Dow Climbs Amid Hopes for Hormuz Deal
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Dow Climbs Amid Hopes for Hormuz Deal

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 20261 min
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Crude oil prices fall after reports of talks between the U.S. and Iran. Plus, Nanexa's stock more than doubles after Novo Nordisk signs an exclusive deal for the Swedish company's drug-delivery technology. Julie Chang hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information abou...

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Here's your closing bell brief for Friday, September 25. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall

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market, rising nearly 1%. The S&P 500 and the NASDAQ each added about 0.5%. Crude oil prices

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Here's your closing bell brief for Friday, September 25. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. US stocks gained ground today as a global bond sell-off paused. The Dow led the market, rising nearly 1%. The S&P 500 and the NASDAQ each added about 0.5%. Crude oil prices fell following reports of diplomatic talks between the US and Iran and hopes for a deal

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to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, slightly higher consumer sentiment figures out today kept inflation concerns in focus. Among individual stocks, shares of Akamai technologies closed up over 3%.

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The surge followed news of an $11.6 billion cloud services deal between Akamai and Enthropic. The Nexus stock more than doubled today, after Novo Nordisk agreed to pay up to $1.3 billion for the Swedish company's drug delivery technology. And shares of People closed up over 11 percent, after the journal reported that People is

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