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…
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’s $1.2 Trillion Windfall Quietly Seeps Into Global Markets
(Bloomberg) — A record trade surplus racked up by China is washing up around the world, as export…
OpenAI, Microsoft Lose Last Chance to Avoid Trial With Musk
Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft failed to escape a trial over Elon Musk’s claims…
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…
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…
Is the AI Boom a Bubble Waiting to Pop? Here’s What History Says
Photographer: Liesa Johannssen/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — As the artificial intelligence trade continues to push the stock market to new…
Emerging-Market Stock Index Nears Five-Year High on AI Bids
Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Emerging-market stocks kicked off 2026 with their strongest start in years, climbing close to a…