Katherine Sullivan

USA 250 America's Road to a DIY Retirement is produced by me, Katherine Sullivan, with supervising producer Jana Herron.

Additional support from Flana Patterson and Chris Zinsley.

Sound design and mixing by Michael LaValle.

Fact-checking by Aparna Nathan.

Special thanks to Alicia Minnell and Anna Maria Andriotis.

Michael LaValle wrote our theme music.

Aisha Al-Muslim is our development producer.

Chris Zinsley is our deputy editor.

And Falana Patterson is The Wall Street Journal's head of news audio.

I'm Katherine Sullivan, and we'll be back in a few weeks with another installment of our USA 250 podcast.

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Here's your Closing Bell Brief for Friday, March 6th.

I'm Katherine Sullivan for The Wall Street Journal.

U.S.

stocks fell today after a weak jobs report showed an unexpected drop in jobs for February.

The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%.

The Nasdaq led the declines, dropping 1.6%.

The S&P 500 was down 1.3%, and the Dow was down 1%.

Meanwhile, crude oil prices surged above $90 a barrel.