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On 1 Feb 2026 CEO Jensen Huang publicly rejected a Wall Street Journal report that Nvidia’s pledged investment in OpenAI had stalled, stressing the deal remains alive but will be far smaller than the previously floated $100 billion figure.
On 29-30 Jan 2026, President Trump declared via Truth Social that all Canadian-built planes would lose U.S. certification and face a 50 % import tariff unless Transport Canada certifies Gulfstream’s G500/600/700/800 jets, a stance the White House partially walked back within hours for aircraft already in service.
On 1 Feb 2026 India actually presented its Union Budget on a Sunday for the first time, while Singapore formally set Feb 12 2026, 3:30 p.m., for Prime Minister Lawrence Wong to unveil the city-state’s first Budget of its new 15th Parliament.
On 1 Feb 2026, President Trump claimed a U.S.–brokered framework in which India will replace Iranian imports with Venezuelan oil and invited China to join, days after Washington assumed control of Venezuelan crude following Nicolás Maduro’s capture.
On 30 Jan 2026 President Trump formally named former Fed governor Kevin Warsh, 55, to succeed Jerome Powell when Powell’s term ends in May, setting up a confirmation fight over Fed independence.
Between 27–28 Jan 2026, spot gold punched through the $5,100 mark—doubling in two years—and immediately set off a wave of retail coin selling in Greece, record local-currency highs from Dhaka to Colombo, and fresh political pressure on Germany to pull 1,200 t of bullion out of the Fed’s vaults.
On 30 Jan 2026, Donald Trump’s executive order threatening tariffs on any nation exporting oil to Cuba jolted Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum into restarting suspended fuel deliveries while rushing to negotiate with Washington to dodge economic blowback.
On 29 Jan 2026 the FOMC kept its policy band unchanged, ending a three-meeting cutting streak and shifting expectations for the next reduction to after Chair Jerome Powell’s term expires in May.
On 29 Jan 2026 acting president Delcy Rodríguez signed a fast-tracked amendment that scraps the state oil company’s mandatory majority stake and slashes royalties, opening Venezuela’s oilfields to direct foreign control for the first time since 2006.
New Nevada filings dated 21 Jan 2026 show SpaceX creating two “K2” merger vehicles to swap xAI shares for SpaceX stock before a June IPO expected to top $1 trillion.
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