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Donald Trump declared that talks with Iran were progressing well, which single handedly ended a stock market plunge yesterday.

Airlines are currently facing a litany of issues that just keep piling up, including staffing shortages, extreme weather, and a government shutdown affecting operations.

Major indices were in the red almost across the board after a weekend of inactivity, with Germany's DAX down by just over 2% and France's CAC 40 also roughly 2% down.

Yih-Shyan 'Wally' Liaw was charged with conspiring to smuggle about $2.5 billion worth of highly coveted Nvidia GPUs in servers to China, alongside Ruei-Tsang 'Steven' Chang and Ting-Wei 'Willy' Sun.

Ondas announced a merger with a Maryland-based U.S. defense prime contractor, granting direct access to U.S. Army and Special Operations Command contract vehicles, unlocking over $1 billion in potential opportunities.

Rivian secured a partnership with Uber Technologies that includes a $1.25 billion investment to deploy up to 50,000 robotaxis by 2031, starting with an initial $300 million payment.

Microvast's Q4 results revealed a severe revenue miss, with $96.4 million reported against a consensus estimate of $133.75 million, leading to a 34.2% drop in shares.

On Thursday, Adobe announced the results of its first quarter for fiscal 2026. And for all intents and purposes, the results were of the caliber that would normally make investors happy: Total revenue of $6.4 billion (up 12% year-over-year), Diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $6.06 adjusted, Total annualized recurring revenue (ARR) of $26.06 billion.

The Biden administration and its allies in Congress gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country. But in 12 months, my administration has driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years. And in the last three months of 2025, it was down to 1.7%.

The markets are seeing green across the board amid a near Goldilocks scenario in the economy. The latest jobs report reveals that conditions are neither too not nor too cold, with 130,000 jobs added last month, surpassing economist's most bullish of estimates, while the unemployment rate edged lower to a surprising 4.3% from 4.4% month-over-month. What it means for the Fed and interest rates will depend largely on the latest inflation data, with the CPI due out at the end of the week.

Japan's stock market has hit a record high after Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic party (LDP) secured a comprehensive victory in Sunday's election. The LDP won 316 of the 465 seats in the country's lower house the first time a single party has secured two-thirds of the lower house since the establishment of Japan's parliament in 1947. The Japan Innovation party, the LDP's coalition partner, won 36 further seats, giving a supermajority of 352 seats.

It's another edition of Morning Checkpoint, Kotaku's daily roundup of gaming news, rumors, and culture. I'm still bummed about yesterday's report that The Outer Worlds franchise is essentially on ice after last year's entry struggled to sell. It's an exceptionally solid immersive sim RPG that feels like it's on the verge of being something truly special. But those 30-percent profit margins on games given away for free on Game Pass are a killer.

The markets are a mixed bag in the first trading session of February as technology stocks reach a fork in the road. Bullish performance out of Oracle ( Nasdaq: ORCL) stock is being overshadowed by a declining Nvidia ( Nasdaq; NVDA) share price amid uncertainty around its OpenAI investment, damaging overall market sentiment to kick things off. Oracle has recaptured the spotlight as traders and investors cheer the legacy software giant's plans to pour $50 billion into AI-related capex.

The U.S. stock market bounced back from its worst day since October on Wednesday after President Donald Trump said he reached the framework for a deal about Greenland, an island he's long coveted, and won't impose tariffs he had threatened on several European countries. The S&P 500 rallied 1.2% after Trump said the deal, "if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America" and its allies in the North Atlantic region.