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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.

If you felt like Invidea was the only stock that mattered this week, you're not totally

wrong.

Thanks in large part to the company's monster earnings,

the S&P 500 hit its 13th record of 2024 on Friday,

closing at nearly 5,090.

And the Dow crossed 39,000 for the first time,

and by the end of the week marked another record,

its 14th of the year.

Now let's go back to Invidia. All eyes were on its quarterly results this week since

the chipmaker is really the bellwether of the AI boom and to say that those

results were great is a total understatement.

Invidia's quarterly profit surged more than 8fold from a year earlier

and its sales more than tripled.

For those of us who aren't to tech savvy,

the cliff notes of why

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