OpenAI and Anthropic asked for international guardrails on the same day the US president called AI oversight a globalist scheme.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
24 storiesThe US Treasury secretary says Washington is open to extending the China trade truce or striking a bigger deal.
A sitting Federal Reserve governor told an audience in Chicago that his base case calls for more tightening, and futures markets moved.
Oil prices fell after American and Iranian officials met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
The Paris-based body raised its 2026 world growth projection while warning that a long Middle East conflict could still take a heavy toll.
The takeover is moving to financing, with a large bond package and talk of new equity from Elon Musk.
Apollo's flagship private credit fund faced another rush for exits in the same week EU supervisors named the asset class a key vulnerability.
A bulk carrier was struck near the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, killing one crew member, while traffic through the waterway stayed close to nothing.
The Japanese group is marketing one of the largest corporate high-yield deals ever, at yields reported up to 9.875%.
A five-year auction cleared at the highest yield since 2006 as US government bond prices fell across the curve.
The pact expands American military access in Greenland while leaving the territory under Danish sovereignty.
Officials are drafting a plan for a 90-day ban on diesel exports while the energy secretary says the tool does not work.
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.
Investors 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.