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Speaker 1: News when you want it With Bloomberg News Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: Doug Prisner. Israel is bracing for a labor strike while

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Speaker 1: protesters are taking to the streets as pressure grows for

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Speaker 1: a ceasefire. Here's Bloomberg zaid Coaleggi.

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Speaker 2: Tens of thousands of grieving and angry Israeli surged into

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Speaker 2: the street Sunday night after six more hostages were found

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Speaker 2: dead in Gaza. They were chanting now now as they

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Speaker 2: demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin netanyahuo reach a ceasefire with

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Speaker 2: Hamas to bring the remaining captives home. Israel's largest trade

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Speaker 2: union further pressured at the government by calling a general

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Speaker 2: strike for Monday. It aims to shut down or disrupt

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Speaker 2: major sectors of the economy, including banking, healthcare, and the

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Speaker 2: country's main airport. At Kaleggi Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio, Kamala Harris is sustaining her momentum over Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: In the latest Bloomberg News Morning Consult Swing state poll,

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Speaker 1: the Democrat leads by just one point among likely voters,

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Speaker 1: a statistical tie across seven battleground states. But as we

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Speaker 1: hear from Bloomberg, Maye Sheh, the Vice President, has put

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Speaker 1: the Sun Belt in play.

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Speaker 3: You look at Georgia, if you look at Nevada, she's

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Speaker 3: doing way better there than Joe Biden had just even

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Speaker 3: a month before. And also in North Carolina will be

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Speaker 3: really interesting to watch. That hasn't gone for a Democrat

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Speaker 3: in since Obama in two thousand and eight, but it

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Speaker 3: looks like that could be possibly winnable for her, which

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Speaker 3: would be a huge get for Democrats.

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Speaker 1: That's Bloomberg Government's Mave she He. The race is still

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Speaker 1: an even split in one Sun Belt state, though, and

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Speaker 1: that is Arizona. The presidential election is now in sharp focus. However,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of other questions on the ballot two.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Amy Morris has more from Washington.

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Speaker 4: Ballot measures in forty one states will give voters a

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Speaker 4: say on issues regarding life, health, crime, and taxes. More

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Speaker 4: than one hundred and forty measures are going before voters

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Speaker 4: in the general election, including constitutional amendments in at least

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Speaker 4: nine states to enshrine abortion rights, numerous proposals to change

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Speaker 4: voting procedures. Several states of questions on raising their minimum wage,

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Speaker 4: cutting property taxes, legalizing marijuana. Other measures seek to toughen

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Speaker 4: state enforcement of immigration and crime laws. Amy Mores, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: It is a holiday shortened week in the state's no

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Speaker 1: shortage of economic data, though this includes the August jobs report.

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Speaker 1: We have a preview from Bloomberg's Karen Moscow.

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Speaker 5: US markets are closed Monday and observance of the Labor

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Speaker 5: Day holiday. Tuesday, we'll get a look at construction spending

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Speaker 5: and ISM manufacturing. Reports on US job openings and factory

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Speaker 5: orders are out on Wednesday, along with the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 5: Beige Book of Regional Economic Activity. Thursday it's the ADP

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Speaker 5: Employment Report and ISM services. And Friday we get the

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Speaker 5: August payrolls number, which will be the final reading before

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Speaker 5: the Federal Reserve September policy meeting. Karen Moscow, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: And a holiday weekend shocker from one of All Street's

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Speaker 1: big banks. Here's Bloomberg's Tom Busby.

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Speaker 6: Golden Sachs planning to slash more than thirteen hundred employees

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Speaker 6: opens a four percent of its global workforce as part

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Speaker 6: of an annual review prosit SA, saying to getting rid

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Speaker 6: of the lowest performers. That's according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Speaker 6: The layoffs will likely impact several of the Bank's divisions,

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Speaker 6: some impacted more than others. Goldman typically aims to trim

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Speaker 6: between two and seven percent of its staff every year

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Speaker 6: based on various performance metrics. Tom Busby, Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: It was only four years ago that the uproar over

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Speaker 1: George Floyd's murder led to a wave of corporate commitments

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Speaker 1: to promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Well now the DEEI

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Speaker 1: conversation has shifted as we hear from Bloomberg's Nathan Hager.

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Speaker 7: Ford Motor Company, Harley Davidson Lowe's Deer End Company. Those

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Speaker 7: are just a few of the firms that have pulled

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Speaker 7: back from or reversed their diversity pledges. The catalyst maybe

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Speaker 7: feared that they not be the next Anheuser Busch. Bud

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Speaker 7: Light lost its title as America's best selling beer after

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Speaker 7: including a transgender influencer in its marketing, and conservative activist

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Speaker 7: Robbie Starbucks been active on social media, threatening to turn

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Speaker 7: his half million followers against companies that don't ditch. Nathan Hager,

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Speaker 7: Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: And Scottie Scheffler wins the tour championship at Georgia by

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Speaker 1: four strokes. More impressively, he shot thirty under par for

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Speaker 1: the tournament, and that is news when you wanted with

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg news. Now I'm Doug Prisoner and this is Bloomberg