More than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9 are grounded temporarily by the FAA following an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight which saw a side panel blow off in mid-air. Wall Street records its first week in the red in ten following a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report for December. Oil is down after three weeks of gains in the past month as Saudi Arabia cuts crude prices to their lowest levels in more than two years. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in the Middle East on what is his fourth visit since the October 7th attacks in Israel. He is due to hold talks with officials in the UAE and Saudi Arabia before heading for Tel Aviv in a bid to ease ‘profound tension’ in the region. 

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