Corporate megastores are spending millions lobbying DC politicians on one-sided policies that send small businesses tumbling.

They want to enact harmful credit card mandates that take resources away from your local credit union and community bank.

Leaving Main Street businesses with less access to credit, making it harder for your family to pay for everyday goods like gas and groceries.

Tell Congress to guard your card and oppose the Durban Marshall Credit Card mandates.

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Hey listeners, your money briefing is on a break, but it will be back with more personal

finance information for you in the future.

Until then, here's the

news moving markets this week.

Hey listeners, it's Saturday, December 20th. I'm Francesca Fontana for the Wall Street Journal,

and this is What's News and Markets? Our look at the biggest documents of the week and the news

that drove them.

Let's get to it. It wouldn't be the holiday season for the stock market without traders hoping

for positive momentum to spark a Santa Claus rally. During the week, our last full trading week

before Christmas, stocks were trying for fresh records, with some fresh optimism

fueling a rally Thursday after an encouraging inflation readout. An end-of-year rally would be a

welcome gift to the market, given how a cloudy economic picture and persistent AI-related jitters

have been weighing on stocks. On a weekly basis, the major indexes ended mixed.

The Dow lost 0.7%, while the S&P 500 edged 0.1% higher, and the NASDAQ rose half a percent.

Speaking of AI jitters, let's look at Micron, the memory chip maker whose latest earnings report brought some good news to the semiconductor sector.

So late Wednesday, Micron posted a jump in quarterly revenue and raised its outlook, with investors cheering the results and the trend underpinning the results.

There's a shortage of memory chips,

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