What’s News in Markets: Bearish Bets, Defiant Oil Prices, a Social Media Reckoning
WSJ Your Money Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall. It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. |
| 0:11.3 | That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI. |
| 0:17.9 | Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries. |
| 0:23.2 | Hey listeners, your money briefing is on a break, but it will be back with more personal |
| 0:27.3 | finance information for you in the future. Until then, here's the news moving markets this week. |
| 0:34.3 | Hey listeners, it's Saturday, March 28th. I'm Eamani Moes for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:39.7 | And this is what's news and markets. Our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them. |
| 0:45.7 | Let's dive in. Markets are sliding and some people are scared. Investors piled into options contracts that bet against the S&P 500, and retail traders are getting more timid. |
| 0:57.0 | Their activity is on track to reach the lowest level in two years. |
| 1:01.0 | Plus, is big tech having its big tobacco moment? |
| 1:05.0 | Before we get into that, let's see how the major indexes did. |
| 1:08.0 | The NASDAQ entered correction territory on Thursday, falling |
| 1:12.0 | 10% from its most recent high and finished the week down more than 3%. The Dow Jones Industrial |
| 1:18.2 | average followed, crossing the correction threshold on Friday, closing 1.4% lower. The benchmark |
| 1:25.1 | S&P 500 ended 2% lower, extending its longest weekly losing streak in nearly |
| 1:29.7 | four years. What's interesting is that many of the companies dragging markets lower recently |
| 1:34.6 | were the same stocks that led them to historic highs last year. Now let's walk through the winners |
| 1:40.4 | and losers of this week's topsy-turvy market. |
| 1:49.3 | It was a rough week to be a social media executive. |
| 1:53.4 | Tech stocks, which include names like Facebook and Instagram parent meta, |
| 1:55.6 | and Google and YouTube parent alphabet, |
| 2:00.2 | led the S&P lower this week after back-to-back landmark legal rulings that could force the Silicon |
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