Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:     

• China Buys 2 Million Tons of Soybeans After DC Talks.

• Angry Venezuelans March on Capital to Demand Fresh Elections.  

• Brazil Senate Chooses Pro-Reform Backbencher as Its Speaker.

• An Upheaval Is Coming for Australian Banks.

• Euroskeptic Savona May Head Italy's Market Watchdog: Reports.

• Norway's $1 Trillion Man Talks Brexit, China and Big Tech.  

• Venezuela Oil Output to Drop by 18% on U.S. Sanctions: Woodmac.

• Starboard Value Is Said to Take Stake in Bristol-Myers Squibb.  

• An Investor's Guide to Trump's State of the Union.

Wall Street Journal:

• Apple’s(AAPL) Cold War Over Privacy Turns Hot.

• Sorry for the Good News.

• Howard Schultz Is Right About Medicare for All.

• Why the Fed Made a U-Turn: Perceived Risks Shifted.

• Russia to Follow U.S. in Suspending Role in Nuclear Treaty.

• Women Claim New Turf on Wall Street.

• Junk Debt Is Back After December Slowdown.

• 1MDB Scandal Could Hit Pay for Some Top Goldman Executives.

• Big Oil Companies Finished 2018 Strong Despite Plunge in Oil Prices.

• Record Job Run Powers On.

• Trump Signals Decision on Border Emergency Could Come Soon.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (REGN), (GLW), (BPY), (APTV), (MRK), (MSFT), (AMD), (MMM), (SAVE), (BLL), (SYK).

• Had bearish commentary on (NVO) and (ABBV).

MarketWatch.com:

• Disney(DIS) and Alphabet(GOOG) highlight another big week of earnings.

• 5 stocks to outsmart a dimming outlook for profits.

Fox News:

• KRISTAN HAWKINS: Why I wear a MAGA hat, and I wasn’t even a Trump fan. 

• President hits Florida course with golf greats, escapes chilly DC.

CNBC:

• Here’s the real reason the stock market had such a strong start to the year: Jim Cramer.

• January was the best month for US defense stocks in a decade.

• Facebook’s earnings had a surprise finding: Users don’t appear to care about privacy scandals.

• With more drones in the sky every year, ‘counter-drone’ tech can keep the bad ones at bay.

• Cramer’s lightning round: Bank of America’s(BAC) stock is a screaming buy.

Zero Hedge:

• Northam Will Not Resign, Claims He Wasn't In Racist Picture: AP.

• Northam Tweets Video Apology For "Racist And Offensive" Photo Amid Growing Calls To Resign.

• These Billionaires Are Issuing Terrifying Warnings About Global Debt Levels.

• French Yellow Vests March To Denounce Police Violence; Promptly Get Beaten By Riot Cops.

• Massive, Dueling Rallies Engulf Venezuela As Maduro Attempts Election Concessions.

• Yes, America Hates 'Patriot Nation' - And New England Is Loving It!

• Top Venezuela General Defects, Calls Guaido Head-of-State And Urges Military To Follow.

• Socialism Is The Fyre Festival Of Ideologies, And Millennials Are Falling For It Too.

• Snopes & AP Suddenly Quit As Facebook Fact-Checkers.

• Iran Taunts Trump With Test-Launch Of New Long-Range Cruise Missile.

• Time Is Running Out To Oust Maduro.

• How The Euro Enabled Europe's Debt Bubbles.

• Robots Call Americans An Average Eight Times A Month.

• Melbourne Housing Prices Plummet At Fastest Quarterly Pace Ever Recorded; Sydney Enters "New Territory".

• Advanced Social Decay: What's Going On Behind Closed Doors In America.

• Elizabeth Warren Apologizes To Cherokee Nation For DNA Test.

• One Of The Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Secretly Sharing Data With The FBI.

• Virginia Governor "Deeply Sorry" For Yearbook Photo In Blackface/KKK Robes.

• Big Trouble In Shrinking China.

• Maxine Waters: "Deutsche Bank Is Perhaps The Biggest Money Laundering Bank In The World".

• Pennsylvania Identifies Over 11,000 Registered Non-Citizen Voters.

• Powell-Pivot Sends Gold To 8-Month Highs, Dow Up Sixth Straight Week.

Business Insider:

• The US housing market has been battered amid soaring home costs — here are the most affordable cities for millennials to buy a home right now.

• A toxic-chemicals expert is sounding the alarm about 4 cancer-linked chemicals that could be making us sicker and fatter.

The Telegraph:

• Comment: Don't blame China - this global economic slowdown is made in Europe.