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WSJ Your Money Briefing

What’s News in Markets: Tariff Trade, Robinhood’s Crypto Gains, Unilever Slides

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

How is Coca-Cola dealing with aluminum tariffs? And how are crypto’s gains benefiting Robinhood? Plus, why Unilever shares dropped. Francesca Fontana discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

With record levels of dry powder available for investment, find out what's in store for private markets in 2025 and beyond.

0:06.6

Listen to crafting capital in partnership with UBS at partners.wS.J.com slash UBS, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

0:17.6

Hey listeners, it's Saturday, February 15th.

0:21.1

I'm Francesca Fontana for the Wall Street Journal, and this is What's the News in Markets.

0:26.0

Our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news the drofo.

0:29.9

Let's get to it.

0:31.6

Welcome back.

0:32.7

Hope you all are taking advantage of any post-valentine's Day chocolate sales near you.

0:38.5

This week started off with more tariffs from President Trump, announced on Monday, with

0:43.0

investors largely shrugging off the risk of them igniting a trade war.

0:47.5

But investors weren't shrugging off Wednesday's inflation readout, as the consumer price

0:51.6

index picked up faster than economists had expected. That deep in

0:56.0

traders' worries that interest rates might not come down anytime soon. But the market bounced

1:01.2

back with more political news Thursday, with Trump raising hopes of a resolution to the war in Ukraine

1:06.7

and putting off a decision on additional tariffs on foreign goods.

1:13.8

On a weekly basis, the NASDAQ rose 2.6%. The S&P 500 gained 1.5%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average added less than 1%.

1:20.6

Now, while the market overall shrugged off Monday's tariff announcement, it still played a part

1:31.5

in some big stock moves this week. For those who missed the news or who just can't keep all

1:36.8

the trade news straight, which I can't blame you, those levies are 25% on imports of steel and

1:42.9

aluminum, or aluminum, if you're from the

1:45.8

UK, dealer's choice.

1:47.7

The stock market winners there were the metal producers, like Cleveland Cliffs, U.S. steel,

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