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Pay your money briefing listeners. I'm Charlie Grant filling in for

Francesca Fontana for the Wall Street Journal. I'm one of the market supporters

here at the journal keeping you up to date on the latest economic

and corporate news that's affecting stocks.

Last month we ran a little experiment bringing you what's news and markets each weekend and

the response we got was so overwhelmingly positive

that we're gonna make it a regular fixture in the YMB feed every Saturday

morning. We are so excited to be joining you each week so let's get right to it.

This week it looks like markets have left the Everything Rally in 2023.

There were hopes that strength could extend into the new year, along with the fresh optimism

for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.

But this shortened trading week started off worse for stocks, as investors scaled back

hopes for rapid rate cuts thanks to strong economic data and cautious comments from

Fed officials. But things picked up later in the week led higher by chipmakers like

NVIDIA and AMD and we'll come back to what drove those games in just a little bit.

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