US stocks fall after the Fed held rates steady but suggested the inflation drop has stalled. Meta, Tesla and Microsoft report earnings after the bell.

Donald Trump's rapid move to ban a "digital dollar" has left the field wide open, observers say, for China and Europe to make their already-advanced central bank digital currency (CBDC) prototypes into global standard-setters.

The Nasdaq & S&P 500 fell after Chinese startup DeepSeek shows AI can be built cheaply, sparking fears AI spending will stall. The blue-chip Dow rose.

Nonetheless, already there is a clash with President Trump, who believes interest rates are “far too high." On his Truth Social platform, Trump went on the attack: Because Jay Powell and the Fed failed to stop the problem they created with Inflation,

Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick explains why the impact of DeepSeek on the AI industry could be good for the Bitcoin price.

Shares in Nvidia, whose semiconductors power the AI industry, fell nearly 17 percent on Wall Street, erasing nearly $600 billion of its market value.

The Federal Reserve opted to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged in its first policy meeting since President Trump's inauguration.

The Federal Reserve is set to discuss interest rates this week, with no expected changes despite President Trump's calls for a rate cut. (Scripps News)

The Lunar New Year holiday, China’s most important festival, begins today and runs until Tuesday next week. Millions of Chinese leave the cities to travel back home for a rare break with family during the holidays, which tend to distort economic data early in the year.

President Donald Trump ordered the creation of a digital asset working group on Thursday which, among other things, would be tasked with exploring a U.S. cryptocurrency stockpile.

The US Federal Reserve made its first significant decision during President Donald Trump's second term on Wednesday, announcing in a "unanimous" vote that it would maintain the interest rate reduction.

Asian equities were mixed in another holiday-thinned trading day Thursday, with investors digesting broadly positive tech earnings that came days after the upheaval caused by China’s DeepSeek explosion onto the global AI scene.