Dow and S&P Close at New Record Highs

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: a sharp decline in Oracle stock dragged down the Nasdaq composite. And Disney stock rises after announcing new investment and partnership with OpenAI. Danny Lewis hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Being evil queen has never been so fun.
0:03.0	And I am willing to do anything.
0:05.9	We will soon be at war.
0:07.7	You will have to take a side.
0:09.0	War with the Protestants.
0:10.3	What fun.
0:11.5	A war with the Catholics.
0:12.9	None of us are safe.
0:14.4	Feels good to be bad.
0:16.0	The Serpent Queen on Channel 4.
0:18.5	Stream now.
0:24.0	Here's your closing bell brief for Thursday, December 11th.
0:27.5	I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.
0:30.1	US stocks were mixed today with the Dow Industrials rallying 646 points or 1.3% to close
0:36.4	at a record high.
0:43.6	The S&P 500 also hit a new record, advancing 0.2%. However, a sharp decline in Oracle stock weighed heavily on the NASDAQ composite, which fell a quarter of a percent.
0:49.6	The enthusiasm in the broader stock market extended a rally that began yesterday after the Federal
0:54.8	Reserve's interest rate cut and reassuring comments from Chair Jerome Powell.
0:59.3	Elsewhere, delayed data showed an unexpectedly sharp drop in the U.S. trade deficit for September,
1:04.1	while weekly jobless claims picked up after a Thanksgiving lull.
1:08.7	Among individual companies, Oracle shares tumbled 10.8% after the
1:13.2	cloud computing company's latest earnings reignited investor worries about aggressive spending on
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