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The Fast Five → Trump rocks Europe with tariff threat over Greenland, CEOs at Davos brace for Trump, Trump threatens to sue JPMorgan Chase, gold and silver jump to record highs, and NYSE to launch 24/7 tokenized trading…
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Today:
Wkly Employment Change (tent.)
Tomorrow:
Pending Home Sales, 10:00A
Your 5-minute briefing for Tuesday, Jan 20:
BEFORE THE OPEN
As of market close 1/16/2026. Bitcoin as of 1/29/2026.
Pre-Market:
US Investor % Bullish Sentiment:
↑ 49.50% for Week of JAN 15 2026
Previous week: 42.49%
Market Wrap:
S&P -0.06%, Nasdaq -0.06%, Dow -83 after Trump Fed chair comments
Trump cooled on Hassett and prediction markets shifted to Kevin Warsh
Fed independence worries stayed an overhang
Chips stayed bid on TSMC strength and the US-Taiwan $250B deal
Banks lagged with JPM and BofA -5% on card-cap worries
Geopolitics stayed noisy with Iran tension and Greenland tariff threats
Week ended lower S&P -0.4%, Dow -0.3%, Nasdaq -0.7%
EARNINGS
Here’s what we’re watching today:
Today: *United Airlines $UAL ( ▲ 2.14% )
Netflix $NFLX ( ▼ 2.18% ) - $.55 eps (+27.9% YoY), on $11.97B revenue (+16.8% YoY)
WED: *Charles Schwab $SCHW ( ▲ 0.88% ), *Johnson & Johnson $JNJ ( ▼ 0.36% )
THU: Capital One $COF ( ▲ 0.9% ), *McCormick $MKC ( ▼ 1.65% )
*GE Aerospace $GE ( ▲ 2.16% ) - $1.44 eps (+9% YoY) on $11.2B revenue (+13.4% YoY)
Intel $INTC ( ▲ 11.71% ) - $.08 eps (-38.5% YoY) on $13.4B revenue (-6.2% YoY)
A MESSAGE FROM STANSBERRY RESEARCH
Gold Hoarding Could Send Gold EVEN HIGHER
Many are wondering why so many countries are frantically buying gold right now.
The truth is that this is just the beginning of a much larger story...
One that could send gold soaring to even bigger highs in the coming months. But the best way to cash in on gold's upside potential might surprise you.
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HEADLINES
Donald Trump always puts himself at center stage when he travels abroad, but the US president made sure his foray to Davos this week will be particularly dramatic.
Some of the biggest names on Wall Street have recently announced tokenization initiatives.
US stock futures sink after Trump's tariff shock (more)
Markets on edge as Trump threatens more tariffs on EU over Greenland (more)
EU has a $8T 'Sell America' bazooka to hit back at Trump (more)
CEOs at Davos brace for Trump (more)
BlackRock’s Larry Fink says Davos feels ‘out of step’ to many (more)
Trump threatens to sue JPMorgan Chase for ‘debanking’ him (more)
Dollar at week low as geopolitics revive 'Sell America' trade (more)
Gold, silver jump to record highs amid US-EU crisis (more)
China’s stock market ‘overheats’ amid record high turnover (more)
Tesla to be early winner as Canada opens door to China EVs (more)
Musk seeks up to $134B from OpenAI and Microsoft (more)
Micron says AI-driven memory crunch is ‘unprecedented’ (more)
Andreessen Horowitz makes $3B bet against an AI bubble (more)
Sequoia to join funding round for AI startup Anthropic (more)
Hohn breaks Citadel’s record with $18.9B trading profit (more)
DEALFLOW
M+A | Investments
Arteris closes acquisition of Cycuity
Cloudflare acquires Astro
Plume acquires Sweepr
Revive Infrastructure Group receives investment from St. Cloud Capital
Unifyr receives $20M investment
VC
Renewa, a renewable energy land financing company, raised $502M in funding
ClickHouse, a provider of real-time data warehousing and AI infrastructure solutions, raised $400M in Series D funding
Noveon Magnetics, Inc., a rare earth magnets manufacturer, raised $215M in Series C funding
Tulip, a frontline operations platform, raised $120M in Series D funding
Cytotheryx, Inc., a cell therapy company developing treatments for liver disease, raised $60M in Series A funding
Fleetzero, a marine technology company, raised $43M in Series A funding
Transition Metal Solutions, a startup supporting copper production, raised $6M in Seed funding
CRYPTO
BULLISH BITES
🇨🇭 Trump is going to Davos — here are the big names who aren’t.
🤦🏻♀️ Where Meta's metaverse vision went wrong.
🇨🇳 Chinese AI developers say they can’t beat America without better chips.
💁🏼♂️ Stay-at-home sons are here — and they're not going anywhere.
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