What’s News in Markets: Meaty Issues, Tech Troubles, Media Shake-Ups
WSJ Your Money Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services? |
| 0:04.8 | So we started the business two years ago. |
| 0:07.2 | We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs. |
| 0:12.5 | But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy. |
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| 0:23.6 | HelloVet. |
| 0:25.9 | Hey listeners, your money briefing is on a break, but we'll be back with more personal finance |
| 0:31.0 | information for you in the future. |
| 0:33.2 | Until then, here's the news moving markets this week. |
| 0:38.9 | Hey listeners, it's Saturday, November 15th. |
| 0:42.5 | I'm Francesca Fontana for the Wall Street Journal, and this is What's News and Markets, |
| 0:47.0 | our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them. |
| 0:51.3 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:52.6 | This week started off with a stock market rally with an end to the government shutdown in sight, pushing the Dow above 48,000 by Wednesday's close. |
| 1:02.7 | But the optimism faded fast on Thursday, with the Dow losing almost 800 points. While we saw broad declines, tech stocks were hit particularly hard. I'll break |
| 1:13.7 | that down in a little bit. One factor weighing on stocks was traders backing away from their |
| 1:19.2 | bets on interest rate cuts. According to CME Group, which operates futures and options exchanges, |
| 1:25.5 | the chances of a cut by the Federal Reserve next month |
| 1:28.2 | were around 50%, and that's down from 63% on Wednesday and about 70% a week earlier. |
| 1:35.5 | All told, on Thursday, U.S. stocks posted their worst day in a month. |
| 1:39.8 | Woof. |
| 1:40.7 | On a weekly basis, the Dow added 0.3%, the S&P 500 edged 0.1% higher, and the NASDAQ lost about half a percent. |
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