The stock market has largely tuned out the noise as the new administration carries out what may be the largest reorganization of government since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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However, the U.S. stock market could move sharply on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30 based on commentary from the Federal Reserve, and earnings results from several "Magnificent Seven" companies: Apple ( AAPL 3.65%), Meta Platforms ( META 2.19%), Microsoft ( MSFT 2.91%), and Tesla ( TSLA 0.24%). Read on for details.

Some investors will feel safer shifting to more fixed-income products, even though they’re facing smaller returns that more aggressive approaches would bring. U.S. Treasury bonds, for example, pay more when the interest rates are high. "They're the gold standard of safe-haven assets," Guerra said.

A frenzy over an artificial intelligence chatbot made by Chinese tech startup DeepSeek was upending stock markets Monday and fueling debates over the economic and geopolitical competition between the U.

U.S. tech stocks plunged on Monday, amid a wider market sell-off. The culprit: DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company that last week introduced a new — and low-cost — model into the red-hot AI tech market.

US tech stocks were steady on Tuesday after they slumped on Monday following the sudden rise of Chinese-made artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek. Shares in chip giant Nvidia rose by 8.8%, having slumped on Monday,

Global technology stocks regained some ground on Tuesday a day after a low-cost Chinese AI model rattled markets, while traders rotated back into the dollar from safe-haven currencies. The tech rebound boosted Wall Street's main stock indices,