The Wall Street Journal
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Business news with market-moving context.
WSJ What’s News moves quickly through the day’s major business and political stories. Its episodes pair headline summaries with reported segments on markets, policy, global security, consumer prices, technology, housing, and elections.
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WSJ What’s News is a compact Wall Street Journal briefing for people who follow business, politics, markets, and global events as connected systems. It is built for speed. Weekday editions move through consequential headlines of the day, then pause long enough to explain the market, policy, or geopolitical stakes behind them. The show’s center of gravity is business news, but its range is wider than a stock-market roundup. One episode can move from AI coding-tool discounts to airfares, Iran sanctions, an earnings reaction, and a building at risk of collapse. Another can connect NATO spending, Trump administration pressure, price cuts, manufacturing, and investor searches for opportunity beyond the AI trade. The pacing is efficient and reportorial. Segments often bring in Wall Street Journal reporters to clarify what is still uncertain, what investors are watching, or why a policy fight matters beyond politics. Markets coverage is especially steady, with attention to oil, indexes, banks, tech stocks, chip demand, consumer spending, and interest-rate expectations. Politics appears through elections, congressional votes, immigration, Catholic voters, NATO diplomacy, and the strategic choices facing both parties. International stories are treated as business stories too, especially when war, shipping corridors, tariffs, energy prices, or alliance politics affect markets. The Sunday editions stretch the format. They take bigger questions, such as homeownership and the American dream, and connect present-day affordability problems to older economic policy choices. Saturday markets episodes are tighter and more numbers-forward, following weekly stock moves and the news that drove them. Across formats, the show keeps a clean editorial voice rather than a chatty one. It is useful for listeners who want more than headlines but do not want a sprawling discussion. The show’s strength is compression: quick enough for a commute, substantial enough to leave a listener with a working map of the day.
Made for: For listeners who track markets, politics, global risk, and corporate decisions but want the essentials quickly. It also suits readers who prefer reported explanation over opinion-heavy discussion.
What sets it apart: The show connects breaking headlines to money, policy, and practical consequences in a tight daily format. Its Wall Street Journal reporter segments give short briefings more depth than a headline scan.
What's News brings you the biggest news of the day, from business and finance to global and political developments that move markets. Get caught up in minutes twice a day on weekdays, then take a step back with our What’s News in Markets wrap-up on Saturday and our What’s News Sunday deep dive.
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A clear-eyed look at how the American dream of owning a home got harder to reach.
This episode treats homeownership as both inheritance and aspiration, using family history and policy history to ask why that part of the American dream can feel harder to reach.
Wood Mackenzie's Ed Crooks and analysts unpack power markets, data centers, and energy geopolitics.
Three freight and logistics headlines delivered in under four minutes, most weekdays.
This episode covers a landmark California jury verdict finding Meta and YouTube negligent for designing apps that harm kids, ordering $6 million in damages, and discusses related legal developments.
This episode covers major global news including a deadly plane crash at LaGuardia Airport, Iran's missile debut, Cuba's blackout crisis, and escalating tensions in the Middle East with Trump's ultimatum over the Strait of Hormuz.
This episode examines how rising fuel prices, a DHS shutdown, and the war in Iran are making air travel more expensive, inconvenient, and risky for summer travelers.
This episode analyzes recent market declines, including corrections in major indexes, bearish investor sentiment, and legal pressures on tech stocks like Meta and Alphabet.
This episode discusses conflicting reports about potential U.S.-Iran talks to end the war, market reactions to Trump's comments, and a Supreme Court case on mail-in ballots.
This episode covers news including Senate negotiations on TSA funding, oil market dynamics with reduced refinery runs in the Middle East, and a free trade deal between the EU and Australia.
This episode covers Republican funding proposals for DHS excluding ICE, AI's impact on jobs according to CFO surveys, and how bankers view opportunities in the private credit meltdown.
This episode covers a landmark verdict where Netta was found liable for failing to protect young people from online dangers like explicit content and human trafficking, with analysis from a tech reporter.
This episode covers business and geopolitical headlines including the Nasdaq entering correction territory, rising U.S.
The Senate has passed legislation to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, potentially ending the airport security crisis and pay issues for TSA workers.
President Trump uses executive action to pay TSA workers amid Congressional gridlock over Department of Homeland Security funding, highlighting political tensions over immigration enforcement.
This episode discusses Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's stance on maintaining steady interest rates despite oil price shocks, while exploring turmoil in private credit markets and potential inclusion in 401(k) plans.
The UAE is preparing to join the Iran war by helping the U.S.
This episode analyzes the week's biggest stock market movements, focusing on declines in gold, Micron Technology, and Supermicro Computer, while also discussing oil price volatility and the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision.
This episode covers President Trump's push for a speedy diplomatic end to the Iran war, his shifting focus to domestic issues like midterms and voter eligibility, and related business news including oil trading and Rio Tinto's exit from diamonds.
This episode explores the concept of agentic AI, discussing how AI agents can perform tasks like making reservations and executing actions on behalf of users, while examining their business applications and associated risks.
This episode covers rising U.S.
This episode analyzes how the potential end of the Iran war sparked a stock market rally after a poor quarterly performance, driven by concerns over oil prices, economic growth, and Federal Reserve interest rate cuts.
This episode covers the deployment of U.S.
WSJ What’s News PM edition from April 1st covers four major stories: Supreme Court arguments on birthright citizenship with justices expressing skepticism toward the Trump administration’s attempt to reinterpret the 14th Amendment; SpaceX’s confidential IPO filing with a target of raising $40-80 billion in what could be the largest IPO in history; Anthropic’s accidental leak of Claude Code’s proprietary system prompt to GitHub; and NASA’s Artemis II mission launching to send four astronauts around the moon for the first time since Apollo in 1972.
WSJ What's News AM edition covers President Trump's national address defending the month-old US war in Iran, in which he claimed military objectives are nearly complete while markets responded skeptically.
Trump's account of a conversation with Kevin Warsh raises questions about Fed independence and presidential influence.
The Wall Street Journal’s Alex Osola examines how Illinois and five other states are restricting AI therapy, while New York and California consider similar laws.
President Trump calls his planned pressure campaign against Iran an "economic D-Day," but Russia, China, Dubai, and global oil markets complicate enforcement.
John Torres separates chatbot danger into immediate errors and slower harms caused by overtrust and emotional attachment.
WSJ's 'What's News' closes its USA 250 series with 'Owning a Piece of America,' tracing U.S.
This episode analyzes the upcoming midterm elections, exploring how Democrats and Republicans are positioning themselves amid internal fractures and the influence of anti-Trump sentiment versus policy issues.
This episode covers the week's stock market performance, highlighting record highs in major indexes despite geopolitical tensions, driven by tech stocks and AI demand, while noting contrasting trends in oil markets.
This episode discusses the impact of Iran declaring the Strait of Hormuz open on global markets and the ongoing U.S.-Iran tensions, featuring analysis from a national security correspondent.
This episode covers House Republicans breaking with President Trump on national security and immigration votes, along with updates on an Israel-Lebanon ceasefire and Ford's potential partnerships with Chinese car makers.
The Pentagon is urging U.S.
This episode discusses the 10-day ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, brokered by President Trump, and explores the implications for regional peace, Hezbollah's role, and U.S.
This episode covers Maine becoming the first U.S.
This episode discusses the escalating political standoff between the White House and the Federal Reserve, focusing on President Trump's threats to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell and how this complicates the confirmation process for nominee Kevin Warsh.
This episode discusses how recent earnings from major U.S.
This episode analyzes whether Millennials truly have it worse economically than Boomers, while also covering Saudi Arabia's push to end the U.S.
This episode covers the U.S.
This episode covers the U.S.
This episode discusses the vulnerability of key economic sectors amid new shocks, including AI boom, private credit health, and oil price volatility due to Middle East conflict.
A news roundup covering the week's biggest stock moves, driven by geopolitical events and economic data.
The episode covers the White House's efforts to contain Israel's war in Lebanon ahead of talks with Iran, President Trump's mixed messages on oil tanker tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, and the stakes for MAGA in Hungary's election.
This episode covers rising inflation, President Trump's promise of pardons, Iran's leverage in peace talks, and astronauts preparing for a moon mission.
This episode covers the latest global news, including the Lebanon ceasefire as a sticking point, oil price surges due to Strait of Hormuz disruptions, and market selloffs.
A daily news roundup covering Israel's peace talks with Lebanon, relative calm in the Persian Gulf, rising HOA and condo fees, and a British naval operation against Russia.
The episode covers the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement, its impact on markets, and a DNA-based approach to weight loss with GLP-1 drugs.
The episode covers the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, market reactions, TikTok's European regulatory challenges, and a political race update.
This episode covers President Trump's threats against Iran, workers retiring instead of learning AI, and the White House keeping Kristi Noem's jet.
A morning news roundup covering the Iran-US standoff over the Strait of Hormuz, market reactions, and Bill Ackman's bid for a music company.
This episode covers President Trump's deadline for Iran, a report on the growing upper middle class, and a record set by Artemis astronauts.
This episode covers President Trump's threats against Iran, Jamie Dimon's inflation warning, and U.S.
A weekly roundup of the biggest stock moves and market news, covering index performance, oil prices, jobs report, and M&A activity.
A daily news roundup covering top headlines including geopolitical tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and AI agents in investing.
This episode covers the breaking news of Iran shooting down a US F-15E fighter jet, along with a strong US jobs report and Maine's freeze on data center construction.
This episode covers the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi, private credit fund struggles, and OpenAI entering news.