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WSJ Your Money Briefing

What’s News in Markets: Gold Tarnishes, Not-So-Super Micro, Micron Peak?

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Why are investors turning away from gold? And why weren’t Micron Technology’s blowout earnings good enough? Plus, why is Super Micro’s co-founder in hot water with U.S. prosecutors? Host Hannah Erin Lang discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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break, but it will be back with more personal finance information for you in the future. Until then,

0:37.8

here's the news moving markets this week. Hey listeners, it's Saturday, March 21st. I'm Hannah Aaron Lang for

0:47.2

the Wall Street Journal. And this is What's News and Markets, our look at the biggest stock

0:52.6

moves of the week and the news that drove them.

0:55.8

Let's get to it.

0:57.3

The vibes in financial markets did not get much better this week.

1:01.1

There were a lot of big losers, including gold and the companies that mine the precious

1:05.6

metal, chipmaker micron technology in spite of its eye-popping earnings, and super microcomputer, whose co-founder

1:12.3

got on the wrong side of U.S. prosecutors this week. But more on that later. First, let's talk

1:18.4

about oil, which is really all that anyone is talking about since the war in Iran began three

1:23.1

weeks ago. At the beginning of the week, U.S. stocks shrugged off energy concerns, rising with hopes that perhaps a coalition of countries would work together to open the Strait of Hormuz, the key thoroughfare for a fifth of the world's oil supply.

1:37.3

But the mood shifted on Wednesday when the Federal Reserve announced its latest move on interest rates.

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