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Hey listeners, it's Saturday, November 1st. 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. Happy day after Halloween to you all, if that's your thing. Halloween is, in fact, my thing. I love it, and I'm currently speaking

to you dressed as Special Agent Dale Cooper of Twin Peaks fame. This isn't a video podcast,

so I figured I should let you know. In any case, markets were on a run this week, as investors

digested more earnings reports,

and as some big companies notched big new milestones.

The biggest?

Invidia, the AI chip leader, became a $5 trillion company, but more on that in a second.

Yes, looking back at the month, October was of all the one for the stock

market, but it ended on a high note. For the week, all three indexes notched gains, and for the

month of October, the Dow gained 2.5%, the S&P 500 added 2.3%, and the NASDAQ jumped 4.7%.

That means the Dow and the S&P are both up for six straight months, and the NASDAQ is up for seven.

So back to Invidia. Just how big has Nvidia gotten? Yes, we know it's now worth $5 trillion as of Wednesday, but I wanted to give some context and perspective on the scale of its meteoric rise in the AI boom. First of all, let's not forget that it hit its first trillion market value in June of

2023, so not that long ago.

It notched the 2 trillion and 3 trillion milestones last year, and it was just in July of this

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