Economists are expecting employment numbers to gain again in January, after 200,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in December, according to a Bloomberg survey. Analysts on average expected 140,000 jobs to be added to the economy, despite disappointing consumer spending in recent months.

Wednesday saw Chrysler report its first annual profit in seven years. Not since 2005 has the company, the only non-traded auto manufacturer in the Detroit “big 3”, been able to report a profit, and it comes only two years after a federal bailout, a bankruptcy filing and a takeover by Fiat.

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) may be able to commiserate with Charles Dickens ever popular adage, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The company sold a record-breaking 4.2 million iPhone's in its fourth quarter, not to mention the plethora of other “i” products it moved throughout the holiday months.