DC politicians want to enact harmful credit card mandates that could take away your cash back and rewards points.

Perks that stretch your budget and make life a little easier.

Losing these benefits means less money for your family's everyday essentials like gas and groceries.

The perks you rely on could disappear, leaving you with higher costs and fewer

options. Tell Congress to guard your card and oppose the Durban Marshall Credit Card mandates.

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Here's your closing bell brief for Wednesday, November 19th. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. stocks broadly gained today. The NASDAQ led the major indexes, rising 0.6%. The S&P 500 was up 0.4%.

And the Dow rose by 1 tenth of a percent, with both indexes ending four consecutive days of losses.

Shares of big technology companies tied to the artificial intelligence boom saw gains,

including Google Parent Company Alphabet, which rose 3% to a record high.

Among other individual companies,

NVIDIA shares jumped almost 4% after the close following its earnings

report, which gave a look into demand for chips driving the artificial intelligence boom and topped

analysts estimates. At close, the stock had already climbed nearly 3%. Constellation energy stock gained

nearly 5% after the energy company announced it would receive a $1 billion

federal loan to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Sem Rush shares surged by almost

three quarters after software maker Adobe struck a $1.9 billion deal to buy the platform.

MP material stock jumped almost 9% after the company announced a partnership with the

U.S. government and Saudi Arabia's flagship mining company to develop a rare earth refinery.

And lazy boy shares gained 20% after the furniture seller posted better than expected quarterly earnings and raised

its dividend. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode by creating

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