Stocks Slump on Fears of War Escalation
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:33.0 | Here's your closing bell brief for Thursday, April 23rd. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.2 | U.S. stocks closed lower today as geopolitical tensions in a software sell-off weighed on the market. |
| 0:46.4 | The NASDAQ led the decline with a drop of 0.9%. The Dow and the S&P 500 both retreated 0.4%. Investors grew uneasy as oil prices rose over 3% on fears of escalating Middle East hostilities. |
| 1:02.0 | Among individual companies, Service Now shares plunged 18% today. |
| 1:07.3 | Investors focused on a cut to the cloud-based software company's projected operating margin despite |
| 1:12.9 | rising revenue. IBM stock slumped 8% after the company kept its revenue guidance the same. |
| 1:20.4 | This disappointment overshadowed a rise in profit during the first quarter. Tesla shares fell |
| 1:26.2 | nearly 4% following a big spending announcement by the |
| 1:29.7 | company. The Carmaker plans to invest $25 billion into capital expenditures this year. |
| 1:36.5 | Lockheed Martin shares fell 5% after the defense contractor reported a drop in profit. This decline |
| 1:43.3 | occurred even as demand for weapons caused sales |
| 1:45.9 | to edge higher. And Nestle shares jumped 6%. The maker of Kit Kat chocolate bars reported a drop in sales, |
| 1:53.6 | but said its real internal growth, or the volume of products sold, exceeded expectations. |
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