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Hey listeners, it's Saturday, February 1st.
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, let's get to it.
What a way to end January.
So this week was wild.
We had to juggle looming tariff threats, earnings season, an update from the Fed and a huge panic around AI.
You know, I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling like a month has passed since Monday.
So where do we start?
Maybe let's start with the good.
Earnings season kept going strong this week with data showing
that nearly 3/4 of S&P 500 companies that have reported have beaten Wall Street's forecasts.
The less good we are back to wait.
And when it comes to the Fed which hit the pause button on interest rate cuts this week,
which weighed on the stock market Wednesday.
And of course there was that giant sell off in artificial intelligence stocks and beyond, something called Deep Seek.
Don't worry, we will come back to that.