Closing Bell: Positioning for a September Rate Cut? 9/5/25
Closing Bell
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to closing bell. I'm Leslie Picker in for Scott Wapner today. This maker break hour starts with the record rally coming to a halt as a weaker than expected jobs report weighs on stocks. But one notable bright spot in the market today, Broadcom shares soaring to an all-time high on blowout earnings. and that's weighing on shares of NVIDIA. |
| 0:22.3 | Top Chips analyst Stacey Razkin joins us straight ahead to break down that action. |
| 0:27.0 | Here's a scorecard with 60 minutes to go in the trading session. |
| 0:31.2 | You can see it's read across the board here. |
| 0:32.9 | The Dow down about half a percent. |
| 0:34.5 | S&P down about half a percent. |
| 0:36.0 | Nasdaq down about two-tenths of |
| 0:38.5 | one percent. Rate sensitive sectors like real estate materials leading the way today while |
| 0:43.7 | we're seeing a notable pullback in energy. It's the worst performing sector right now down |
| 0:49.1 | about 2.2 percent, which leads us to our talk of the tape. Does today's bleak jobs report seal the deal for |
| 0:56.1 | september rate cut and how should you position ahead of it joining me now is bank of america |
| 1:01.5 | sevida submarini and uh seveda you've been looking at how a softening labor market impacts |
| 1:07.5 | corporate margins and i'm assuming they impact margins in different ways. |
| 1:12.8 | How do you kind of connect what you saw from today's report with how investors should be |
| 1:17.8 | positioning for different sectors moving forward? |
| 1:21.8 | Yeah, I mean, I think today's report does not necessarily mean that we are in a downward spiral in terms of economic |
| 1:31.1 | growth. In fact, I think things still look pretty healthy. We've had a deceleration in labor, |
| 1:37.8 | inflation, which is actually positive for corporate margins. I mean, think about it. The U.S. |
| 1:42.0 | is a service economy, and our number one cost is |
| 1:45.4 | labor. So a little bit of a softening in labor prices is actually positive for margins. Meanwhile, |
| 1:52.0 | real wage growth is still positive, and that has been linked with continued healthy spending. |
| 1:58.2 | So I don't know if I would necessarily write everything off at this point. |
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