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WSJ Minute Briefing

Stocks Tick Higher After Volatile Day

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Investors are still rattled by AI worries. Plus: Eric Trump takes an Israeli drone weapons company public through a merger with a small Florida construction firm. Katherine Sullivan hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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for Tuesday, February 17th. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street

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Journal. U.S. stocks struggled for direction today as the major indexes wavered following a long

0:45.2

weekend. The NASDAQ initially fell 1% before reversing course to close up a 10th of a percent.

0:52.1

The Dow and the S&P also ended the day up about a tenth.

0:56.5

Investors are increasingly worried that many companies are overinvesting in artificial intelligence.

1:02.1

Among individual companies, Zim integrated shipping services surged 25%. The gains came after

1:08.7

Hapag Lloyd announced its buying its competitor for $4.2 billion.

1:13.6

Genuine parts shares fell 15% today. The owner of Napa Auto Parts reported a quarterly loss. It plans to separate its auto parts business from its industrial parts unit into two separate public companies.

1:26.6

General Mills shares dropped 7%.

1:29.5

The packaged food maker cut its annual sales and profit outlook due to shaky consumer sentiment.

1:35.9

Hyatt Hotel's shares rose 2.5%. The gain followed news that Thomas Pritzker is retiring as

1:41.9

executive chairman of the company, citing a desire to protect

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