Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

SK hynix Inc.

Hyundai Motor Company

The South Korean market rally was driven by the success of tech giants and the global AI boom

South Korea's stock market has overtaken Germany in value. It added $1.7 trillion over the year

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

NVIDIA Corporation

Tencent Holdings Limited

Beijing has allowed shipments of the latest chips from US company Nvidia to Chinese customers for the first time since an initial ban. According to Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-gives-green-light-importing-first-batch-nvidias-h200-ai-chips-sources-say-2026-01-28/">sources</a>, Beijing has for the first time approved major imports of Nvidia H200 chips for ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent, allowing the country's top IT giants to purchase more than 400,000 semiconductors. Another<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-gives-green-light-importing-first-batch-nvidias-h200-ai-chips-sources-say-2026-01-28/"> source</a> said the approvals come with restrictions, with one of the conditions being a requirement to purchase a certain proportion of domestic chips in conjunction with the H200.

Beijing has granted permission for Chinese companies to buy Nvidia's latest H200 chips

Weakening dollar and supply disruptions boost oil market rally

Oil nears strongest month in 2.5 years

ASML Holding N.V.

The main U.S. stock index S&amp;P 500 rose to a new record at the beginning of trading on January 28 and reached 7000 points amid expectations of the Fed's decision on interest rates and the publication of reports of major technology companies.

S&amp;P 500 exceeded 7000 points for the first time in history

Gold.com, Inc.

The bank attributes the decision to structural demand factors rather than short-term hype

Deutsche Bank raised its target price for gold to $6000 per ounce

SoftBank Corp.

SoftBank Group Corp.

The possible deal could be part of OpenAI's massive funding round, which could bring the ChatGPT developer's valuation to about $830 billion, Reuters writes

SoftBank wants to invest up to $30 billion more in developer ChatGPT. Will the bet pay off

Amazon.com, Inc.

Amazon <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-layoffs-corporate-jan-2026">announced</a> plans to cut about 16 thousand employees worldwide. This was part of the largest wave of layoffs among corporate staff in the history of the company, <a href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/amazon-job-cuts-stock-2a2a6398?mod=RTA">writes</a> Barron's. Thus, the company expects to "optimize the management structure and eliminate bureaucracy," <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-layoffs-corporate-jan-2026">according to the</a> message of Amazon's senior vice president for human resources and technology Beth Galetti.

Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees. This is part of the largest optimization in its history

Cardiff Oncology, Inc.

Shares of Cardiff Oncology, a micro-cap developer of a drug targeting a specific form of colorectal cancer, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CRDF/">plunged</a>&nbsp;32% on Tuesday, January 27. Investors reacted to the company’s <a href="https://investors.cardiffoncology.com/news-releases/news-release-details/cardiff-oncology-announces-executive-leadership-changes-it">announcement</a>&nbsp;of an immediate management reshuffle. The selloff came despite the <a href="https://investors.cardiffoncology.com/news-releases/news-release-details/cardiff-oncology-announces-positive-update-its-randomized-phase">release of positive clinical data</a> for its lead drug later the same day, as well as the company’s explanation that the executive changes reflected a transition to a new stage of development.

Cardiff Oncology plunges 32% amid management reshuffle, despite upbeat trial data

Lasertec Corporation

Tokyo Electron Limited

ASML order book dynamics - one of the key indicators of demand for AI technologies 

ASML surprised the market with record order volume. Shares hit a new high

Redwire Corporation

Shares of Redwire, a mid-cap maker of spacecraft and technologies for building infrastructure on Mars, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RDW/">surged</a>&nbsp;nearly 30% on Tuesday, January 27, to their highest levels since mid-2025. Investors were reacting to the <a href="https://ir.redwirespace.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/215/redwire-selected-for-missile-defense-agencys-151">announcement</a>&nbsp;that the company had been selected as one of the vendors under a $151 billion U.S. Missile Defense Agency program.

Mid-cap SpaceX peer Redwire jumps 30% on new U.S. government contract

F5, Inc.

Texas Instruments Incorporated

Seagate Technology Holdings plc

Venu Holding Corporation

Qorvo, Inc.

General Motors Company

Micron Technology, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Richtech Robotics Inc.

HCA Healthcare, Inc.

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

Synchrony Financial

Daily review and forecast of events on the U.S. stock market from Mikhail Denislamov, Deputy Director of Freedom Capital Markets Research.

Morning in New York: Fed signals in focus

In recent months, the markets have been re-energized by the need to reallocate capital from the U.S. to international markets. But the US market is still the largest in the world. In this regard, the search for alternatives looks like a difficult task. Ask Askar Akhmedov, CFA, Chief Investment Officer of ATLAS Capital, tells us which countries an investor can look at.

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