🗞️Trump meets with oil executives

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January 9th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• President Trump hosted oil executives from companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and others at the White House, to discuss investments in reviving Venezuela's oil sector following the U.S. seizure of Maduro and tanker operations…Trump pledged security guarantees and aims for at least $100 billion in commitments to revive production

• The U.S. Supreme Court confirmed earlier today that it would not issue its anticipated ruling on the legality of President Trump's tariffs, despite earlier expectations for a decision…the Supreme Court is expected to release its ruling on the legality the tariffs now on January 14th

• President Trump announced that Colombian President, Gustavo Petro, will visit the White House during the first week of February to discuss drug trafficking and bilateral issues

• U.S. forces intercepted and seized a fifth sanctioned oil tanker, the Olina, in international waters near the Caribbean as part of an intensified campaign to track and control Venezuelan oil shipments moving through a “ghost fleet” that evades sanctions

• Polymarket has been named the exclusive prediction market partner for the Golden Globes

• Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has raised over $15 billion across new funds marking its largest fundraising haul to date and bringing assets under management above $90 billion

• Amazon Pharmacy announced that it now offers Novo Nordisk's newly FDA-approved oral version of Wegovy, a GLP-1 weight-loss pill

• Meta announced deals with nuclear providers Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to supply up to 6.6 gigawatts of power by 2035 for its Prometheus AI supercluster data center in New Albany, Ohio, set to go online in 2026 and support advanced AI development…read more here

• The U.S. economy added 50,000 jobs in December, below expectations of 70,000…the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%, below expectations of 4.5%

• DOW up .48% / S&P up .65%

• Greenlandic politician, Pele Broberg, urged the government to hold direct talks with the U.S. without Denmark's involvement…read more here

• France has delayed its 2026 G7 summit, originally set for June 14th-16th in Evian-les-Bains, by one day to June 15th-17th to avoid clashing with a major UFC mixed martial arts event scheduled at the White House on June 14th, coinciding with President Trump's 80th birthday

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