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Hey listeners, it's Saturday, February 14th. I'm Hannah Aaron Lang for the Wall Street

Journal, and this is what's news and markets. Our look at the biggest stock moves of the week

and the news that drove them. So let's get into it.

We got a pair of economic reports this past week on the jobs market and inflation.

More on that later in the show.

But first, concerns about the future for artificial intelligence rippled through markets this week,

but not necessarily in the way you'd expect.

We've seen these periodic waves of AI jitters weigh on stocks for some time now.

Typically, the focus has been on the big tech companies leading the AI investing boom,

Amazon or Alphabet, for example,

and whether those quote-unquote hyperscalers are spending too much money

trying to get ahead in the AI arms race.

This week, however, there was a new anxiety dragging down stock prices. The fear that AI will

disrupt key industries across the economy and eventually make some companies obsolete.

Those concerns have affected a really wide range of stocks. Last week, it was software companies that got hit.

This past Tuesday, it was wealth management and brokerage shares like Charles Schwab and Raymond James,

which tumbled after news of a new AI tool for tax advice.

For the week, the tech-heavy NASDAQ composite dropped 2.1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial average fell 1.2%.

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