 Jeffress has been placed on leave. Business news. Wall Street reacting positively to the June jobs report release yesterday that showed less hiring last month, building a case for the Fed to cut interest rates in September. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.1% last month on Wall Street. NASDAQ market and the S&P 500 index set new all-time highs on Friday. Hurricane Beryl approaching South Texas for a possible landfall on Monday could affect all of us,