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Hey, listeners, it's Saturday, December 20th.
I'm Francesca Fontana for The Wall Street Journal, and this is What's News in Markets,
our look at the biggest stock moons of the week and the news that drove them.
Let's get to it.
It wouldn't be the holiday season for the stock market without traders hoping for positive momentum to spark a Santa Claus rally.
During the week, our last full trading week before Christmas, stocks were trying for fresh records.
with some fresh optimism fueling a rally Thursday after an encouraging inflation readout.
An end-of-year rally would be a welcome gift to the market,
given how a cloudy economic picture and persistent AI-related jitters have been weighing on stocks.
On a weekly basis, the major indexes ended mixed.
The Dow lost 0.7 percent, while the S&P 500 edged 0.1 percent higher,
and the Nasdaq rose half a percent.
Speaking of AI jitters, let's look at Micron,
the memory chip maker whose latest earnings report brought some good news to the semiconductor sector.