Morning News: January 30, 2025

Europe’s Insurers May Face New Capital Rules for Climate Risk

Rally in Middle East Oil Has Traders Piling In at Record Level

Tariffs Won’t Sink Canadian Oil Companies

Shell and Equinor Production Blocked at 2 Sites Off British Coast

Shell Keeps $3.5 Billion Buyback Amid Earnings Miss

EU’s Frontline Nations See €100 Billion in Urgent Defense Needs

ECB Cuts Rates With Economy at a Standstill

Mexico Economy Shrinks for First Time Since 2021 as Risks Rise

Trump’s Tariffs Scramble Fed’s Interest Rate Calculus

Treasuries Rise as Traders Eye US Data After Little Fed Guidance

White House Considers Dozens of New Ways to Seize Spending Power

Trump Keeps World Waiting on Tariffs, Tries to Hash Out a Plan

Tariffs Dominate Earnings Calls With Firms Bracing for Fallout

Sahm: Even Talking About Tariffs Can Cause Inflation

Wealth Adviser Builds $11 Billion Fortune on Goldman, TPG Deals

Goldman Is Selling a Wealth-Advisory Unit to $240 Billion Money Manager

Pentagon Launches Probe of Air Crash in Hegseth’s First Big Test

DeepSeek’s AI Triumph Shouldn’t Deep-Six Chip Curbs

Microsoft Has Kind Words for DeepSeek AI, Offers It to Customers

SoftBank in Talks to Invest Up to $25 Billion in OpenAI

Meta Gains After Zuckerberg Predicts ‘Really Big Year’ in AI

Apple’s Flagging AI Hopes Get Revival From DeepSeek’s Emergence

Russian Oligarch Held Stake in Musk’s SpaceX Through Trust While He Was Sanctioned

Bill Gates Isn’t Like Those Other Tech Billionaires

Comcast Sales, Profit Beat as ‘Wicked’ Lifts Film Studio

UPS Shares Sink on Disappointing Forecast for Parcel Demand

Cigna Tumbles After Quarterly Profit Hit by Medical Costs

The Internet Almost Killed Barnes & Noble, Then Saved It

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Posted by on January 30th, 2025 at 7:04 am


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