Stocks Edge Higher While Dollar Weakens
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:39.9 | U.S. stocks edged higher today. The S&P 500 and the Dow rose 0.2%. The NASDAQ gained 0.3%. The dollar |
| 0:48.7 | weakened against other major currencies, while gold and silver futures both jumped to new records. |
| 0:55.0 | Investors weighed comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who said President Trump |
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| 1:05.0 | revived concerns over central bank independence. Among individual companies, synchrony financial shares slid 8%. The stock fell after |
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