Wall Street Grapples With New Risk: A European Buyers’ Strike
Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the elites gathered in Davos that…
France probes link between two baby deaths and milk formula as Irish-made products included in recall
It comes as batches of formula made in Ireland and distributed to the UK and EU are recalled…
CEOs Wary of a Jittery US Consumer as Global Tensions Intensify
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — As the US earnings season gathers momentum, early results are offering a…
An AI Debt Binge Is Set to Test Credit’s 1990s-Like Euphoria
(Bloomberg) — Credit investors who shrugged off an historic bout of global volatility this week are about to…
South Korea’s Surprise Contraction Points to Broad Fragility
(Bloomberg) — South Korea’s economy shrank in the final quarter of 2025 due to a broad pullback in…
Disco Shares Soar Most Since April on Booming AI Chip Demand
Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Disco Corp. shares jumped as much as 15% after the supplier of chipmaking tools reported…
Danish Pension Fund AkademikerPension to Exit US Treasuries
US Treasury dataset on “Long-Term Securities Held by Foreign Residents” (Bloomberg) — The Danish pension fund AkademikerPension is…
China pushes slow bull run with tightened margin financing rules to fight overheating
China’s move to raise margin requirements for leveraged stock trading signalled regulators’ push to steer clear of boom-and-bust…
TSMC’s Strong Outlook Fires Up Hopes of Sustained AI Boom
Bloomberg, company filings (Bloomberg) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is earmarking as much as $56 billion in capital…
China’s Coal Imports Fall Sharply as Domestic Output and Renewables Rise
China’s coal imports booked a decline last year, at 9.6% from 2024 to a total of 490 million…
The World’s Copper Squeeze Is Set to Intensify on AI and Defense Spending, S&P Says
(Bloomberg) — The race for artificial intelligence and surging defense spending are set to intensify a projected shortage…
Samsung’s Profit Triples After AI Supercharges Memory Market
(Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s quarterly profit more than tripled to a record high after global demand for…