Market Swings Signal Nervous Start to the Week
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:33.7 | Monday, February 2nd. I'm Daniel B Bach for the Wall Street Journal. A nervous mood |
| 0:38.1 | continues in markets this morning with U.S. stock futures, global shares, and oil all lower. |
| 0:43.7 | Cryptocurrencies are also selling off with Bitcoin trading below $77,000, now down more than 10% |
| 0:50.6 | this year, and roughly in line with where it traded shortly after President Trump's |
| 0:54.8 | November 24 election victory. Medals have stabilized after Friday's dramatic losses, |
| 1:00.5 | with silver and gold ending last week with their worst one-day sell-offs since 1980. |
| 1:05.8 | The U.S. government is beginning this week partially shut down. The Senate passed a funding package |
| 1:10.6 | to keep the lights on late Friday, but the House still needs to shut down. The Senate passed a funding package to keep the |
| 1:11.1 | lights on late Friday, but the House still needs to approve it. The deal extends Department of |
| 1:16.0 | Homeland Security funding for two weeks to allow for talks on reining in enforcement operations, |
| 1:21.7 | with Democrats and some Republicans demanding a series of changes. Republican House Majority Leader |
| 1:27.1 | Mike Johnson called some of those |
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