Stocks Edge Higher Amid Chip-Stock Frenzy
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
4.1 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Your team spend more time searching for information than using it. |
| 0:04.1 | Amazon Quick changes that. |
| 0:06.1 | One intelligent assistant that connects all your company's data and turns answers into action instantly. |
| 0:12.5 | AWS.com slash quick. |
| 0:19.1 | Here's your closing bell briefing for Monday, May 11th. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Alexis Green for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:23.7 | U.S. stocks eat out small gains today as enthusiasm for artificial intelligence continued |
| 0:29.0 | to drive the market. |
| 0:29.9 | The S&P 500 and Dow climbed about 0.2% while the NASDAQ climbed 0.1%. |
| 0:36.0 | Oil prices, meanwhile, rose 2.8% as diplomacy efforts between the |
| 0:40.0 | U.S. and Iran stalled, leaving no clear path to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Among individual |
| 0:44.9 | companies, Intel stock climbed nearly 4% as the frenzy for AI chips continued. Micron Technology |
| 0:51.2 | stocks also soared by 6.5%. Meanwhile, FC shares rose more than 7% after reporting results that were better than analysts expected. |
| 1:00.0 | The company performed well despite not broadcasting the Super Bowl this year. |
| 1:04.0 | Shares of the biomedical company Moderna, which has been researching vaccines to protect against |
| 1:08.0 | hantavirusesavirus fell by nearly 3%. |
| 1:10.9 | Mid-cap financial investment shares slipped 5% after a report that Apollo Global Management |
| 1:16.1 | may sell the private business. |
| 1:17.6 | Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode by creating summaries |
| 1:21.9 | that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor. |
| 1:26.1 | We'll have a lot more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast. |
| 1:30.1 | You can add it to your playlist on your smart speaker or listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. |
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