196 articles
Bank of Japan raises rate to 1.25 percent, a 31-year high, in a 7-2 vote. Yen weakens above 157. Governor Ueda says policy enters new phase on inflation risks.
A virtual trading point in the Netherlands sets gas prices for all of Europe. Here's how TTF works and why Middle East shocks transmit to European energy bills.
An unsealed brief in the New York Times-led copyright case quotes Microsoft and OpenAI insiders calling news scraping theft and their chatbots substitutive.
Retail inflation in India rose to 4.82 percent in August, the third month above the RBI target, as food prices climbed and core inflation firmed to 4.2 percent.
OFAC designated BitBank, developer Pishtaz Simorgh and three Zanjani associates under Operation Economic Outcast on September 17.
ARMA clears the House Financial Services Committee 28-21, sending the first federal Bitcoin reserve bill to the full chamber with a 20-year lockup.
Huawei showed more than 10 AI computing chips at Connect 2026 and put the Ascend 960DT in Q1 2027, scaling superclusters toward a million processors.
Trump announced a Ukraine-Russia energy ceasefire, pressing Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel refineries as exports fell 81 percent below the five-year average.
UK consumer prices rose 3.1 percent year-on-year in August, the highest in five months, as motor fuel costs surged. The Bank of England decides on rates Thursday.
First Fed hike since 2023: the funds rate rises to 3.75%-4% on a unanimous 12-0 vote, with supply shocks dropped from the statement and the Middle East.
Rome-based cybersecurity company Exein, founded by Gianni Cuozzo, closes a Headline-led round: a $1.7 billion valuation, over thirty times the $55 million of 2024.
OpenAI has held early talks with investors about a new private round near $1.2 trillion, up from $852 billion in March, as its IPO slips past 2026.
Iran's central bank dropped the repatriation rule for exporters. Cross-border trade now settles in Tether and Bitcoin through domestic crypto exchanges.
Libya's NOC said it may declare force majeure after oil guards closed a valve on the Hamada-Zawiya pipeline, halting two fields and a pumping station.
U.S. Bank executed a live cross-border payment using USBDC on Stellar between its North American and European entities.
The US Senate rejected the CLARITY Act cloture vote 49-50, far short of 60 needed. Bitcoin fell 5%, Coinbase and Circle down nearly 10%.
MiCA is live in Europe and has excluded USDT. The GENIUS Act is law but rules are missing. The two frameworks compared.
Poste Italiane ends the first OPAS window on TIM with 66.63% of the capital; the offer reopens on 21-25 September with the 90% squeeze-out threshold in sight.
European gas jumped 6 percent to €84.07 per MWh, the highest since December 2022, as the Saudi pipeline shutdown deepened a supply crisis with storage at a record low.
Oracle posted record Q1 FY27 revenue of $19.3 billion, a 30% year-on-year increase powered by triple-digit cloud infrastructure growth and a backlog that swelled to $664 billion.
Senate Republicans published the final CLARITY Act text with 126 Democratic changes and a Trump-backed ethics deal, ahead of Tuesday's 60-vote cloture hurdle.
Houthis tighten their grip on Bab el-Mandeb: Brent at $108 and European gas at EUR 83.92, up 161% in a year. Goldman Sachs sees $120.
Harvey closed a 550 million dollar round co-led by Diffusion and Lightspeed at a 15.5 billion dollar valuation and acquired Guardrails AI, its fourth deal of 2026.
NVIDIA and Palantir bring AI into the supply chain: material allocation, Time of Ownership and a model at 86.7%. The constraint is now memory and power.
ESMA says top prediction-market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi lack EU authorisation, with event contracts potentially subject to MiFID II, MiCA or gambling rules.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has confirmed the company will not pursue an IPO in 2026, citing escalating AI safety concerns as the primary reason for the delay.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services: GPT-6 Astra, bundled licensed data and auditable citations. Morgan Stanley and Evercore shaped the product.
Positron AI secures $875 million Series C at $5 billion post-money valuation. The startup bypasses HBM with LPDDR5X memory for AI inference hardware.
Brent surged to $108.23 after new attacks on Saudi Arabia and ships in the Gulf, as Oman-Iran talks on Hormuz were postponed, leaving no export routes.
Mistral AI has closed a 3 billion euro Series D round at a valuation exceeding 21 billion euros, the largest equity fundraising ever by a European technology company.
US prices rose 0.4% in August and 3.4% year on year. Core monthly surprised at 0.3% as gasoline surged: markets now price 90% odds of a Fed hike on September 16.
Eight members cut 1.65 million barrels per day in 2023. The UAE left in May 2026 with 3.5 mb/d of baseline. Here is how the quota system works.
Chinese AI chipmaker Enflame surged over 200 percent on its Shanghai STAR Market debut after raising 911 million dollars in an IPO backed by Tencent.
Treasury triples long-dated buyback to $6 billion, but Wall Street expected $7-8 billion, sending the 10-year yield to its highest since November 2023.
US PPI and CPI both surprised to the upside in August. Gasoline surged 3.9%, core CPI hit 0.3%, and Fed hike odds for September 16 jumped to 85%.
Coinbase and Moov bring stablecoin payments to over 1,000 US community banks, five days before the Senate votes on the CLARITY Act.
The ECB raised its three key rates by 25 basis points, taking the deposit rate to 2.50% from 16 September: a second 2026 hike, with inflation at 3.3%.
Houthis seize Yemen's Mocha and Bab al-Mandeb strait, sending Brent above $107. S&P 500 falls, OPEC cuts 2026 demand forecast.
Yen surges 7 yen in a week to 152.89 per dollar as BOJ hike priced at 97 percent and cross-border borrowing hits record.
Cognition AI closes Series E at $48 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, as run-rate revenue surges to nearly $900 million.
UBS Global Wealth Management reversed its Fed rate forecast, now expecting two 25 bp hikes in September and December 2026 after a blowout August jobs report.
The ECB authorized UniCredit to apply the Danish compromise to its consolidated capital ratios, adding 52 basis points to the CET1 ratio.
Poste Italiane raises TIM tender cash to 1.97 euros per share and drops the minimum threshold, signaling it will proceed regardless of adhesion levels.
By 2030 Milan's data centers could use 6 terawatt-hours a year, the electricity of more than two million households. Water and cumulative impacts still lack a plan.
China exports rose 25 percent year on year in August, with the trade surplus widening to 119.1 billion dollars as imports climbed 28.2 percent.
The $899.99 PS5 Pro vanished from US stores after GTA 6's Netflix preview: resale up to $1,500 while Sony earns nothing. The driver is memory inflation.
White hats returned 3,400 BTC to Liquid's federation. 598.5 BTC remain in their custody with no approved bounty disclosed.
China will inject 390 billion yuan ($54 billion) into eight state banks and insurers to strengthen capital buffers and sustain lending despite weak credit demand.
Poland's parliament fell 25 votes short of overriding President Nawrocki's third crypto veto, leaving it the only EU state without MiCA rules.
OPEC Plus will hold October output steady after six consecutive monthly increases, pausing the unwind of 1.65 million bpd of voluntary cuts as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.