Stocks Plummet on Trump’s Tariff Threats Over Greenland
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent, |
| 0:04.0 | Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills. |
| 0:10.0 | There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain? By performing a |
| 0:21.6 | skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused. Being blind |
| 0:26.3 | to those gaps is the real miss. Visit Deloitte.com to learn how your enterprise can help successfully |
| 0:31.8 | cultivate talent. Here's your closing bell brief for Tuesday, January 20th. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Catherine Sullivan for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:43.3 | U.S. stocks tumbled today as trade war fears returned after President Trump doubled down on his |
| 0:48.6 | threats to take over Greenland. |
| 0:50.7 | The Dow lost 871 points or 1.8%. |
| 0:54.4 | The S&P 500 dropped 2.1%, and the NASDAQ fell 2.4%. |
| 1:00.3 | The president's tariffs threats rattled investors. |
| 1:03.7 | The 10-year treasury yield climbed to its highest level since August. |
| 1:07.5 | Big technology names skidded, and investors sought safety elsewhere, pushing gold prices |
| 1:12.4 | to a new record. Among individual companies, Rapt Therapeutics stock surged 64%. Drugmaker GSK agreed to |
| 1:21.7 | buy the biopharmaceutical company for about $2.2 billion. Shares of 3M fell 7%. |
| 1:28.3 | The manufacturer of Post-it notes recorded a decline in quarterly net income, weighed down by litigation costs. |
| 1:35.5 | Intel stock rose almost 3.5%. |
| 1:38.0 | Analysts upgraded the chipmaker and raised price targets. |
| 1:42.0 | And Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific shares both sold off around 3.5%. |
| 1:46.9 | A railroad regulator said the company's merger application was incomplete, |
| 1:51.6 | a setback for their prospective $71.5 billion deal. |
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