Trump Picks Kevin Warsh For Fed Chair… And Big Tech’s AI Spending 1/30/26
CNBC's "Fast Money"
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Live in the NASDAQ markets in the heart of New York City's Times Square. This is fast money. |
| 0:05.5 | Here's what's on tap tonight. The wait is over. Donald Trump finally announcing the pick to leave the Fed, but what should markets expect from Kevin Warsh? |
| 0:13.0 | A fight against inflation or the rate cuts the president has been calling for. We'll debate that. |
| 0:17.0 | And half of Mag 7 earnings are in the books, but some big names still to come. What did we |
| 0:22.0 | learn about the AI trade in the past few days? And what should we expect from Alphabet and Amazon |
| 0:26.5 | next week? Plus, could gaming stocks like Roblox be the next victim of the AI boom? Bitcoin |
| 0:32.2 | continues to break down, and new CEOs at Walmart and Target take the helm on Sunday. What |
| 0:37.1 | will the leadership changes mean for the companies and stocks? |
| 0:40.2 | I'm Melissa Lee. Come to you live in studio, be at the NASDAQ, on the desk tonight, Tim Seymour, Steve Brasso, Bono and Eisen and Mike Co. |
| 0:46.7 | We start off at the news the markets have long been waiting for. President Trump's selecting former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as chairman of the Central Bank. |
| 0:56.1 | The announcement via True Social this morning comes after years of Trump, criticizing Powell for not lowering rates fast enough |
| 1:02.0 | and even a criminal investigation by the DOJ over central bank renovations. |
| 1:06.3 | Stocks closing the day down, though off their lows of the session, the S&P managing a gain for the week and all major indices up in January. But a real question brewing in other markets while |
| 1:15.1 | longer-term Treasury is ticked higher. The two-year rate hit its lowest level in two weeks, |
| 1:19.6 | and the dollar rebounded from four-year lows, notching its best day since July, |
| 1:24.7 | suggesting maybe the market thinks Warsh may be more hawkish than expected. |
| 1:29.0 | So that begs the question, which Kevin Warsh will we get? |
| 1:32.7 | The hawk who's rallied against inflation may keep rates high or the dove who will make the cuts |
| 1:38.1 | Trump wants. |
| 1:39.6 | For more, let's bring on Steve Leesman. |
| 1:41.6 | And Steve's also got some headlines from Michelle Bowman. |
| 1:44.0 | Steve. Yeah, just before we get to the new guy, let's get to some Leesman. And Steve's also got some headlines from Michelle Bowman, Steve. |
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