Investors Shake Off Fears of AI Growth Slowdown
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Investors Shake Off Fears of AI Growth Slowdown

B1IntermediateOctober 9, 20261 min
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Plus: Oil prices remain high after reports of more strikes on vessels near the Strait of Hormuz. And telecom giants’ shares sink after SpaceX makes a big play to build a mobile network. Pierre Bienaimé 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 about o...

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Here's your closing bill brief for Friday, October 9th. I'm Pierre Bienemay for The Wall Street Journal. US stocks ended the week on a positive note after President Trump promised not to attack Iran before the midterms.

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The NASDAQ, Dow and S&P 500 all rose between 0.5% and 1%. The NASDAQ seems to shake off concerns about the pace of AI growth that weighed on tech stocks yesterday. Civil prices cooled after President Trump's comments, but increased attacks near the

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Strait of Hormuz have kept Brent crude prices well above $100 a barrel, including today, when they ended at $104.72. And among individual stocks, shares in Elon Musk's SpaceX climbed one and a quarter percent after the company struck a deal for cellular spectrum licenses in a big play to build

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