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Amazon announced 16,000 layoffs today. The number of employees at Amazon DOUBLED, went from 800,000 to 1.6 million in two years. Amazon is an example of that. Amazon also announced updates to its main line of AI models, called Nova. The company also plans to let customers bring more data to bear when customizing models.

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Mastercard and Visa are two of the leading payment solution providers. Mastercard has exceeded the Zacks EPS Consensus for 18 consecutive quarters. Visa stock sports a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) at the moment, with Mastercard shares landing a ZACK Rank #3 (Hold) Visa stock is up +12% year to date to outpace Mastercards +8%. Mastercard stock is still a strong buy. The CCCA bill has some renewed momentum, but there is also a lot of opposition. Mastercard P/E ratio is as low as its been since 2022.

WSJ: Deal to invest $100 billion in OpenAI to help it train and run its latest artificial-intelligence models has stalled after some inside the chip giant expressed doubts.

Only 3 of the top 20 holders, by country, of US long term treasuries, reduced their holdings significantly. China by $ 86 bill. (11 % of their total holdings), India by $48 bill.

WSJ: Deal to invest $100 billion in OpenAI to help it train and run its latest artificial-intelligence models has stalled after some inside the chip giant expressed doubts.

W.W. Hudson describes how industrializing economies developed in unexpected manner. Hudson: The dynamics of industrial capitalism were to become more efficient.

Analysts: Forget the Tesla you knew. The Tesla of yesterday is gone Teslas annual revenue declined for the first time on record last year as auto sales dropped 10%. Capital expenditures dropped 24% last year to $8.6 billion, Tesla indicated on Wednesday that the figure will more than double. Tesla reported a surge in its active supervised full self-driving subscriptions (FSD) And Tesla also said it expects to begin production of a humanoid robot before the end of the year. Tesla fourth-quarter financial results were painful to look at.

Strategys Bitcoin bet showed losses on paper for the first time in years. Central Bank of Brazil bought gold for the third consecutive month, adding 11t in November. China acquired +10 tonnes of gold in November, 11 times more than officially reported.

Super Micro SMCI reported revenue of $12.7 billion, which the company called a record and represents a 123% year-over-year increase. Long-term Treasury yields are being pushed up by term-premium fears.

Yves Smith argues that the credit crisis of 2007 created a third great depression in the Global North. Yves says the financial sector that had put together the financing of the rentier grabs.

Wedbush analyst Dan Ives maintained an Outperform rating on Apple with a price target of $350. Ives said he hopes that AI is on the menu soon.

Microsoft beats Wall Street expectations with $81.3B revenue with $80.31 billion for the October-December quarter. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on an earnings call with investors that the company is still in the ‘beginning stages”

Iran will have no difficulty mapping and acquiring maritime targets, but they are more than capable for naval target acquisition from high altitudes. Venezuela has targeted Exxon, Chevron, BP, and ConocoPhillips.

Vijay Prashad and Michael Hudson discuss hyper-imperialism, imperialism, and the state of global geopolitics. Hudson describes how industrializing economies developed in unexpected manner, towards rentierism and exploitation rather than socialistic systems. Vargas: The U.S. and its allies are far superior to any country in military force. The fiat money regime is dying and ugly death. Gold and silver are critical elements of getting through the bottleneck. The US made be fading but it is far from spent, and powerful nations like India are acting accordingly. Rapid surges in gold and silver, uranium, and copper are early signs that something is amiss. Goosing all of this along are the ambitious plans by the Trump administration. The amount potentially available for mass jailing has increased from an already troubling $10 billion to $55 billion. The old regime is ending and a new one is starting. FOMC voted to leave the Feds five policy rates unchanged. The statement shifted away from worries about the economy and labor market in several places. Gold is a miniscule little fungible commodity of zero financial relevance and is worth less than 1% of all global assets. Poland added the most gold, I believe, so if you map macroeconomic conditions based on the CB moves of Poland. Kevin Warsh is the nominee for the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Warsh does not believe in higher rates. He believes in a smaller balance sheet and in less inflation. The 10-year Treasury yield was unchanged on Friday. Office CMBS delinquency rate of office mortgages that have been securitized into commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) spiked by over a percentage point in January to 12.3%, once again the worst ever. PayPal shares plunged 86% from the 2021 goofball high and right into our imploded stocks | wolf street. EJ Antoni on Warsh Nomination: “… a great pick” Percential risk among butterflychart tissues was androidbledon Bi payout spells Barry Ritholtz: October was a historic and extraordinary month for precious metals. Bitcoin down for fourth consecutive month, longest losing streak since 2018. Last year (2025) might have seen lowest number of existing home sales since 1995. Katz suggests concrete policy changes that could encourage more high growth startups. Katz suggests a number of concrete policy. Katz: Japan lagging many other rich countries in terms of total entrepreneurial activity as of 2022. China is willing to approve things like drone delivery, driverless cars and trucks, and remote-operated air taxis that Americans and Europeans balk at. China bet on batteries and electric motors in a way the rest of the world. Eli Lilly to build $3.5 billion Lehigh Valley plant, first in Pa. plant. A new poll shows Americans now disapprove of ICE and support protests against the agency. Iran is facing its worst drought in over half a century, with collapsing aquifers, dried rivers, and water rationing spreading across cities and provinces. Iran has been forced into all kinds of alternative financing arrangements, and now sells most of its oil to China. U.S. is primed for a ruinously damaging run of capital flight if investors decide that the era of American exceptionalism is over. Canada will slash tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles as part of a trade deal. Bitcoin BTC (24h) $76,426.29 -2.84% In this article Glassnode Glassnode, Company +0. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) jumped to 52.6 in January, nearly 4 points above the 48.5 consensus estimate. People still view gold as a safe haven in times of international uncertainty. Bitcoin price drops below $75,000 today, its lowest level in nearly a year. Galaxy Digital, a major crypto investment firm, reported a $482 million loss for the fourth quarter of 2025. Strategy plunged 8% in trading as Bitcoin traded at new one-year lows.

Zacks Research Daily presents the best research output of our analyst team. Amazon.com, Toyota Motor Corp. (AMZN) : Free Stock Analysis Report. Intuit (INTU) Aided by Platform Synergies. Toyota maintained its position as the worlds best-selling automaker for the sixth straight year. Toyota posted a 0.2% increase in China sales. Elliott Advisors (UK) have criticized the updated offer for Toyota Industries. The components that go into making EVs are increasingly the same as making a vast array of other high-tech products. Batteries and electric motors are the key to lots of future technologies, including military hardware.

MetLife named No. 1 in Life and Health Insurance on Fortune List THT Online.

Aehr Test Systems stock rose 41.5% in the week to Friday morning. Aehr announced a follow-on order from an AI hyperscaler today. Ford scrapped plans for a fully electric Ram pickup.

Silver price dropped nearly 10% on Friday, sending prices below the $5,000 an ounce mark. Silver surging alongside gold has brought out naysayers lwho cant see the price skyrocketing. Chicago leads all cities for a second consecutive month with a 5.7% year-over-year price increase. Bitcoin price drops below $75,000 today, its lowest level in nearly a year. Galaxy Digital, a major crypto investment firm led by Michael Novogratz, reported a $482 million loss for the fourth quarter of 2025. Galaxy digital reported a loss of $482m earlier today. The one-year low for the bitcoin price is $74k.

IT stocks such as Infosys Ltd, Wipro Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Tech Mahindra fell up to 6 per cent in Wednesdays trade, tracking falling American Depository Receipts (ADRs) after new AI tool by Anthropic sparked fears of an AI-led disruption. Infosys share price has decreased by more than 5%, with yesterdays closing price at Rs 1,656.0.

AMTD IDEA Group and Generation Essentials Group propose to launch a program to convert Bitcoin to digital currency. DZ Bank has secured MiCAR approval and will roll out its “meinKrypto’ platform across cooperative banks. DekaBank plans to launch Bitcoin and crypto trading for private customers by summer 2026.

Gold plunged by 14% from $5,575 yesterday morning to the intraday low today of $4,700. Gold has been a reflection of liquidity chasing momentum, people are putting their faith in it. People still view gold as a safe haven in times of international uncertainty.

Astrazeneca shares begin trading on nyse after upgrade. AstraZeneca said the move will place equal weight on its listings in the UK, Sweden and the US. The move will also make it easier for US investors to buy full AstraZeca shares.

Housing Starts Decreased to 1.246 million Annual Rate in October. Lower income US households now face HIGHER rates of inflation than higher income earners. US declared Cuba an unusual and extraordinary threat, authorising new sanctions. S&P/Case-Shiller released monthly Home Price Indices for November. Midwestern and Northeastern markets led by Chicago (+5.7%) and New York (+ 5.0%) posted gains. Freddie Mac reported that the Single-Family serious delinquency rate in December was 0.59%, up from 0.58% November. Bitcoin may trend even lower towards its 200-week moving average of $58,000. Bottlenecks in the supply chain of critical electrical equipment have so far hindered superfast new gas plant construction. Lower oil prices are squeezing Big Oil earnings, with crude around $60 per barrel undermining the sustainability of shareholder returns.

Smarter Web Company began trading on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange today. Japans corporate profits have seen a revival since the early 2010s.

Largo Inc. signs definitive agreement for us$56 million sale of iron ore calcine. E-Poll will continue to operate as a standalone brand.

Softness in oil prices poses a meaningful headwind to earnings outlook. Nuclear energy experiencing a renaissance driven by concerns over energy security, decarbonization, and limitations of renewables and storage alone.

Tesla registrations in Europe, United Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland dropped 27% last year to 238,656. Tesla sales in America fell to nearly a four-year low in November of last year. ChatGPT ran Tesla through an AI price-prediction agent powered by OpenAIs Chat GPT. The agent was asked to generate a 60-day outlook for Tesla, using recent price action and a focused set of technical indicators.