Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Brunch, our Sunday look ahead to this week's

market-moving events, along with the weekend's top news and analysis.

Hello, today is Sunday, January 18th, and I'm your host, Kim Kahn.

It's a holiday shortened week with U.S. markets close Monday for Martin Luther King

Jr. Day. Across the pond, the World Economic Forum gets underway in Davos, Switzerland,

and it's happening in a moment when geopolitical tensions are clearly heating up. President

Donald Trump is leading the largest ever U.S. delegation to Davos. He arrives Tuesday and is set

to deliver a keynote address on Wednesday. Trump has expected to discuss

the war in Ukraine, but it also faced some unhappy European allies following his decision to

impose new tariffs on several nations, including the UK, France, Germany, and Denmark, linked

to his renewed push over Greenland. According to the president, eight countries face a 10%

tariffs starting February 1st. That rate would drop to 25% on June 1st

unless agreements are reached before then. The tariff will be due and payable until such time

as a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland, Trump posted.

French President Emmanuel Macron pushed back strongly, saying no intimidation or threats

will influence us, whether in Ukraine, Greenland,

or anywhere else in the world. He added that tariff threats are unacceptable and have no place

in this context, and that he will request the activation of the EU's anti-coercion trade

tool on behalf of France. The Block's anti-coercion instrument, unofficially dubbed Europe's

trade bazooka, could be used to impose

limitations on major American technology companies and other service providers that conduct

substantial business on the continent. And while geopolitics will dominate plenty of the

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