What’s News in Markets: Home Depot Delivers, Nvidia Wobbles

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  Hey listeners, it's Saturday, March 1st.

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  I'm Francesca Fontana for the Wall Street Journal, and this is what's News in Markets,

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  our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.

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  Let's get to it to refresh our memories.

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  Stocks logged gains for January and a strong start to 2025, but trade drama continued,

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  inflation and AI competition fears did not do us any favors in February.

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  This week, for instance, Nvidia's positive results still managed to cause a sell off.

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  And we had more tariff threats from President Trump and retaliation threats from China,

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  not to mention the tense meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,

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  after which stocks wobbled before they recovered late Friday afternoon.

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  All in all, the three major indexes ended the week mixed, and for the month of February,

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  The S&P 500 and the Dow each fell about 1.5%, while the Nasdaq dropped nearly 4%.

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  We got some fresh earnings reports this week, including from Home Depot, the home improvement giant.

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  Even the less handy among us certainly know the orange logo.

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  Home Depot delivered a better than expected quarter,

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  beating Wall Street's expectations for quarterly sales and profit,

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  and the company said it's increasing its quarterly dividend to $2.30 a share.

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