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Here's your closing bell brief for Tuesday, September 23rd. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall

Street Journal. U.S. stocks fell today as the sell-off in tech shares led a broad market retreat.

The NASDAQ dropped about 1% while the S&P 500 lost 0.6%, and the Dow was down 2 tenths of a percent.

Investors reassessed the market's artificial intelligence rally with shares of leaders like

Nvidia and Amazon declining. Amazon stock fell 3% after announcing

plans to close its Amazon fresh stores in the UK. Among other individual companies, Boeing

shares rose 2% after the plane maker announced a multi-billion dollar jet deal with Uzbekistan

Airways. Kenview stock rebounded more than one and a half percent from a record low

after government agencies took a measured tone regarding the active ingredient in Tylenol.

And shares of Firefly Aerospace dropped 15 percent after the company reported a wider

quarterly loss and lower than expected revenue. In other news, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome

Powell's latest remarks did not break any new ground on monetary policy, while gold futures

climbed to another record. 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.

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Corporate megastores are spending millions lobbying DC politicians on one-sided policies that send small businesses

tumbling. They want to enact harmful credit card mandates that take resources away from your local

credit union and community bank, leaving Main Street businesses with less access to credit, making it

harder for your family to pay for everyday goods like gas and groceries.

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