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UK inflation climbs to 3.5% as fuel prices drive September rise
U.K. consumer price inflation accelerated to 3.5% in the 12 months to September, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday, overshooting t…
Amazon to Hire 300,000 Holiday Workers, Boosts Pay and Benefits
Amazon will add more than 300,000 US workers for the holiday shopping season across seasonal, part-time and full-time roles in its core operations ne…
Webull to Launch Bitcoin Perpetual Futures With Kalshi in November
Webull will offer Bitcoin perpetual futures to eligible US clients starting November 2026 through Kalshi's CFTC-regulated KalshiEX exchange.
Gold Holds 4,000-4,120 Support as Fed Hike Odds Reach 82.8%
Gold is trading inside a descending channel below a peak near 5,600, and technical analysts at MarketPulse read that structure as a possible bullish…
Anthropic to give 5% of shares, about $48bn, to public benefit fund
Anthropic will set aside 5% of its shares for a new fund aimed at the public good, a stake worth roughly $48bn (£36bn) at the company's most recent v…
Musk Pledges One SpaceX Share to Every U.S. Child Next Year
Elon Musk said he will give one SpaceX share to every child in America next year, a pledge worth roughly $10.5 billion at Friday's closing price.
Japan’s MUFG, Mizuho and SMBC finish first joint yen stablecoin test
MUFG, Mizuho and SMBC completed a first joint yen stablecoin payment test in July 2026, with commercial transactions targeted inside fiscal 2026.
Trump’s Russia sanctions waiver draws bipartisan Senate backlash
Trump's Friday waiver of Russia sanctions under the Graham Act drew bipartisan criticism from Tillis, Cruz, Haley, Warren and Zelenskyy.
Warsh Won’t Signal October Fed Move as Markets Price a Hold
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh used a Friday appearance at the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok to refuse any steer on the central bank's…
Binance bStocks Tops $1 Billion as Conversions Hit $6 Billion
Binance says bStocks topped $1 billion in assets faster than rival tokenised-equity products, with $6 billion converted since its June 11 launch.
TSMC Posts Record Q3 Profit, Guides Q4 Revenue to $54.3B
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a record third-quarter net profit of NT$763.1 billion, about $23.6 billion, up 68.7% from a year earl…
Wholesale Prices Climb 6.3% Annually, Biggest Jump Since 2022
Wholesale prices rose 1.3% in September and 6.3% over the prior 12 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday, in a producer price index re…
US inflation rises to 3.7% as gasoline prices jump 9.1%
US consumer price inflation accelerated to 3.7% in the year to September, up from 3.4% in August and faster than the 3.6% economists had expected, Th…
SEC Official: Four Exchanges May List Perpetual Futures
SEC market-structure official Richard Selway said at least four exchanges are expected to begin trading perpetual futures on securities this quarter.
Morgan Stanley Q3 profit up 6.5% as equities trading beats estimates by $909M
Morgan Stanley beat Wall Street expectations in the third quarter, helped by a 41% jump in equities trading revenue to $5.8 billion, CNBC reported. T…
Bank of America Profit Falls 17% on $1.2 Billion Penalty
Bank of America absorbed a $1.2 billion penalty from U.S. regulators in the third quarter, dragging net profit down 17% to $6.93 billion, or 91 cents…
UK Trader Seeks 324.8 BTC From BitMEX Over 1,053 Losing Trades
Lewis Barber seeks 324.8 BTC from BitMEX operator HDR Global over 1,053 losing trades, arguing the exchange lacked UK authorisation.
Crowded AI Trade Pushes Retail Toward Semiconductor ETFs
Finance Magnates reports retail traders are rotating out of crowded Nvidia bets toward semiconductor ETFs, AI power infrastructure and cybersecurity…
JPMorgan Q3 Profit Misses Estimates as Dimon Warns on Inflation
JPMorgan's Q3 net income hit $15.4bn, missing the $16.3bn expected, as CEO Jamie Dimon flagged fiscal deficits and sticky inflation.
Dollar Index Hits 1.5-Year High as Crude Oil and Fed Talk Lift Greenback
The dollar index climbed to a 1.5-year high on Monday, closing up 0.37%, as a rally in crude oil and hawkish remarks from a Federal Reserve official…
