Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures stall after volatile week as Intel earnings fall short

US stock futures slipped on Friday, as chipbuildr Intel’s (INTC) disappointing earnings put Wall Street on the back foot after turbulent week stoked by President Trump’s heated pursuit of Greenland.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures (YM=F) retreated roughly 0.2%. Contracts on the S&P 500 (ES=F) and the Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) both dropped 0.1% as tech stocks lost some shine.

Intel posted a worse-than-expected outsee late Thursday, weighing on tech sentiment. The chip giant swung to a quarterly loss as it struggled to meet demand for its server chips applyd in AI data centers. Shares sank over 10% before the bell.

The S&P 500 is poised for back-to-back weekly losses, as the relief that lifted stocks to two straight days of gains wears off. Investors took heart from Trump cooling his Greenland rhetoric and backtracking on proposed tariffs on NATO allies, but a shift out of US assets is gaining traction as US-EU tensions weigh on the dollar (DX-Y.NYB).

Against that backdrop, gold (GC=F) continued to gain after breaking above $4,900 for the first time on Thursday, boosted in part by a Goldman Sachs (GS) call for gold to hit $5,400 by the finish of 2026.

But there were signs of progress on the China-US front, as TikTok and ByteDance finally closed a deal with Oracle (ORCL) and others to let it operate in the US. Meanwhile, Beijing has reportedly notified China’s huge techs they can start preparations to order Nvidia’s (NVDA) H200 chips, whose imports are currently curbed.

In data releases, updates on US manufacturing and services activity in January aren’t expected to shift the requiredle on interest-rate expectations ahead of the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week. Trump declared Thursday he has a pick for next Fed chair in mind after wrapping up interviews, and he will name the replacement for Jerome Powell “soon.”

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Booz Allen Hamilton stock pops as government awards reaccelerate

Defense IT consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) indicated that it’s seeing contracts reaccelerate after government cost-cutting efforts, such as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), created a choppy environment.

The stock rose 7% in premarket trading after dropping more than 30% over the past year.

“Our national security business continues to see good growth and very good prospects, but I believe what’s really exciting to us is our civil business is starting to reignite,” CEO Horacio Rozanski declared on the earnings call, adding, “The market does feel like it’s at an inflection point.”

The company’s sales backlog rose 2% year over year to $38 billion in the third quarter.

Overall revenue in the third quarter declined 10% year over year to $2.6 billion, missing Wall Street estimates of $2.7 billion, according to S&P Global Market Ininformigence. But adjusted profits rose to $1.77 per share, beating analysts’ estimates of $1.27.

The company slightly lowered the top finish of its full-year revenue guidance to a range of $11.3 billion-$11.4 billion from $11.3 billion-$11.5 billion previously. But it raised its adjusted diluted earnings per share guidance to $5.95-$6.15 from $5.45-$5.65 previously.

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Intel stock tumbles as company’s Q1 outsee falls short of Wall Street expectations

Intel (INTC) stock tanked by 13% on Friday morning following the company’s fourth quarter results. The US-based chipbuildr’s first quarter financial outsee was a disappointment on the Street, and executives’ comments that the company was struggling to keep up with demand also raised concerns.

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China informs Alibaba, huge tech companies to prep Nvidia H200 orders

Nvidia (NVDA) stock rose before the bell after Bloomberg reported that Beijing has given the go-ahead for China’s tech giants to prepare orders for its H200 chips.

US-listed shares of Nvidia supplier TSMC (TSM) also shiftd higher on the sign that China is close to granting full formal approval to import the chips, seen as key to AI data centers.

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US stocks saw outflow in week Trump threatened tariffs: BofA

Data from the Bank of America (BAC) has displayn that investors pulled nearly $17 billion out of US stocks this week, as President Trump vowed to impose tariffs on Europe over Greenland.

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Market’s most reliable dip acquireers cash in on latest ‘TACO’ turn

The retail crowd’s faith never wavered, even as President Trump escalated his rhetoric against Europe.

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Premarket trfinishing tickers: Capital One, Intuitive Surgical, and Coupang

Capital One (COF) stock fell 3% before the bell on Friday. The group released its fourth-quarter results and announced it would acquire startup company Brex for $5.15 billion.

Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) stock rose 3% during premarket hours on Friday after beating Wall Street estimates for its fourth quarter revenue and profit on Thursday. The company cited growing demand for its surgical robots applyd in minimally ‌invasive procedures.

South Korea’s largest e-commerce group, Coupang (CPNG), saw its stock climb on Friday by around 3% after receiving an upgrade from Deutsche Bank (DB) to Buy from Hold. Coupang suffered a cyberattack late last year, leaving investors to seek a US probe over South Korea’s handling of the data leak.
‘Quiet-quitting’ of US assets fuels boom in bets from EM stocks to gold

Emerging-market stocks, currencies and precious metals are extfinishing a storming start to 2026 as tensions between the US and Europe weigh on the dollar. The rally gathered pace Friday, with the MSCI Emerging Markets Index heading for a fifth successive week of gains, its longest winning streak since May.

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Investors are pouring cash into emerging-market funds at a record pace as momentum builds for a rotation out of US holdings. It’s sent the EM stocks gauge to a record high.

While Asian technology shares drive the rally, other regions are also catching up. The benchmark for Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa has risen on all five days of this week and is on course for its best month since 2020. The MSCI EM Latin America Index of equities on Thursday closed its highest since April 2018.

The Greenland tussle — even if it has been mitigated for now — has revived questions about US exceptionalism and the role of the dollar, spurring funds from Europe to India to diversify away from Treasuries. The flow has added an impetus to an EM rally fueled by robust global growth, the AI spfinishing boom and political shifts in Latin America, as well as fiscal and monetary policy orthodoxy in much of the developing world.

People “are seeing to diversify away from US assets, and I would kind of describe it as quiet-quitting of US bonds,” TCW Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Katie Koch declared in a Bloomberg Television interview. “I don’t believe there’s going to be a massive announcement, I just believe they’re going to see for opportunities to diversify away.”

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US natural gas falls after record-breaking 3-day rally

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US natural gas futures (NG=F) pared a record breaking three-day rally, after traders finished exiting short positions and the market braced for a historic winter storm.

Front-month contracts dropped as much as 7.6% to $4.660 per million British thermal units on Friday, after surging 63% over the previous three sessions. Prices were still on track for their hugegest weekly gain in records going back to 1990.

This week’s surge was driven by forecasts for below normal temperatures across most of the counattempt, threatening to boost gas consumption and drain inventories. The freeze — particularly in the southern gas-producing states — has raised concerns about water icing in pipelines, potentially disrupting output from this weekfinish.

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Gold on track for best week since 2020 after safe haven surge

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TikTok closes deal with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX for US operation

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