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The 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit 7.28% as of October 1, 2026, its highest reading since November 2023. Applications fell for a fourth consecutive week as the bond-market selloff…
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir canceled a planned mid-October Washington visit on Sept. 30, citing a sensitive security situation and full-spectrum heightened alert, a deci…
UK DWP PIP claimants reached a record 4.1 million as of July 2026 while the US BLS Current Population Survey sits at 37 million disabled Americans, both datasets showing an identic…
A CNBC investigation published today fills in a decade of cultivation: a fake PhD student, a dating-site plant, and a Fed economist who handed Beijing an edge on the most market-mo…
Texas manufacturers posted their strongest production reading since July 2021 in September while the company outlook index collapsed 55% in a single month. The Dallas Fed data expo…
President Tokayev's July 2026 decree creates a legal path for oil producers to sell waste gas directly to Bitcoin miners at below-market prices, bypassing Kazakhstan's national gri…
The DOE handed $900M each to Centrus, General Matter, and Orano to rebuild US uranium enrichment capacity before the 2028 Russian import waiver deadline. One recipient is promising…
In her penultimate week as SEC commissioner, Hester Peirce delivered the most credible institutional endorsement yet of data-minimization as a regulatory principle, and the SEC's o…
The House Financial Services Committee voted 28-21 on September 16 to advance ARMA (H.R. 8957), the first Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill to clear a full House committee. The bill l…
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce announced her October 2 resignation on September 25, dropping the agency to two commissioners with no nominated successor and no dissenting voice rem…
Anthropic signed an $11.6 billion, seven-year cloud agreement with Akamai Technologies, potentially expandable to $20 billion, pushing its aggregate contracted compute commitments…
Brazil's central bank issued Resolutions 588 and 589 on September 24, requiring licensed exchanges to report all self-custody wallet transfers at or above $10,000 to the country's…
Bitget confirmed approximately $351.6 million in unauthorized transfers from its hot and warm wallet layers on September 24, 2026. Withdrawals are frozen, the attack vector is unkn…
The Federal Reserve proposed two rules on September 24 to implement the GENIUS Act, requiring 1:1 reserves, 2-day redemption windows, and forced liquidation for undercapitalized st…
FERC ruled September 22 that Commonwealth Edison cannot cancel its transmission security agreement with PowerHouse Hillwood, keeping alive a 1.8 GW, $20 billion data center campus…
Strive CEO Matt Cole told Bloomberg Crypto on September 23 that the Bitcoin treasury model never broke, BTC reaches $500K by 2030 on a 50% CAGR, and the dollar, not Bitcoin, absorb…
Oracle's force majeure notice on Project Jupiter reveals the structural brittleness of centralized AI infrastructure: a 0.6-mile right-of-way denial cascaded into a six-month pipel…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC's Jim Cramer at Dreamforce on September 15 that a 1-gigawatt AI factory costs $50-60 billion to build and generates roughly $50 billion per year i…
Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser confirmed in Tokyo on September 24 that Aramco is conducting engineering and feasibility work on a fourth and fifth crude export route, a capital-alloc…
A one-week open competition combining AI coding tools with Bitcoin's quantum-safe transaction method cut estimated GPU compute costs from $320 to $66. The number is a benchmark, no…
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