Dynamic standard deviations, current price shifts, and volatility regime signals.
"MARKET EVENT: October 2026 FOMC Hike Expectations [ONGOING] | IMPACT: BEARISH | SUMMARY: Market-implied odds of a 25bp October 2026 Fed hike have surged to 65% on hot activity, oil-linked inflation, and hawkish guidance, raising risk of further dollar and front-end yield strength while making a fully priced hike vulnerable to a relief rally if the Fed avoids signaling additional tightening."
"MARKET EVENT: Hormuz Ceasefire Proposal [ONGOING] | IMPACT: NEUTRAL | SUMMARY: Iran’s conditional seven-day ceasefire proposal could either remove a major oil and inflation risk if verified or preserve escalation and supply-premium risks if U.S. concessions and Strait reopening fail."
"MARKET EVENT: Greenland-US Strategic Pact [ONGOING] | IMPACT: BULLISH | SUMMARY: The US–Greenland–Denmark strategic pact sparks a speculative critical-minerals rally, but without binding financing, permits, offtake, or development milestones the thin-float surge remains highly vulnerable to reversal and dilution."
"MARKET EVENT: Private Credit Consumer Expansion [ONGOING] | IMPACT: NEUTRAL | SUMMARY: Exploratory bank-private-credit partnerships are shifting rejected consumer borrowers and other risky assets toward opaque nonbank lenders, creating modest platform upside but asymmetric downside through adverse selection, liquidity mismatch, and correlated losses. [Historical Parallel: 1980s U.S. Securitization and Shadow-Banking Expansion (1980s-1990s)]"
"MARKET EVENT: Project Suncatcher Launch | IMPACT: BULLISH | SUMMARY: Google’s planned October 2 Project Suncatcher launch will test orbital AI inference, offering long-term infrastructure optionality while leaving terrestrial data-center economics largely unaffected unless reliability and scalability are demonstrated."
"Newsletters confirm a risk-off inflection: Axios flagged 'AI back on the risk radar,' Investing.com highlighted an ongoing bond market selloff, and FT Alphaville warned of 'Ponzi-like schemes' in market gains. Stock Analysis noted Oracle and Blue Owl slumping on data center woes while Akamai surged 14% on the Anthropic $11.6B cloud deal, reinforcing a barbell of AI-power/grid winners and AI-capex losers."
Perhaps the most interesting thing about Turkeys stock market crisis was how long it took to arrive. Everyone saw it coming. Market gains over the past couple of years were so obviously ridiculous that shenanigans were the only rational explanation: Turkish authorities last week filed a bunch of criminal complaints over alleged share price manipulation, Justice Minister Akin Gurlek having belatedly spotted potentially Ponzi-like schemes [ https://substack.com/redirect/48ececd5-4676-4e15-9b19-95044ff59f7c?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ] afoot. Executives including Emre Tezmen, chair of investment brokerage Tera Yatrm, were arrested [ https://substack.com/redirect/1125cb5b-030a-4546-b13c-cd2474387472?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Funds that were holding an estimated $17bn [ https://substack.com/redirect/ea2adba2-657b-4976-9a14-85a24f318ff7?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ] for 300,000 punters have been queued up for liquidation. The alleged hustle is the classic: funds pump up their own valuations by buying illiquid shares, including in their own subsidiaries, then use their inflated stock as loan collateral. Naive, buyable or cowardly officials fail to recognise the problem. Expensive legal teams suppress any criticism. The longer it runs, the more that investor FOMO overpowers logic. Turkeys unwind began in August, when the local market regulator took some not-particularly-dramatic measures to cap any funds ability to corner an individual stock. Authorities had until that moment been more interested in arresting whistleblowers than fund managers, who may still think President Recep Erdoan has their back. The cap news triggered some selling of the markets most egregious froth, which snowballed into a panic rush for the exits. It would be naive, or condescending, to assume larger markets dont share similar characteristics, says Lex [ https://substack.com/redirect/d8c96944-9966-47cd-8373-af1440889744?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Hmm. Changing subjects entirely, heres a chart from a recent Goldman Sachs report: As we discussed back in May, other income for mega-cap tech refers to the book value of illiquid investments in private companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Americas three corporate growth engines are AI capex; high margins on semiconductors; and private investment gains. The combination helped lift S&P 500 earnings by 51 per cent year-on-year last quarter, GS says. Four-quarter EPS growth is currently running at 26 per cent, having averaged 7 per cent during the past 30 years. How sustainable the AI stuff will prove is up for discussion, but the other income line definitely isnt. Accounting rules change in January to require proper disclosure [ https://substack.com/redirect/28ef24ca-9a2b-4039-91fc-96ed11a62e56?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ], which GS says will cut S&P 500 earnings growth by 8 percentage points: Nevertheless! With the S&P 500 not that expensive in historical terms, a person and/or stockbroker could argue that investors are already looking through big-techs mark-to-magic gains on all their illiquid, opaque, circular investments [ https://substack.com/redirect/4e8bf625-52b2-4484-83de-14210b9da081?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Souring the mood will take more than a not-particularly-dramatic regulatory change that only affects the markets most egregious froth: Probably. As SEC senior trial counsel Pat Huddleston often said [ https://substack.com/redirect/2ae0bca8-e5f9-4aab-a600-a4b04aa24df8?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ], If it sounds too good to be true, youre dealing with an amateur. A week on Alphaville The real genius of SpaceX had nothing to do with aerodynamics or rocket telemetry but narrative rotation, as each new iteration of the companys goals was financed by believers in the last [ https://substack.com/redirect/696933ae-a5ca-4e07-ab5b-5242dc83ff21?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Are Big Tech bonds crowding out the US Treasury? [ https://substack.com/redirect/2a3ba8b2-1552-4035-ba5e-633608e119bd?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ] If you were to accidentally send the investment banks pitch list to the group chat, heres what should happen next [ https://substack.com/redirect/e953025a-b95b-4c5e-8877-457b8efae4d4?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Negative betas out to eat your alpha [ https://substack.com/redirect/5c67007e-f205-4ef3-9c63-1c9a51b8a58e?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Whats stopping the UKs biggest pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme, from going all-in [ https://substack.com/redirect/f781f56a-d754-4282-9c7c-fc4b525bfc5f?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]? Between estimates for data centre GPUs sold and US power infrastructure needed to switch them on, theres a very big and widening gap [ https://substack.com/redirect/57c85365-a227-4e2c-a68e-4759c83c53bf?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Confessions of an accidental bonus basher [ https://substack.com/redirect/8d3bbc04-c537-42f1-9139-c5cf03a73013?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Shouldnt hedging-instrument provider Kalshi be offering a market on the US legality of its own sportsbook? This lawyer says it should [ https://substack.com/redirect/3cc4cce1-f5ef-4c4d-9b3d-595577cbd75c?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Scanning company filings for the mark of shame, a utm_source=chatgpt.com metadata tag [ https://substack.com/redirect/a506538b-59ad-4cc2-a6d8-8718604070c8?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Sort-of British neoscaler Nscale pays very well at the C-suite level and takes a freeform approach to graphs [ https://substack.com/redirect/c64c4f69-be09-4c29-a0c3-ea8921777393?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Can Warsh tighten financial conditions without engineering a stock market fall [ https://substack.com/redirect/1debaf70-5f43-4a4d-9e18-b32ca29d822f?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]? Shareholders of Fern Trading, a tax avoidance vehicle managed by Octopus Investments, are locked in indefinitely while it works on buying part of TalkTalk [ https://substack.com/redirect/90870634-79dd-4bab-bdb2-1e879853b77b?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Best of Further Reading Oaktree Capitals Howard Marks writes about how to square off US exceptionalism against its total lack of fiscal discipline [ https://substack.com/redirect/966e4573-883e-426f-b9c9-03a43d7e7e80?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. Puck News ($ [ https://substack.com/redirect/5ae98b2d-801d-4248-8564-1ee13040a160?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]) has an interesting interview with calamity-insurance fund manager Mark Spitznagel [ https://substack.com/redirect/66432b09-9a8f-407a-8d3b-52ae1337a08f?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. London Centric broke a big story about how Nick Candys sale of Londons most expensive house came with an unusually small tax bill [ https://open.substack.com/pub/londoncentric/p/londons-most-expensive-house-providence-house-nick-candy-holly-valance?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=18lw6l ]. David Cheng has a field dispatch on the realities of Chinas AI arms race [ https://substack.com/redirect/f8141fb3-51d2-4261-b4ae-ff2f6b3496e5?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. McSweeneys lands the AI hype joke with a headline we wont include here [ https://substack.com/redirect/dbb3c645-7d40-4763-bc50-7de2f49aa4a3?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ], for spam-filter reasons. Charts charts charts Our Investigations colleagues follow the paper trail of more than $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system [ https://substack.com/redirect/32b20e4b-7e67-4d42-b83c-3e71593e6f24?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ] via a Kremlin-backed fintech. Tej Parikh considers the shortcomings of productivity measures apropos the UKs being revised upwards to probably no worse than anywhere else since the GFC [ https://substack.com/redirect/dcd7bfef-51a3-4afa-bd5a-62acb873e659?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ]. How Temu Range Rovers and Beijing Beemers are taking over UK roads [ https://substack.com/redirect/6216bbe7-8306-4f2e-8a99-a2e23634c1e5?j=eyJ1IjoiMXEwNmEwIn0.wovJdzzLHdp9i1qtG_E-HHw5vU4kYQFl3B1NGuUydWE ].
Greenland stocks see 300% gain | Friday - September 25, 2026 | View Online ( https://stockanalysis.com/market-bullets/2026-09-25/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 ) ( https://stockanalysis.com?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 ) --------------- Market Overview --------------- S&P 500 -0.02% Pre: +0.29% Nasdaq +0.01% Pre: +0.41% Dow -0.31% Pre: +0.34% ( https://stockanalysis.com?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 ) ------------------- Stock & Market News ------------------- * Oracle and Blue Owl fall on data center concerns: Oracle (ORCL ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/orcl/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) fell 3.5% after issuing a force majeure notice tied to one of its data centers, seeking payment protection if the project misses its promised start date. Blue Owl (OWL ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/owl/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )), which is building the New Mexico facility, fell 3.7%. Sources: Bloomberg ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/oracle-cites-force-majeure-to-shield-itself-on-controversial-data-center ) / Reuters ( https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oracle-blue-owl-project-delay-sends-ripples-through-ai-financing-sources-say-2026-09-24/ ). * Greenlandic stocks extend post-deal gains: Greenland Mines (GRML ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/grml/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) and Greenland Energy (GLND ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/glnd/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) are up over 300% WoW following the signing of a strategic pact between the U.S., Greenland, and Denmark. Source: StockAnalysis.com ( https://stockanalysis.com/news/greenland-stock-surge-continues/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 ). * Anthropic signs Akamai deal: Cloud infrastructure firm Akamai (AKAM ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/akam/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) vaulted 14% premarket on a $11.6B, 7-year deal to service Anthropic ( https://stockanalysis.com/private/anthropic/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 ). Source: WSJ ( https://www.wsj.com/tech/anthropic-to-pay-akamai-technologies-11-6-billion-over-seven-years-for-cloud-services-7a55360b ). * Tesla Semi hits the road: Tesla (TSLA ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/tsla/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) is beginning customer deliveries of its Semi this week after starting volume production in April. Its Nevada factory has capacity for 50K trucks annually, with shares up 1% premarket. Source: The Verge ( https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1000317/tesla-semi-launch-customer-delivery-freight-battery-engineer ). * Costco sees revenue rise: Costco (COST ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/cost/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) beat quarterly estimates as revenue rose 11% to $95.72B and same-store sales gained 6.7%. Discount fuel and bulk deals attracted inflation-weary shoppers. Still, shares fell slightly premarket. Source: Reuters ( https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/costco-beats-quarterly-sales-estimates-resilient-demand-essentials-2026-09-24/ ). * UBS weighs foreign bank deals: UBS (UBS ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/ubs/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) is considering combinations with foreign banks to sidestep stricter Swiss rules that may require $16B in extra capital. Morgan Stanley (MS ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/ms/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )), Deutsche Bank (ETR:DBK ( https://stockanalysis.com/quote/etr/dbk/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )), and Standard Chartered (LON:STAN ( https://stockanalysis.com/quote/lon/stan/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) were cited as possible partners. UBS gained 1.5%. Source: Bloomberg ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/morgan-stanley-drops-after-report-of-ubs-mulling-potential-deal ). * Amazon expands robotics production: Amazon (AMZN ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/amzn/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) plans to invest more than $100M in a new Indiana robotics plant, doubling such factories to 4. Amazon says robots assist with 75% of customer orders. Source: WSJ ( https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-to-expand-robot-making-capacity-with-new-100-million-indiana-hub-87fce322 ). * Letterboxd draws acquisition interest: Sony Pictures (SONY ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/sony/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )), the New York Times (NYT ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nyt/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )), and A24 ( https://stockanalysis.com/private/a24/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 ) have expressed interest in buying Letterboxd, a popular online film-wishlist platform owned by Canadian firm Tiny (TSX:TINY ( https://stockanalysis.com/quote/tsx/TINY/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )). A deal is expected to value the film platform above $300M. Source: NY Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/business/media/letterboxd-sale-sony-a24-nyt.html ). * Pepsi reverses some price cuts: Pepsi (PEP ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/pep/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) plans price increases on chips, dips, and soda after earlier cuts failed to lift North American food sales. Shares fell 1%. Source: Bloomberg ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/pepsico-to-raise-some-prices-after-cuts-failed-to-grow-sales ). * Swedish firm soars on Novo deal: Swedish pharma company Nanexa (STO:NANEXA ( https://stockanalysis.com/quote/sto/nanexa/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) popped 100% after signing a $1.33B licensing deal with Novo Nordisk (NVO ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nvo/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) for long-acting injectable weight-loss drugs. Novo gained 1.2%. Source: CNBC ( https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/wegovy-novo-nordisk-obesity-drugs.html ). * Microsoft refocuses Copilot on work: Microsoft (MSFT ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/msft/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) is merging its consumer and workplace Copilot apps, retreating from the personal chatbot race to focus on enterprise AI. Sources: Bloomberg ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-25/microsoft-abandons-personal-ai-chatbot-race-with-copilot-reboot ) / The Verge ( https://www.theverge.com/news/1000532/microsoft-copilot-super-app-chat-coding-autopilot ). * Bezos fuels Blue Origin expansion: Jeff Bezos has invested $30B of his own fortune in Blue Origin ( https://stockanalysis.com/private/blue-origin/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 ), which recently raised $10B at a $140B valuation. The space company expects revenue to surge to $30B by 2030. Source: WSJ ( https://www.wsj.com/business/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-is-fueled-with-30-billion-of-his-fortune-b7407e6e ). ----------------------- Legal & Regulatory News ----------------------- * U.S. backs Musk in E.U. legal fight: The DOJ is seeking to join Xs (SPCX ( https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/spcx/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 )) challenge to a $137M E.U. fine, claiming regulatory overreach. The dispute could affect how E.U. rules apply to U.S. tech firms. Source: BBC ( https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq0m373ee0v0o ). * NY vs. Polymarket: New York state filed a lawsuit against Polymarket ( https://stockanalysis.com/private/polymarket/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=market-bullets&utm_content=2026-09-25 ), alleging that the prediction platform operates illegal gambling. Source: WSJ ( https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/ny-sues-polymarket-in-escalating-crackdown-on-prediction-markets-80d1aba6 ). ------------- Economic News ------------- Photo by Frames For Your Heart ( https://unsplash.com/@framesforyourheart?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText ) on Unsplash ( https://unsplash.com/photos/white-concrete-building-under-blue-sky-during-daytime-mR1CIDduGLc?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText ) * New home sales jump: New home sales in the U.S. rose 6.4% in August to an 8-month high of 684K annualized, beating forecasts, as builders cut prices and offered incentives. The median price fell 5.8% to $393K. Source: Reuters ( https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-new-home-sales-jump-eight-month-high-august-2026-09-24/ ). * Gas prices hit seasonal record: The average U.S. gallon of gasoline is $4.48, up nearly $0.05 WoW and the highest ever for this time of year. Source: AAA ( https://gasprices.aaa.com/national-average-climbs-nearly-5-cents-since-last-week/ ). --------------------- World News & Politics --------------------- * Iran proposes peace plan: Iran proposed ending hostilities, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and restarting nuclear talks within 7 days if the U.S. releases frozen assets, waives oil sanctions, and lifts its naval blockade. The U.S. has not yet agreed to any deal but called talks constructive. Source: NY Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/world/middleeast/iran-proposal.html ). * Europe cushions record fuel costs: European governments are cutting fuel taxes, expanding subsidies, and easing energy rules amid record pump prices. E.U. consumers are spending an extra 203M a day on diesel. Source: AP ( https://apnews.com/article/europe-fuel-prices-subsidies-taxes-war-873843ee048c5d8539cbabc05a13d47e ). * Ohio voting rule goes into effect: In a victory for Republicans, a federal court reinstated Ohios requirement that people provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Source: Politico ( https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/24/ohio-citizenship-registration-01092684 ). --------------- Economic Events --------------- * 8:30 AM: Durable Goods Orders MoM & Durable Goods Orders Excl. Transp. MoM * 10:00 AM: Michigan Consumer Sentiment Final * All events in Eastern Time (ET). 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September 25, 2026 Good morning and happy Friday. You didnt need insider knowledge to see this one coming. The state of New York sued Polymarket Thursday, painting it as an illegal, unlicensed gambling operation. Its the fourth case Attorney General Letitia James has brought against prediction market operators this year, with Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini facing similar accusations. Operators and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have argued event contracts should be considered a derivative subject to federal regulation. But federal appeals courts are split. The 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the CFTC and platforms in an April case brought by New Jersey, but last month, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against prediction markets in a Nevada case and ordered them to stop offering sports event contracts. This could set up a Supreme Court showdown: Traders on Polymarket currently put the odds of the nations top court taking up a sports event contract case by the end of the year at 22%. Just remember, if you have a sudden, uncontrollable urge to take that bet, youre hooked on derivatives, not gambling. MARKETS S&P 500 7,704.13 -0.02% DJI 51,349.98 -0.31% ORCL $139.54 -3.47% Stock data as of market close on September 24, 2026. INFLATION & PRICES Treasury Yields Touch 20-Year Highs, Fueled by Sticky Inflation, US Debt Photo via Xinhua/Sipa USA/Newscom You know the deal by now. US bond yields are rising because investors are worried about persistent inflation, fueled by higher oil prices, which could drive up interest rates. At the same time, the rationale for rate hikes has been strengthened by a surprisingly resilient American economy that looks like it can absorb them. Meanwhile, the rapidly growing, supersized US debt pile means the Treasury has to keep issuing large amounts of bonds, whose higher yields could lure investors at the expense of equities. On Thursday, this bundle of macroeconomic forces drove yields to the highest in decades. The 10-year US Treasury yield surged more than 10 basis points to 5.223%, the most in 19 years, while the 30-year yield hit 5.501%, the most since 2004. The Yield Appeal This week offered new evidence that the US economy has the wherewithal to withstand higher interest rates, a key tool for the Federal Reserve to curb inflation. S&P Global released data showing US business activity surged at the fastest rate in more than five years in September. That strengthened the odds that the Fed will raise interest rates in October to about 70%, up from 55% a week ago, according to CME FedWatch. Bond yields tend to track interest rates, and there are concerns about what a 5% or higher yield on the 10-Year Treasury means for markets. Because Treasurys are backed by the US government, theyre considered virtually risk free. When yields surge, investors are forced to rethink their rationale for choosing between stocks and bonds. Equities with 5% to 6% annual yields, which arent guaranteed and are subject to stock market volatility, are suddenly a lot less appealing to long-term investors who can lock in guaranteed returns through higher bond yields. The resulting concern is that investors are incentivized to move money into the Treasury market at the expense of stocks. In reality, it may not be so simple: Investment bank Jefferies forecasts earnings at S&P 500 companies will climb 35% this year. Growth like that is more than enough to keep investors from decamping for bond yields. For small-cap companies, which are sensitive to higher rates because they are much more reliant on short-term bank loans and floating-rate debt, the road ahead looks much steeper. Unlucky Number Seven: While the US economy remains resilient, there is one notable weak spot. The 10-year yield strongly influences consumer borrowing rates, and the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate rose to 7.03% on Thursday, the highest in 20 months, according to Freddie Mac data. The annualized pace of US home sales had already slowed for the past three months, and its hard to imagine people lining up for 7%+, 30-year mortgages. Written by Sean Craig BIG TECH Google Takes Data Centers to the Stars to Solve Earthbound Problems Photo via Stanislav Kogiku / SOPA Images/Sipa USA/Newscom Google has famously branded its high-risk, high-cost megaprojects moonshots. That label applies almost literally to its latest one. The tech titan yesterday announced plans to launch a satellite into space that will attempt to process AI queries above the Krmn Line. Eventually, the goal is to launch dozens of satellites that together will act like an AI data center. The lofty ambitions are grounded in harsh realities down on the ground, as tech companies fight for data-center real estate and vast amounts of water and electricity and as a growing number of constituencies fight them off. The Brave Little Refrigerator Googles satellite, roughly the size of a refrigerator, contains four AI chips called tensor processing units that together have about as much compute power as a single server at a data center. Phase two of Project Suncatcher will involve launching a duo of AI satellites next year to test how well they communicate with each other using lasers. Eventually, Google has drawn up plans to launch even more complex systems but for now, Project Suncatcher is more of a proof of concept that could, possibly next decade, yield results. Tech leaders including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman have supported space data centers as a potential solution to terrestrial troubles. Googles first attempt at making the idea a reality shows the new problems that arise in the process: Theres a lot of space in space and no neighbors, but thats not necessarily true forever. As satellites go defunct and are sent into the atmosphere for a fiery retirement, they could erode the ozone layer. And the leftover space junk that doesnt burn up could create collision hazards. Googles trying to solve the Earths power problem, meanwhile, by picking an orbital path that lets the satellites bathe their unfurled panels in the sun perpetually. The satellite also wont use water to cool its chips, instead letting heat dissipate through putty-like material. Its not a perfect system: The satellites have to take a break every 15 minutes to cool down. Space Beef: Google has made it clear theres a long runway ahead before it can reliably answer users Do these eyeglasses look good on me? queries from space. But the small start puts Google ahead of rivals, whove recently been arguing about the timeline for space data centers. Elon Musk said last month that SpaceX will launch AI data centers into orbit next year and reach significant scale the year after. His archenemy, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is openly skeptical. Written by Jamie Wilde TECHNOLOGY Cybersecurity Stocks Soar Amid Mounting Concern Over AI Hacks Cyber-intrusive AI agents are kinda like ants in the kitchen. If you notice one or two, its likely theyre all over the place. On Thursday, the Australian government confirmed that a rogue OpenAI agent breached a government health portal in June, in one of several new instances of virtual breaking and entering discovered by nonprofit AI research lab Transluce this week. As policymakers debate the case for sweeping new AI guardrails, the world isnt waiting. Its making a beeline for the cybersecurity industrys services. Life Hack Case in point: A Goldman Sachs basket of marquee cybersecurity stocks has roughly doubled in value since early April, when Anthropic tapped the brakes on its hacktastic Mythos model. In a note to clients last week, Bank of America analysts called cybersecurity a mega-theme and enabler of the AI era. In CrowdStrikes most recent earnings report late last month, which featured a better-than-expected revenue forecast, CEO George Kurtz called the AI boom the largest market opportunity in our history. Capturing that value, however, may require hitting a moving target: In an appearance on CNBC earlier this month, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said some $1 trillion in cybersecurity infrastructure is already obsolete. This week, the company unveiled a new Continuous Frontier AI Defense that employs a handful of models including Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6-Cyber. Meanwhile, both OpenAIs Sam Altman and Anthropics Dario Amodei urged the United Nations Security Council this week to adopt new AI safety standards. On Thursday, The Information also reported that the two companies and Google are making moves to launch a new safety-standards body of their own without government oversight, probably as early as this year. Island Fever: Cybersecurity startups are riding the wave as well. Data security company Cyera raised $400 million this week in a Series G extension led by Goldman Sachs. On Thursday, startup Island said it had raised the same amount at a $6.4 billion valuation, and said its annual recurring revenue has doubled every year since 2022. Written by Brian Boyle Extra Upside The Force Majeure Awakens: Shares in Oracle fell 3.47% Thursday after it sent a force majeure notice seeking to delay payments on a large New Mexico data center if it fails to come online on schedule. Tea Time on the 70th Floor: Londons historic financial district is set for a makeover after the UKs quasi-judicial planning body OKd plans to build new skyscrapers over the objections of conservationists.
Plus: The world loves U.S. stocks | Friday, September 25, 2026 View in browser Axios Markets By Emily Peck and Matt Phillips Sep 25, 2026 Friday. It seemed this day would never come. The stock market is managing to maintain an eerie calm despite the tumult in the bond market (more on bonds below). The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 5.19% yesterday, but stocks ended the day essentially flat. This morning, stock futures are slightly higher, Treasury yields have steadied, and oil prices have retreated, helped by Iran's proposal for a seven-day ceasefire . Today, we look at a booming segment of the bond market AI debt where Oracle has rekindled questions about the potential perils of the data center borrowing binge. And foreign investors: They love us! They really love us! Well, they love U.S. stocks and other non-government investments, as new data shows. Let's do this: 1,264 words, a 5-minute read. 1 big thing: This Oracle situation has everything By Emily Peck Data: FactSet, Tradeweb; Chart: Axios/Matt Phillips The risks of the ballooning AI borrowing binge rose to the surface yesterday, courtesy of Oracle. The tech giant, which is up to its ears in AI-related debt, is trying to put off paying its lease commitments on a much-delayed data center project. Why it matters: Oracle is the weakest of the hyperscalers, with the lowest credit rating and a stock that's down 30% for the year but with AI investment driving much of the economic growth in the U.S., its wobbles mean a lot. Where it stands: Oracle sent the developer of a data center project in New Mexico known as Project Jupiter a notice citing force majeure reserving its right to delay payments in the event something major goes down. (Axios' Nathan Bomey has more on that .) By the numbers: Markets aren't loving it. Oracle bonds set to mature in 2055 are now trading at 77 cents on the dollar, according to data from PitchBook. Another stress signal: The cost of buying a type of bond-market insurance, known as a credit default swap, on Oracle debt rose yesterday. (See the chart above.) News of the maneuver rippled through the ballooning ecosystem of data center-related debt yesterday morning, with spreads on notes financing AI infrastructure bonds in which Oracle would be a tenant briefly blowing out typically seen as reflecting rising worries among investors before re-tightening somewhat by the end of the day. (See chart below.) Data: Tradeweb; Chart: Axios/Matt Phillips Between the lines: The force majeure notice doesn't mean Oracle's obligations to pay the lease are canceled it's like an FYI to the developer. The notice "signals the company's own risk assessment has shifted enough to warrant legal cover," per a note yesterday from RBC Capital Markets. Oracle says Project Jupiter remains on schedule. Follow the money: The move may make stock investors anxious about their expectations for Oracle's future revenue. But the idea that the hyperscalers can back away from data center commitments should give bond investors some comfort that these companies have some leverage. "You don't want to be making lease payments on a project that doesn't currently exist and you're not earning anything from it," says Johnathan Owen, a portfolio manager at TwentyFour Asset Management who covers investment-grade debt. The big picture: The Oracle situation hits all the boxes on the AI investment bingo card: Bond binge. Oracle helped kick off a scramble among the hyperscalers to borrow money when it issued a long-dated bond last year, John Atkins, who covers bonds for PitchBook, wrote in a note. Off-balance sheet debt. Beyond bonds, the hyperscalers have also committed billions of dollars in future payments for data centers that haven't been built yet . Think of it like signing a lease for a vacation home that a contractor says he'll have done by 2030. Oracle's commitment to lease the New Mexico data center, as part of a massive buildout called Stargate, helped get the developers some $18 billion in loans from about 20 banks in 2025. Circular financing. A lot of the AI players are extremely interconnected . Stargate was spearheaded by OpenAI and SoftBank and announced by President Trump on his first full day back in office last year. Data center backlash. New Mexicans have been fighting this project since at least 2025, as the New York Times detailed. This summer, the state land commissioner rejected part of the project's plans, forcing delays. That setback and others led to Oracle's notice. It's as if your vacation home contractor had to put down tools and wait for permits you might balk at making rental payments. The bottom line: Force majeure? More like zut alors! 2. Bond sell-off continues as 10-year yield hits 5.19% By Matt Phillips Data: FactSet; Chart: Axios/Matt Phillips Another day, another tough session in the bond market, with yields on U.S. government debt continuing to push toward levels seldom seen in decades. The latest: The yield on the 10-year note rose to roughly 5.19% in late afternoon trading in New York, the highest closing level since July 2007. Driving the news: It's the same old story. The Iran war and associated energy shocks diesel at about $6.50 a gallon and regular gasoline at $4.50 a gallon , according to AAA are feeding what seem like serious inflationary pressures. As a result, traders are growing more confident that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its next two meetings. Elsewhere, the deteriorating profile of the U.S. government's finances and competition for bond investor dollars from AI are adding to pressure. What we're watching: If and when the stock market will start getting indigestion as rates keep climbing. What they're saying: JPMorgan market analysts recently looked at the relationship between key interest rates like the yield on the 10-year and the valuation of the S&P 500. "Based on ~80 years of historical analysis, there is an inverted 'U' relationship between the 10-year bond yield and S&P 500 multiples," they wrote. "During periods of above-trend EPS growth (~15% y/y), 10-year yields can continue to rise to ~5% before the equity multiple starts to de-rate." The bottom line: Even with the ruckus in the bond market, ongoing wars and growing consumer pain from higher rates and energy costs, we're only about 1% below the all-time high for blue-chip stocks, which seems kind of remarkable. 3. Foreign investors are loving the U.S. stock market By Emily Peck Data: Bureau of Economic Analysis via Fred; Chart: Emily Peck/Axios Foreign investors bought a record $426 billion in stocks and investment fund shares in the second quarter, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis out yesterday. Why it matters: The AI boom is attracting loads of overseas money, and the flood of dough counters a prevailing notion that the U.S. is losing ground with foreign investors. It also helps explain why the dollar has strengthened against other currencies over the last two months. The dollar's surge is also a result of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, as well as the rising cost of oil, which is priced in dollars. The big picture: These investments made up more than 40% of nearly $1 trillion (!) in overall foreign money flowing into the U.S. assets like loans, bonds and direct investments over that period. That's the highest inflow since the first quarter of 2020 when the pandemic freakout drove a desperate need for dollars globally. Between the lines: The inflow of money to U.S. assets is the flip side of the trade deficit in goods that has some policymakers worried. Yes, but: What flows into the stock market can also flow out. The more worrying sign might be the falling share of foreign governments buying up U.S. government bonds, as we've been reporting . Thanks for sharing your week with us. See you on Monday. And we'd love to hear your comments, questions and story ideas. Drop us a line at [email protected] and [email protected] or just reply to this email. Thanks to Jeffrey Cane for editing and Carlin Becker for copy editing this edition.
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gpt 5.6 luna[CALENDAR EVENT] (02:00 PM) 2026-09-25: INFLATION: US Michigan 5 Year Inflation Expectations Final SEP: Long-term US inflation expectations are closely watched by the Fed; higher prints can trigger hawkish repricing. | Impact: BEARISH | Date: 2026-09-25
[CALENDAR EVENT] (02:00 PM) 2026-09-29: EMPLOYMENT: US JOLTs Job Openings AUG: Key US labor demand gauge; forecast 7.2M vs prior 7.271M. Influences Fed policy path. | Impact: NEUTRAL | Date: 2026-09-29
[CALENDAR EVENT] (01:30 AM) 2026-09-30: ToM/PMI: China NBS Manufacturing PMI SEP: Key China growth indicator on last day of month, aligning with ToM/Payday effect. Forecast 50.0 vs prior 49.8. | Impact: NEUTRAL | Date: 2026-09-30
[CALENDAR EVENT] (12:15 PM) 2026-09-30: US ADP Employment Change SEP (EMPLOYMENT): ADP previews NFP. Aligns with Employment data strategy. Last day of month ToM/Payday relevance. | Impact: NEUTRAL | Date: 2026-09-30
[CALENDAR EVENT] (02:00 PM) 2026-10-01: US ISM Manufacturing PMI SEP (TO_M): Key manufacturing gauge. Falls on first day of month, highlighting ToM/Payday relevance. | Impact: BEARISH | Date: 2026-10-01