bill griffith is off tonight.ll on the first d of september trading and we'll have more on that in a minute, but we'll begin tonight with one of the biggest drags on the market today, nike. the shares came under pressure after thar sport a company signed a multi-year deal with formerfl quarterback colin kaepernick and the next face of nike's 30th anniversary ad campaign and what makes this unusual is the conoversy surrounding kaepernick who took a knee during theio nl anthem in 2016 and nike's longstanding business relationshipith the national football league. shares are nike a up in trading today. sarah eisen has more. >> consumer companies usually try hard to stay out of politics and controversy, but nike just firmly planted itsel at the nter of the culture wars. just days before the launch of football season nike included colin kaepernick in the 30th campaign of just do it. his fe appearing on some west coast billboards and across social media. sources say nike doesn't plan to have him on sses some are reportin

bill griffith is off tonight. being called the strongest job market in a generation and today we got the numbers to prove it. in august, the economy added 201,000 jobs and the unemployment rate remained near an 18-year low at 3.9%. some were concerned that the threat of tariffs and counter employersuld hol back from hiring, but that wasn't the case and as elon mui reports, employees got another bit of positive news. >> another solid month of j growth. the big surprise, a jump in wages. average hourly earnings rose 10 cents to $27.16. that's a nearly 3% increasem f a year ago. a pace that the president touted today while in north dakota. >> and what happened this morning? did you hear that? 2.9%. it's, like, the best wage number that we've had in many, many years and that makes me very happy. >> what i think people need to realize is it's not the unemployment rate that brings people back into the labor market, but it's wages. people decide to return into the labor market because they think they have a chance to mak

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i'm tyler matheson in tfoight bill griffith. >> i'm sue herera. welcome, everybody. well, stock sizzled in august avoiding the summer doldrums. this mon we saw the bull market become the longest in history. the s&p 500 and the nasdaq hit records and in wafact, thi the nasdaq's best august in 18 years, but theinal trading day of the month saw a flat finish for the major averages. the dow jones industrial average fell 2 points to 25,964. the nasdaq was up 21 and the s&p 500 ros a fraction. for the month, the nasdaq was the big winn, b now we enter september, a month that's not always friendly to investors. mike santol>>has more. eptember has a well-earned reputation as a tough time for the stock market, but the month doesn't live up to its file every year for under all conditions. 1950, september is the weakest month for stock returns for the slight loss on average and more years down than up, counting just mid-term election years, the history i similarly skewed to the downside. the cause of this turbulence ofu er's end is not entirely clear, but some of the causes are

>>> this is "nightly business rt re with sue herrera and bill griffith. >> trade and tech, two things that have mattered to the market. but a third issue is taking shape that could make it harder foim stocks to hit all highs. >>> florence bringing with it hechby rain dangerous storm surge. >> the amount of money available for home own hs to tap reached a record $6 trillion. those stories and much more tonight on ightly business report" >>> good evening everyone and welcome. investors were reminded once again what mattered most to the rket, trade. stocks took a dip when reportss aced that the trump wanted to move ahead with his threat to impose tariffs on $300 billion worth of chinese imports. that remained the focus, even as they kept an eye on the guilty plea by former campaign chairman, paul manafort.e dow jones industrial average rose eight points. the nasdaq fell three and the sp 500 -- >> we started the d with markets just below historic were it looked like we going to get there until more tariff stories hit the wire. he was telling advisors to proceed with his reat, on top of th

♪ ♪ this is "nightly business report" with sue herera and bill griffith. ♪ >>> tech tumble.htechnolovy nasdaq falls again on pace for its worst week in nearly half a year. the impact for the rest of the mahaet. careless, why hackers could see dollar signs when employees ve into gossip. it's kickoff time. the nfl season gets under way tonight, butas the league tough issues to tackle. the state of the $15siillion buss. all that and more on "nightly business report" september 6 ♪ ♪ >> good evening, everyone, and welcome. bill has ts evening off. make it three straight down days for the nasdaq and it's on pace for its worst week since march and while normally that's not a big deal for the index, consides the nasdaq is loaded with tech companies and techakes up more than a quarter of the s&p. so when the nasdaq umps, the market feels it. tonight, semiconductors were thi cu after several warnings about demand in the chip market and with that, many of the big names plged, as for the rest of wall street, the dow rose 20 points to 25, 995. the nasdaq dropped 72 or nearly 1% and the s

. >>> this is "nightly business report" with sue herrera and bill griffith. >> trade and tech, two things that have mattered to the market. but a third issue is taking shape that could make it harder for stocks to hit all-time highs. >>> florence bringing with it hechby rain dangerous storm surge. >> the amount of money available for home owners to tap has reached a record $6 trillion. those stories and much more tonight on "nightly business report" >>> good evening everyone and welcome. investors were remindednc

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. >> i'm bill griffith this morning's market is rally petered out for a time dow up about 130 points. bob pisani, a whip saw day >> yeah, turkey raising rates to 24%. that calmed some emerging market jitters, helped us in the pre-open we alsoed that t always had cpi a tad below expect ta expectations president saying no pressure to make a deal on china may have brought us all to our highs. but we are still up you. take a look at the major sectors. and as happens often, they do better when you get better news on turkey, china internet a little bit better. semiconductors have bounced back after a terrible day yesterday unfortunately, lower rates hurting the banks. they have been doing really nothing for the last month you consumer staples, kroger down on a small miss on revenue. sun trust down today they are citing high valuation and it is true, sun trust is one of the very, very few winners, but most of the banks aren't doing much outperformance is not there. sun trust has had a great run, but most of the other on banks all underperforming. and the big money center banks, they also hav

bill of some the u.n. envoy to game and martin griffiths has just arrived there for talks with hooty there's. more than two million people have been forced to evacuate as typhoon manga tears through china's wang dong province of these two people have been killed in the storm nearly fifty thousand fishing boats have been called back to port as part of an effort to minimize damage the typhoon is carrying winds of two hundred kilometers per hour and to wrenshaw rain is all over in the philippines the death toll from typhon might get has risen to twenty three and that number is expected to grow dozens of others are missing and feared buried in a landslide sitting thirty minute guy in provence. said korea's president is preparing to play chief negotiator between washington and pyongyang at a summit with the north korean leader and will travel to pyongyang on tuesday to hold talks with kim jong il and it's set to be the third meeting between the two leaders and the first since kim summit with the u.s. president donald trump in june that is also looking to improve economic ties with the north that t

griffiths scored his 100th goal for the club last month, says he's targeting ten titles in a row — celtic have already won the premiership for the last seven seasons. now it's being billed again in las vegas 364 days after their controversial draw at the same venue. for alvarez it's a first chance to perform again after a drugs ban. golovkin, meanwhile, can set a record 21 world—title defences in the middleweight division if he retains his wbc and wba belts. this fight here on saturday night, it will demonstrate once again how big boxing is and how important boxing is to the world in general. we strongly feel that the fighters will deliver hopefully one of the best fights in recent years. boxing needs a knockout. whether it is either one, we need an exciting fight, back and forth. combinations, we need action, every single round. boxing needs it. if we get that saturday night, boxing is back. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. more for you at 6:30pm. this is the man the special counsel are investigating whether there was are investigating whether there was a russian connection with the us presidential election.