The Dow Gains More Than 1500 Points
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The Dow Gains More Than 1500 Points

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 4, 20261 min
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  • Business & money

Plus: Treasury yields sink lower. And CoreWeave stock falls after the Republican governors' losses in Texas and Ohio raised the potential for state-level policies that could slow the AI infrastructure buildout. Alexis Moore 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 our coll...

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Here's your closing bill brief for Wednesday, November 4th. I'm Alexis Moore for The Wall Street Journal. Treasury yields fell today following the Democratic Party's overwhelming win in the U.S. midterm elections.

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The 10-year Treasury yield fell to 4.9 percent. The Dow gained more than 1,500 points, or 3 percent. The Nasdaq added 1.4 percent, and the S&P 500 was up 1.6 percent. People prices fell after Vice President J.D. Vance blamed Republican midterm losses on

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the U.S.-Iran war. Brent crude futures dropped 8.7 percent, to $94.62 a barrel. Among individual companies, core-weave stock dropped nearly 10 percent after Republican governors lost in Texas and Ohio.

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