S&P Rises to New High With Earnings in Focus
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Americans love using their credit cards, the most secure and hassle-free way to pay. |
| 0:04.0 | But DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill. |
| 0:08.0 | This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed, |
| 0:13.0 | allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards. |
| 0:18.0 | Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price. |
| 0:22.1 | Tell Congress to guard your card because Americans lose when politicians choose. Learn more at |
| 0:28.1 | guard your card.com. Here's your closing bell brief for Thursday, July 17th. I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.2 | U.S. stock indexes climbed today with the S&P hitting a new record on a busy day for corporate earnings. |
| 0:47.2 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 230 points to close at 44,484. The S&P rose 34 points and the NASDAQ climbed 154 points. |
| 0:59.2 | Investors are digging into a series of blue chip earnings results and awaiting updates from others. |
| 1:04.4 | Meanwhile, the dollar moves higher after President Trump suggests over 150 countries will face tariffs of 10 or 15 percent. |
| 1:12.5 | Among individual companies, TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, delivered a record |
| 1:18.6 | profit last quarter and said it was speeding up its expansion in Arizona. |
| 1:23.3 | Its American depository receipts rallied, closing up almost 3.5%. |
| 1:27.7 | Shares and EV maker Lucid rocketed on the news it will collaborate on a robo-taxy program for Uber's ride-sharing app. |
| 1:36.8 | Lucid shares ended the day up just over 36%, while Uber stock ended down more than a quarter of a percent. |
| 1:44.5 | United Airlines posted better than expected adjusted quarterly earnings, although its annual outlook disappointed. |
| 1:50.9 | Shares jumped around 3%. Aircraft Maker GE Aerospace raised its annual earnings outlook after quarterly sales and profit both beat expectations. However, shares dropped |
| 2:02.5 | over 2%. And insurer Elevance Health slashed its 2025 profit projection, citing industry-wide cost |
| 2:11.5 | increases related to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid. shares fell over 12 percent and other |
| 2:17.2 | health insurer stocks also fell. |
| 2:20.2 | We'll have a lot more coverage of the day's news on the Wall Street Journal's What's News |
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