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5 min read🎙️ The Voices & The Context
- The Format: This is a fast-paced, daily news podcast from the Wall Street Journal—a structured rundown of the top business and world headlines. It’s less a casual chat and more a professional, tightly-edited briefing.
- The Key Players: The host is Alex Ossola, a WSJ reporter who delivers the news with a crisp, authoritative tone. There are no guests in the main segment, though a WSJ reporter, Esther Fung, provides a first-person account of riding in a driverless truck.
- The Vibe: Educational and Informative, with a dash of fun. The tone is serious when covering geopolitics or market moves, but playful when discussing the Knicks’ stock surge or the fashion faux pas of Wall Street bankers.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:00) **Market Update: Tech Stocks Rebound**
- 2 (01:31) **NY Knicks in the NBA Finals: Stock Surge**
- 3 (02:10) **Trump to Attend Game 3: Security Preparations**
- 4 (02:53) **Apple WWDC: AI Focus, No Surprises**
- 5 (03:52) **Driverless Trucks: PepsiCo's Autonomous Fleet**
- 6 (05:43) **H1B Visa Fee Ruling: Judge Blocks $100,000 Charge**
- 7 (06:34) **Middle East: Israel-Iran Ceasefire After Trump Intervention**
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Show Notes
P.M. Edition for June 8. Pepsi has rolled out 35 driverless trucks to ship Cheetos, Doritos, and other products on the public roads in Arizona. Journal reporter Esther Fung took a ride in one. Plus, a judge invalidated the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee for new H-1B visas. And as the World Cup kicks off across 16 North American cities this week, occupancy rates in U.S. hotels are lagging behind. We hear about the reasons why from WSJ real estate reporter Kate King, and what it means for the economic boost cities were hoping for from the World Cup. Alex Ossola hosts.
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