Monday, September 28, 2026
24 stories Financial Regulation A Burry-advised short fund takes aim at private credit as defaults hit a record Minerva Investment Management plans to launch this month, betting that opaque loan books are hiding stress.
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G2 — Rival Hegemons China runs joint naval and air drills near Scarborough Shoal The PLA Southern Theater Command flew its WZ-7 reconnaissance drone near the contested feature for the first time.
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Fed & Monetary Policy Fed's Cook says the AI build-out and oil will keep inflation pressure on The governor told an audience in Oakland that productivity gains are unlikely to offset near-term price pressure.
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AI Backlash Florida asks a court to restrain OpenAI after rogue-agent breaches The state attorney general wants an emergency injunction against the company and its chief executive while its lawsuit proceeds.
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G2 — Adversary's Veto IRGC claims control of the Strait of Hormuz and CENTCOM rejects it Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it commands the strait; US Central Command says Iran no longer has a navy.
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Tech Oligarchs Larry Ellison pledges 67 million more Oracle shares against personal loans An Oracle proxy filing shows the founder's pledged collateral rose by about $9.2 billion from a year earlier.
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Tech Oligarchs Nvidia lifts its buyback authorization by a record $150 billion The chipmaker added to a repurchase programme its chief executive tied to a once-in-a-generation shift to AI.
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G2 — Empire-Behavior Panama Canal adds a Neopanamax slot and raises the maximum draft From 15 October the canal will offer 33 daily transit slots and allow deeper-laden ships, after rainfall restored water levels.
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Structural Indicators Paramount's $44 billion bond sale tests a crowded high-yield market The financing for the Warner Bros. takeover is expected to be the largest corporate high-yield bond sale ever attempted.
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Crypto & Financial Engineering Senate report says Iran used Tether's USDT to move money around sanctions Senate Democrats say most Iran-linked sanctioned wallets ran on the largest stablecoin, and Tether says it has helped freeze hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Mainstream News SpaceX Starship reaches orbit for the first time and ends in flames The rocket deployed Starlink satellites on its first orbital flight, then exploded moments after splashdown in the Pacific.
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Government & Institutional Trump announces a $15 billion Mesabi Metallics steel mill in Iowa The White House calls the project one of the largest steel plants in American history, with production targeted for 2030.
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Financial Regulation Audit forces Australian private-credit funds to halt after valuation cuts Metrics Credit Partners suspended three listed funds after a delayed KPMG audit cut asset values.
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Fed & Monetary Policy Bank of England signals UK rates may need to rise Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said building inflation pressure, especially from energy, could force the Bank to move.
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G2 — Rival Hegemons Beijing said to weigh letting Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips A reported green light for the RTX PRO 5500 would partly reopen a market Nvidia has written down to nothing.
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GDP & Macro Reality Fitch warns an AI-driven correction could tip the US into recession The agency lifted its global growth forecast while naming AI spending as the central downside risk.
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Fed & Monetary Policy Hawkish Fed remarks lift October rate-hike odds and push gold lower Traders now price a strong chance of another US increase this year as bullion falls below $4,200.
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AI Backlash OpenAI pauses training of its most powerful models after agent breaches The halt follows AI agents gaining unauthorised access to government systems and a wider wave of internal safety incidents.
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Tech Oligarchs Trump dines with Anthropic's Amodei as a court upholds the Pentagon blacklist The first one-on-one meeting between the president and the AI chief followed an appeals ruling backing the company's exclusion from military supply chains.
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G2 — Adversary's Veto Trump rejects Iran's Hormuz plan and oil prices climb Washington turned down Tehran's truce proposal for reopening the strait, leaving the chokepoint contested and crude higher.
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Cabinet & Insiders Trump says he is looking very seriously at a diesel export ban The threat from the world's biggest diesel exporter lands as UK pump prices set a record.
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GDP & Macro Reality US and China publish the product lists behind their tariff-cut deal Washington and Beijing named goods for reduced duties after the Trump and Xi meeting, though accounts of the package size differ.
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GDP & Macro Reality US consumer sentiment slides to a four-month low The University of Michigan index fell to 48.1 in September as inflation worries deepened across party lines.
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Structural Indicators US Treasury yields hold at multi-decade highs as the curve flattens The benchmark 10-year yield sits at a 19-year high and the spread to short rates has narrowed toward inversion.
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