Katherine Sullivan

Alibaba and JD.com shares rallied 5 percent each after Chinese authorities signaled a push to end price wars.

Newmont shares gained 2.5% as gold prices recovered from recent steep declines.

And KB Home shares fell 1.5% after the homebuilder cut its guidance amid challenging housing market conditions.

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Here's your Closing Bell Brief for Tuesday, March 24th.

I'm Katherine Sullivan for The Wall Street Journal.

Oil prices climbed back above $100 a barrel due to new attacks in the Persian Gulf.

Government bond yields and the dollar also moved higher during the session, and shares in alternative asset managers fell as more investors asked to pull money out of private credit.

Among individual companies, Tesla shares rose nearly 1% after reporting its first monthly sales gain in Europe in over a year.

Jefferies Financial Group shares gained nearly 3% after the Financial Times reported a possible takeover by a Japanese financial group.

Estee Lauder shares slid 10% as the company confirmed talks to acquire a Spanish perfume maker.

And Amazon shares fell over 1% after its cloud service business reported disruptions to its data centers in Bahrain amid the Iran war.

Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.

We'll have a lot more coverage of the day's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast.

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Here's your closing bell brief for Monday, March 23rd.

I'm Katherine Sullivan for The Wall Street Journal.

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