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News articleYahoo Finance· January 30, 2026

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq slide after Trump picks Warsh for Fed; gold, silver plunge

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Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq slide after Trump picks Warsh for Fed; gold, silver plunge US stocks slid on Friday as President Trump said he would nominate Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve, against a background of a rising dollar and a screeching halt to 2026's roaring metals rally…
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  • The market perception is that Kevin Warsh would be the relatively more traditional and less dovish option as Fed chair, in which case we might see fewer rate cuts

    80% confidence
  • The Fed should view tariffs as one-off price changes

    80% confidence
  • Consumer credit health remained strong

    80% confidence
  • Warsh thinks you have to lower interest rates

    80% confidence
  • The global memory shortage would hit future margins

    80% confidence
  • Our transformation is delivering a more resilient, lower-cost, technology-led business with structurally stronger earnings power

    80% confidence
  • Canada has used certification hurdles to effectively ban the sale of US Gulfstream jets

    80% confidence
  • The Fed should discard its forecast of stagflation

    80% confidence
  • The higher metals rise, the more likely 2026 will mark enduring price peaks — notably for silver — if history is a guide

    80% confidence
  • Jerome Powell made unwise choices, such as missing the persistence of post-pandemic inflation

    80% confidence
  • ExxonMobil is a fundamentally stronger company than it was just a few years ago, and our 2025 results demonstrate that

    80% confidence
  • The problem is volatility feeding on itself. As price swings intensify, liquidity thins

    80% confidence
  • This quarter's performance underscores our agility in capitalizing on better product mix, accelerating enterprise SSD deployments, and strengthening market demand dynamics

    80% confidence
  • Gold's move validates the cautionary tale of fast-up, fast-down. A correction was overdue

    80% confidence
  • Inflation is caused when the government spends too much and prints too much money, not when the economy grows too fast and workers get paid too much

    80% confidence
  • AI will be a significant force that will boost productivity and push down inflation

    80% confidence
  • The continued surge across metals, especially gold and silver, is entering a dangerous phase

    80% confidence
  • The move of corporate insiders has proven to be a powerful signal on forward returns of stocks. Executives are seeing risks and using this as an opportunity to harvest gains, which investors should take note of

    80% confidence
  • Kevin Warsh will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best

    80% confidence
  • When prices rise as rapidly as they have in the metals, deficits can shift fast

    80% confidence

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