusses how a Super Bowl commercial aims to get Americans financially fit.