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WSJ Minute Briefing

Stocks Drop as Tech Selloff Continues

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1670 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Traders are scrutinizing the AI boom. Plus: Berkshire Hathaway takes a big stake in Google. 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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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:13.0

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0:19.0

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0:22.2

Find out more at arm.com forward slash discover.

0:29.7

Here's your closing bell brief for Monday, November 17th.

0:35.8

I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal. U.S. stock indexes

0:39.7

veered into the red today as an intensifying sell-off in bank and technology shares dragged the

0:45.1

market lower. The Dow led the decline, falling 557 points or 1.2%. The S&P 500 fell 0.9%, and the NASDAQ fell 0.8%. Wall Street scrutiny of the

0:57.9

artificial intelligence boom pressured the sector, causing shares of NVIDIA, meta-platforms, and

1:03.3

Amazon to retreat. Meanwhile, Federal Reserve officials offered conflicting views on interest rates,

1:09.2

with one governor advocating for cuts while the vice chair urged the central bank to proceed slowly.

1:14.6

Among individual companies, Alphabet shares gained 3% after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a new $4 billion stake in the Google Parent Company.

1:24.6

Conversely, the conglomerate reduced its holding in Apple, sending shares

1:28.6

of the iPhone maker down almost 2%. Dell Technologies and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise fell 8% and 7%

1:36.0

respectively, after Morgan Stanley downgraded both stocks to underweight from overweight.

1:41.8

Jazz Pharmaceuticals and ZymeWorks surged 21% and 29% respectively after releasing positive results

1:49.4

from a late stage cancer treatment trial.

1:52.3

And EW Scripts shares jumped 40% on news that Sinclair had built a roughly 8% stake and

1:59.2

is vying to acquire the broadcaster.

2:01.8

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

2:05.9

summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.

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