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DXY Rises to 99.60 Five-Session High After Fed Hike

Dollar index (DXY) hit its highest since April on the Fed's 25bp hike to 3.75%-4.00% and hawkish dot plot.

30-Year Yield Presses Toward 19-Year Highs After Fed Hike

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Gold, Salt, and Cattle as Money

Before there were coins, there were commodities - useful things that doubled as money. A short walkthrough of why salt, cattle, and gold became the world's first currencies, the five properties that decided which commodities won, and the built-in instability of money you could also eat, milk, or wear.

S&P 500 Rises 0.59% to 7,596 as Investors Buy Rate-Hike Dip

S&P 500 (.SPX) rebounds Thursday after the Dow's 631-point crash on the Fed's first rate hike since 2023.

Trump Calls EU-Canada Pact 'Laughable,' Vows Tariffs

Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)

Saudi Pipeline Days Away, Wright Says; Crude Falls $4

IBM Stock Falls 4.32%, Worst Dow Performer on Fed Hike Day

Temporal Raises $550M Series E at $12.55B Valuation

Temporal (USA) — AI durable workflow infrastructure company raises $550M Series E at a $12.55B valuation, co-led by Lightspeed, as its open-source installs surpass 43 million and its 4,300+ paying customers include OpenAI, Netflix, and JPMorgan.

Bank of England Rate Decision: Hold or 4% Shock?

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Holtec Nuclear Suspends $900M Nasdaq IPO on Market Weakness

Holtec Nuclear (HNUC) pulled its $900M Nasdaq IPO after nuclear peers fell as much as 37% from IPO price.

Boeing BA: 737 Line Still Unstable, Shares Tumble 6%

Trump Demands 1% Interest Rates After Fed Hikes to 3.75%

Federal Reserve

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Coins: How Stamps Made Money Trustworthy

Once communities agreed money was money, the next problem was proving it. A short walkthrough of how the first stamped coins replaced weighing-and-biting with institutional trust - collapsing transaction costs, enabling vast empires, and introducing a brand-new failure mode: debasement, the silent inflation that toppled currencies long before paper money existed.

Expanse Raises $5.3M to Fix AI's GPU Waste Problem

Cybersecurity Stocks Surge on AI Regulation Bet

Housing Starts Sink to 1.24M as Mortgage Rates Tighten Grip

August starts hit 1.24M (ITB -1.1%), an 8% miss as 6.76% rates deter builders for a second straight month.

FedEx Q1 FY2027: Can Fuel Surcharges Hold?

FedEx Corporation

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A Brief History of Paper Money

August Housing Starts Near Six-Year Lows

housing starts

Anthropic Eyes $2T Nasdaq IPO Amid AI Slowdown Push

Anthropic

CloudNC Raises $20M as AI Hits 1,000 Machine Shops

CloudNC (UK) — London-based AI precision machining startup raises €17.2M Series B extension from Nimble Ventures and Lockheed Martin's VC arm, now serving over 1,000 machine shops globally.

Boeing Stock Slips 3.7% as 17,000 Engineers Vote on October Strike

Yen Carry Trade Unwind Threatens AI Stocks

Tesla Stock Falls 6% on NHTSA Cybercab Compliance Probe

Tesla (TSLA) faces $139M NHTSA fines over Cybercab safety certification without a steering wheel or pedals.

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Why We Left the Gold Standard

For most of the 20th century, money was tethered to gold - and then, in a single August evening in 1971, that tether was cut. A short walkthrough of how the gold standard actually worked, why a fixed gold price ($35 an ounce) became an economic straitjacket, what Bretton Woods tried to do, why Nixon ended gold convertibility, and why fiat money - backed by nothing but trust - turned out to be more flexible, more resilient, and the foundation of every modern economy.

BOJ Lifts Interest Rates to 1.25% in Historic Central Bank Week

The Bank of Japan begins its September 17-18 policy meeting as markets price a 97% probability of a 25-basis-point rate increase to 1.25% -- the first time in this normalization cycle both the BOJ and...

Diamondback Energy Stock Sinks 8% on Fed Hike Fears, Analyst Cut

Utility Stocks Sink to 52-Week Lows as Treasury Yield Tops 5.04%

NRG Energy (NRG) sank 4.9% to a 52-week low as the 10-year Treasury yield hit 5.04%, a 19-year high.

Magnitude Biosciences Raises £1.3M for VivoScan

Magnitude Biosciences (UK) — Raises £1.5M to bring VivoScan, its proprietary technology for testing drug candidates in living organisms, to the broader market.

Morgan Stanley Cuts Expedia to Underweight, EXPE Falls 2.7%

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Costco-Uber Eats Delivery Expands to 47 States, 600 Sites

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Why Fiat Money Works

EU Offers Canada Historic Associate Member Status

Ursula von der Leyen