Nasdaq, S&P 500 Kick Off November With Gains

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Amazon closes at a record high following an OpenAI deal. Plus: Kimberly-Clark agrees to buy Tylenol maker Kenvue. Katherine Sullivan hosts. Sign up for the 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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0:33.5	Here's your closing bell brief for Monday, November 3rd. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal.
0:39.9	U.S. stocks finished mixed today following a record-setting October.
0:44.4	The Dow Jones Industrial average declined a half a percent, while the NASDAQ added a half a percent.
0:49.9	The S&P 500 rose 0.2%.
0:52.5	U.S. chip stocks rose after Beijing signaled it would ease export
0:56.9	restrictions on crucial auto semiconductors. Bitcoin prices dropped below $107,000, weighing on
1:04.4	crypto-related stocks. Among individual companies, shares of Kenview jumped 12% after the Tylenol maker agreed to be bought by
1:12.3	Kimberly Clark. shares in the Huggies maker slid roughly 15%. Amazon stock climbed 4% closing
1:19.6	at a new record following news of a $38 billion computing power agreement with Open AI. Iron shares
1:26.4	jumped 11.5% after the Bitcoin mining and data center
1:30.2	company struck a $9.7 billion lease agreement for Microsoft to use its Nvidia chips. Invidia
1:36.6	stocks also gained. Compo Secure shares rose about 3% after the credit card manufacturer agreed to
1:43.7	acquire Husky technologies, a molding
1:46.2	equipment provider, for roughly $5 billion, including debt. And Palantir stock gained in
1:52.7	extended trading after the data analytics company reported record revenue in its quarterly
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