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Every week I read a column for the journal called The Score.

It's a look at the biggest stock moots of the week and the news that drove them.

And now, every Saturday, we're bringing you what's news and markets.

Let's get to it. This week the stock market finished out the first month of 2024 higher,

making January the third straight month of gains.

Meanwhile, earnings season is in full swing,

with this week's slate of reports including some of the biggest tech stocks.

Don't worry, we'll come back to that in a minute.

But first, I want to talk about General Motors.

Now, GM had a bump a year in 2023,

but the company is aiming to leave all that behind this year,

giving a surprisingly optimistic outlook for 2024.

And that's thanks to a few things.

One of those is that it's expecting narrower losses on its electric and driverless car businesses.

And when I said that GM had a bumpy year last year, a lot of those bumps were related to those two areas.

GM's budding EV business was tripped up by manufacturing issues that messed up launch plans of several models.

For example, the botched release of an electric

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