Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on January 28, 2026 in New York City, USA.
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Stock futures fell Sunday night as Wall Street opened a new month of trading, with traders focusing on Bitcoin following the weekend’s decline.
Dow Jones Industrial Average Futures Lost 143 points (0.3%). S&P500 futures Although it fell by 0.6%, Nasdaq 100 futures It decreased by nearly 1%.
Bitcoin fell below $80,000 for the first time since April, a sign that investors are hedging more risk following Friday’s selloff in gold and silver. Silver, which has more than doubled in the past 12 months, fell about 30% on Friday. This was the metal’s worst single-day performance since 1980. Gold also fell by about 9%.
Bitcoin last traded around $76,000.
Wall Street has also turned its attention to Nvidia amid questions surrounding artificial intelligence.
Nvidia’s plan to spend $100 billion on OpenAI has stalled, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
big income, employment week
More than 100 S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report this week, including Amazon, Alphabet, and Disney. While the earnings season so far has been strong overall, there were some high-profile declines after earnings, including for Microsoft.
Nevertheless, Deutsche Bank strategists noted this weekend that profit growth is on track to be the strongest in four years.
Wall Street is also awaiting the release of the January US jobs report, scheduled for Friday morning. A survey of economists conducted by Dow Jones estimates that 55,000 jobs were added last month.
Stocks are emerging from a losing streak with major indexes falling after President Donald Trump nominated Kevin Warsh to chair the Federal Reserve. If confirmed, Warsh will succeed Jerome Powell later this year.
