mixed trend on Wall Street; Micron and Novo Nordisk jump

Mixed trend on Wall Street; The Dow is down slightly. S&P 500 and Nasdaq add about 0.1%.

stock Novo Nordisk The Dane jumps more than 7% following strong sales of the new Wegobi pill, which can be swallowed, aimed at weight loss. The pill is slightly less effective than the injection, but it is considered suitable for those who do not like injections, or who have less weight to lose. In the first week of launch, about 1.3% of the prescriptions for the treatment were for a pill that can be swallowed.

Micron Technology jumps by about 5.5% after one of the board members purchased shares worth 7.8 million dollars. The stock jumped by about 246% in the last year.

European stock markets closed lower. Dax shed 0.2%, Kac fell 0.6%.

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The steel producer Worthington Steel rises by about 3% after the publication of its purchase of the German Kloeckner & Co, for 2.4 billion dollars.

17:30

The gains on Wall Street moderated and at this time the Dow, Nasdaq and S&P 500 moved to declines of about 0.3%.

The chip stocks, among them Nvidia andMicron rising after strong reports and stable forecasts. The bank reports indicate a mixed performance, with some of the big banks recording strong profits and leading the sector to record revenues, and in contrast, weaker profits of a bank like JPMorgan caused declines in banking and other indices.

The regulatory and political pressures are also a factor on the markets, with the government pressures on the Federal Reserve, which also includes a legal campaign against Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, creating volatility in the markets.

bank PNC Increases by about 3% after better-than-expected results, and publication of promising forecasts. The bank reported revenues of $5.96 billion, when the expectation was $5.89 billion. The profit per share was $4.88, exceeding the forecast of $4.22 per share.

16:30

Wall Street markets opened higher, thanks to gains in chip stocks. Taiwan Semiconductor Led the rise after an impressive fourth quarter report, the stock is now up more than 2%. Furthermore, the US and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement whereby Taiwanese chip and technology companies will invest at least $250 billion in manufacturing capacity in America.

The Dow is currently up about 0.3%, the S&P 500 is also up about 0.3%, and the Nasdaq is up about 0.5%. However, all three indexes are down for the week, with the S&P 500 down 0.3% and the Nasdaq down 0.6% on weekly averages. The Dow Jones index fell by 0.1% since the beginning of the week.

15:15

Wall Street futures are trading in a mixed trend, with the Nasdaq index rising by about 0.4%. Investors will continue to closely monitor the developments in Iran, when according to the latest reports, senior American officials said that President Trump has postponed the decision to attack at this stage – although it is still on the table.

Trading closed higher yesterday, after two consecutive days of declines were recorded before that. The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 both advanced about 0.2%, while the Dow Jones added about 0.6%.

The chip sector stood out positively, following strong results from TSMC, which reported a 35% jump in net income and issued a higher-than-expected forecast for its capital expenditures in 2026. Kim Forrest, head of investments at Bokeh Capital Partners, told CNBC that “TSMC’s results, and more importantly, its capital spending plans, are aimed at reinforcing investor confidence by In AI it’s not necessarily a bubble at this point they’re going to spend money, a lot of money, to build their capacity.”

The bank shares, which opened the report season on Wall Street, posted decent gains yesterday. Investment Bank share Goldman Sachs climbed over 4%, after its fourth-quarter earnings beat market forecasts. Morgan Stanley jumped nearly 6% after its financial results beat analysts’ forecasts on the top and bottom lines. Both stocks rose to new 52-week highs.

Next week, financial reports of several prominent companies on Wall Street will be released. Among other things, they will report Intel whose stock has recently been on a recovery trend (almost 150% in the last year) andSeagate which produces storage solutions and whose stock was one of the strongest in 2025 (230% per year), against the background of the rise of AI. Other reports to be published are from the streaming giant Netflix which has been in a negative trend recently and moved 34% away from the record, and the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson .

In the US debt market, government bond yields increased yesterday (that is, prices fell), after initial jobless claims data indicated some improvement in the labor market. The number of initial jobless claims for the week ending January 10 was 198,000 – below economists’ expectations, which was 215,000.

The international rating agency S&P has published a forecast for the technology sector, and expects a 9% increase in spending on the field in 2026, after a 12% growth in 2025, against the background of the construction of AI infrastructures and durable demand for software and IT services. The five major hyperscaler companies (Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Apple) will increase their capital expenditures (CAPEX) by 38% to $600 billion, according to S&P’s estimate, after a record jump of 68% in 2025.

But there are also risks: “The rate of investment and adoption by end users will not be a linear path, and the industry is vulnerable to a state of retreat.” Other risks are geopolitical (limitations on the export of chips and metals) and the Fed interest rate, which, if it does not drop as expected, may pose a risk to leveraged companies.

In Europe, trade is going down amid geopolitical tensions, with Greenland in focus, along with tensions over a possible US attack on Iran.

European troops arrived in Greenland late Thursday night ahead of a Democratic-led visit to Denmark for talks with Danish members of parliament. A meeting at the White House on the future of the Danish territory on Wednesday ended without a breakthrough, although the US, Denmark and Greenland agreed to continue talks.

Volatility was recorded in energy markets, with investors focused on the suppression of violence in oil-rich Iran and Washington’s response, which includes possible tariffs on Iranian trade.

Gold is trading at a level above $4,600, and UBS estimates that its price will reach $5,000 per ounce in the coming months, due to demand for hedging arising from macroeconomic and geopolitical risks.

Mark Hafele, Chief Investment Officer of UBS Global Wealth Management, says that “As demand for gold from central banks and investors is expected to increase further this year, we remain ‘long’ on gold and see value in allocating a mid-single-digit percentage to the precious metal within a well-diversified portfolio. While we note the downside risks in light of the current high premium, the price of gold may climb even beyond our forecast, to the level of $5,400 per ounce, if the political or financial risks increase.”

Also in the commodity market, oil prices recorded declines of over 4% yesterday, amid reports from which it is implied that the US has withdrawn for the time being from its plan to attack Iran, although the option is still on the table. After falling slightly this morning, increases are being recorded at this time: the price of a barrel of American oil stands at about $59.9, the price of a barrel of Brent oil stands at about $64.6.

In the crypto market, Bitcoin, which recently recorded a recovery and approached the $98,000 level earlier this week, is currently trading at a price of $95,300.

In Asia, the stock markets closed mostly lower. The Nikkei lost about 0.3%, the Hang Seng weakened by about 0.6% and the Shanghai Stock Exchange fell by about 0.3%. On the other hand, the South Korean Cospi strengthened by about 0.9%, led by chip shares; This, after it was reported yesterday about a significant trade agreement between the US and Taiwan.