The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which consumer goods editor and analyst Austin Smith discusses topics across the investing world.
In today's edition, Austin talks about the one big number that's crushing the Dow Jones Industrials Average right now: 115,000. That's the disappointingly low number of jobs the U.S. economy added in April. In some ways it's really not so bad, but it fell short of the 165,000 estimate many were hoping for. Unfortunately, some feel that it occupies the middle ground between disappointing and not bad enough that it will spur the Fed into more quantitative easing. The unemployment level also fell to 8.1%, but that's a deceptive number because it appears artificially lower as fewer people are actively looking for work than before.
One of the problems with investing in any of these Dow stocks is that the cat is out of the bag for most of them. Most investors recognize they're all great stocks for the long run, and as a result it's hard to get an edge on any of them. That's why you have to look at those stocks still flying under Wall Street's radar. You can start with the stock our chief investment officer has named "The Motley Fool's Top Stock for 2012." You can learn more about this potential multibagger by clicking here to read more.
