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The ‘sell America’ trade, Trump arrives in Davos, Netflix earnings and more in Morning Squawk
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Wednesday. Or maybe not, if you held U.S. assets amid yesterday’s sell-off. S&P 500 futures are little changed this morning. The three major indexes are coming off their worst day in months. Here are five key things investors need to know […]
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10-year Treasury yield inches lower as investors monitor escalating trade tensions
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., Nov. 20, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield moved lower on Wednesday, tentatively retreating from a sell-off that spurred a flight from U.S. assets on Tuesday, as fresh tariff threats ignited renewed ‘sell America’ […]
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Putin meeting set for Thursday, Witkoff says, with Ukraine ‘land deals’ on the table
Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev, foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner attend a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 2, 2025. Kristina Kormilitsyna | Via Reuters A meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to take […]
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Greenland is another headline that stocks can get past, investors say. What to do next
Greenland is just the latest geopolitical headline that the stock market can get past, when all is said and done, investors say. Stocks tumbled Tuesday, after President Donald Trump ramped up his rhetoric against those European countries opposing the sale of Greenland to the U.S. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 870 points, while the […]
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Trump to speak at Davos as his Greenland push, tariff threats take center stage
President Donald Trump is set Wednesday to speak at the World Economic Forum, directly addressing an audience that has been put on edge by his intensifying aggression toward the allied territory of Greenland. Trump’s speech is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. ET. The address will be bookended by meetings with other world leaders attending […]
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Supreme Court case on Trump bid to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook set for oral arguments
Lisa Cook, governor of the US Federal Reserve, and U.S. President Donald Trump. Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images | Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Wednesday morning in a case over whether President Donald Trump has the power to fire Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook […]
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U.S. still ‘the closest of allies’ with the UK despite rift, Finance Minister Reeves says
Rachel Reeves, UK Finance Minister, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22, 2025. Gerry Miller | CNBC The U.S. remains the “closest of allies” with the U.K. despite a growing rift between the U.S. and Europe over the future of Greenland, Chancellor Rachel Reeves told CNBC […]
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European stocks open lower as trade war fears send jitters through markets
This photograph taken on January 20, 2026 shows a general view of the town of Davos at nightfall during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos. The World Economic Forum takes place in Davos from Jan. 19 to Jan. 23, 2026. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty Images LONDON — European stocks opened […]
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Scott Bessent says U.S. is unconcerned by Treasury sell-off over Greenland, calls Denmark ‘irrelevant’
“Denmark’s investment in U.S. Treasury bonds, like Denmark itself, is irrelevant,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters at Davos on Wednesday. The “sell America” trade was in full swing Tuesday after President Donald Trump and European leaders escalated tensions over Greenland. U.S. stocks and bond prices tumbled, sending yields spiking. It comes as Trump’s threats to impose 10% tariffs on eight European countries as […]
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CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter: A diplomacy tightrope for Britain’s Starmer after Trump’s tirades
This report is from this week’s CNBC’s UK Exchange newsletter. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. The dispatch British diplomats have long prided themselves on the so-called “special relationship” with the United States. The phrase was coined by Winston Churchill, Britain’s inspirational wartime leader, when in March 1946 he famously described how an “iron curtain” had descended across […]
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