Daily US stock market news (Wednesday, January 8)

Important news

1. CNN reported that Trump is considering declaring a national economic emergency over the new tariff plan.

2. The US ADP employment in December was 122,000, which was lower than expected.

3. Fed Governor Waller: Supports further interest rate cuts in 2025, but the pace of interest rate cuts will depend on further progress in inflation.

4. Indonesian officials said that the sales ban on iPhone 16 will remain unchanged.

Individual stock news

1. According to Business Insider, Microsoft (MSFT.O) is planning layoffs in the near future.

2. Merck (MRK.N) Gardasil® becomes the first male HPV vaccine approved in China.

3. Honda Motor (HMC.N) releases its first "American-made" electric car equipped with AI autonomous driving software.

4. ExxonMobil (XOM.N): Falling oil prices led to a $700 million reduction in fourth-quarter profits.

5. Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N)'s first-line dual-antibody combination therapy has positive Phase 3 results and can improve the overall survival of cancer patients.

6. Meta Platforms (META.O) will test displaying eBay (EBAY.O) product listings on Facebook Marketplace.

7. Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest at least $11 billion in Georgia to expand its infrastructure and support various cloud computing and artificial intelligence technologies.

8. Musk: Tesla's (TSLA.O) Optimus robot may be updated in the next few weeks.

9. Micron Technology (MU.O) will spend $7 billion to expand its production capacity in Singapore and plans to build a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) advanced packaging plant, which is expected to be completed next year.