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Hey listeners, it's Saturday, October 4th. I'm Francesca Fontana 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. Let's start with the government shutdown in the U.S., shall we?

How the stock market has been reacting both before and after the shutdown that started Wednesday.

While stocks were weighed down early in the week, we saw investors mostly shrugging off the shutdown,

which, remember, delayed Fridays, September jobs report, and could lead to a blackout of key economic data.

And that strength is thanks to a few things. For one, a rally in

pharmaceutical stocks helped lift major indexes on Tuesday. More on that in a second. And there's

continued enthusiasm over AI. Now let's talk closing records. This week's performance by the three

major indexes brought the grand total of closing records for 2025 to 72.

On Friday, the Dow notched its 11th record close of the year, while the SMP notched its 31st.

And on a weekly basis, all three indexes ended with gains of more than 1%. Electronic Arts is saying game over to public markets in the largest leveraged buyout of all time.

The video game maker, which you may know is the publisher of the Sims, Madden NFL, etc., said on

Monday that it would go private in a $55 billion mega deal with a group of investors. Before this deal

took its place on the leaderboard of biggest leveraged buyouts, the previous record belonged to

the 2007 purchase of Texas utility TXU by a group of private equity

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