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Reporting across markets, companies, the economy, rates and commodities, updated as catalysts develop.
Treasury’s Nov. 2 borrowing estimate and Nov. 4 refunding will test whether doubled long-end buybacks continue, whether coupon auction sizes stay steady, and how much duration the market must absorb.
A reported 300,000-barrel Russian diesel cargo is tiny beside U.S. demand. Here is what matters for prices, sanctions and the next shipments.
Microsoft and Alphabet report after the Oct. 28 Fed decision, with Amazon following Oct. 29. The key market question is shifting from AI demand to who can fund the buildout without crushing cash flow.
The 10-year Treasury yield fell to 4.96% Thursday and rebounded to 5.00% Friday. The two-day move shows safe-haven demand colliding with oil and inflation risk.
Reported talks for access to at least 80,000 U.S. cell sites would move SpaceX closer to a terrestrial nationwide network — and create very different implications for tower owners and wireless carriers.
Brent finished Oct. 23 at $116.72 and WTI at $103.27. Saudi authorities still report no major Shaybah output loss, keeping the story centered on disruption risk rather than confirmed missing supply.
The AI capex debate is splitting into two questions: compute demand can stay strong while financing costs rise. Meta, CoreWeave and next week’s hyperscaler earnings will test which balance sheets can keep funding the buildout.
Meta is creating non-voting Class C shares as AI spending climbs. Here is what the structure changes, what it does not, and why Proposition 40 matters.
Anthropic has already submitted a confidential draft S-1. A public filing could arrive within days, giving investors their first verified look at the AI company’s economics, compute commitments and IPO risks.
The Fed decision lands at 2 p.m. ET Oct. 28; GDP and PCE follow at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 29, while Microsoft and Amazon earnings add an AI-capex test to the same 18-hour window.
Data-center power demand is adding to copper consumption just as mine development remains slow. Recycling helps, but the near-term refined balance keeps copper a watch rather than an automatic long.
After the post-CPI rate-hike scare, current prediction markets put only about a 13% chance on an Oct. 28 hike and 94 of 100 economists in a Reuters poll expect the Fed to hold.