Francesca Fontana

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586 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 10 Jan

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WSJ What’s News · What’s News in Markets: Defense Stocks Rise, Beer Beats, Pharma Deal · 10 Jan 2026 podcast

And now you know what's news in markets this week.

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 is produced by Michael LaValle with supervising producers Jana Herron and Melanie Roy.

I'm Francesca Fontana.

Have a great weekend and see you next Saturday.

WSJ What’s News · What’s News in Markets: Silver’s Slide, Travel Chaos, Tesla Tanks · 3 Jan 2026 podcast

Hey, listeners.

It's Saturday, January 3rd.

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 to 2026, everybody.

Hope you all had a great time ringing in the new year.

I myself had a rager, a marathon of Turner Classic movies with my cat.

No better way to party in my book.

Yes, it was a sleepy holiday in my house and it was a pretty sleepy week in the market to close out 2025.

No big rally to speak of on New Year's Eve.

But how did stocks do for the year, which was a volatile year at that?

Well, all three indexes finished the year higher, with the S&P 500 marking its third back-to-back year of double-digit gains.

The S&P gained 16% in 2025, while the Dow gained 13% and the Nasdaq rose 20%.

And on the week, all three major indexes ended lower.

The S&P fell 1%, the Dow lost about 0.7%, and the Nasdaq fell 1.5%.

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