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Here's your closing bell brief for Thursday, September 25th. I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. stocks fell today, with the major indexes posting a third straight day of declines.

The NASDAQ and the S&P 500 were each down half a percent, and the Dow was down about 0.4%.

The drops came despite stronger than expected economic news. A second

quarter GDP growth was revised higher, weekly jobless claims fell, and orders for durable

goods increased. Elsewhere, bond yields rose and platinum prices notched a new high for the year.

They're up 68% since January. Among individual companies, CarMax shares tumbled 20% after the

used car retailer's quarterly results came in well below expectations. Intel was the S&P's

best performer, with its shares rising nearly 9% after the chipmaker reportedly approached Apple for an

investment. Shares of Oracle fell more than 5.5% after the chipmaker reportedly approached Apple for an investment. Shares of Oracle fell more than

5.5% after the software company sold $18 billion of bonds to finance its artificial intelligence

buildout. IBM shares jumped more than 5% after HSBC said it had used the company's quantum computers

to analyze bond markets. And Tesla shares

fell by more than 4% after a report showed the electric vehicle maker's European registrations

slumped in August. 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.

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