Morning Bid: Fed under pressure as layoffs mount
#Federal Reserve #Layoffs #Amazon #Bitcoin #Interest rates #Government shutdown #Stock market #Capital expenditure
📌 Key Takeaways
- U.S. layoffs surged in January to a 17-year high, significantly increasing the pressure on the Federal Reserve to consider interest rate cuts.
- A U.S. government shutdown has delayed the release of the critical non-farm payrolls report, leaving markets without official labor data.
- Amazon shares plummeted following a projection of a 50% increase in capital expenditures for the 2026 fiscal year.
- Traders have increased the probability of a 25-basis-point Fed rate cut in March to 22.7%, up from 9.4% just a day prior.
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🐦 Character Reactions (Tweets)
Market OracleLooks like 'layoffs' is the new buzzword of 2026. Should we start a bingo card for this year's economic panic? First one to yell 'recession!' wins a free job application! 🎉💼
Tech WhispererAmazon's shares took a dive. I guess you could say their profit margins took the same flight path as my New Year resolutions. 🚀📉
Crypto SageBitcoin bouncing back after slipping through $70k is just like my weekend bender—there’s no fall too steep when a hangover recovery is on the line! 🍻💸
Economic ClownCould someone please tell the Fed that interest rate cuts won’t make employers hire? It’s like trying to fix a flat tire by inflating your ego. 🚗🔧
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🏷️ Themes
Monetary Policy, Market Volatility, Labor Market
📚 Related People & Topics
Layoff
Involuntary termination of employment of an employee due to business concerns
A layoff or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing an organization. Originally, layoff referred exclusively to a temporar...
Interest rate
Percentage of a sum of money charged for its use
An interest rate is the amount of interest due per period, as a proportion of the amount lent, deposited, or borrowed. Interest rate periods are ordinarily a year and are often annualized when not. Alongside interest rates, three other variables determine total interest: principal sum, compounding f...
Federal Reserve
Central banking system of the US
The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics (particularly the panic of 1907) led to th...
Bitcoin
Decentralized digital cryptocurrency
Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Based on a free-market ideology, bitcoin was invented in 2008 when an unknown person published a white paper under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto. Use of bitcoin as a currency began in 2009, with the release of its op...
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- 👤 Jeff Bezos (4 shared articles)
- 🌐 Journalism (1 shared articles)
- 🌐 Watergate scandal (1 shared articles)
- 🌐 Newsroom (1 shared articles)
- 🌐 Media management (1 shared articles)
- 👤 William Lewis (1 shared articles)
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try{ var _=i o; . if(!_||_&&typeof _==="object"&&_.expiry Amazon stock slides 9% premarket as 2026 capex guidance blows past expectations Gold, silver prices log shaky gains after bruising week 3 reasons why Bitcoin is falling Amazon’s capex plans, Stellantis, Bitcoin’s fall - what’s moving markets (South Africa Philippines Nigeria) Morning Bid: Fed under pressure as layoffs mount Economy Published 02/06/2026, 12:46 AM Updated 02/06/2026, 12:48 AM Morning Bid: Fed under pressure as layoffs mount 2 UK100 0.02% Silver Spot US Dollar 4.75% DE40 0.42% JP225 0.89% AMZN -4.42% SI -3.54% KS11 -1.44% Bitcoin US Dollar -7.23% A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Gregor Stuart Hunter. It’s Jobs Friday and there is no jobs report. With non-farm payrolls delayed by a U.S. government shutdown - again - and a selloff on Wall Street going global, markets are anxious. Traders are increasingly betting the Federal Reserve might ease policy at its next meeting, following fresh signs of economic stress in the labour market. A survey from global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed layoffs announced by U.S. employers surged in January to the highest level for the month in 17 years. Though pricing implies a strong possibility the Fed will remain on hold, funds futures are pricing a 22.7% probability of a 25-basis-point cut at the U.S. central bank’s next two-day meeting that ends on March 18, compared with a 9.4% chance a day earlier, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool. For now, a selloff for global stocks is into its third day and emerging markets are looking shaky. Korean shares led the way after an early 5% dive in the KOSPI triggered a trading halt. It wasn’t all bad though, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 eking out a 0.6% gain as stocks rally into Sunday’s election. In early European trades, pan-region futures were last down 0.1% and FTSE futures were down 0.6%, though German DAX futures were up 0.1%. In an indication that investor confidence ...