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WSJ Minute Briefing

September Retail Sales and Wholesale Prices Rose in Delayed Government Reports

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Plus: French authorities have detained a person who they suspect to be the last thief involved in the Louvre heist. And a new study has linked untreated sleep apnea with increased risk of later developing Parkinson’s disease. Alex Ossola 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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Here's your midday brief for Tuesday, November 25th.

0:36.6

I'm Alex O'Sullala for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.6

The U.S. government is releasing a flurry of data from September as it works through the backlog of economic reports put on ice during the shutdown.

0:47.7

In today's batch are retail spending, which rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% from the month before, slightly less than economists had expected.

0:56.0

And in a separate report on prices, higher food, and energy costs lifted wholesale prices by 0.3%

1:02.2

in line with economist expectations. French authorities have detained four more people in connection

1:07.8

to the heist at the Louvre, including a man suspected of being the only thief who remained at large.

1:13.2

Investigators believe they have now tracked down the entire crew.

1:16.4

Three other people have already been charged with criminal conspiracy and organized theft.

1:21.2

There has been no word on whether investigators are any closer to tracking down the stolen jewels themselves.

1:27.0

And a new study found people with

1:28.9

obstructive sleep apnea that was untreated could have a greater risk of developing Parkinson's

1:33.7

disease. Researchers examined the medical records of more than 11 million military veterans

1:38.4

and found that participants with the sleep disorder were nearly twice as likely to have developed

1:43.0

Parkinson's years later, compared with those who did not have the disorder. nearly twice as likely to have developed Parkinson's years later,

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