In BIG PICTURE NEWS, Saudi Arabia postpones "Davos in the Desert", US stocks recover, French borrowing costs rise and we see what UK businesses want from the Budget. In TECH NEWS, a data centre builder has a bad market debut, Anthropic is in talks with Nscale, Musk wants to give US kids a share in SpaceX and European telcos take on Starlink. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, Jio Platforms nears its mammoth IPO, Freshfields makes a huge error, rising interest rates hit the commercial property market and Quince enters the UK. AND FINALLY, I bring you a master of egg fried rice...