2025-03-22
6 分钟Hey, listeners, it's Saturday, March 22nd.
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.
Well,
it looks
like we made it through the week without any big trade drama coming from the White House compared to recent weeks.
But even with things relatively quiet on the tariff front,
traders certainly had their fair share of news to digest.
There was Tuesday's tech sell off,
turmoil in the Middle east and developments around the war in Ukraine.
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday,
with most officials at the central bank still penciling in two rate cuts for the year and plenty of earnings reports along the way.
All in all, the major indexes managed to notch gains for the week,
with the S&P 500 rising half a percent,
the Dow gaining 1.2%, and the Nasdaq ending about 0.2% higher.
First up, let's talk about Affirm and Klarna,
two of the fintech players in the Buy now pay later space.
You've probably seen those options in your online shopping cart.
They do what it says on the 10.