Francesca Fontana

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WSJ What’s News · What’s News in Markets: Tariff Fear, Delta Soars, AMD + OpenAI · 11 Oct 2025 podcast

Hey, listeners, it's Saturday, October 11th.

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.

The stock market was chugging along this week, with indexes hitting records and shrugging off some doubts about the AI boom.

Then on Friday, things took a turn, a pretty steep one.

US stocks gave up their gains for the week on Friday after President Trump posted on Truth Social that he may cancel a planned meeting with China's leader

and threatened a, quote, massive increase in tariffs on products from China.

We saw chip stocks take a tumble.

So did oil prices.

But do you know what was up?

Good old fear.

Wall Street's fear gauge, aka the SIBO market volatility index, was flying higher, with its percentage gain hitting double digits during Friday's session.

All in all, the three major indexes ended the week lower.

The S&P 500 fell 2.4%.

The Dow fell 2.7%.

And the Nasdaq fell 2.5%.

We just went over what went wrong, so to speak, in the stock market.

What went right?

Well, one sector that got some good news was airline stocks.

We're talking about Delta Airlines, which, did you know, is the biggest U.S.

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