Stocks Drop as Tech Selloff Continues
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The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 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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