What’s News in Markets: IPO Excitement, Chip Fatigue, the Decline of Dividends
WSJ Your Money Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:24.2 | Hey listeners, your money briefing is still on a break, but we'll be back with more personal |
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| 0:30.5 | Until then, here's the news moving the markets this week. |
| 0:36.2 | Hey listeners, it's Saturday, May 23rd. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm Imani Moise for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:41.9 | And this is what's news in markets, our look at the biggest stock moves of the week |
| 0:45.7 | and the news that drove them. |
| 0:47.8 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:49.3 | Markets spent this week chasing the next big thing. |
| 0:52.4 | From AI to outer space in quantum computing, investors poured |
| 0:55.8 | money into futuristic bets while brushing aside lingering concerns about the economy. A new $2 billion |
| 1:02.1 | federal investment in quantum computing helped fuel rallies in companies tied to the emerging technology. |
| 1:08.2 | Nvidia beat Wall Street expectations for the 14th straight quarter, according to data |
| 1:12.4 | from FACSET. And SpaceX prepared to launch what could be the biggest IPO in history. That lifted |
| 1:19.1 | space-related stocks across the market. Here on Earth, warning signs about the U.S. consumer |
| 1:24.8 | continued to pile up. Retail giants, including Walmart, Target, and Home Depot all pointed to increasingly |
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