Pierre Bien-Aimé
speaker
917 appearances
43 recordings
2 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 10 Sep
Pierre Bien-Aimé’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 42 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 18.
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WSJ Minute Briefing · Stocks Up, Treasury Yields Down After News of Bond Repurchases · 19 Aug 2026
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And U.S.
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government bond yields slid after the news.
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The NASDAQ, SP 500, and Dow all rose roughly a fifth of a percent.
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Among individual companies.
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In a study, an experimental vaccine by Moderna and Merck succeeded in preventing melanoma from returning.
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Merck's stock jumped more than 12%, while Moderna's skyrocketed nearly 177%.
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Yes, that means almost tripling in value.
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But shares in the Chinese humanoid robot maker Yushu Technology, known as Unitry, did even better, surging more than fivefold.
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Target's shares rose more than four percent after the company reported an earnings beat and higher sales before the bell.
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And Lowe's, the home improvement retailer, notched a gain of a little more than 2%.
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The company tempered its full-year outlook, signaling cooling demand for household projects and renovations.
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Still, it reported adjusted earnings just above analyst estimates.
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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.
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We'll have more coverage of today's news on the WSJ's What's News podcast.
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Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Here's your closing bell brief for Tuesday, august eighteenth.
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I'm Pierre Bianamet for the Wall Street Journal.
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Stocks are in the red today, and chip stocks were hit hard.
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The PHLX semiconductor index down just under 5%.
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The NASDAQ fell one and a third of a percent, the SP 500 is down about 0.7%, and the Dow ticked down 0.2%.
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