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With markets back near record highs, it's a good time to make sure you aren't kidding yourself.
Global economic updates, market sentiment, and financial headlines.

Komal Sri-Kumar, Sri-Kumar Global Strategies president, and Sylvia Jablonski, Defiance ETFs co-founder and CIO, join 'Squawk Box' to discuss the December retail sales data, impact on the Fed's interest rate decision, state of the economy, and more.

With markets back near record highs, it's a good time to make sure you aren't kidding yourself.

Dewardric McNeal, Senior Policy Analyst at Longview Global, and Marc Chandler, Managing Director at Bannockburn Global Forex, discuss China's financial leverage signaling as markets downplay Treasury risks and FX reflects growing concerns about trust in the dollar.

Value sectors lift US stocks with the Dow at a record high, Nasdaq nearing its 50-day MA, and standout moves from Disney, AmEx, TSMC, and Coca-Cola driving market focus.

White House Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro joins ‘Mornings with Maria' to discuss record-setting market gains, and how President Donald Trump's trade, tax and energy policies are fueling economic growth.

President Donald Trump said that Kevin Warsh, his pick to lead the Federal Reserve, can get the US economy to 15% growth and maybe even above that level during an interview with Fox Business. Tyler Kendall reports on Bloomberg Television.

Concerns that artificial intelligence could disrupt large parts of the software industry have started to spill into credit markets, Morgan Stanley warned, as software accounts for about 16%, or $235 billion, of the $1.5 trillion U.S. loan market.

“This is jobless growth that's coming through into America,” says Frances Donald, chief economist at Royal Bank of Canada, as she sees US economic growth in 2026 driven by capex and government spending and not requiring a significant amount of job growth. -------- More on Bloomberg Television and Markets Like this video?

US retail sales unexpectedly stalled in December coming in unchanged. Eight out of 13 retail categories saw decreases during the holiday season.

European indices on the back foot early for Tuesday, as we are trying to find enough momentum to continue the overall upward trend.

US stocks moved higher on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting another all-time high, as investors digested weaker-than-expected retail sales data and looked ahead to key labor market and inflation reports later in the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 239 points, or about 0.5%, extending its recent run of record highs.

Kenya's central bank cut its key lending rate as East Africa's largest economy continued a policy-loosening cycle to boost private-sector lending and economic growth.

Economists had been expecting sales to increase despite concerns about a fragile consumer economy.

Even with a roughly 2% gain in the MSCI World Index last month, performance diverged across companies and managers as the AI trade broadened and brief macro volatility tested discipline. Markets continued to reward fundamentals over narrative, reinforcing that company investments—particularly in AI—must translate into returns.

Jay Woods is back at the NYSE desk to discuss the rotation trade underway in the markets. He and Diane King Hall points to the Dow's 50k new-high as evidence of being in a "strong, secular bull market.

Sales at U.S retailers fizzled at the end of the holiday shopping season, suggesting consumers worried about the economy might be cutting back on spending as a new year got underway.

Stocks rebounded as volatility subsided, with the equally weighted S&P 500 hitting a new all-time high amid strong Q4 earnings. Market breadth is improving, but upcoming retail sales, jobs, and CPI reports will test the bullish narrative.

Stocks, commodities, junk bonds, precious metals, and crypto assets all leapt together into late 2025. Now, Bitcoin, the crypto leader, is down 44% since October, and the broader crypto market has vaporized trillions in notional value while billions flow out of crypto-based Exchange-Traded Funds.

Consumers activity slowed sharply for the December holiday shopping season amid a spate of rough weather and persistently higher inflation, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

U.S. retail sales were unexpectedly unchanged in December, putting consumer spending and the overall economy on a slower growth path heading into the new year.
Big Tech's 2026 capex guidance — led by AMZN, GOOGL, META — signals another aggressive investment cycle, driving bullish prospects for semiconductors. Memory remains in a super cycle: HBM demand is surging, DRAM supply is tight, and sellers like MU, SK Hynix, and Samsung should benefit through 2026.

The S&P 500 has sustained a mostly orderly, upward trend since the end of 2023. That's a really strange thing to consider because the index nearly saw order within the market breakdown in early 2025.

Ahead of the bell: Dow set to plough further into record territory US equity futures edged cautiously higher on Tuesday, keeping markets within touching distance of fresh highs after the Dow's latest record close. However, the tone was measured rather than euphoric.

The dreaded bear-market predictor isn't so ominous, after all.

The new year picked up where the last left off, with equity market leadership in January undergoing a rotation. The Russell 1000 Value Index outpaced the Russell 1000 Growth Index by six percentage points in price terms, while the small cap Russell 2000 Index returned roughly four percentage points more than the large cap Russell 1000 Index.

It's been mostly guesswork up until this point of how hard Trump's tariffs and other policies have influenced consumers.

Myrmikan Capital's Daniel Oliver says we're in the first phase of a massive bull market and the second could come fast.

US stocks edge higher in premarket as tech rebounds, with traders watching retail sales, earnings, NFP and CPI for clues on market direction.

Alphabet's AI-fueled bond sale, Holtec poised for biggest nuclear IPO in years, Fed's Miran optimistic on fiscal outlook and economic growth, and more news to start your day.

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As of Feb. 10, 2026, three stocks in the communication services sector could be flashing a real warning to investors who value momentum as a key criteria in their trading decisions.

The Shanghai-based company reported a 61% rise in fourth-quarter net profit from a year earlier to $172.85 million, above the $139.5 million expected of analysts polled by FactSet.

Major U.S. indexes were steady premarket following a surge in tech stocks during the previous session, as a Japan-led rally in Asian equity markets stalled in Europe.

A significant sell-off in software stocks has been triggered by investor concerns that powerful new AI coding tools from Anthropic PBC and OpenAI LLC could disrupt the industry. While the sell-off may be an overreaction, it is shining a spotlight on fundamental problems within the software sector that investors can no longer afford to ignore.

Implied volatilities diverged across asset classes last week as crypto, Tech, and silver continued to sell off while gold and small-cap stocks rebounded. While the VIX® index ended last week relatively unchanged at 17.8%, there was significant volatility underneath the index surface as we saw meaningful moves on earnings as well as increased sector and factor rotation.

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." Chapters: 00:00:00 - MLIV 00:00:06 - Trump Says Kevin Warsh Can Drive 15% Growth 00:01:36 - Market Sentiment 00:02:44 - European Stocks Outperformance, Bitcoin Price -------- More on Bloomberg Television and Markets Like this video?

Nikkei 225 hits another record high

The 10-year Treasury yield inched lower as investors looked ahead to retail sales data for December. Retail sales for December is expected to tick up 0.4% month-on-month, according to economists polled by Reuters.

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"Impossible" to move 40% of chip supply chain from Taiwan to the U.S., the island says. China lashes out at the U.K.'s expansion of a visa scheme for Hong Kong residents.

Wall Street rebounded during Monday's session with strong performances from tech giants Oracle, Broadcomm and Nvidia. Asian equities have followed suit but Europe is set to open flat.

Value stocks outperformed growth by a wide margin, while large-cap technology names increasingly served as sources of funds for smaller-cap, value-oriented, and non-US equities. From feast to famine and back again, SPYM - the lowest fee S&P 500 ETF from State Street SPDRs - had a roller coaster week.

US stock futures edged lower in the Asian session as traders awaited US data and earnings, while Fed rate-cut bets and strong Asian markets supported the medium-term outlook.

The US dollar is opening the week on a sharp descent, with few catalysts to show for it. Gold is now back comfortably above $5,000 in today's rise (and even $5,100!

The high-stakes January 2026 Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP) report, now set for release on February 11, 2026, has a consensus forecast of +70,000 jobs. The report includes annual benchmark revisions to 2025 data, which could be key.

Michael Grimes is leaving the government to return to Morgan Stanley and work on possibly the biggest initial public offering ever.

High valuations and a weakening dollar are boosting bets that America's lead over other global markets will shrink.

Matt Hougan, Bitwise Asset Management CIO, and Will Rhind, GraniteShares founder and CEO, discuss this year's crypto volatility and if it's changing the investment strategy for ETF investors, the ETF trends they're watching and more.

Sam Stovall covers the broad market action, noting that “February is the second-worst month of the year,” and that along with a midterm election year signals a potential soft patch in the back half of the month. Traditionally, markets take a “deeper dive” from May through the summer, and then come back in the fall, usually finishing higher, he notes.