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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Now keep in mind, the stock has been on a total tear for most of this year.
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Friday, though, was a different story, and Costco shares ended nearly 2% lower.
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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 Tali Arbel.
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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.
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It's Saturday, September 21st.
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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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Rate cut, rate cut, rate cut, rate cut.
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Because we are very cool, that is what a few of my friends and I were chanting at each other going into this week.
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Because after waiting and waiting since the start of the year, markets finally got an interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday.
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Traders pretty much knew a cut was coming, but what was surprising to some was the size.
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Many were expecting a quarter percentage point, 25 basis points.
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But nope, we got 50, a whole half percentage point.
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For all the excitement, the stock market didn't explode into a rally Wednesday afternoon.
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But the next day we saw the exuberance we'd expected, which pushed the S&P 500 to its first record high since mid-July, and the Dow closed above 42,000 points for the first time.
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So the party started a little late, and it ended a little early.
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