What even is a national energy emergency?
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Emergency declarations provide the government extra authority to take actions. President Donald Trump has said he will declare a national energy emergency — something no other president has declared and something designed to streamline permitting, weaken regulation and cut gas prices. Also on the program: Investors pick up on what tariffs could possibly mean, and there are more questions than answers about the announcement of a huge server farm upgrade.
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| 0:00.0 | The administration focuses on farming, computer data farming. I'm David Brancaccio. First published reports say the Trump administration intends hopes to, expects, to raise China tariffs by 10%, possibly in February, but again, no new tariffs yet. As of now, the S&P 500 is up 2.6 percent years so far, a solid |
| 0:23.5 | showing given they've only completed 12 trading sessions since New Year's. Right now, the S&P is |
| 0:28.7 | up half a percent. The Dow is up 70 points, two-tenths percent. The NASDAQ is up 1.2 percent. |
| 0:35.2 | Today, the bounce can be traced to quarterly profit reports that are coming out about fall into winter, |
| 0:40.8 | and this sense this morning at least that those import taxes won't happen all at once. |
| 0:46.1 | Susan Schmidt is portfolio manager at Exchange Capital Resources. |
| 0:50.4 | This is where investors are starting to pick up on what tariffs could potentially mean. |
| 0:54.8 | We've heard some comments from big CEOs out of the Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that's |
| 0:59.8 | happening right now. And they're picking up on the fact that tariffs can be used as a bargaining |
| 1:04.8 | tool. Instead of tariffs being negative, where they think it might be positive is that |
| 1:09.7 | bargaining tool bringing manufacturing |
| 1:11.6 | back into the U.S. So while we've been talking about tariffs immediate implementation, now it's |
| 1:17.6 | being pushed back to February 1st, and that leads to more discussions and potentially more |
| 1:22.9 | negotiation between now and then, which could be really good for business. |
| 1:31.5 | All right. And I did the calculation. The S&P 500 is up 2.6% for the year. I mean, the year's only about 12 or 13 trading days so far. But that's a pretty good |
| 1:37.8 | showing for essentially a couple of days. Where's the strength coming from as all these companies |
| 1:42.6 | come out with their profit reports? |
| 1:45.2 | That is a good showing, and that's a lot of sentiment around the election and potential policies from the Trump administration. |
| 1:52.4 | But the market is seeing companies report earnings. We've seen strengthen the consumer. |
| 1:57.5 | Just last night and this morning, we've heard from Netflix, United Airlines, P&G, all of those companies continue to talk about better than expected earnings, better than expected revenues, and that's all because spending from the consumer has been so strong. |
| 2:13.5 | Netflix stock is up 13% right now. A group of tech companies has announced plans to spend big on computer farms to power artificial intelligence. Half a trillion dollars is the four-year price tag says. President Donald Trump, who announced a venture called Stargate. Now the huge server farm upgrade may sound familiar. Marketplaces, Nova Safo is here with more. |
| 2:35.9 | Well, David, let's start with the two big names involved in this venture. OpenAI, the chat GPT maker, and SoftBank, |
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