
BOJ Raises Rates to 1.25%, a Three-Decade High
The Bank of Japan hiked its policy rate to 1.25% on September 18, the highest level in 31 years, driving the yen sharply higher as markets await Governor Kazuo Ueda's signals on December.
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The Bank of Japan hiked its policy rate to 1.25% on September 18, the highest level in 31 years, driving the yen sharply higher as markets await Governor Kazuo Ueda's signals on December.

Overnight swaps now price an 80% chance of a Reserve Bank of Australia rate increase on September 29, as simultaneous Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan tightening amplifies a global central bank…

The Federal Reserve's August industrial production report lands Friday at 9:15 a.m. ET, the first hard factory gauge after a 25bp hike lifted interest rates to a 2007 high.

Salesforce and Nvidia debuted Koa, a CRM-specific reasoning model built on Nemotron, at Dreamforce '26, lifting analyst price targets to $300 even as CRM shares retreated on SaaS pricing-power…

Bernstein downgrades three cybersecurity leaders to Market Perform from Outperform after a near-100% sector rally stretches valuations to fair value, even as price targets move higher.

More than $1 trillion in options contracts expire Friday in September's triple witching session, arriving one day after the Federal Reserve's latest rate hike and on the same morning the Bank of…

VICR surges 18% as Vicor announces two New Hampshire fab sites and a new VPD license deal, with its order backlog up 145% year over year to $380 million.

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told CNBC that $115B FY2027 and $230B FY2028 AI chip targets are unchanged, citing durable inference demand as insulation from any training-pace reduction.

The full DOJ written opinion in the landmark Google programmatic advertising antitrust case hit the federal docket, driving rival ad-tech platforms sharply higher on structural breakup expectations.

The U.S. SEC issued a landmark five-year "innovation exemption" for tokenized equities on Sept. 17, lifting exchange-registration and dealer-registration burdens and sending Robinhood, Coinbase,…

Longeveron's laromestrocel missed its primary endpoint in 40 HLHS infants, triggering a 57% stock crash and a full strategic review as the company's cash runway narrows into year-end.

Snap's $1,195 Spectacles AR glasses enter enterprise via Salesforce Agentforce integration, Nvidia XR AI stack, and AWS Amazon Q workplace assistant, lifting SNAP shares more than 4%.

Aethlon Medical (AEMD) shares rocketed 471% in premarket trading on September 17, 2026, after the company announced a definitive all-stock agreement to merge with North Immunology, a privately…

Weekly initial jobless claims fell to 201,000, a nine-week low that reinforces the Federal Reserve's case for lifting interest rates a second time before year-end.

A shock 7.1 million-barrel build in U.S. crude inventories sent Brent crude down nearly 2% Thursday morning, directly challenging the geopolitical premium that lifted oil above $100 this week.

Take-Two Interactive confirmed Grand Theft Auto VI's November 19 release and guided for over $1 billion in FY2027 operating cash flow at its annual shareholder meeting on September 17, 2026.

U.S. August retail sales surged 1.2%, topping the 0.8% forecast, as the core control group jumped 1.4%, lifting the probability of a second Federal Reserve rate hike before year-end 2026.

Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang's public confirmation that the crypto venture firm holds Zcash sent ZEC up 23% to roughly $1,369, extending a 130% rally over 30 days that has made it one of…

Generac Holdings (GNRC) jumped as much as 45% after Amazon (AMZN) locked in an up-to-$8 billion backup generator supply agreement for its AI data centers, issuing warrants worth roughly $340 million.

The 30-year Treasury yield retests its 5.34% August high as the Fed's unanimous hike and Warsh's hawkish dot plot extend the worst long-end selloff since 2006.

Hours after von der Leyen proposed an unprecedented EU associate-membership for Canada in Strasbourg, Trump threatened "very serious tariffs" on any EU state that formalizes the arrangement,…

Wright's Petroline restart assurance sent Brent crude down $4/barrel, while satellite imagery of destroyed pumping stations directly challenges his days-long timeline.

MPC votes September 17 with markets pricing 30% odds of a surprise hike to 4% as oil shocks and post-Fed pressure test the dovish majority.

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg warned the 737 MAX program remains short of its 47-plane monthly target, flagged potential defense charges, and sent shares nearly 6% lower in a single session.

Trump's demand for 1% interest rates, hours after the Fed hiked to 3.75%-4%, marks the sharpest White House challenge to Fed independence since 2018.

Cybersecurity stocks staged a three-session rally as the Amodei-Altman AI slowdown call raised expectations for federal safety mandates and compliance spending.

FedEx (FDX) reports Q1 FY2027 earnings after the close Wednesday as record diesel and a J.B. Hunt profit warning test the logistics bellwether's cost-recovery model.

Fresh Census Bureau construction data due Thursday is set to extend one of the deepest residential building slowdowns since 2020, coinciding with Lennar's sharpest quarterly profit decline in five…

Anthropic targets a $2 trillion October 2026 Nasdaq debut, raising over $100 billion, even as CEO Dario Amodei's AI slowdown calls rattle the tech sector it is listing into.

Yen surges 4% in September, turning speculators net-long for the first time since February as a BOJ rate hike Friday threatens AI chip stock liquidations.