Market Brief – 14 Jan 2026

In today’s Market Brief - After Hours, US markets pulled back for a second straight session as technology stocks led declines, despite softer inflation data and falling Treasury yields. We break down losses in the S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq driven by semiconductors and bank weakness, while Europe and Asia moved higher, led by record gains in Switzerland and Japan’s Nikkei. The episode covers cooling wholesale inflation, resilient US retail sales, falling bond yields, oil slipping on easing Iran tensions, gold pushing higher, silver surging more than 7% to fresh multi-year highs, Bitcoin breaking above $96,000, key FX technicals in GBP/USD and USD/JPY, and major stock movers including Biogen, Trip.com, Rivian, AppLovin, and Moderna as markets reassess risk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.