now alexandra lebenthal is adding author to her list of achievements. i'll tell you about her new novel. the "wall street journal report" begins right now. >> announcer: this is america's number one financial news program, the "wall street journal report." now maria bartiromo. >> now here's sue herera with some of the stories in the headlines this week. sue. >> here's a look at what's making news as we head into a new week on wall street. it is the all-important piece of information about the economy that the markets have been waiting for, the jobs report for the among of august and it was better than analysts expected. the unemployment rate rose slightly to 9.6% and overall the economy lost 54,000 jobs which includes 121,000 government jobs, many of them census workers but the private sector created 67,000 new jobs, more than anticipated. that better than expected report was enough to boost the markets in early trading on friday. stocks ended a miserable august on tuesday with their worst performance during that month since 2001. the bulls took charge,