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Here's your midday brief for Wednesday, January 21st. I'm Alex Oscella for the Wall Street Journal.

In an address that lasted for more than an hour in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump said that

the U.S. wouldn't use force to acquire Greenland and was seeking negotiations on the acquisition

of the territory. He repeated his claim that only the U.S. is capable of defending Greenland

and that the U.S. needs to take control of the territory purely for security.

U.S. stocks opened higher during Trump's speech, and the Dow was up about 1% in mid-morning trading.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament have suspended work on a major trade agreement with the U.S. in response to President Trump's push to

acquire Greenland. The decision puts the European Union's plan to slash tariffs on a range of

U.S. industrial products on hold. The European's move comes after Trump's threat to impose new tariffs

on eight European countries that have opposed his plan to buy the Danish territory. A European

official says that the U.S.

is undermining the stability and predictability of trade relations. And Charles Schwab says

its quarterly profit jumped 34% to nearly $2.5 billion. A surge in activity from younger investors

helped drive Schwab's trading revenue up 22%. Many of the traders betting on stocks,

options, and other asset classes are Millennials and Gen Z, and Schwab is angling to capture

their business. Heads up, an artificial intelligence tool helped us make this episode by

creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.

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