Stocks Sink After Weak Jobs Report, the Trillion Dollar Man, and the Return of Rapid Fire 9/5/25

Listen to the day's top stories, the must reads & a whole lot more for today's modern investor.

Steve Liesman and Rick Santelli read the jobs and inflation data tea leaves ahead of next week’s Fed decision. The executive order that could have a huge impact on US drugmakers. Plus, is $160 lipstick the key to jumpstarting the luxury trade? 

Analysts left ‘kind of in shock’ after Oracle reports eye-popping cloud demand numbers, sending the stock soaring and making Larry Ellison the world’s richest man. Buy now, pay later service Klarna starts trading after delaying its IPO.  Plus, Novo Nordisk announces big job cuts. 

Listen to the day's top stories, the must reads & a whole lot more for today's modern investor.

Listen to the day's top stories, the must reads & a whole lot more for today's modern investor.

Stocks hit fresh highs before turning lower after August’s jobs numbers disappoint. Tesla proposes a new pay package for Elon Musk. Plus, three stocks in less than three minutes…Rapid Fire is back.       

Listen to the day's top stories, the must reads & a whole lot more for today's modern investor.

Listen to the day's top stories, the must reads & a whole lot more for today's modern investor.

A court hearing ended without a judge ruling on Lisa Cook’s request to temporarily bar Pres. Trump from firing her. We’ll look at the next steps in her legal battle. Plus, retail earnings season rolls on, but a lot of companies are warning about the tariff impact ahead of the holiday season. And AI is climbing the corporate ladder, no longer just coming for entry-level jobs.

Nvidia’s data center demand disappointed for the second quarter in a row, but Truist is looking at the long-term. Robert Primus, a member of the regulator examining the mega- merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, and one of the latest officials the White House has tried to fire, joins with his plans to fight back. Plus, will the Trump administration’s closure of a key shipping loophole mean the end of super-cheap goods from China?