Power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch this september friday. Stocks are on session highs. The dow topping 22,000 for the first time in two weeks. Nasdaq trying for another record the s p 500 having its best week since april. All three major averages on track for a second straight week of gains check out movers wynn resorts trading at levels not seen in two years. The big news today, american jobs creating engine wilting a bit in august. Only added 156,000 jobs last month, below the 180,000 that economists expected. Senior economics reporter Steve Liesman is here to take us inside the numbers it is cooling, coasting, stabilizing . A lot of negative words used in the intro i dont know if i agree. Job growth did slow. Came in below expectations but is a decent report the population is growing at 80,000 thats what we should expect were almost double that number, still enough to take some workers off. Ism manufacturing, one of the highest numbers in a while more about that in
Tuesday. If the phone is not already ringing by now were awaiting the final number for august auto sales, the automakers and dealerships are dealing, of course, with the fallout from Hurricane Harvey, and well bring those numbers to you as soon as we get them phil lebeau will be stepping in with that. Also some new areas in the stormridden areas Chemical Plant explosions and also smoke inhalation. Well talk to two chemical engineers about the Companies Running these plants, if they are doing enough coming up, but we start with White House National Economic Council director gary cohn joining us on squawk on the street earlier today. We discussed why he doesnt think the white house tax reform plan will ultimately mean tax cuts for the wealthy we can simplify and fet rid of a lot of deductions those deductions actually affect the high bracket players so when you actually simplify the tax returns, youre actually affecting the high taxpayers the most as you simplify the tax system, you actu