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Hey listeners, your money briefing is on a break, but we'll be back with more personal finance

information for you in the future.

Until then, here's the news moving markets this week.

Hey listeners, it's Saturday, September 27th.

I'm Jack Pitcher 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.

Let's get to it.

Stocks opened hot this week when all three major indexes set records on Monday,

but markets lost steam as the week went on,

and not for any lack of good economic news.

The government's final estimate of second quarter GDP growth

came in at a strong 3.8% compared with a prior estimate

of 3.3%. Meanwhile, weekly jobless claims showed a drop in the number of Americans who newly filed

for unemployment, and monthly durable goods orders bounced back. All three data points back

up the idea that the AI-powered American economy is

just fine, and in fact, it sets a heat back up. That's the very view that's pushed stocks to record

after record in recent weeks. So what gives? Well, skeptics point out the historically

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