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Here's your closing bell brief for Wednesday, January 28th. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. stocks finished mostly flat today. The Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady after three

recent cuts. The S&P 500 briefly hit a record of 7,000, but paired back its gains to close down

less than a tenth of a point. The NASDAQ ended

0.2% higher after semiconductor demand boosted sentiment, and the Dow ticked up less than a tenth.

The U.S. dollar gained ground following comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Besant that the

U.S. was not interfering in currency markets. Gold prices also leapt

to new highs above $5,300 a Troy ounce. Among individual companies, Nvidia shares rose over

one and a half percent today. China approved the purchase of the company's H-200 artificial

intelligence chips for the first time.

Kupang shares climbed about 1%. The move followed warnings from the U.S. to South Korea

about targeting tech firms. And Deutsche Bank shares fell 2%. German prosecutors searched company

offices in Frankfurt and Berlin today as part of a money laundering

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

summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor. We'll have a lot

more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast. You can add it to your playlist

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Enterprises are already creating efficiencies with agendic AI, particularly in areas like

finance, HR, and IT, says Jason Gersadis, CEO of Deloitte US. Those will continue to proliferate and strengthen.

And it will change the work that gets done.

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