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WSJ Your Money Briefing

What’s News in Markets: Intel Slides, Gold Surges and the TACO Trade Is Back

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

How did the market react to President Trump’s proposed Greenland takeover? And why wasn’t the AI hype enough to save Intel’s stock price? Plus, why investors just can’t get enough gold these days. Host Hannah Erin Lang discusses the big gest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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?

0:25.4

By performing a skills inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused.

0:28.0

Being blind to those gaps is the real miss.

0:32.6

Visit Deloitte.com to learn how your enterprise can help successfully cultivate talent.

0:39.2

Hey listeners, your money briefing is on a break, but it will be back with more personal finance information for you in the future.

0:42.4

Until then, here's the news moving markets this week.

0:48.8

Hey, listeners, it's Saturday, January 24th.

0:51.1

I'm Hannah Aaron Lang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:54.9

And this is what's news in markets, our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them. So let's get into it. It was a turbulent week for markets.

1:00.3

Stocks slumped on Tuesday after President Trump stepped up his efforts to take over Greenland.

1:05.3

The president also threatened new tariffs on several European countries if he didn't get his way.

1:10.3

Equities in the dollar fell,

1:11.9

while bond yields rose. But stocks rebounded on Wednesday and Thursday. The president said he had

1:17.0

reached the framework of a Greenland deal with NATO and also walked back the threat of new trade

1:22.1

restrictions. It was another example of the so-called taco trade, as it's come to be known on

1:26.7

Wall Street.

1:27.8

It's essentially an acronym for the phrase, Trump always chickens out.

1:31.3

This dynamic has played out more than once since the start of last year.

1:34.9

The president throws out the threat of tariffs, investors get spooked, stock sell off, and

1:40.3

then ultimately those plans are backtracked and the market rebounds.

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