What’s News in Markets: Middle East Strikes Send Oil Higher, South Korean Chip Stocks Fall, SpaceX Stumbles
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 11 July 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it. |
| 0:05.0 | Infliction is killing me! |
| 0:08.0 | But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits! |
| 0:12.0 | That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill! |
| 0:15.0 | See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll. |
| 0:18.0 | This bill would cut the vital resources they need. |
| 0:25.1 | While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they? |
| 0:29.1 | Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores. |
| 0:31.2 | Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition. |
| 0:37.5 | Hey listeners, it's Saturday, July 11th. I'm Imani Moise for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:40.3 | And this is what's news in markets. |
| 0:42.5 | Our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them. |
| 0:47.0 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:48.9 | When traders shut down their terminals last week for the long holiday weekend, |
| 0:52.9 | they were hoping the peace deal in the Middle East would hold, that chipmaker earnings would fuel another AI rally, |
| 0:58.8 | and that SpaceX's addition to a major stock index would give its shares another boost. |
| 1:03.6 | But none of that happened. |
| 1:05.3 | So markets spent the week recalibrating. |
| 1:08.1 | Overall, the S&P 500 rose 1.2% this week, while the NASDAQ gained 1.7%. The Dow slipped about half a |
| 1:16.4 | percent lower. |
| 1:22.2 | Here we go again. That's how analysts summed up Wall Street's mood this week. Investors had spent |
| 1:30.1 | the past two weeks betting that the worst of the conflict between the U.S. and Iran was in |
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