Francesca Fontana

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

Chinese auto company BYD, meanwhile, sold 2.26 million electric vehicles.

It's certainly a reversal of fortunes for these two.

Tesla was once the leading EV maker, while only a few years ago, BYD's founder worried that the company might not survive.

So how'd Tesla's shares do?

The stock ended up dropping 2.6% on Friday and notched a weekly loss of 7.8%.

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 was produced by Michael LaValle with supervising producer Jana Herron.

I'm Francesca Fontana.

Have a great weekend and see you next Saturday.

WSJ What’s News · What’s News in Markets: Memory Chips, Corporate Drama, Mega IPO · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

Hey, listeners, it's Saturday, December 20th.

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.

It wouldn't be the holiday season for the stock market without traders hoping for positive momentum to spark a Santa Claus rally.

During the week, our last full trading week before Christmas, stocks were trying for fresh records, with some fresh optimism fueling a rally Thursday after an encouraging inflation readout.

An end-of-year rally would be a welcome gift to the market, given how a cloudy economic picture and persistent AI-related jitters have been weighing on stocks.

On a weekly basis, the major indexes ended mixed.

The Dow lost 0.7%, while the S&P 500 edged 0.1% higher, and the Nasdaq rose 0.5%.

Speaking of AI jitters, let's look at Micron, the memory chip maker whose latest earnings report brought some good news to the semiconductor sector.

So late Wednesday, Micron posted a jump in quarterly revenue and raised its outlook, with investors cheering the results and the trend underpinning the results.

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