2025-03-15
6 分钟Hey listeners!
It's Saturday, March 15th.
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.
Welcome back, everybody.
Hope you made it through this week in Markets in one piece.
What was it in a word?
A doozy.
Well, maybe that's two words.
What was the week about in a few words?
Recession fears and trade.
Recession fears were in the foreground for many companies' earnings reports.
For instance, coals joined the growing chorus of retailers,
warning of slowing household spending this year, and the stock on Tuesday plummeted 24%.
Plus on Friday,
we saw that the University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment fell to its lowest level since November 2022,
so not great.
And we'll get into the trade war stuff in a bit, but minor spoiler alert, it was Thursday,
the day the European Union got more terror threats from Trump, that the S&P 500 closed in correction territory.