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
Terra front, traders certainly had their fair share of news to digest.
There was two states, Texo 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 index is matched to notch gains for the week, with the S&P 500
rising half a percent, the Dow gaining 1.2 percent, and the NASDAQ ending about 0.2 percent
higher.
First up, let's talk about a firm and clarna.
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 you buy now and then you pay later in installments.
Well, since 2019, Walmart, the U.S. retail giant, had partnered with a firm to offer its
customers those installment plans, but on Monday, we learned that Walmart is rolling