The Chinese group used its Apsara conference to claim the country's most powerful chip and to set a data centre capacity goal stretching to 2032.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2026
12 storiesInvestors asked to withdraw 14.7 per cent of outstanding shares in the third-quarter tender, down from the previous quarter but still far above the fund's cap.
A quarter-point increase to 1.25 per cent came with two dissenting votes and no explicit hawkish guidance, leaving the currency close to its weakest levels of the year.
The S&P 500 bank index dropped as artificial intelligence disruption fears met a two-year to ten-year spread at its narrowest in more than a year.
Europe's central banks want the bank-deposit floors for stablecoin reserves removed, endorsing a risk argument Tether first made two years ago.
A run of hawkish remarks from regional Federal Reserve presidents has pushed traders to price further tightening, lifting the dollar to its strongest level since late July.
Kristalina Georgieva warned that repeated shocks have pushed debt levels higher just as central banks tighten, and Britain's August borrowing figures show the squeeze arriving.
Tehran has floated conditions for restoring traffic through the chokepoint, and oil fell as American and Iranian officials completed a round of indirect talks at the United Nations.
The Japanese group is taking orders for one of the largest corporate high-yield deals ever, financing artificial intelligence commitments in the junk market rather than with equity.
The president's endorsement reverses an administration position that had resisted fuel export restrictions, and his own energy officials have argued against it.
The agreement grants Washington permanent basing rights on the semi-autonomous Danish territory while stopping well short of the ownership President Trump had demanded.
Analysts expect tariff relief at best from the Trump and Xi meeting, with no movement on semiconductor export controls or rare earths.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
24 storiesASIC stopped offers under three private credit products and told the sector to fix governance and valuations or face enforcement.
Regulators are using informal window guidance to hold back listings after Unitree's slide from its post-debut peak.
Forecasters now place AI infrastructure capex above $1.3 trillion by 2027, a figure large enough to register in the macro data.
Europe's central banks want the requirement that large issuers hold most reserves in commercial bank deposits deleted from the bloc's crypto rulebook.
Three regional Federal Reserve presidents argued this week that price pressures now extend well beyond energy, and that one rate increase may not be enough.
Tehran has submitted conditions for reopening the strait as commodity traffic through it fell to two vessels in a day.
The settlement removes the last legal hurdle to a $110 billion combination that will not require major divestitures.
The gap between two-year and 10-year yields has hit its narrowest reading of the cycle even as the long end trades at 5 percent.
The president said a decision would come fast, while the Treasury secretary said the administration is still examining whether a ban is feasible.
Government borrowing came in higher than expected in August, with debt interest of 8.8 billion pounds, the highest for the month since records began in 1997.
The accord ends a months-long standoff and paves the way for two new US military bases on the island.
A narrow notification mechanism, not a broad accord, is emerging as the likeliest deliverable of this week's summit.
Crypto rallied into a hawkish Federal Reserve and a failed US market-structure bill, with ETF flows turning positive and short positions liquidated.
A Canadian province is seeking compensation from a frontier AI lab and its chief executive over a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge.
Federal detention capacity is expanding across several states while the largest listed operator's stock falls on a detainee transfer.
Tehran has put the world's most important oil chokepoint on the table in exchange for an easing of US military pressure.
Diesel hit a record high and senior Republicans want an export embargo, but the president's own energy and interior secretaries are against it.
The most-watched attempt to settle cross-border trade outside the dollar has lost the world's most important oil exporter.
Masayoshi Son is raising a record sum from high-yield investors, and demand has already run well ahead of the deal size.
St. Louis, Chicago and Minneapolis policymakers all argued on the same day that inflation is still too high to stop tightening.
Scott Bessent says secondary sanctions will shut Iranian carriers out of the global aviation system from 23 September.
Washington has offered Beijing an emergency notification channel for artificial intelligence failures, and trade talks alongside it went further than expected.
A months-long fight over US control of Greenland ends in an agreement granting Washington permanent military rights on the island.
Budget director Russell Vought is pushing an executive order that would let a political appointee veto biomedical research awards.
Monday, September 21, 2026
24 storiesPolicymakers in Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Boston all argued that last week's quarter-point increase will not be the end of the tightening.
Increased Saudi shipments through the strait and the prospect of US-Iran talks pushed crude to its longest run of declines since June.
The settlement removes the last legal obstacle to a takeover reported at $110 billion and expands the Ellison family's control of CBS, CNN and HBO.
The largest single investor in the AI build-out is now raising a record amount from high-yield investors.
The Treasury secretary answered a bearish assessment of the US economy by pointing to dollar dominance, economic data and stablecoin adoption.
Pontes went live on Monday, letting eurozone banks settle tokenised securities in central bank money rather than in private tokens.
Japan's central bank lifted its policy rate to the highest level since 1995 on a split vote, days after the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank tightened.
The S&P Global index slipped to 42.7 in September from 42.9 in August, with job security the weakest component for all but technology workers.
Agriculture and oil interests are now fighting openly over whether Washington should restrict diesel exports.
Secondary sanctions on aviation services take effect on 23 September, aimed at foreign airports, fuel suppliers and banks rather than at Iranian aircraft themselves.
Two American military sites are to open on the island under an agreement Washington describes as giving it permanent control over Greenland's security.
Treasury and the US trade representative came out of New York talks with a proposed AI notification mechanism, a "Board of Trade" and the prospect of tariff cuts on non-critical goods.
The move extends a rally that ran through the Federal Reserve's rate rise, with quoted prices varying widely across the session.
Europe's central bank opened a link between its payment system and blockchain-based markets, and said it will put a small portion of its own funds into tokenised securities.
Bullion steadied rather than fell after the Federal Reserve tightened, with falling oil and central bank buying cited as the offsets.
Two agencies counted weekend traffic through the strait differently, and both counts point down while US Central Command describes the opposite trend.
Kristalina Georgieva told the Qatar Economic Forum that governments are falling short on deficit cuts even as the world economy proves more resilient than feared.
The crude risk premium is draining as Hormuz traffic and diplomacy improve, but refined fuels are still squeezing farmers and freight.
Beijing left benchmark lending rates unchanged and eased its guard on the currency, which strengthened to its firmest level against the dollar since mid-2022.
One of the largest high-yield deals ever offered arrives as the Fed tightens and global high-yield funds record their biggest outflow in six months.
The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan all raised rates inside eight days, and a Fed policymaker says price pressure now runs well beyond energy.
Interest on the federal debt hit a record through August, and the debt-to-GDP ratio has returned to 100 per cent for the first time in 80 years.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered Beijing a notification mechanism for AI incidents, while the US trade representative confirmed chip export controls were not on the agenda.
The agreement expands the US military presence on the island and places Arctic security under NATO oversight, and thinly traded Greenland names moved violently on the news.