Why Gen Z Shoppers Are Pulling Back This Holiday Season
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services? |
| 0:04.8 | So we started the business two years ago. |
| 0:07.2 | We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs. |
| 0:12.5 | But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy. |
| 0:18.0 | Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward |
| 0:23.1 | slash hello vet. |
| 0:28.5 | Here's your morning brief for Monday, December 1st. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:34.6 | US Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, |
| 0:38.9 | are heading to Moscow later today as talks to end the war in Ukraine continue to ramp up. |
| 0:44.7 | Both men met with Ukrainian negotiators in Florida yesterday, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio, |
| 0:50.7 | in a meeting both sides called productive. |
| 0:53.4 | A senior official said the talks covered possible |
| 0:55.8 | timetables for new elections in Ukraine and the prospect of land swaps between Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:02.1 | Still, a number of critical issues remain unresolved, including the nature of security guarantees |
| 1:07.2 | for Ukraine and whether the Kremlin will continue to demand international recognition |
| 1:12.0 | of the territories it seized. A post- Thanksgiving market hangover is continuing into a new month, |
| 1:18.4 | with U.S. stock futures and global markets down this morning as investors shift away from |
| 1:23.6 | risky assets. Comments from Japan's central bank governor that interest rates could rise later |
| 1:28.9 | this month saw stocks and bond prices fall in Japan, while Bitcoin fell to a one-week low hurting shares |
| 1:35.4 | of Coinbase, Robin Hood, and strategy. The gloomy mood extends a stretch of volatility for global |
| 1:41.2 | markets, which have been choppy since fears of an AI bubble set in this fall. |
| 1:46.2 | After rising on Black Friday, the SMP 500 managed to eke out a small gain for November, its seventh consecutive winning month. |
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