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SLB helped lead the market after the provider of services to oilfields delivered bigger profit and revenue for the end of 2024 than analysts expected. It jumped 6.1% after it also raised its dividend by 3.6% and said it’s returning $2.3 billion to its investors by buying back its own stock.

Emerging-market currencies are gaining during the first week of Donald Trump’s second term, helped by a softer-than-expected rollout of US tariffs and the absence of new levies on Chinese imports.

President Trump's first week in office has brought a barrage of executive orders and tariff talk, but investors appear to be shrugging off the uncertainty. The Cboe Volatility Index, the widely followed fear gauge that trades under the ticker VIX,

U.S. stock indexes are drifting higher following a mostly encouraging batch of profit reports from big companies.