What’s News in Markets: Wegovy Pill, Salesforce AI Woes, BlackRock Record
WSJ Your Money Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 5 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. Hey listeners, your money briefing is on a break, but it will be back with more |
| 0:37.3 | personal finance information for you in the future. |
| 0:40.0 | Until then, here's the news moving markets this week. |
| 0:46.0 | Hey, listeners, it's Saturday, January 17. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm Jack Pitcher for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:52.4 | And this is what's News and Markets. |
| 0:55.1 | Our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them. |
| 0:59.1 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:00.9 | Calm in the face of chaos. |
| 1:03.4 | That was the theme for markets this week. |
| 1:05.8 | On Sunday night, news broke that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is being investigated by U.S. prosecutors |
| 1:11.6 | over his testimony about the central bank's building renovation project. |
| 1:16.1 | In a video statement, Powell, who is usually quite restrained, called the investigation a pretext |
| 1:21.9 | as part of President Trump's campaign to pressure the Fed to lower interest rates and in the |
| 1:27.3 | independence of the central bank. |
| 1:29.8 | Investors concerned that a lack of Fed independence could lead to runaway inflation |
| 1:33.8 | have been closely watching the Powell situation. Meanwhile, banks kicked off earnings season |
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