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The Fed Rate Hike of September 2026: 25 Basis Points, a Unanimous Vote and a Promise of More
The Fed raised rates 25 basis points to 3.75 to 4 per cent, its first hike since 2023, with the dots promising more. Inside the…
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The Saudi East-West Pipeline Attack: Oil Loses Its Bypass and Finds Its Ceiling
An attack on Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline removed the Hormuz bypass that kept wartime oil calm, sending Brent above $108 before a promised quick repair…
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The AI Safety Selloff: The Week the Builders Asked to Slow Down
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei called for slowing frontier AI development, Altman and Musk agreed, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 5.9 per cent in a day.…
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The Baldwin Group Take-Private: An 88 Per Cent Premium and the Rise of Family Office Capital
Sequence Holdings and Michael Dell’s DFO Management are taking insurance broker Baldwin Group private for $7.7 billion at an 88 per cent premium, to fund…
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The Week in Markets: The ECB Moves First and the Fed Odds Hit 87 Per Cent (11 September 2026)
CPI held at 3.4 per cent on a cooling core, the ECB hiked into its oil shock, the US-Canada trade war went kinetic, the Treasury…
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The ECB Rate Hike: 2.5% Against an Oil Shock, With the Lesson of 2022 in Hand
The ECB raised all three rates by 25 basis points, its second hike of 2026, as energy pushed euro area inflation to 3.3 per cent.…
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The Treasury Becomes a Buyer: $6 Billion Bond Buybacks Meet a Three-Year Yield High
The US Treasury tripled its long-end buybacks to $6 billion per operation as the 10-year yield hit its highest since October 2023. Why the intervention…
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The US-Canada Trade War Goes Kinetic: Smoot-Hawley’s Ghost and a C$27.6 Billion Answer
Canada’s counter-tariffs on C$27.6 billion of US goods took effect as Washington moved from 50 per cent duties to outright import bans, the first use…
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The Week in Markets: 162,000 Jobs and a $26.5 Billion Reality Check (4 September 2026)
Payrolls tripled forecasts and revived the September hike, Shein listed at a quarter of its former valuation, Broadcom’s record quarter was sold anyway, and private…
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The Apollo Atlantic Aviation Deal: KKR Doubles Its Money Without Selling Out
Apollo and GIC bought into KKR-backed Atlantic Aviation at close to $10 billion, a window into how private equity is manufacturing liquidity in 2026.