*POWELL: DON'T HAVE COMMENT ON WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID

*POWELL: I'VE HAD NO CONTACT WITH THE PRESIDENT

*POWELL: SENTENCE ON INFLATION NOT MEANT TO SEND SIGNAL

Powell says removal of "inflation" line is just clean up to shorten sentence, not determination that inflation is rising again

*POWELL: FED VERY MUCH WAITING TO SEE WHAT POLICIES ARE ENACTED

*POWELL: WE DO EXPECT TO SEE FURTHER PROGRESS ON INFLATION

*POWELL: RIGHT NOW WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE IN A VERY GOOD PLACE

*POWELL: I WOULD SAY WE'RE MEANINGFULLY ABOVE NEUTRAL RATE

*POWELL: MOST RECENT DATA SUGGEST RESERVES ARE STILL ABUNDANT

*FED'S POWELL: WE INTEND TO REDUCE THE BALANCE SHEET SIZE

Powell gives an update on balance sheet policy that suggests no imminent changes:

*Reserves are still abundant.
*We're closely monitoring conditions.
*I don't have anything to say about particular dates.

*POWELL, ASKED ABOUT MARCH RATE CUT REPEATS DON'T NEED TO HURRY

*POWELL: FED'S ROLE WITH CRYPTO IS TO LOOK AT BANKS

*POWELL: BANKS ARE PERFECTLY ABLE TO SERVE CRYPTO CUSTOMERS AS LONG AS THEY MANAGE THE RISKS

*POWELL: FED DOESN'T WANT BANKS TO TERMINATE LEGAL CUSTOMERS

*POWELL: GREATER REGULATION ON CRYPTO WOULD BE HELPFUL

DEEPSEEK INTERNAL DATABASE PUBLICLY EXPOSED ⚠️

*Wiz Research has discovered "DeepLeak" - a publicly accessible ClickHouse database belonging to DeepSeek, exposing highly sensitive information, including secret keys, plain-text chat messages, backend details, and logs.

*Wiz Research team immediately disclosed the issue to DeepSeek, which promptly secured the exposure.

GOLD HITS NEW ALL-TIME HIGH

OpenAl in Talks for Huge Investment Round Valuing It Up to $340 Billion: WSJ

*SoftBank in Discussions to Lead Round and Invest $15 Billion to $25 Billion: Sources

*OpenAI was last valued at $157 billion in October, when it raised $6.6 billion

OPENAI TO LAUNCH NEW O3-MINI MODEL TODAY IN RESPONSE TO DEEPSEEK: WIRED

GOOGLE SAYS BRINGING NVIDIA BLACKWELL GPUS TO GOOGLE CLOUD WITH PREVIEW OF A4 VMS

WHITE HOUSE: REUTERS REPORT ON TARIFF PLAN FALSE

*WHITE HOUSE: FEB. 1 DEADLINE FOR 25% TARIFFS ON MEXICO, CANADA STILL HOLD

*TARIFF DETAILS TO BE RELEASED SATURDAY

WHITE HOUSE: CANADA AND MEXICO TARIFF AT 25% AND CHINA AT 10%.

TRUMP: NOTHING CAN BE DONE BY CHINA, MEXICO AND CANADA RIGHT NOW TO FORESTALL TARIFFS

TRUMP: WE MAY INCREASE TARIFFS

TRUMP: WE WILL PUT TARIFFS ON CHIPS AND OIL AND GAS

TRUMP: I'M BRINGING TOMORROW’S TARIFFS DOWN TO 10% ON CANADIAN OIL

TRUMP SAYS HE WILL IMPOSE TARIFFS ON THE EUROPEAN UNION

TRUMP: WE'LL BE DOING SOMETHING VERY SUBSTANTIAL ON TARIFFS WITH EUROPEAN UNION

MICROSTRATEGY DID NOT BUY ANY BITCOIN FROM JAN. 27 TO FEB. 2: BBG