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 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.
Policymakers in Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Boston all argued that last week’s quarter-point increase will not be the end of the tightening.
Pontes went live on Monday, letting eurozone banks settle tokenised securities in central bank money rather than in private tokens.
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.
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.
Increased Saudi shipments through the strait and the prospect of US-Iran talks pushed crude to its longest run of declines since June.
The largest single investor in the AI build-out is now raising a record amount from high-yield investors.
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.
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.
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 move extends a rally that ran through the Federal Reserve’s rate rise, with quoted prices varying widely across the session.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Treasury secretary answered a bearish assessment of the US economy by pointing to dollar dominance, economic data and stablecoin adoption.