Worlds apart on generative AI use
Marketplace Morning Report
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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People around the world are using AI more than Americans, a new poll finds. About 40% of adults in the U.S. told pollsters that they used generative AI in the last year. In Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates, and India, that number was about 85%. What's driving the divide? But first: a preview of markets before President Donald Trump's speech at Davos, and a look at the struggle between the Trump administration and the Fed.
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| 0:16.2 | We're watching financial markets on what could be an especially volatile newsday for bonds, stocks, and currencies. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles. A U.S. president interested in taking a piece of a NATO country, Greenland, |
| 0:30.2 | is part of the uncertainty that knocked the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 870 points yesterday, 1 and 3 quarters percent. |
| 0:40.2 | The S&P fell 2.1 percent. The NASDAQ yesterday lost 2.4 percent. President Trump has begun his speech at the World Economic Forum in |
| 0:46.4 | Switzerland now, where early on he shared his view, not supported by the data, that |
| 0:51.0 | inflation is virtually non-existent now in the US. I spoke this morning to |
| 0:55.7 | Russ Mould, investment director at the UK-based investment firm, AJ Bell. To be fair, they're not very |
| 1:01.4 | good at measuring geopolitical activity or risk, because it's really, really hard to quantify and second |
| 1:06.6 | guess what's going to come next. But we've certainly had a very soft start to the week after |
| 1:11.2 | the American Martin Luther King Day on Monday. We've had the U.S. market start the week in the red. |
| 1:15.9 | And Asian and European markets have lost some of the element that they had this year and |
| 1:20.5 | they're in the red again today. |
| 1:22.5 | There is a sense of uncertainty that even our pros with all their market screens and information |
| 1:31.0 | that they digest can't fully parse. |
| 1:33.3 | One of the most intriguing things in the final quarter of last year in the early stages |
| 1:36.2 | of this year was the word tariff wasn't really being discussed by stock market or bond market |
| 1:40.4 | strategy anymore. |
| 1:41.6 | They felt that we knew where they stood with that, where markets |
| 1:44.1 | stood with that, that the possible effects were factored in. And now this conversation's starting |
| 1:48.3 | again, which again, I think is another reason why we have markets losing a bit of that early |
| 1:51.7 | year positive momentum. Now, I assume you're going to be paying close attention to markets |
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