Monday, January 25, 2021
Evening
- Stock futures down slightly ahead of busy day of corporate earnings
- Asian stocks set for soft start, dollar mostly steady
- Stimulus jitters dent Wall Street's early gains; Nasdaq hits record
- Dollar firm as jittery markets look to Fed for catalysts
- Biden says he is open to negotiating the proposed $1,400 COVID stimulus checks
- Covid live updates: NY to ease some restrictions after post-holiday spike; California lifts stay-at-home
- Minnesota confirms first known U.S. case of more contagious Covid variant originally found in Brazil
- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will resign amid pandemic and political turmoil
- Mania in stocks like GameStop, surging options activity suggest a market pullback is coming
- GameStop shares soar on short squeeze, then ease in wild trade session
- Covid live updates: NY to ease some restrictions after post-holiday spike; California lifts stay-at-home
- U.S. Suffers Sharpest Rise in Poverty Rate in More Than 50 Years
- Senate Confirms Yellen as Treasury Secretary as Stimulus Talks Loom
- Citadel, Point72 Back Melvin With $2.75 Billion After Losses
Afternoon
- S&P 500 rises slightly as investors await a busy week for earnings, Apple shares jump
- Nasdaq hits record high on big hopes for big-tech earnings
- Treasuries - U.S. yields tumble, curve flattens on nagging virus worries
- Schumer Aims to Pass Fresh Covid-19 Relief Plan by Mid-March
- Biden's COVID relief package faces opposition, less Republicans willing to 'stir the pot'
- Risk of 'vaccine-busting' coronavirus variants prompts tougher UK quarantine - Johnson
- GameStop Whipsawed by 150% Swing as Retail Traders, Shorts Feud
- Yi Says PBOC Will Balance Stabilizing Growth and Curbing Risks
- Italian Deficit May Reach 9.2% This Year as Covid Costs Pile Up
General
- Tech Stocks Rally; European Stocks Retreat: Markets Wrap
- Dollar steadies; euro hurt by vaccine delays and German business morale slump
- Gold prices perk up as government bond yields retreat
- Fed set to look beyond possible post-pandemic inflation shock
- Bubble Fears Everywhere But All Investors Can Do Is Keep Buying
- U.S. to escalate surveillance, study of coronavirus variants
- U.S. corporate buybacks are on the rise, lifting investor hopes
- Covid live updates: Merck ends its vaccine development; Google offers its offices for vaccination sites
- Pandemic aftershocks overwhelm global supply lines
- Goldman Team Sees ‘Unsustainable Excess’ in Parts of U.S. Market
- Goldman Sachs warns of a dangerous bubble in these 39 stocks
- An ‘aggressive’ fight over containers is causing shipping costs to rocket by 300%
- GameStop shares set to jump 50% in short-squeeze
- Xi Jinping warns against "new cold war" in Davos speech
- Explainer: South China Sea tension flares again as Biden takes charge
- Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests
- Biden to Push Congress on Stimulus After Senators Question Cost
- Roach: The Dollar's Crash Is Only Just Beginning
- Climate change: Global ice melting accelerates in line with ‘worst-case’ scenarios
- La Niña Roars, Unleashing Fire, Drought and Floods Worldwide
- Covid-19 Bill Negotiations Offer First Test of Biden’s Bipartisanship Effort
- Yellen Passed the Economic Stability Baton to Powell. Now, He’s Handing It Back.
- New Coronavirus Variants Complicate the Battle Against the Pandemic
- Bullish Stock Bets Explode as Major Indexes Repeatedly Set Records
- A China With More Clout Awaits Biden at the WTO
- China Overtakes U.S. as World’s Leading Destination for Foreign Direct Investment
- Top hedge funds reap biggest gains in a decade during pandemic
Evening
- Stock futures rise ahead of the busiest week of earnings
- Asian shares under pressure on rising coronavirus cases
- Asia Stocks Muted on Virus Concerns; Dollar Steady: Markets Wrap
- 'We can't wait:' Biden pushes U.S. Congress for $1.9 trillion in COVID-19 relief
- Pandemic-Era Central Banking Is Creating Bubbles Everywhere
- Biden to impose travel restrictions on South Africa, U.K. and Brazil to mitigate new Covid strains
- Big Oil hits brakes on search for new fossil fuels
- Top hedge funds earn $63.5 billion in 2020, highest in a decade: LCH data
- Bridgewater's Dalio sees U.S. divided, in 'terrible financial state'