Francesca Fontana
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2,691 appearances
52 recordings
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first heard Aug 2017
last heard Feb 2025
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Hey, listeners.
It's Saturday, February 15th.
I'm Francesca Fontana for The Wall Street Journal, and this is What's News in Markets, our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.
Let's get to it.
Welcome back.
Hope you all are taking advantage of any post-Valentine's Day chocolate sales near you.
This week started off with more tariffs from President Trump, announced on Monday, with investors largely shrugging off the risk of them igniting a trade war.
But investors weren't shrugging off Wednesday's inflation readout, as the Consumer Price Index picked up faster than economists had expected.
That deepened traders' worries that interest rates might not come down anytime soon.
But the market bounced back with more political news Thursday, with Trump raising hopes of a resolution to the war in Ukraine and putting off a decision on additional tariffs on foreign goods.
On a weekly basis, the Nasdaq rose 2.6 percent, the S&P 500 gained 1.5 percent, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average added less than 1 percent.
Now, while the market overall shrugged off Monday's tariff announcement, it still played a part in some big stock moves this week.
For those who missed the news, or who just can't keep all the trade news straight, which I can't blame you, those levies are 25% on imports of steel and aluminum.
Or aluminum, if you're from the UK.
Dealer's choice.
The stock market winners there were the metal producers, like Cleveland Cliffs, US Steel, and Alcoa.
But those who buy metal might have to make some changes, like Coca-Cola.
On Tuesday, Koch posted better-than-expected quarterly revenue and profit, but investors were also taking in what Chief Executive James Quincy had to say about aluminum prices.
He said Koch is working to keep a lid, so to speak, on potential price increases by looking for ways to use less aluminum and finding different sources for it.
Koch, as you might imagine, uses a heck of a lot of aluminum soda cans and imports the material from Canada.
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