Americans Are Looking for Deals. That’s Good News for Walmart.

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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P.M. Edition for Nov. 20. Walmart reported strong quarterly earnings and raised its outlook for the year as shoppers across income levels look for value. Plus, a delayed jobs report showed that the U.S. labor market added more jobs than expected in September, but that and strong earnings from Nvidia didn’t assuage jittery investors. WSJ markets reporter Hannah Erin Lang discusses what’s driving today’s market reversal. And a preliminary report into the deadly UPS cargo plane crash earlier this month found signs of metal fatigue and stress in a piece that connected the plane’s left engine to the wing. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.6	Walmart reports strong earnings as Americans of all income levels are on the hunt for deals.
0:39.3	Plus, what's driving another wild day on Wall Street as stocks rise and then fall.
0:43.8	When we see a reversal in really crowded trades like this, the momentum can kind of just build and build on itself.
0:50.9	So the slide accelerates, and I think there's an element of that going on today, too.
0:55.4	And investigators looking into the recent UPS plane crash find signs of fatigue and stress on the
1:01.1	cargo jet. It's Thursday, November 20th. I'm Alex O'Sillette for the Wall Street Journal.
1:06.1	This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
1:16.4	A long-awaited report from the Labor Department out today show that U.S. job growth beat expectations in September, rising by 119,000 jobs for the month.
1:26.0	That's the strongest gain since April and well above
1:28.3	economists expectations. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate, which is based on a separate survey,
1:33.4	rose slightly to 4.4%. But this September report, of course, is coming out nearly seven weeks
1:39.1	late due to the government shutdown. WSJ economics correspondent Harriet Torrey joins us now to discuss how the report
1:45.8	might influence the Federal Reserve. Harriet, this job's growth seems to have been positive.
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