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Hey listeners, it's Saturday, February 22nd. 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. Kicking off another four-day trading week, Tuesday started

on a high note, with the S&P 500 notching its second record high close of 2025.

But investors are still cautious, with talk of tariffs and warm inflation.

And I found this really interesting.

Per the latest survey from the American Association of Individual Investors,

bearishness among individual traders, the percentage who expect stock

prices to fall over the next six months, reached about 47% for the week ending February 12th.

That's the highest since November 2023.

Wolf.

And I'm curious to know what you think.

So please email me at Francesca.

Fontana at WSJ.com.

I am really looking forward to hearing your two cents.

All right, back to the week.

On Thursday, Walmart's earnings reigned on the indexes parades.

We'll come back to that.

And the gloom stuck around with Friday's losses.

On the week, the Dow and the NASDAQ each fell 2.5%,

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