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These Stocks Moved the Most Today: Nvidia, StubHub, Workday, Lyft, IonQ, Netflix, and More

Sep 17, 2025 05:38:00 -0400 by Joe Woelfel | #Markets

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Stocks stalled Wednesday after the Federal Reserve took a cautious approach by trimming interest rates by a quarter percentage point, just as Wall Street had anticipated. The central bank also signaled it would be making an additional two cuts later this year.

These stocks made notable moves Wednesday:

Nvidia fell 2.6% after a report from the Financial Times said China’s internet regulator had banned the country’s biggest tech companies from buying its artificial-intelligence chips. The Cyberspace Administration of China told TikTok parent ByteDance and e-commerce giant Alibaba, among others, to end testing and orders of Nvidia’s tailored-made products for China, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

“We can only be in service of a market if a country wants us to be,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at a press conference in London.

“I’m disappointed with what I see but they have larger agendas to work out between China and the United States,” Huang added. “I’m patient about it. We’ll continue to be supportive of the Chinese government and Chinese companies as they wish.”

StubHub Holdings opened at $25.35 in the stock’s trading debut Wednesday. Its initial public offering was priced at $23.50. Shares of the popular marketplace for ticket resales were down 6.4% at $22 after rising earlier in the session.

Workday jumped 7.3% after activist investor Elliott Investment Management disclosed a $2 billion stake in the human relations software company. Elliott praised Workday’s CEO Carl Eschenbach and said the company was “a unique software franchise with industry-leading growth potential, best-in-class customer retention and a proven management team.”

Tesla was up 1% after ending the previous session with a gain of 2.8% and extending its winning streak to six consecutive days. It has risen 22% over the span, according to Dow Jones Market Data. One reason for the stock’s recent gains was CEO Elon Musk’s $1 billion purchase of the electric-vehicle maker’s shares.

Lyft and Alphabet’s Waymo announced they would be expanding their fully autonomous ride-hailing service to Nashville in 2026. Lyft shares surged 13%, while Alphabet declined 0.7%. Lyft’s larger rival, Uber Technologies, fell 5%.

FedEx fell 0.8% to $225.78 after it was downgraded by Evercore ISI to In Line from Outperform. Analysts cut their price target on the shares to $243 from $249, saying “ongoing demand headwinds” were “likely to provide greater risk to near-term EPS estimates.” FedEx is scheduled to report earnings on Thursday.

Netflix rose 2.3% to $1,228.50 after it was upgraded to Buy from Hold at Loop Capital. The analysts also raised their price target on the streaming giant to $1,350 from $1,150.

Oracle was down 1.7%. Shares closed up 1.5% on Tuesday after The Wall Street Journal reported that under an emerging deal TikTok’s U.S. business would be controlled by an investor consortium, including Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz, with the database-software company handling user data at its facilities in Texas.

IonQ rose 5.1%. The quantum-computing company said it had completed the acquisition of British start-up Oxford Ionics for $1.075 billion. The deal earned clearance from the U.K. Investment Security Unit last week. IonQ also said it reached a deal to acquire Vector Atomic, the maker of quantum-sensing technology, for $250 million in an all-stock transaction.

General Mills, the owner of brands such as Betty Crocker and Cheerios, was down 0.8% after reporting fiscal first-quarter earnings that topped analysts’ estimates and reaffirming its fiscal 2026 outlook. First-quarter sales, however, fell 6.8% from a year earlier.

Write to Joe Woelfel at joseph.woelfel@barrons.com and Mackenzie Tatananni at mackenzie.tatananni@barrons.com