Francesca Fontana
speaker
2,691 appearances
52 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2017
last heard Feb 2025
Francesca Fontana’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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steel shares dropped about 6.5% on Friday and notched a weekly loss of about 4.5%.
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And now you know what's news in markets this week.
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You can read about more stocks that moved on the week's news in The Score, my column in the Wall Street Journal's Exchange section.
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Today's show was produced by Anthony Bansi with supervising producer Michael Kosmides.
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I'm Francesca Fontana.
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Have a great weekend and see you next Saturday.
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Hey, listeners, it's Saturday, December 14th.
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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.
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Let's get to it.
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All right, guys, next week is the big week.
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The Fed will have another interest rate decision for us, the last one of the year.
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And it seems like we've all settled on expecting a quarter percentage point cut, especially after investors got to digest Wednesday's Consumer Price Index data, which was in line with consensus expectations and bolstered confidence that we have a cut coming our way.
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Other stories we saw playing out in stocks this week include developments in the so-called U.S.-China chip war, with Beijing announcing an antitrust probe of Nvidia, the AI poster child stock.
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And speaking of big tech, we saw some big moves from Oracle and Alphabet, but we'll come back to those in a bit.
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Now let's look at the indexes.
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The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up each posting weekly declines.
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Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite secured its fourth consecutive week of gains.
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Looking at individual movers from the week, let's talk about Walgreens.
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The stock's been pretty under the weather due to mounting pressure on its pharmacy and retail businesses.
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