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📊 Ohio's unemployment rate hit a record-low 3.3% in August — the lowest in BLS series history (since 1976)
• Down from 4.3% in January; every month of 2026 declined
• Separately, D.C. nonfarm payrolls fell 3.6% year-over-year to 719,900
https://t.co/n209NsFi0O
#Economy #Jobs #Ohio

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💊 FDA approves Lilly's Inluriyo–Verzenio combo for ESR1-mutated breast cancer
$LLY
• All-oral regimen; median PFS 11.1 vs 5.5 months in the trial subgroup
Important: survival data immature; benefit confined to ESR1-mutated patients
https://t.co/21XsJpIsbO
#FDA #Pharma #Oncology

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🚗 Volkswagen slashes its 2026 margin target to 1% after ~€10B in one-off charges.

• Mostly a €6B Porsche goodwill writedown
• China market has contracted ~20%, per CFO
• Shares fell as much as 7.5%, worst day in a year

https://t.co/iDiYSKq1Eb
#Volkswagen #Auto

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🛢️ Aramco tells Europe its October crude allocation is zero, per Bloomberg.

• ~60M barrels rerouted to Asia instead
• Physical Dated Brent topped $130 as refiners scramble
• Europe's October is a blank

https://t.co/t9q27IfeQ9
#Oil #Energy

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🏭 Rexford closes $1.2B industrial sale — 22 properties to an EQT affiliate.

$REXR completed the Sept. 16 closing at a $1.179B contract price (before credits/prorations).

Important: net cash received is not disclosed in the filing.

https://t.co/ikCiyxKb1P

#REITs #CRE #Industrial

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💰 Aon issues $13.5 billion of senior notes across seven series (2029–2056), coupons 5.350%–6.450%, to help fund its USI acquisition.

$AON

• Net proceeds ~$13.4B
• Six of seven series carry a 101% special redemption if the USI deal isn't done by June 2027
• Reported as issued Sept. 17

Important: the filing gives no dollar figure for the USI cash consideration or the planned term loan.

https://t.co/s7RzvW58dT

#Aon #Insurance #DebtMarkets

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🏛️ FCC approves foreign backing for Paramount's $110B Warner Bros. deal — but no one gets a vote.

• 49.5% of non-voting equity goes to foreign investors
• Saudi, UAE and Qatari sovereign funds hold 38.5% of it
• Ellison family + RedBird keep 100% of voting shares

Important: the deal is still blocked by a U.S. judge pending a March trial — this ruling doesn't unblock it.

https://t.co/S26oNP77W6

#Paramount #WarnerBros #Mergers

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🤖 Crusoe raises $3.9B at a $30.9B valuation to build AI factories.

Co-led by Atreides, Mubadala and Valor; Nvidia also in. $3.9B is the initial closing of an anticipated Series F.
https://t.co/pmiEBhbYHu
#AI #DataCenters

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🏦 Bank of Japan raises rates to 1.25% — a 31-year high — in a 7-2 vote.

From 1.0%, three months after the last hike. Yen weakened as traders priced quarterly moves the BOJ hasn't promised.
https://t.co/gmXObDRaQ2
#BoJ #Rates #Japan

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🤖 CoreWeave plans a $3B convertible note sale plus an ATM for up to 35M shares.

$CRWV Notes due 2033, up to $500M more optional; coupon set at pricing.

Important: offering intended, not priced or issued; ATM sales optional.

https://t.co/tSBqdMIko5

#CoreWeave #AI #Financing

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🏦 Warren Buffett, 96, steps down as Berkshire chairman — effective immediately.

$BRK.B Howard Buffett succeeds him; Greg Abel runs the $1T company. Buffett stays on the board as chairman emeritus.

https://t.co/dpXH0M8Y6L

#WarrenBuffett #Berkshire #Succession

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⚡ Generac lands Amazon: $2.4B generator deal for 2027–28
$GNRC +40% after hours; ~$208 Thursday, up ~19%.
1.69M-share warrant at $200.93 vests as Amazon spends.
Important: $8B is the vesting threshold, not a committed order.
https://t.co/vNzXVwHwlg
#DataCenters #Energy

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🇪🇺 Trump threatens 'very heavy' tariffs on EU over Canada 'associate member' pitch
Calling it 'laughable'; tariffs only if he deems it a 'hostile act.'
Carney: Canada picks its own partners.
Important: conditional — nothing imposed.
https://t.co/LYfmuLZdMJ
#Tariffs #TradeWar

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📈 UK CPI hits 3.1%, a five-month high, a day before the BoE decides.

August headline CPI rose to 3.1% YoY from 2.9% — in line with Reuters/WSJ forecasts, but above the BoE's own 2.8% projection.

• Core CPI held at 2.6% for a fourth straight month
• Services inflation steady at 3.4%, a touch below the 3.5% expected — the BoE's key domestic gauge
• Fuel was the largest upward contributor, as petrol and diesel prices surged

The BoE is widely expected to hold at 3.75% for a sixth straight meeting at Thursday's decision. Investors price ~20% odds of a quarter-point hike to 4%.

https://t.co/5ZsCUmqnaj

#UKInflation #BoE #UK

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🏦 The Fed hiked to 4% — a quarter-point move to a 3.75%–4.00% target range, in a unanimous 12–0 vote. It's the first rate increase since July 2023.

The hike was priced at ~93% odds, and stocks initially rallied. Then Chair Warsh's 2:30 press conference reversed it: the median dot now sees another hike this year, no cuts in 2027, and the 10-year closed at 5.003% — its first close above 5% in 19 years (WSJ). The Dow fell 700+ points.

Important: "hawkish" is the market's interpretation, not the Fed's label — the statement itself carried no forward guidance.

https://t.co/SZS9Zu9R63

#Fed #FOMC #Rates

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🏥 Waystar jumps 8%+ on Reuters report it's exploring a sale

$WAY — Reuters, citing seven anonymous sources, says the healthcare payments software company hired Evercore to advise on early-stage strategic options.

• ~$5.2B market value after the jump; shares were down ~24% YTD before the report
• Q2 revenue $319.7M (+18%), net income $40.9M; raised FY guidance to $1.276–1.294B

Important: no bidder named, no company confirmation — Reuters cautioned the plans could change or fall apart.

https://t.co/h6rB9FIAJw

#Waystar #HealthTech #M&A

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🚀 Rocket Lab completes $1.944B share sale to fund Iridium deal

$RKLB — 29.3M shares sold in an at-the-market offering, bringing financing for the ~$8B Iridium acquisition fully into place.

• Iridium's $1.775B term loan retained with lender consent; $3.6B bridge commitment terminated
• Rocket Lab expects the acquisition to close in mid-2027

Important: the financing is secured, but the deal is not closed — regulatory approvals and closing conditions still lie ahead.

https://t.co/HErX0N6Iuh

#RocketLab #Iridium #Space

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🧠 Anthropic's Dario Amodei says AI labs must "pace the frontier."
His new essay argues capability gains are outrunning safety work — driven by recursive self-improvement — and calls for slowing the pace without halting training.

He commits Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators with employee-like access. Altman and Musk quickly signaled agreement.

Important: those are social-media statements, not binding commitments among labs.

https://t.co/sBJv3jmNMY
#Anthropic #AI #AISafety

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🔌 Positron AI raised up to $875M at a reported $5B valuation.
The Reno inference-hardware startup closed a $375M Series C at $3.5B pre-money and lined up a Series C-1 of up to $500M.

The money funds Asimov — its next-gen inference chip on TSMC N3P, targeting tape-out late 2026.

Important: the C-1's "up to $500M" isn't confirmed drawn, and Asimov hasn't taped out — the valuation is a bet on architecture, not a shipping chip.

https://t.co/gvMNt486EG
#Positron #AI #Semiconductors

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📈 Banzai closed a $1.5M initial convertible-note tranche with Evergreen.
$BNZI The note carries a 30% original-issue discount — $1.5M cash for $2,142,857 of principal — plus a 10% coupon and warrants.

Important: that's gross proceeds before Aegis's 10% placement fee, and another $1M depends on later tranches that haven't funded.

https://t.co/mdHXdduOei
#Banzai #ConvertibleNotes #SaaS