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Senator Blumenthal investigates Tether’s payments to a firm linked to Bo Hines

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:17:00 GMT

The Senate’s top Democratic investigator is seeking records on payments to the former White House crypto adviser’s firm, adding to scrutiny of the stablecoin issuer.

Senator Richard Blumenthal, the Senate’s top Democratic investigator, is looking into payments by Tether to a firm linked to Bo Hines. Hines is a former White House crypto adviser. Blumenthal is seeking records on the payments. The payments were made to Hines’s firm, according to the senator’s inquiry.

Blumenthal’s letter cites press reports that the payments began while Hines was helping shape stablecoin legislation for the White House. Blumenthal described that legislation as “instrumental to its business,” referring to Tether. He sent letters requesting details of the payments.

Reports allege that Hines pushed to extend stablecoin compliance deadlines. Those are allegations set out in press reports and in Blumenthal’s letter; the senator is requesting records to examine them.

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A Circle shareholder sues Trump and World Liberty Financial over UAE-linked crypto deals

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:17:00 GMT

The lawsuit alleges the president violated the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause by profiting from more than $2 billion in deals tied to the United Arab Emirates.

J. Benjamin Greenberg, a shareholder in crypto company Circle Internet Group, sued President Donald Trump and World Liberty Financial on Thursday. The suit alleges that two deals linked to the United Arab Emirates violated the Constitution. It accuses Trump of breaching the Foreign Emoluments Clause.

The lawsuit accuses Trump and World Liberty Financial of “corruptly profiting” from more than $2 billion in digital currency-related deals. It focuses on two business deals linked to the crypto firm. The case was filed in Washington, in federal court. It alleges that both the president and the company unlawfully profited from crypto transactions involving the UAE.

World Liberty Financial is the cryptocurrency venture Trump co-founded with his sons. It was launched in 2024 with members of the Trump and Witkoff families and operates the USD1 stablecoin.

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Treasury yields drop below 5% and the Nasdaq loses more than 2.5% as investors turn defensive

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:17:00 GMT

A rush into government bonds on 22 October pulled the 10-year US yield under 5% while technology shares fell on doubts about the returns from AI spending.

The Nasdaq fell more than 2.5% on 22 October as lacklustre earnings reports sparked worries about an AI slowdown. Investors are increasingly unsure about the return prospects of the massive investments behind the technology. Sharply lower yields gave a modest lift to the Dow and the Russell indexes even as technology shares slid.

US bond yields plunged as fears about sustaining the AI boom resurfaced, and the 10-year yield dipped below 5%. Yields sank below that level as investors looked for safety, in a move framed as “AI is on trial”. Municipal bonds and Treasuries rallied together in a flight to quality.

The shift came before the US open. Late on the previous afternoon, equity futures were holding gains after well-received earnings, but by early morning both equity index futures and bond yields were sharply lower. Global investors were aggressively de-risking their portfolios. Yields had already dipped on 21 October as AI risk was weighed, before moving off their lows after an auction.

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Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs as it leans on AI

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:18:00 GMT

The British bank said greater use of artificial intelligence will remove about 5% of its workforce, as its chief executive discussed third-quarter results, the UK budget and private credit.

Barclays is cutting 5,000 jobs as it increases its reliance on artificial intelligence. The bank said its greater use of AI will lead to a 5% reduction in its workforce.

The cuts equate to the loss of 5% of its 93,000 global staff. A Barclays executive said the reductions, affecting about 5% of full-time roles, come as “AI makes our people more productive”. The bank’s bosses hailed advances in AI productivity as they announced the cuts.

The bank is turning to AI to improve efficiency. Chief executive C.S. Venkatakrishnan discussed the bank’s third-quarter earnings, economic volatility, the upcoming UK budget and private credit. He outlined three forces to watch in the bond market.

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Trump says fraud investigations made a very big dent in overseas crypto scams as his family’s crypto gains draw scrutiny

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:18:00 GMT

At a White House cybercrime roundtable the administration showcased seizures of fraudulent crypto sites, while critics pointed to the Trump family’s crypto earnings and the 2025 pardon of Binance’s founder.

President Trump said fraud investigations have made a “very big dent” in overseas scams. He spoke at a roundtable on cybercrime in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday, alongside Stephen Miller.

The president’s team highlighted work to crack down on overseas crypto scams. The event was set up to tout seizures of fraudulent crypto sites. Ahead of it, the administration planned to throw a spotlight on overseas crypto abuses.

The roundtable focused on cybercrime losses in 2025. During the event Trump avoided the word “cryptocurrency”, using “cybercurrency” instead. One account put the scams’ losses at $7.2 billion, set against $2.3 billion in gains for the Trump family. Miller also spoke about the president’s record on scams.

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A $13 billion sale of 20-year Treasury bonds clears at a higher yield as reports split on demand

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:18:00 GMT

The auction priced at 5.469%, up from 5.420% a month earlier, and tailed by 0.9 basis points, though accounts of investor appetite differed.

The US Treasury sold $13 billion of 20-year bonds on Wednesday at a high yield of 5.469%.

That compared with a high yield of 5.420% at the previous sale of the same maturity. The auction tailed by 0.9 basis points.

Last month’s sale was also $13 billion and drew a bid-to-cover ratio of 2.57.

The sale was held at 18:00 GMT and had been billed in advance as another test of demand for US government debt. Treasury yields were steady on the day as investors awaited jobless claims and mortgage data.

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Anthropic’s leaked filing shows a first-half loss of more than $80 billion ahead of its IPO

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:18:00 GMT

Details of the AI developer’s finances point to computing commitments that could reach $750 billion, as investors argue it has outgrown private funding.

Anthropic recorded a net loss of more than $80 billion in the first half of 2026.

The figure emerged from a leak of the company’s S-1, the registration statement it is preparing for its stock market listing; it is not the first time the document has leaked, and its income statement shows massive losses.

Anthropic plans $750 billion of spending on computing power, a total that includes hundreds of billions of dollars in non-cancelable deals. Its computing commitments could reach that level in the coming years, according to a draft of the company’s plans.

Further details of the company’s borrowing have also surfaced in the past day.

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UK public debt passes £3 trillion for the first time as borrowing climbs before Healey’s Budget

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:18:00 GMT

A deficit of £97.8 billion over the first half of the fiscal year and rising debt interest narrow the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.

Britain’s public debt has surpassed £3 trillion for the first time.

The fiscal deficit reached £97.8 billion from April to September, the first half of the financial year. Debt and the deficit rose in September alongside inflation.

Central government debt interest came to £10.9bn in September alone.

The borrowing figures were released on Wednesday together with inflation data, which showed consumer price inflation rising to 3.5% from 3.1%. Both inflation and borrowing hit their highest levels this year.

The release leaves the government confronting rising inflation and rising debt in the same week as it finalises the Budget.

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The ECB makes its case in China for euro liquidity lines to widen the currency’s global role

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:16:00 GMT

Chief Economist Philip Lane argued that backstops in euros for foreign central banks could support sovereign bond markets and help the ECB hit its inflation target.

The European Central Bank made the case in China for euro liquidity lines. The ECB argued that it can strengthen the euro’s global role and amplify the reach of its monetary policy by providing liquidity safety nets.

Chief Economist Philip Lane said wider global use of the euro could help the ECB hit its inflation target. He said a global euro liquidity backstop could support sovereign bond markets.

The ECB set out how the tools would work in a publication on euro liquidity lines and the international monetary system. In the bank’s account, swap lines can be used against local-currency collateral, so that combined swap and EUREP access offers stronger support than EUREP alone.

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French borrowing costs near a 24-year high as the spread over Germany widens to the most since 2012

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:17:00 GMT

Paris expects to spend more than 90 billion euros on debt interest next year, and the US Treasury secretary says he sees no spillover.

French bond yields neared a 24-year high on Tuesday as new protests loomed. Spreads between French 10-year debt and the German equivalent widened to their highest since 2012, following a weekend of violent protests in France. It is the latest stage of unrest that has weighed on French markets since the protests began.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he does not anticipate a spillover from the French bond market, which has seen surging yields. Later in the day, French government bonds recovered as yields on eurozone and US peers fell.

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Morgan Stanley’s Wilson says the stock correction is in its final innings

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:17:00 GMT

The bank’s chief US equity strategist sees the S&P 500 reaching 8,300 by May 2027 and expects high-quality companies to hold up best.

Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley’s chief investment officer and chief US equity strategist, said the market is in the final innings of its correction. He said the correction in the average American stock is nearly over. He made the case on a television appearance in which he discussed the latest market trends and the state of the AI trade.

Wilson set a target that would put the S&P 500 at 8,300 by May 2027. He expects high-quality companies to remain comparatively resilient. His team discussed on Monday its financial conditions index, a compilation that includes interest rates. The call is a claim that the broad market, not only its leaders, is close to a turning point.

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JPMorgan puts its JPM Coin deposit token on Ethereum for institutional clients

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:18:00 GMT

The bank’s move brings tokenised dollar deposits onto a public blockchain just as Washington’s stablecoin rulebook nears its effective date.

JPMorgan is bringing its deposit token, JPM Coin, to the Ethereum network for institutional clients, the bank said in a statement on Monday, Bloomberg reported. Yahoo Finance summarised the move as Jamie Dimon’s bank putting dollar deposits on Ethereum.

Several outlets set the launch against Dimon’s own record. Yahoo Finance noted his public crypto skepticism and reported that JPMorgan had quietly built JPM Coin all the same. Cryptonews framed it as Dimon criticising bitcoin while JPMorgan opens up to Ethereum. TheStreet reported that Dimon framed the threat from stablecoins in his April letter to shareholders, and recalled remarks he made at a 2023 Senate hearing about what he would do if he were the government.

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Saudi Arabia postpones its Davos in the Desert investment conference to 2027 amid Houthi attacks

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:18:00 GMT

Wall Street executives raised safety concerns with the head of the Public Investment Fund before the in-person gathering was called off.

Saudi Arabia has postponed its flagship investment conference until 2027 amid fighting with the Houthis, The Hill reported. The Jerusalem Post and NDTV Profit also reported the delay to 2027, citing escalating Houthi attacks. Business Insider quoted a statement saying “We will announce the new” date, and framed the decision as the fallout from the Iran war expanding.

Semafor reported that the in-person gathering was postponed after lobbying from Wall Street, with executives expressing safety concerns to Yasir Al-Rumayyan, head of the Public Investment Fund. Breaking The News had earlier reported that the kingdom might move the summit online because of the attacks. Chosunbiz reported that some attendees had already been blocked by flight disruptions. Semafor, which referred to the conference by its acronym, FII, said it was the in-person event that had been postponed.

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Banks can slow stablecoin growth simply by paying depositors more, BIS research finds

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:20:00 GMT

New work published by the Bank for International Settlements says deposit rates and stablecoin issuance compete for the same money, with USDC the most exposed.

Higher bank deposit rates predict slower stablecoin growth, according to a new working paper published by the Bank for International Settlements. Stablecoins and bank deposits are competing for the same pool of funds, the research finds. When US banks paid savers more, stablecoins grew more slowly, and the effect was strongest for USDC. Higher interest rates on bank deposits can significantly slow the growth of stablecoins, Yahoo Finance reported of the study, which it framed as making USDC more vulnerable than USDT.

Forex Crunch reported that the paper identifies the gap between what banks pay depositors and what stablecoins offer as the operative variable. Pluang’s summary also put rising bank deposit rates at the centre of the slowdown, and singled out USDC. The BIS published Working Paper 1385, on competing rails for cross-border payments across banks, fintechs and stablecoins, on 19 October. It also published a speech the same day on financial resilience in an age of repeated shocks.

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Defence shares fall as investors start pricing a Democratic sweep in the midterms

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:20:00 GMT

The Financial Times reports that a proposed military spending increase is at risk as bipartisan support for a larger budget frays two weeks before the vote.

US defence stocks tumbled as investors bet on a Democratic election sweep, the Financial Times reported, with Trump’s proposed $500bn military spending boost at risk as bipartisan support for a higher budget frays. The administration’s ambitions have been large: the White House introduced a record $1.5 trillion defense budget request for 2027 earlier this year, about a 44% increase from the previous year.

The sell-off sits oddly against the sector’s current results, with RTX and GE Aerospace leading defence earnings amid soaring demand. Reuters coverage of the possible election outcomes said debt ceiling fights, budget battles and government shutdown threats loom in 2027, and that analysts expect a debt limit showdown by summer. Democrats would also gain the power to investigate the administration.

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Dimon calls the US economy booming and names five risks under the surface

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:20:00 GMT

JPMorgan’s chief executive paired an upbeat read on growth with warnings about war, inflation, government deficits and competing demands for capital.

Jamie Dimon said the US economy is booming while warning about inflationary risks from global deficits and AI spending, The Hill reported. The Wall Street Journal summarised his view the same way: booming, but war and inflation pose risks. He warned of five economic threats he described as lurking under the surface. IndexBox reported the same framing, that Dimon flagged five risks beneath solid US economic growth.

Among them he placed the simultaneous capital demands from infrastructure projects, defence spending and persistent government deficits. Coverage of the remarks noted that the central bank’s next two monetary policy meetings fall in late October and after. Barchart reported the backdrop at his own bank, where JPMorgan missed earnings expectations, faced bond losses and saw expenses grow. Asked again about politics, Dimon reiterated that he has no intention of running in the next presidential election, saying he loves what he does.

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Goldman Sachs tells clients to buy 23 lagging stocks as the tech trade wobbles

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:20:00 GMT

The bank’s US equity strategists are pointing clients towards sectors left behind by the AI rally while keeping their year-end index target in place.

Goldman Sachs strategists led by Ben Snider told clients that investors should focus on buying stocks in sectors that have lagged, as the tech sector that drove the market wobbles. The list runs to 23 names drawn from those lagging sectors. Business Insider described the same 23 as defensive stocks and reported that the bank pointed to higher interest rates, which have cut into growth expectations for the US economy. Quartz reported the note as urging clients to buy 23 stocks from lagging sectors as big tech wobbles.

The reports disagree on when the note went out. MarketWatch said Snider’s team wrote to clients late on Friday, while Business Insider dated the note to Monday. Business Insider Africa summarised the message as telling investors to buckle up for a more challenging year ahead for the US stock market.

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S&P Global says the big cloud companies carry more AI-linked debt than their balance sheets show

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:20:00 GMT

The rating agency says circular financing between chipmakers, neoclouds and hyperscalers leaves obligations it cannot yet size, as AI bond prices slip.

The top hyperscalers likely have more AI-linked debt than is now known, S&P Global warned on Monday. The agency’s Habib said there was not an estimate of how much additional debt the circular financing might add to the firms’ balance sheets, although he said S&P was examining it. Debt issued by AI infrastructure providers and so-called neocloud firms such as Nvidia-backed CoreWeave has sunk to increasingly stressed levels.

The warning lands alongside other credit signals. The Wall Street Journal reported that the weak points in AI bonds are becoming clearer. NPR examined Oracle’s borrowing, noting that the company has taken on a large volume of loans to build out its AI capacity. Morgan Stanley’s projected AI-related capital spending for 2027 is concentrated, with roughly 77% attributed to high-quality hyperscalers and the remaining 23% sitting with weaker borrowers.

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Wall Street strategists trim equity targets after the worst week since June

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:22:00 GMT

Morgan Stanley says the index is masking a broader pullback while Yardeni cuts its year-end S&P 500 target.

Equities came into the week off their worst stretch in months. Nasdaq futures rose up to 200 points after the worst week since June, ahead of a heavy run of results. The strategists who set index targets used the break to mark down their numbers and to argue that the headline benchmark is not describing the market underneath it.

Morgan Stanley’s chief equity strategist, Mike Wilson, expects the high-quality S&P 500 to “catch down” to the rest of the equity complex, and MarketWatch reported his view that an index retreat on that basis would signal a buying opportunity rather than a warning. Opening Bell Daily noted that Wilson still sees upside from here, and that within the Magnificent 7 Apple leads Tesla by 47 points.

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CoreWeave’s bonds yield 15% as the high-yield market reprices the data-centre buildout

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:20:00 GMT

The company’s cost of debt has moved with the whole asset class, and PIMCO puts hyperscaler capital spending at 93% to 94% of operating cash flow.

CoreWeave’s high-yield bond yield has reached 15%, while the yield on the broader high-yield market hit an 18-month high of 8.41%, TokenPost reported. That is the point worth holding on to: the move is not confined to one borrower. Earlier reporting had focused on the price of insuring CoreWeave’s debt against default.

PIMCO has estimated that hyperscaler capital spending now absorbs 93% to 94% of operating cash flow, before any debt financing enters the picture, according to an account of the financing strains in the buildout. The Motley Fool argued that CoreWeave is in a more difficult financial position than its peers and has fewer financing options, facing a choice between high-yield bonds and dilutive equity sales.

The Economist reported that the industry’s debts are making investors nervous, citing the price of credit-default swaps offering insurance against a CoreWeave default, and noting the role of private-credit providers including Apollo and Blackstone.

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Three national polls put Trump’s approval between 33% and 36% two weeks from the midterms

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:20:00 GMT

Democrats lead on the generic ballot by eight to 10 points, and Republican winning streaks dating to the 1930s are suddenly competitive.

New national polls from the Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos, from NBC News and from Fox News put President Donald Trump’s approval rating at 33%, 34% and 36% respectively, record or second-term lows in each survey, Axios reported. Democrats lead Republicans by eight points in the Post poll, nine points in the Fox poll and 10 points in the NBC poll among registered voters.

The coalition is lopsided. Some 95% of MAGA Republicans approve of Trump, against 47% of non-MAGA Republicans. Axios notes the tactical problem that creates: Republicans need the loyalists to turn out, but embracing an unpopular president risks alienating the independents they need in competitive races. The economy, once a strength, is now the president’s main vulnerability.

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The price of insuring CoreWeave’s debt jumps as AI credit worries reach Oracle and SoftBank

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:23:00 GMT

Default protection on the AI cloud company’s debt priced at distressed levels, and bondholders of larger AI borrowers took losses too.

The cost of insuring CoreWeave’s debt against default climbed to about 1,200 basis points this week, a level Reuters described as signalling severe distress. One market report put the company’s total debt above $51 billion and tied the move to a broad fall in chip stocks, with the Nasdaq down more than two per cent on the session and Micron among the decliners.

The strain is not confined to one borrower. Investors have also sold bonds of other large AI companies, including Larry Ellison’s Oracle, though those price declines were not as steep, according to a report on cracks in the AI borrowing boom that also named SoftBank. A separate account listed the symptoms in order: large contracts do not erase financing risk, the cost of insuring debt has jumped, the high-yield bond market is under pressure and private credit faces a new test.

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Violence spreads through French protests as the budget reaches a decisive week

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:23:00 GMT

Marches drew hundreds of thousands and turned destructive, days before a budget moment that commentators are calling make or break.

Demonstrations across France turned violent, with cars and buildings set alight and shops ransacked, the BBC reported. Interior figures cited in one account put the day at 110 marches drawing about 550,000 people nationwide, a count organisers dispute. Clashes, fires and looting were reported across the country.

The unrest began with a student revolt in Paris and has now reached Europe’s markets, according to a weekend account of the crisis. The dispute has also been drawn into American politics: US Vice-President JD Vance condemned the disorder, blamed “western liberals” and attached a warning for Americans, Newsweek reported.

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Goldman Sachs tells clients oil returns to $80 a barrel by 2027 as Brent settles near $110

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:20:00 GMT

The bank’s head of oil research said Middle East supply recovers and prices ease, on a day December Brent settled at $109.86.

Goldman Sachs told clients that oil prices may ease to $80 a barrel in 2027 as Middle East supply recovers. The bank expects Brent crude to come back to that level, according to its published view. Daan Struyven, co-head of global commodities research and head of oil research at the bank, set the forecast out in a report, which said the recovery in regional supply is the driver.

The call lands in an expensive market. Brent hit $110 for the first time since May as Iranian attacks continued and Ukraine kept striking Russian energy infrastructure. On Friday, Brent crude for December delivery settled up 3.7% at $109.86 a barrel, and December West Texas Intermediate gained 2.6%, with the Wall Street Journal attributing the move to Middle East and Russia-Ukraine concerns.

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Washington taps the strategic reserve as refinery bottlenecks push fuel costs onto companies

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:20:00 GMT

The United States has solicited an exchange of up to 17 million barrels of crude from its strategic reserve while diesel and heating bills climb.

The United States has solicited an exchange of up to 17 million barrels of oil from its strategic petroleum reserve. Barron’s reported that the squeeze is not only in crude: refinery bottlenecks are driving the jump at the pump and could dampen US growth, with consumer sentiment spiralling as the University of Michigan’s index weakens. One review of the administration’s recent energy announcements notes that Defense Production Act money is going towards a 74,000 barrel-a-day Texas refinery, and cautions that several of the headlines were less substantive than they sounded.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright told a world oil and gas conference in Riyadh that the shortage of oil tankers is becoming a problem, and said Washington was considering easing sanctions on shadow-fleet vessels. One industry account describes the whole energy supply chain as being squeezed rather than any single link.

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Bets on an October Fed hike collapse to 14% as gold and the dollar both end the week lower

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:21:00 GMT

Two hotter-than-expected inflation reports did not stop the market pricing an October hold, and the dollar had its worst week in a month.

The chances of the Federal Reserve raising its key rate this month fell from 47% to 14% over the week, Interactive Brokers reported, as investors weighed hotter-than-anticipated consumer and producer inflation reports against turbulence on Wall Street driven by AI concerns and neutral commentary from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. The New York Post reported traders betting on an October hold after Warsh stayed tight-lipped at the conference despite the week’s hot inflation data.

The repricing showed up across assets. Bloomberg reported that the dollar had its worst week in a month, its monthlong rally running out of steam after Warsh’s remarks failed to give the currency a lift. Gold was set for a weekly drop as traders assessed Fed signals, Reuters reported, even as futures settled higher on the day while US yields and the dollar fell. The Economic Times reported that ten-year Treasury yields suffered their biggest weekly drop in over a year.

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Deutsche Bank prepares a digital asset custody launch as banks move into crypto plumbing

Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:21:00 GMT

Reuters reports the bank is weeks from its first digital asset service, one of several incumbents building custody and settlement rails rather than trading desks.

Deutsche Bank is weeks away from launching its first digital asset service, marking a push into crypto, Reuters reported, with growth in Asia as a target. News.bitcoin.com reported the launch as institutional Bitcoin and Ether custody.

The same week brought a run of bank-side plumbing deals. Cross River Bank and Ripple agreed to integrate the RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger directly into the bank’s core operating system, allowing treasury movements around the clock. Singapore Gulf Bank added in-account swaps for Tether and USD Coin, letting customers exchange US dollars for either stablecoin in its mobile banking app and hold them alongside other fiat. Visa Direct now settles stablecoin payments in 180 countries following the launch of Inyo Global, a payments infrastructure provider focused on stablecoin settlement and treasury management.

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Chip stocks head for their longest losing run since 2008 before a Friday rebound

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:25:00 GMT

A multi-day selloff in semiconductors and AI infrastructure names eased as investors rotated out of technology and bought the dip.

Chip stocks were set for their longest losing run since 2008, Bloomberg reported in its markets wrap. The Nasdaq slid to near a one-month low as the AI rout deepened. Newsquawk reported stocks mixed at the US open as the AI selloff continued, with the Treasury yield curve steepening and front-end yields declining after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh again declined to give explicit guidance.

The run of losses then broke. Trading Economics reported US stocks rebounding as the chipmaker selloff eased, with chipmakers and AI hyperscalers paring losses after Nvidia’s Jensen Huang pushed back on concerns about CoreWeave, whose shares rose 5.9%. Semafor reported that US stocks recovered after the multi-day technology selloff. Bloomberg reported the S&P 500 steady, down less than 0.1%, as Warsh’s remarks boosted expectations of a rate hold.

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Treasury yields fall to a three-week low even as inflation data run hot

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:25:00 GMT

The ten-year note yield slipped to 5.075% as traders pushed their expectations for the next Federal Reserve rate rise out to December.

US ten-year Treasury yields fell to a three-week low as Federal Reserve remarks eased bets on a near-term rate rise, with Governor Michelle Bowman saying the central bank had sufficient time to wait and assess developments in financial markets. Finimize reported the two-year note at 4.715% and the ten-year at 5.075%, leaving a gap of 35.8 basis points between them, and said traders had pushed their Fed expectations to December.

Trading Economics reported yields ticking higher on the day but posting a weekly decline, and separately reported the ten-year holding its decline as markets increasingly priced in a possible slowdown in artificial intelligence spending. Mott Capital Management described the fall in yields as continuing despite hot inflation reports.

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Banks pull back from AI lending as the gap between build cost and revenue widens

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:32:00 GMT

Financiers are saying publicly that the debt funding data centres and chips looks disconnected from what customers are paying, and CoreWeave’s shares fell again on Friday.

Wall Street appears to be hitting its limit on AI, and financiers are starting to say the quiet part out loud, that all of this AI spending does not look like it can pay off, at least not for everyone, Axios reported. The gap between what it costs to build AI infrastructure and what companies are actually paying to use it is widening, and anxiety is surging as the debt piling up to fund data centres and chips looks increasingly disconnected from economic reality. AI providers are projected to spend $7 trillion on infrastructure through 2030.

CoreWeave stock was falling again on Friday even after Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, expressed confidence in the cloud-computing company, Barron’s reported. Reuters reported that CoreWeave has relied heavily on private-credit investors, banks and bond markets to fund its rapid expansion. CNBC asked whether the AI sector is losing its rose-coloured glow, and reported Huang saying his company must cooperate with Chinese AI businesses to manage potential risks.

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Hormuz shipping disruption starts to reach harvests and food costs, a UN agency says

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:25:00 GMT

A United Nations agency says the strait’s disruption is adding costs through the food supply chain, on top of Black Sea wheat problems.

Disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is starting to hit harvests, a United Nations agency said, according to Reuters. The disruption, together with problems affecting Black Sea wheat supplies, is adding costs throughout the food supply chain, an official at the agency said. Iran has sought to tighten its grip on the strait, Reuters reported in the same account.

A separate summary of the crisis described it as threatening global food supplies as the shipping disruption hits harvests, and said Iran is trying to control the strait to exert pressure on Washington, which is enforcing a naval blockade of Iranian ports. Rising grain freight rates, together with Panama Canal restrictions and Black Sea disruption, are changing the export costs of US corn, wheat and soybeans, according to an account of global grain freight.

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Private credit funds raise record sums while deals slow and bank financing tightens

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:25:00 GMT

Direct lenders are taking in more money than ever even as the opportunities to deploy it narrow, and their own lenders are pulling back.

Private credit direct lenders are raising record sums even as deal activity slows, Reuters reported, describing a deployment squeeze. At the same time, banks are pulling back from financing Australian private credit funds, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

The money is still arriving from both ends of the market. Private credit is drawing strong flows from retail and institutional investors, according to an account of Morningstar’s guidance for investors, which also flagged the risk currently present in Australian private credit. Private markets are opening to individual investors, and the industry now needs a scalable approach to serve them, one commentary argued.

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UK banks expect Healey’s first Budget to tax their profits as he promises to stay the path on the deficit

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:25:00 GMT

Senior banking executives told the BBC they expect to be on the menu this month, while the chancellor’s fiscal pledge lifted the FTSE 100.

Senior banking executives have told the BBC they expect to be “on the menu” in the chancellor’s Budget later this month, in what the broadcaster described as a planned tax raid on bank profits. John Healey, the chancellor, promised to “stay the path” on reducing the UK deficit, the Financial Times reported, speaking at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meetings in Bangkok on Thursday.

The market read the pledge as discipline. The FTSE 100 hit a near one-month high after Healey backed fiscal discipline, Reuters reported. At home the chancellor has been pressing his cabinet colleagues to find savings for the Budget, according to The Times, and the Telegraph tracked the economy slowing ahead of what it called his maiden Budget.

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Moody’s says deferred interest is masking the real level of private credit stress

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:29:00 GMT

The ratings firm found that US private credit borrowers are using delayed interest payments and maturity extensions to avoid default, which flatters the sector’s reported default statistics.

Borrowers in the US private debt market are using delayed interest payments and maturity extensions to avoid default, potentially masking the level of stress in the asset class, according to research from Moody’s Ratings reported by Bloomberg. Private Equity Wire, summarising the same research, described the mechanism as payment-in-kind amendments that mask US private credit stress and noted the implications for reported default rates.

A second measurement dispute surfaced the same week. Bloomberg reported that daily private credit valuations were blasted as an “illusion” after a move by Apollo, with the new daily marks slammed following the rollout, under the heading of murky default metrics. A separate analysis argued that the data behind the sector’s default picture is missing, describing a default crisis whose scale an earlier instalment had set out.

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Tether paid millions to a firm part-owned by the aide who wrote the stablecoin law

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:29:00 GMT

Money from the world’s largest stablecoin issuer flowed to a consulting firm in which a White House crypto adviser kept a stake while he worked on the stablecoin legislation that now governs it.

Money from Tether flowed to the consulting firm Nxum while Bo Hines worked in the White House on landmark stablecoin legislation, the Wall Street Journal reported. Hines kept a one-third stake in Nxum while Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, steered money to it, Raw Story reported, citing the Journal.

Tether paid approximately $6.3 million to the firm, which is partly owned by the former White House adviser, according to a report summarised by Crypto News. Yellow reported that the firm took the payments as Hines shaped the administration’s crypto agenda, citing the Journal, and said a senior Senate Democrat is already investigating Tether’s ties.

The Journal headlined its account on the fact that the aide crafted a crypto law for the administration while his company took money from a crypto giant. Raw Story summarised the same finding as a presidential aide’s firm quietly collecting millions from the company his law now governs.

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CoreWeave’s bond yields approach 15% and put a price on AI debt

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:26:00 GMT

Bonds issued by the AI cloud provider sold off sharply, pushing yields toward 15% and drawing attention to how much of the data-centre build-out is being financed with borrowed money.

CoreWeave’s shares tumbled as its bond yields neared 15% on concern about the company’s borrowing, CNBC reported. Yahoo Finance said the stock sank after the bond yield touched 15%, and that the venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya had posted a chart of it on Tuesday. Quartz noted the mechanics: as is standard with fixed-income securities, the rising yields reflected falling bond prices.

The Globe and Mail reported that the company already has $35 billion in debt and that its interest expense is driving steep losses. The Financial Times reported that CoreWeave has secured more than $35 billion this year across chip-backed loans, high-yield bonds, convertible bonds and share sales. A summary of the FT’s reporting put the company’s debt and lease obligations at about $52 billion at the end of June.

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Guilfoyle leaves the Athens embassy after the White House asked her to go

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:26:00 GMT

The ambassador to Greece resigned following reports that she used political connections to seek financial favours, and a Republican donor says he will now pursue the vice president.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece, announced her resignation on Tuesday shortly after the White House asked her to step down, Axios reported. Politico reported that she resigned after being asked to go, and that her tenure in Athens had been embroiled in controversy. NPR reported that the administration had said earlier that day it asked her to leave her post after she faced severe criticism.

Axios reported that the exit of the president’s longtime political ally, and the former fiancee of his son Donald Trump Jr., follows a series of Wall Street Journal reports alleging she used her political connections to seek financial favours and promote private business interests. Guilfoyle has denied any wrongdoing. White House press secretary Katie Zacharia said during her first briefing that Guilfoyle was asked to resign and called her a wonderful asset to the team. Semafor had reported the previous day that her future was in question following critical coverage.

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The Energy Department issues an emergency grid order for PJM as October heat lingers

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:26:00 GMT

Energy Secretary Chris Wright invoked the Federal Power Act to let the mid-Atlantic grid operator run additional generation, citing blackout risk during unusual autumn heat.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed Order No. 202-26-50 on October 12, invoking Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, Quartz reported. The Economic Times reported that the order was issued to PJM Interconnection to maintain grid stability and allows the operator to take steps it otherwise could not. Wright said the order would help ensure Americans have secure electricity by making additional power generation available, according to The New York Times.

The Rock Hill Herald reported that PJM serves more than a dozen states, including those in the mid-Atlantic, where Wright said there is a period of elevated risk. Other coverage described the action as a grid emergency declared across 13 states. WFMD reported that the emergency action comes as temperatures across parts of the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantic are expected to stay unusually warm for October.

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IMF’s Georgieva says faster US growth alone will not shrink the debt pile

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:31:00 GMT

The fund’s managing director told reporters at the annual meetings that growth without deficit reduction will not stabilise US debt.

Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF’s managing director, said on Wednesday that US growth will not be enough to shrink the country’s debt, in Reuters copy carried by Taylorville Daily News. Bloomberg reported that she said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s plan to grow the economy out of its mounting debt and fiscal deficit problems will not work. CNBC noted that Bessent has argued that sustained growth above 3%, together with spending restraint, can lower the debt-to-GDP ratio.

Georgieva spoke at a press briefing during the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, the South China Morning Post reported. The fund published a transcript of the briefing, at which its communications director also took questions.

Taylorville Daily News’s version of the wire copy notes that Georgieva was speaking to reporters at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings.

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A Chinese memory advance drops the Kospi 5.46% and extends the chip selloff

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:28:00 GMT

Progress on a denser DRAM design at China’s CXMT sent Samsung, SK Hynix and SoftBank lower and pushed global equities down for a second session.

South Korea’s Kospi plunged 5.46% as doubts about the semiconductor supercycle built on demand from AI data centres sent major Korean chipmakers lower. The trigger was a report that China’s CXMT had made progress on a denser DRAM chip design. Samsung, SK Hynix and SoftBank fell together, with SoftBank particularly sensitive to questions over whether AI revenues can justify its capital commitments.

South Korea’s market, heavily exposed to the two chip giants, led a decline across Asian technology shares. In the United States, stocks fell for a second consecutive session as doubts about AI’s ability to power corporate earnings much further coincided with heavier fuel charges supporting lofty Treasury yields. Nasdaq futures had pointed lower before the open as the global AI selloff intensified. The previous day had already brought a hard session for chip stocks.

CXMT’s advance sparked profit-taking in semiconductors while mixed bank earnings and a flattening yield curve kept the main indexes pinned. The selloff pulled European stocks back from a one-week high.

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Big banks open earnings season with mixed results and a rare JPMorgan miss

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:28:00 GMT

JPMorgan earned $15.3 billion in the third quarter and still fell short of expectations, while Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs beat.

JPMorgan Chase reported a third-quarter profit of $15.3 billion and missed analysts’ expectations. Reuters described it as a rare profit miss, with dealmaking and bond trading losing momentum. One account of the results put revenue growth at 8% and the bank’s Basel III common equity Tier 1 capital at approximately $304 billion. The shares rose anyway.

Wells Fargo beat estimates, which it credited to credit quality, and its profit rose on loan growth and higher net interest income. At Goldman Sachs a strong equities performance offset weakness in fixed income, according to the Financial Times. The Economist summarised the day as mixed earnings for American banks.

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A brutal session for chip stocks and a fund manager survey point to the AI trade turning

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:32:00 GMT

Semiconductors sold off hard while a monthly survey put AI capex at the top of investors’ credit worries.

A “brutal session” for chip stocks shows the AI trade is turning, Reuters reported in an analysis of the selloff. The piece pointed to the financing behind the buildout, noting that Japan’s tech investor SoftBank last month sold the biggest high-yield debt pile ever and promised to pay as much as 9.75% on $4.5 billion it raised.

The selloff reached beyond Wall Street. A chip selloff dragged Asian markets lower as Wall Street earnings and US inflation data loomed, one market wrap reported, noting that because US rates influence global capital flows the data matters well beyond American markets. Among individual names, TTM Technologies was down 17.1% after accelerating its AI-focused capacity expansion.

Reuters presented the session as evidence of a turn rather than as a single day’s volatility, and tied that reading to the debt raised to fund the buildout.

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The IMF warns bond yields could spike in a disorderly way and flags leverage in AI and private credit

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:32:00 GMT

The fund’s financial stability report puts the sharpest losses from an AI repricing in the United States.

The International Monetary Fund has warned that bond yields could see a disorderly spike as debt and inflation risks worsen, CNBC reported. The fund urged debt managers to lengthen maturities, warning that rollover risk could be made worse, and its discussion extended to yield curve control. In its own blog post the fund said global financial markets face rising risks from AI, bond yields and cyberattacks, that debt needs to be put on a sustainable path, and that leverage and liquidity mismatches in AI, private credit and other nonbank financial sectors should be addressed.

The fund also located the equity risk geographically. The United States could be worst hit by an AI market correction, MarketWatch reported, citing the fund’s view that a reappraisal of AI productivity gains would set off a domino effect and that US equity prices could fall. One account of the same report said the fund warned an AI market correction could cut global GDP by 0.4% by 2028. These are the fund’s own projections, not observed outcomes.

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A surge in US yields pulls mortgage hedging into the bond selloff

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:29:00 GMT

Mortgage investors adjusting to a steeper curve are adding pressure to a Treasury market already carrying $40 trillion of federal debt.

A rise in US Treasury yields has triggered hedging by mortgage investors that is adding to pressure in the bond market, Reuters reported on Monday, saying the trades suggested investors were adjusting positions to reflect shifts in the yield curve. An analysis carried by WTVB explained the mechanism: mortgage-backed securities are pools of thousands of home loans through which investors receive cash flows from homeowners’ monthly principal and interest payments, so a move in rates changes how long those cash flows last and forces holders to rebalance.

Interest.co.nz put the US 10-year yield at just on 5.24 percent and the 30-year at 5.60 percent, both little changed on the day, with the 2-year to 10-year curve at plus 45 basis points. Interactive Brokers’ weekly recap said US federal debt has topped $40 trillion, with rising costs and higher yields making bonds more attractive to investors.

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Crude reverses to an October high and Goldman lifts its December target to $90

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:29:00 GMT

Doubts about the announced energy ceasefire and a fresh attack on a Saudi airport turned last week’s slide around.

Geopolitical tension lifted oil prices to an October high at the start of the week, raising inflation worries and quelling hopes of substantially lighter interest rates in the near term, Interactive Brokers said in its Monday market note. The Wall Street Journal attributed the rebound to doubts about the Russia-Ukraine energy ceasefire and to a Houthi attack on a Saudi airport. OilPrice said crude jumped 2 percent as the Saudi attacks and tanker strikes revived fears about the Strait of Hormuz, outweighing President Donald Trump’s announcements.

TradingKey said Brent topped $107 after the attack on the Saudi airport. Goldman Sachs raised its December oil price target to $90, citing what it called significant risk from the Iran war, according to an account of the bank’s note published by Yahoo Finance. Prices had retreated at the end of last week, dragging energy stocks lower, after Trump claimed a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire.

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Oil producers say shipping and insurance costs for energy flows have surged

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:29:00 GMT

Ministers meeting in Riyadh put freight and war-risk cover at the centre of the delivered cost of oil.

Shipping and insurance costs for energy flows have surged, ministers from OPEC and non-OPEC producers said on Monday, according to Reuters. OPEC said the energy and oil ministers of the countries participating in its Declaration of Cooperation held the meeting on the sidelines of the 17th International Energy Forum ministerial meeting and the 25th World Petroleum Congress energy congress. Reuters placed the same gathering on the margins of those two events in Riyadh.

Newsquawk described the session as an OPEC-plus ministerial gathering convened on the margins of the forum, and ForexFactory, citing opec.org, said ministers of OPEC and non-OPEC participating countries met in Riyadh. The statements are the producers’ own account of conditions in the market they supply, not an independent measure of freight or premium rates.

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Bitcoin holds above $83,000 as the announced energy truce pushes oil lower

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:48:00 GMT

Bitcoin traded above $83,000 on Monday, with reports attributing the move to falling oil prices after the announcement of a halt to Russian and Ukrainian energy strikes rather than to anything in the crypto market itself.

Bitcoin held above $83,000 on Monday after President Donald Trump pushed Russia and Ukraine to agree to halt strikes on each other’s energy infrastructure, in a description the excerpt cuts off. Barron’s reported bitcoin rising after Trump announced the energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.

Other accounts put the level higher. One reported bitcoin recovering to near $84k as falling oil prices offered support on hopes of a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, and another had it shrugging off exchange-traded fund outflows to trade above $84,000 as oil fell, noting the arrangement under which Russia is to supply 300,000 metric tons of diesel to international and domestic markets.

The spread between those readings matters less than what they have in common: every one of them dates the move to the ceasefire announcement and the oil price that followed it.

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Gold drifts before US inflation data as reports split on which way it moved

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:48:00 GMT

Reuters has gold retreating as markets wait for key US inflation data, while other accounts of the same session had it steady, edging up or rallying, and the structural bid from central banks and exchange-traded funds is the one thing they agree on.

Reuters reported gold retreating as markets awaited key US inflation data, noting that sustained central bank buying is a longer-term support in a quote the excerpt cuts off. Other accounts of the same session read differently: one had gold steady as markets strapped in for the inflation data, one had it edging up as lower oil prices pared rate-hike expectations, one had it rising on hopes of a Fed pause as oil cheapened, one had it pushing higher on softening energy markets, and one had it rallying on a softer dollar and lower yields with $4,200 in view.

The direction is disputed; the cause given for it is not. Each of those accounts attaches the move to the same two things, the oil price and the coming US inflation release, rather than to anything inside the gold market.

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Six senators from both parties call the Russian diesel purchase illegal and demand it be undone

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:48:00 GMT

A bipartisan group of six senators has told the administration to reverse course immediately on buying Russian diesel, questioning its legality under Congress’s 2022 ban on Russian energy imports, while the Treasury secretary says the plan will go ahead.

A bipartisan group of six senators called on President Donald Trump’s administration to immediately reverse course on a plan to purchase Russian diesel. The Associated Press report, dated Sunday, used the same words. Politico reported that the senators are questioning the legality of the decision, citing Congress’s 2022 ban on Russian energy imports, and a separate account described a prominent Republican senator saying the deal may be illegal.

CNN reported that the diesel deal with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin is facing bipartisan blowback, with lawmakers warning of something the excerpt does not finish stating. The BBC reported that both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have criticised the plan, which was announced weeks before the midterm elections.

The wording is consistent across the reports: the senators asked the administration to ‘immediately reverse course’, and the group is described as bipartisan in each of them. One account titled its report on the legal violations the senators allege.

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AI spending lifts borrowing costs worldwide as SoftBank’s next fund tests the doubters

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:29:00 GMT

A Bloomberg column says Masayoshi Son’s second hundred-billion-dollar vehicle strengthens Ray Dalio’s warning, and the BIS has put a revenue test to the companies building the data centres.

Bloomberg Opinion argued that SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son’s attempt to set up another $100 billion AI-focused venture capital fund will only give the doubters more to work with, and that it underscores Ray Dalio’s AI warning. Son is asking Gulf investors for the money on top of his OpenAI bet, and last month the company tapped the bond market for $11.1 billion, the largest high-yield corporate bond sale ever recorded.

The cost of that financing is now a macro variable. One account reported that AI spending is pushing up borrowing costs around the world, with Wall Street estimates putting this year’s AI-related investment-grade issuance at a figure the excerpt does not complete. The same outlet wrote that AI borrowers now dominate half of America’s investment-grade market, in a sentence the excerpt cuts off.

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