Here's your closing bell brief for Friday, November 7th. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. stocks finished mixed today. The Dow rose 0.2%, and the S&P 500 gained 0.1%. The NASDAQ, however, retreated

0.2%. The tech-heavy index capped its worst week since April,

weighed down by declines in technology and ship stocks. Investor moods soured amid data showing

darkening consumer sentiment linked to the ongoing government shutdown. Among individual companies,

Expedia shares surged almost 18 percent after the travel company raised its annual sales

outlook. Shares in the payment company a firm climbed 12% as its quarterly results beat expectations.

Tesla stock slid nearly 4% in the first session after shareholders approved Chief Executive Elon Musk's

$1 trillion pay package.

Shares of block slid 7.7% because the quarterly results from the company behind Cash App and Square

missed Wall Street forecasts. And Take 2 interactive software shares dropped nearly 8% after the

video game developer delayed the release of Grand

Thief Auto 6. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode by creating

summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor. We'll have a

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