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Why Trump and Clinton are both getting jobs wrong

Stocks (^DJI, ^GSPC, ^IXIC) are solidly up at the midday mark, with the tech sector (XLY) leading and energy (XLE) in the red. Keith Bliss of Cuttone & Co. joins us live from the New York Stock Exchange.

To discuss the other big stories of the day, Alexis Christoforous is joined by Yahoo Finance editor-in-chief Andy Serwer and Yahoo Finance’s Nicole Sinclair.

Why the customer is king: Bezos, Dimon and Buffett

The fake account scandal that forced out Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is a case study in what happens to companies that put profits ahead of customers. Putting customers first sounds obvious. But too many business leaders get caught up trying to please shareholders and crushing competitors. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made that point at last week’s Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit, and Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett agreed.

Why Trump and Clinton are getting jobs wrong

The presidential election is just two weeks away, and we’ve heard plenty from Donald Trump about bringing manufacturing jobs back to America by killing trade deals. Many economists say that’s a pipe dream. And Hillary Clinton’s plan to create thousands of new infrastructure jobs would cost up to $300 billion raised from tax hikes that seem unlikely to pass Congress. Our own Rick Newman has a story saying there’s a better way to create jobs that Trump and Clinton are totally missing.

Internet outage raises important questions

Friday’s internet outage, which was caused by hackers attacking one of the Net’s major backbones, inconvenienced millions. You might have had spotty access to Twitter, Netflix, SoundCloud and the New York Times, among other sites and services. But what if you lost access to the entire internet for a week or more? It’s not just hackers that pose that threat—natural disasters are also a danger.