A mixed day on Wall Street
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🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Small business optimism falls; gold hits a new record; EPA tightens rules for chemical plants.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the marketplace minute. I'm Mitchell Hartman. Stocks traded in a narrow range today. |
| 0:06.7 | The Dow was essentially unchanged. The S&P was up just over a tenth of a percent, |
| 0:12.0 | and the NASDAQ rose about three tenths percent. |
| 0:15.4 | Small business optimism fell in March for the third straight month. |
| 0:19.4 | The National Federation of Independent Business Index has been below its 50-year historic average for 27 months now. |
| 0:27.0 | Gold prices rose again today to hit a new high, edging toward $2,400 a Troy ounce. |
| 0:33.8 | The precious metal is traditionally seen as a safe haven in times of volatility and geopolitical |
| 0:39.3 | risk, but right now it's rallying while stock market performance is strong and investor confidence high. |
| 0:45.6 | And the Environmental Protection Agency is tightening emissions requirements at chemical plants. |
| 0:51.6 | This will affect more than 200 facilities located mainly in Texas, Louisiana, and the Ohio River Valley. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Mitchell Hartman with the Marketplace Minute. |
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