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Hours before a Jan 23 2026 ban deadline, ByteDance transferred control of TikTok’s U.S. business to a new LLC that is 80.1 % owned by American investors, keeping the app live for 200 million U.S. users.
On 22 Jan 2026 Washington confirmed that interim president Delcy Rodríguez accepted an invitation to travel to the U.S., signalling a rapid post-Maduro thaw after decades of hostility.
On 21 Jan 2026, the European Parliament halted ratification of the July 2025 Turnberry trade pact and signalled possible use of the EU’s 2023 anti-coercion instrument after President Trump threatened 10–25 % tariffs unless Denmark cedes Greenland.
Between 19-21 Jan 2026, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s snap-election tax-cut pledge sent Japan’s 40-year bond yield to a record 4.215%, and the shock propagated abroad, lifting the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury to 4.30% and pushing euro-zone and African Eurobond yields higher within 48 hours.
On 20 Jan 2026 Netflix scrapped stock consideration and switched its $82 billion pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery to a 100% cash offer, aiming to lock in WBD shareholders and blunt Paramount-Skydance’s higher but shakier hostile bid.
20–21 Jan 2026 saw spot gold blow past $4,700 an ounce for the first time, transforming a long-running rally into a full-scale scramble across physical, ETF and blockchain markets.
On 20 Jan 2026, President Trump publicly threatened a punitive 200 % duty on all French wine and champagne imports unless President Macron reverses course and signs France onto Trump’s fledgling, U.S.–chaired Board of Peace for Gaza and other conflicts.
On 17 Jan 2026, Mercosur and the EU finally inked their 25-year free-trade pact in Asunción, but Brazil’s President Lula da Silva stayed in Rio and sent his foreign minister instead.
On 19 Jan 2026, during a lightning three-hour visit to Delhi, India and the UAE committed to doubling trade to USD 200 billion by 2032, signed a decade-long LNG supply contract, and issued a letter of intent to forge a formal Strategic Defence Partnership.
On 17 Jan 2026 Ottawa and Beijing struck a deal restoring the pre-2024 6.1 % tariff on up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles a year, exchanging that market access for sharp reductions in Chinese duties on Canadian canola and other farm goods.
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