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WSJ Minute Briefing

Eli Lilly Touches $1 Trillion Market Cap

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country faces a difficult choice over the Trump administration’s proposed plan to end the war. And New York Fed President John Williams, a key ally of Jerome Powell, says he sees room for an interest rate cut in the near term. Zoe Kuhlkin 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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0:29.6

Here's your midday brief for Friday, November 21st.

0:33.4

I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

0:35.9

The booming market for popular weight loss drugs

0:38.7

has propelled Eli Lilly to a $1 trillion market cap, making it the 10th company to hit that milestone

0:44.7

and the first pharmaceutical company to do so. Most of the others in the club are tech companies.

0:51.7

Lily's market value is more than twice as big as its closest rival in the

0:55.4

industry, Johnson & Johnson, which is worth about $490 million.

1:00.5

Analysts say Lily is poised to dominate the estimated $72 billion anti-obesity market for years,

1:07.0

with help from a coming weight loss pill and other drugs in its pipeline.

1:16.9

Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky says his country is facing one of the most difficult moments in its history after the Trump administration drafted a plan to end the war with Russia

1:22.1

that gives major concessions to Moscow. In a video address, Zelensky says Ukraine may find itself facing a very

1:29.2

difficult choice, risking the loss of dignity or the loss of U.S. support. The U.S. proposals include

1:35.6

territorial concessions to Russia, a cap on the size of Ukraine's active duty military, and other

1:41.4

provisions that Zelensky has previously rejected. U.S. pressure on Zelensky

1:46.1

comes as he is facing political pressure at home and setbacks on the battlefield as Russian forces

1:51.7

advance in eastern Ukraine. And John Williams, the New York Fed president and a top ally of Federal

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