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Hey, listeners.
It's Saturday, September 6th.
I'm Francesca Fontana for The Wall Street Journal, and this is What's News in Markets,
our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.
Let's get to it.
I hope you all had a good Labor Day weekend, which, as we know,
shortened this past trading week to four days to kick off the new month.
And stocks started September on a gloomy note on Tuesday,
with the three major indexes all ending lower.
Remember, all three ended August with gains.
Traders were feeling skittish for a few reasons,
a big one being President Trump's campaign to reshape the Federal Reserve.
and uncertainty whether his bid to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook was legitimate.
Thursday was the Senate hearing to confirm Trump's ally Stephen Myron as a Fed governor,
and Friday's week jobs report cemented the case for an interest rate cut at the central bank's policy meeting this month.
All in all, the major indexes ended the week mixed.