Francesca Fontana
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2,691 appearances
52 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2017
last heard Feb 2025
Francesca Fontana’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hey, listeners.
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It's Saturday, September 7th.
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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.
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Let's get to it.
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Hope you all had a great Labor Day weekend.
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The holiday, as you know, meant that our first September week of trading was a short one.
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Markets closed Monday.
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On Tuesday, the gloom was back, with major indexes notching their worst day in nearly a month.
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thanks to weak manufacturing data that rekindled these ongoing concerns about the health of the economy.
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Then on Wednesday, we heard from the Labor Department, which said U.S.
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job openings in July fell more than expected.
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So investors were pretty on edge ahead of Friday's monthly jobs report, which stood to influence how big the Fed's expected interest rate cut will be later this month.
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That report showed that U.S.
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job growth rebounded in August.
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That was an uptick from July data that, as we saw last month, sparked recession fears and rattled markets around the world.
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This week's mixed labor data didn't give traders the clarity that they were hoping for.
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And, as you might expect, the gloom only got worse for stocks on Friday.
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All in all, the three major indexes ended the week lower.
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The Nasdaq lost nearly 6 percent, the S&P 500 fell about 4 percent, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped about 3 percent.
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Economy worries weren't the only thing that had the market down this week.
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