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Francesca Fontana

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WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Temu’s Pressures, Nvidia Delivers, Beautiful E.l.f.

Hailey Bieber, the American model and wife of Justin Bieber, started RODE back in 2022, and e.l.f. said that buying RODE will help diversify its supply chain out of China. Sorry, I know, China this, China that, it's just how it is. Elfshares ended up rocketing 24% higher on Thursday and on the week notched a gain of 34%. And now you know what's news in markets this week.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Temu’s Pressures, Nvidia Delivers, Beautiful E.l.f.

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. Today's show was produced by Zoe Kolkin and Anthony Bansi with supervising producer Michael Kosmitis. I'm Francesca Fontana. Have a great weekend and I'll see you next Saturday.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Temu’s Pressures, Nvidia Delivers, Beautiful E.l.f.

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. Today's show was produced by Zoe Kolkin and Anthony Bansi with supervising producer Michael Kosmitis. I'm Francesca Fontana. Have a great weekend and I'll see you next Saturday.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

Hey, listeners, it's Saturday, May 17th. 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. We have a deal. In case you missed it, we got a surprise on Monday when the U.S.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

Hey, listeners, it's Saturday, May 17th. 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. We have a deal. In case you missed it, we got a surprise on Monday when the U.S.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

and China announced a trade deal rolling back most of the tariffs between the two countries that have been weighing heavily on investors' minds and on many companies' operations. Now, the relief could be temporary. It's a 90-day agreement, so plenty of uncertainty remains.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

and China announced a trade deal rolling back most of the tariffs between the two countries that have been weighing heavily on investors' minds and on many companies' operations. Now, the relief could be temporary. It's a 90-day agreement, so plenty of uncertainty remains.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

But the trade optimism sparked a rally on Monday, with the three major indexes making some smaller, mixed moves the rest of the week. On Tuesday, for instance, UnitedHealth's giant drop dragged the Dow lower, and we'll get to that stock's meltdown in a bit. All in all, the three major indexes each made some gains this week.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

But the trade optimism sparked a rally on Monday, with the three major indexes making some smaller, mixed moves the rest of the week. On Tuesday, for instance, UnitedHealth's giant drop dragged the Dow lower, and we'll get to that stock's meltdown in a bit. All in all, the three major indexes each made some gains this week.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

The Dow added more than 3%, the S&P 500 gained more than 5%, and the Nasdaq rose more than 7%. As far as individual movers go, let's run through some of the big winners of the US-China truce. Many of the stocks that had the most to gain were, logically, the ones most exposed to China in their supply chains. So, for example, Amazon, along with other big tech stocks, got a boost from the news.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

The Dow added more than 3%, the S&P 500 gained more than 5%, and the Nasdaq rose more than 7%. As far as individual movers go, let's run through some of the big winners of the US-China truce. Many of the stocks that had the most to gain were, logically, the ones most exposed to China in their supply chains. So, for example, Amazon, along with other big tech stocks, got a boost from the news.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

Amazon's ubiquitous online retail platform and many of the third-party sellers on that platform sourced their products from China. Before the trade deal eased the tariffs that they're subject to, many of these merchants warned that prices could skyrocket, and some said that they would have to stop their operations entirely.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

Amazon's ubiquitous online retail platform and many of the third-party sellers on that platform sourced their products from China. Before the trade deal eased the tariffs that they're subject to, many of these merchants warned that prices could skyrocket, and some said that they would have to stop their operations entirely.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

So, we saw Amazon shares surge roughly 8% on Monday, and on the week the stock gained 6.5%. Then there was Boeing, which rose on the news that China was scrapping an earlier ban on Boeing's airplanes.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

So, we saw Amazon shares surge roughly 8% on Monday, and on the week the stock gained 6.5%. Then there was Boeing, which rose on the news that China was scrapping an earlier ban on Boeing's airplanes.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

The government last month told Chinese carriers that they had to seek additional approval before taking delivery of Boeing aircraft that they had already ordered, so in effect halting deliveries to one of Boeing's biggest markets.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

The government last month told Chinese carriers that they had to seek additional approval before taking delivery of Boeing aircraft that they had already ordered, so in effect halting deliveries to one of Boeing's biggest markets.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

Plus, later in the week, the White House announced that Qatar Airways would buy up to 210 Boeing aircraft, one of several business deals that the president noted during his trip to the Middle East. Boeing shares gained 2.5 percent on Tuesday and rose 5.6 percent on the week.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

Plus, later in the week, the White House announced that Qatar Airways would buy up to 210 Boeing aircraft, one of several business deals that the president noted during his trip to the Middle East. Boeing shares gained 2.5 percent on Tuesday and rose 5.6 percent on the week.

WSJ What’s News
What’s News in Markets: Trade Truce Winners, UnitedHealth Slides, Foot Locker Deal Bounce

And then there was Nike, which relies on Vietnam, Indonesia, and China for its products and was hit hard last month when the tariffs were announced. It climbed 7.3% on Monday and notched a weekly gain of more than 8%. Now, back to UnitedHealth, the healthcare conglomerate and parent of insurance provider UnitedHealthcare. It's had a rough year, and it had a bad week this week.