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  Tesla's Stock Drops 6% as Cybercab Update 'Underwhelms' Wall Street The numbers tell a story. Tesla shares slid 6% on Friday. That's about $100 billion in market cap gone in a single session. The stock closed at roughly $354, down from $376 the day before. What happened? The company held a Cybercab event Thursday in Austin. Invite only. No livestream. No Elon Musk. The company said users could now catch a driverless trip in a Cybercab within a geofenced area around Austin. That was basically it. Wall Street wasn't impressed. Wells Fargo analyst Colin Langan put it bluntly. The Cybercab launch "underwhelms," he wrote. The event offered few surprises and lacked specifics on fleet size or the rollout timeline. The stock dropped more than 6%. Its worst day since July 23, when it plunged 15%. Friday's decline erased Thursday's 5.4% pre-event rally. Buy the rumor, sell the news. The pattern holds. What Actually Happened at the Cybercab Event Tesla firs...

  American Workers Have Slammed the Brakes on Switching Jobs The résumé sits unfinished in a Google Doc. The LinkedIn tab stays open, untouched. For millions of American workers, the search for something better has ground to a halt. Not because the jobs aren't there. They've done the math. The door, it turns out, is barely open. Three years ago, you couldn't keep people in their seats. The Great Resignation was in full swing. Workers quit in droves, 4.5 million a month at the peak. They chased higher pay, better flexibility, a life that didn't make them miserable. And for a while, it worked. Job switchers were pulling down nearly 18% wage growth while the loyal saps who stayed put settled for 7%. That was then. Today, the numbers tell a different story. The quits rate sits at 2.0%, near its lowest level in a decade. Workers across every sector are switching jobs about as infrequently as they were in the years when the job market was still clawing its way back from the 2...

  The U.S. Job Market: Still Standing, For Now You turn on the news and they tell you the economy is fine. Jobs are up. Unemployment is low. The machine keeps chugging along. Then you talk to your neighbor who just got laid off from a tech company. Your cousin with the business degree who's been job hunting for six months. The barista with a master's who can't afford rent. Both things are true. That's the hell of it. The U.S. job market in 2026 is a paradox wrapped in a spreadsheet. The headline numbers scream resilience. The fine print whispers trouble. And somewhere in between, millions of Americans are trying to figure out if they're winning or losing, and whether anyone even knows the difference anymore. Let's look at the mess. The Numbers Don't Lie On September 4, 2026, the Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped its August jobs report. Employers added 162,000 jobs. Economists had predicted 53,000. They were off by a factor of three. The unemployment rate he...

  Are Mortgage Rates Heading Back Above 7%? Here's What Experts Think. The number sits there like a dare. Seven percent. It's not just a number. It's a line in the sand. A psychological barrier that separates "expensive" from "forget it." And right now, mortgage rates are staring that number down like a drunk at last call. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit 6.71% for the week ending September 3, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey. That's the highest since July 2025. A year ago, you could have locked in 6.50%. Not a huge difference on paper. But on a $300,000 mortgage, that 21-basis-point spread costs you about forty bucks a month. Forty bucks that could've bought groceries. Or gas. Or a very nice bottle of whiskey. Some buyers are already seeing 7%. Not the average, the average is still 6.71%, but the quotes they're getting from lenders. Kate Wood, a lending expert at NerdWallet, told CBS News that roughly ...

  Wall Street Ends Lower as Solid Jobs Data Fuels Hawkish Fed Bets The market has a sick sense of humor. You'd think 162,000 new jobs would be something to celebrate. A healthy economy. People working. Wages flowing. The American engine humming along. Instead, Wall Street took one look at the numbers and sold. The Dow dropped 279 points. The S&P 500 lost nearly 30. The Nasdaq bled 78 points. All because the economy added too many jobs. That's the world we live in now. Good news is bad news. Bad news is good news. Up is down. And the Federal Reserve sits in the corner with a cigarette and a hammer, waiting to smash whatever moves. Let's walk through the wreckage. The Numbers That Shook the Street Friday morning, the Labor Department dropped its August employment report. The economy added 162,000 jobs last month. Economists were bracing for 56,000. They missed by a country mile. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%. Labor force participation ticked up. June and July ...

  VW's Surprise Job-Slashing Deal Is a Big Win for Its Bosses The casual observer might look at what happened in Wolfsburg on September 3 and see something orderly. A meeting. A vote. A deal. They'd be wrong. What went down at Volkswagen's supervisory board was a mugging dressed up as a handshake. The kind of thing where one side walks away smiling and the other side walks away with nothing, and somehow they call it a compromise. Twenty-four hours before the vote, nobody thought this would happen. The talks were dead. The unions were furious. The state of Lower Saxony, which owns 20 percent of the company's voting rights, was digging in its heels. Then the board meeting got moved up a day. The vote happened fast. And when the dust settled, 100,000 jobs were gone. Poof. Just like that. It's a story about power. About what happens when the machine decides it doesn't need the people who built it. About the slow, grinding death of a system that was supposed to prote...

  Wall Street Ends Lower as Solid Jobs Data Fuels Hawkish Fed Bets The market did something strange on Friday. The economy added 162,000 jobs in August, nearly three times what everyone expected. Unemployment held steady at 4.1%. By any normal measure, this is good news. People are working. Wages are creeping up. And Wall Street reacted by selling everything. The Dow dropped 279 points. The S&P 500 fell 0.38%. The Nasdaq gave back 0.3%. Welcome to 2026. Where a strong jobs report means stocks go down. Where good news is bad news. Where the Federal Reserve looms over every data point like a hammer waiting to drop. Here's what happened, and why it matters. The Numbers That Shook Wall Street Let's start with the raw data. The Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped its August employment report on Friday morning. Nonfarm payrolls jumped by 162,000. The consensus was 53,000. They missed by over 100,000 jobs. August Jobs Report by the Numbers Total jobs added:  162,000 Unemployment r...