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WSJ Your Money Briefing

What's News in Markets: Steel Deal Pushback, FedEx Tumbles, China vs. Gamers

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Will Nippon Steel get U.S. Steel? Why did FedEx cut its outlook? And is it game over for China’s gaming stocks? Host Charley Grant discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi there your money briefing listeners. I'm Charlie Grant for the Wall Street Journal

0:35.9

filling in for Francesca Fontana. I'm one of the markets reporters here at the journal,

0:40.4

keeping you up to date on the latest economic and corporate news that's

0:43.8

affecting stocks. We've heard you're eager for more markets coverage here so like

0:48.0

we've been doing each of the past few Saturdays. Today we'll be taking a look at the

0:51.6

biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.

0:54.8

Take a listen, let us know what you think.

0:58.8

Let's start at the end.

1:00.6

The weekend with the news of the Federal Reserve seems to be winning its fight against inflation.

1:05.0

The Central Bank's preferred inflation measure, called the PCE Index, fell 0.1% in November from a month earlier.

1:12.0

The first drops it's all the way back in 2020. 4.1% in November from a month earlier.

1:12.6

The first drops it's all the way back in 2020.

1:15.3

Investors are betting inflation is finally going away,

1:18.2

and that report gave them some evidence to back it up.

1:20.9

Meanwhile, something happened to stocks this week that lately would be

1:24.5

considered very unusual. They went down. The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial

1:30.4

Average, NASDAQ composite, all fell by more than 1% on Wednesday, snapping an extended

1:35.8

bull run. Of course, markets have been on a terror lately even if Wednesday was a bit of a downer,

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