Stock Market Today, Jan. 20: Trump's Greenland threat creates market fallout

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Happy Monday. This is TheStreet’s Stock Market Today for Jan. 20, 2026. You tin travel the latest updates connected the marketplace present successful our regular unrecorded blog.

The U.S. banal marketplace is present open. As expected, this morning's declines are beauteous hefty.

Out of the gate, the Nasdaq Composite (-1.66%) is down implicit 1 and a fractional percent points, portion the Dow (-1.51%), Russell 2000 (-1.50%), and S&P 500(-1.38%) aren't doing overmuch better.

The declines travel aft a play speech of words implicit President Donald Trump's projected takeout of Greenland. The semi-autonomous Danish territory is not for sale, but the U.S. person has threatened to prehend the territory, reaching a "red line" for Europe, according to German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil.

Many EU countries person already dispatched troops, took steps to suspend the EU's projected commercialized woody with the U.S., and floated imaginable responses.

The determination has besides impacted the fixed income and commodity markets. U.S. Treasurys yields are present supra the levels that they were astatine erstwhile the Federal Reserve began cutting rates precocious past year. Today, the 10Y Treasury is up 5.6 bips to 4.287%. The 20Y and 30Y are up 8.8 and 8.3% bips to 4.88% and 4.923%, which are immoderate large leaps.

One of the acute concerns close present is that the President's newfound involvement successful colonialism could punctual a formation from U.S. assets, including Treasurys. Further, the U.S's moves could marginalize the U.S. connected the planetary stage, perchance threatening its reserve currency presumption arsenic well.

Continuous futures for gold (+3.29% to $4,746.80) and silver (+6.77% to $94.53) some rose, on with WTI earthy state (+15.46% to $3.115) and WTI Crude lipid (+1.88% to $60.56).

The Cboe Volatility Index is up 8% astatine 20.35.

Notably, this diminution puts the S&P 500 successful the reddish connected the year, erasing an different beardown commencement to 2026. Here is simply a look astatine the S&P 500 vigor representation astatine the unfastened (15 min delayed):

Good morning. Traders mightiness person enjoyed the agelong weekend, but immoderate spent their time disconnected simply bracing for today.

As futures went unrecorded connected Sunday evening, U.S. equity futures were already successful escaped fall. At the aforesaid time, U.S. Treasury yields climbed to levels not seen since Sept. 2025, earlier the Federal Reserve began cutting involvement rates.