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Stocks Open Higher, Trump to Send Homan to Minnesota, More

26 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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Today's show is brought to you by Vanguard. To all the financial advisors listening, let's talk bonds for a minute. Capturing value and fixed income is not easy. Bond markets are massive, murky, and let's be real, lots of firms throw a couple flashy funds your way and call it a day. But not Vanguard. At Vanguard, institutional quality isn't a tagline. It's a commitment to your clients.

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We're talking top-grade products across the board of over 80 bond funds. actively managed by a 200-person global squad of sector specialists, analysts, and traders. These folks live and breathe fixed income. So if you're looking to give your clients consistent results year in and year out, go see the record for yourself at Vanguard.com slash audio. That's Vanguard.com slash audio.

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All investing is subject to risk. Vanguard Marketing Corporation Distributor.

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48.758 - 69.217 Nathan Hager

News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Nathan Hager. A new trading week is underway on Wall Street, and it will be a busy one with big tech earnings and a Fed decision coming in a couple of days. That's the sound of the opening bell from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. And at the open, stocks are modestly higher.

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The S&P 500 is up about a tenth of 1%, a gain of about 10 points. The Dow Jones Industrial Average opens about two-tenths of one percent higher, about 100 points up, and the Nasdaq Composite with a gain of a tenth of one percent.

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We'll get back to the market in a moment, but we are following new developments in Minnesota, where President Donald Trump may be trying to get ahead of a volatile situation in Minneapolis. In a Truth Social post this morning, the president said he is sending his border czar,

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Tom Holman to Minnesota tonight as the president faces growing unease within his own party after the shooting death of Alex Preddy in Minneapolis over the weekend. Bloomberg's Marty Schenker has more.

106.65 - 122.497 Marty Schenker

The polling is showing, you know, immigration was always one of Trump's strong suits with the public. But this is what's happening in Minneapolis is clearly disturbing many Americans. And his polling numbers on immigration are dropping like a stone.

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Bloomberg's Marty Shanker reporting White House spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt posted on X that Holman will manage ICE operations on the ground and federal agents will continue arresting the worst of the worst, she says. Leavitt also says Holman will coordinate investigations into alleged fraud involving Minnesota state funds.

Chapter 2: What are the latest trends in the stock market?

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Speculation that the U.S. could coordinate with Japan to shore up the yen is fueling volatility in currency markets. Shares of CoreWeave are higher at the open. NVIDIA is investing another $2 billion in the cloud infrastructure company's stock to speed its effort to add more than 5 gigawatts of AI compute by 2030. Bloomberg Tech anchor Ed Ludlow has more.

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313.619 - 329.552 Ed Ludlow

NVIDIA is going to start offering its CPU, not its GPU, its CPU as a standalone offering, and CoreWeave gets to be first to deploy that. It's hard when it's both a technology and financing arrangement to move past the circular argument.

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Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow and shares of CoreWeaver higher by more than 12%. USA Rare Earth is up 28% at the open. That company signed a non-binding agreement with the Commerce Department for $1.6 billion to speed U.S. production of Rare Earth elements. And the matchup is set for Super Bowl 60.

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348.543 - 362.003 Nathan Hager

It's actually going to be a rematch of Super Bowl 49 with the New England Patriots taking on the Seattle Seahawks two weeks from yesterday. That's news when you want it. With Bloomberg News Now, I'm Nathan Hager. This is Bloomberg.

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Today's show is brought to you by Vanguard. To all the financial advisors listening, let's talk bonds for a minute. Capturing value and fixed income is not easy. Bond markets are massive, murky, and let's be real, lots of firms throw a couple flashy funds your way and call it a day. But not Vanguard. At Vanguard, institutional quality isn't a tagline. It's a commitment to your clients.

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We're talking top-grade products across the board of over 80 bond funds. actively managed by a 200-person global squad of sector specialists, analysts, and traders. These folks live and breathe fixed income. So if you're looking to give your clients consistent results year in and year out, go see the record for yourself at Vanguard.com slash audio. That's Vanguard.com slash audio.

Chapter 3: How is President Trump addressing the situation in Minnesota?

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All investing is subject to risk. Vanguard Marketing Corporation Distributor.

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415.325 - 422.914 Karen Moscow

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