- Federal Reserve Raises Rates For First Time In Three Years
- Warsh: Summer Data Have Not Shown Meaningful Inflation Progress
- Broad Rise In US Retail Sales Highlights Resilient Consumer
- Saudis Seek To Resume Half Of Key Oil Pipeline Within Days
- Burnham Sees Tough UK Budget In Tonal Shift From Early Vibes
- US Officials Met Iran-Backed Houthis In Oman Over The Weekend
- ECB's Pereira: Inflation Not Yet Broadening As In The Past
- French PM Lecornu Reportedly Exploring Budget Alignment With RN
- UK Inflation Rises To Five-Month High Before BOE Decision
- EIA: US Crude Stocks Fall, Gasoline And Distillate Inventories Rise
- Apple Mulls Server Market Return, Talked With Nvidia To Use Tech
- Boeing Sees Testing On 777X Spilling Into 2027 On Engine Issue
- Goldman CEO Warns Of Higher Costs, Softness In Fixed Income
- Amazon Plans 1,000 Same-Day Fulfilment Centres By 2031
- Novo Partners With Anthropic To Speed Up Drug Discovery Using Claude
- SK Hynix In Talks With Intel About Deal To Make Memory Chips In
- Radiant World Has Filed A Lawsuit Against Glencore In Singapore Courts
WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in three years, a sharp reversal that began taking back cuts it made last year and implicitly undercut the White House’s insistence that inflation isn’t a concern.
The increase, approved unanimously, will raise the benchmark federal-funds rate range by a quarter point to between 3.75% and 4%. The vast majority of officials penciled in one more hike this year in interest-rate projections released after their meeting.

LONDON - Ahead of this week’s Bank of England rate decision, policymakers have received the latest inflation and labour market data, and it doesn’t make for easy reading.
On Wednesday, the Office for National Statistics reported that the UK’s headline annual CPI rate increased to 3.1% in August from 2.9% the previous month, matching expectations. On the month, prices rose 0.5%, two-tenths of a percentage point faster than in July and also in line with estimates.
In the latest sign of the political weight of the war in Iran, two Iowa Republicans facing competitive House elections crossed the aisle to support a Democratic resolution to end the fighting, swelling the number of GOP defections.
In a vote late Tuesday, Reps. Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who both face races rated as tossups by nonpartisan analysts, supported the resolution in a break from President Trump. The measure directs the president to remove U.S. forces from hostilities against Iran unless Congress has declared war or authorized use of force.
Corporate debt issued by the giant cloud computing players powering the artificial intelligence boom is getting riskier, private equity firm Apollo Global Management warned on Wednesday.
Risk insurance contracts, known as credit default swaps (CDS), for bonds issued by hyperscalers are getting pricier, and it’s not because banks are hedging more of their bets as bond issuance climbs, Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok wrote in a Wednesday note.
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- US Retail Sales Advance (M/M): Aug: 1.2% (est 0.8%; prev -0.6%; prev R -0.5%)
- US Atlanta Fed GDPNow Q3: 5.1% (prev 4.42%)
- US Import Price Index (M/M) Aug: 0.7% (est 0.5%; prev -0.4%; prev R -0.3%)
- US NAHB Housing Market Index Sep: 32 (est 34; prev 35)
- US Business Inventories (M/M) Jul: 0.8% (est 0.8%; prev 0.0%; prev R 0.1%)
- US NY Fed Services Business Activity Index Sep: -8.7 (est -2.2; prev 0.5)
- US MBA Mortgage Applications (W/W) Sep-11: -4.1% (prev -2.7%)
- Canada Building Permits (M/M) Jul: -17.3% (est -4.8%; prev 18.5%; prev R 18.3%)
- Canada Housing Starts Aug: 229.0K (est 240.0K; prev 229.1K; prev R 229.4K)
- Saudis Seek To Resume Half Of Key Oil Pipeline Within Days - BBG
- 2 Pumping Stations Along Saudi Pipeline Damaged In Recent Attack - RTRS
- US Energy Sec. Wright: 18M Bbls Flowed Out Of Persian Gulf On Tuesday - Baha
- US Officials Met Iran-Backed Houthis In Oman Over The Weekend, Sources Say – RTRS
- US Probes Cyberattacks On Energy Tankers Bound For American Coast - WSJ
- China Urges Iran, US To Return To Islamabad Pact, Open Hormuz – AA
- US-Contracted Vessel Hit In Iranian Attack Near Strait Of Hormuz - Fox
- Yemen’s Houthis: Attacked Aramco Facilities In Yanbu; No Saudi Confirmation – ToI
- Houthis Claim Downing Saudi F-15 Over Yemen, Deny Targeting Mecca - JPost
- Russia Strikes Energy Sites In Ukraine's Poltava - Devdiscourse
- Fed’s Warsh: Summer Data Have Not Shown Meaningful Inflation Progress - FXS
- House Speaker Calls Early Recess Before Midterms Amid AI Reg Frenzy - Guardian
- House Democrats Seek To Block Data Centres From Federal Tax Breaks – POLITICO
- ECB's Pereira: Inflation Not Yet Broadening As In The Past – RTRS
- Germany: EU 'Associate Member' Label For Canada Should Be Reconsidered – AA
- Conservative State Premiers Rally Behind Chancellor Merz - DW
- French PM Lecornu Reportedly Exploring Budget Alignment With RN - Les Echos
- Italy's Meloni Scraps Road Tax For Most Cars As Election Nears – RTRS
- EU’s Dombrovskis: Italian Exit From EU Deficit Plan Still Possible - BBG
- UK PM Burnham To Delay Flagship Investment Summit Until Next Year – Sky
- UK PM Burnham Warns Of 'Challenging' Budget Ahead As Inflation Increased – ITV
- Burnham’s Brexit Britain Smarts From EU-Canada Love-In - BBG
- Sweden’s Centre-Left Bloc Set To Win Election In SVT Projection - BBG
- Japan Defence Ministry Plans To Acquire 52,000 Drones - Kyodo
- Dollar Jumps After Fed Raises Rates, Sends Hawkish Signal - BBG
- Japanese Yen Falls As Us Federal Reserve Delivers - FXS
- SEC Chief Vows Action On Crypto Rules After Senate Bill Fails - Investing
- Coinbase: Lowering Fees For Many Active Traders On Coinbase Advanced – Blog
- Deutsche Bank Launches Crypto Custody Service For Institutions – BBG
- Oil Slips As Saudi Arabia Offers More Crude Via Oman - RTRS
- Urals Prices Jump To Above $110/Barrel - RTRS
- Russia's Syzran, Saratov Oil Refineries On Hold After Drone Attacks – RTRS
- EIA: US Crude Stocks Fall, Gasoline And Distillate Inventories Rise - ZAWYA
- Kazakhstan Plans To Buy 11 Bcm Of Gas From Gazprom In 2026, RIA Says – TV
- German Minister Plans Market Incentives To Boost Gas Storage - RTRS
- Venezuela Plans To Ship Aluminium To US In Mercuria-Heeney Deal - BBG
- Gold Gains Over 1% As Oil, Yields Slip Ahead Of Fed Rate Decision - RTRS
- Precious Metals Relinquish Gains Following Fed Rate Increase - WSJ
- Yardeni Slashes S&P 500 Target, Says ‘Proceed With Caution’ In Stocks – CNBC
- Apple Mulls Server Market Return, Talked With Nvidia To Use Network Tech - Information
- CoreWeave Brings Up Multi-Rack Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 Cluster - Yahoo
- OpenAI's Rogue Agents Probed Hugging Face Two Months Before Major Hack - RTRS
- Goldman CEO Warns Of Higher Costs, Softness In Fixed Income - BBG
- Boeing Sees Testing On 777X Spilling Into 2027 On Engine Issue - BBG
- GE Vernova Expects Q4 Commitments > Q3 Additions Based On Trends - RTRS
- TotalEnergies: CGT Calls For Strike On October 8 – Le Figaro/AFP
- Continental Resources To Operate, Develop Ayacucho - RTRS
- National Fuel Gas Explores Ops For $5B NatGas Production Business - RTRS
- Starbucks Considers Selling Majority Stake In Its Japan Business, Sources Say – RTRS
- Amazon Raises Minimum Hourly Pay To $20 For US Operations Workers - RTRS
- Amazon Plans 1,000 Same-Day Fulfilment Centres By 2031 - Business Insider
- Emerald AI, Google, NVIDIA Alliance To Advance Flexible Data Centres - NVDA
- American Airlines: High Fuel Prices Will Need Capacity Adjustment - Investing
- Novo Partners With Anthropic To Speed Up Drug Discovery Using Claude – WSJ
- Novartis Experimental Drug For ALS Fails In Another Pipeline Hit – BBG
- IUF: Unilever Won't Discuss 2-Yr Worker Guarantee In McCormick Deal - RTRS
- Radiant World Has Filed A Lawsuit Against Glencore In Singapore Courts – RTRS
- LME To Launch Electronic Options Trading - Investing
- SK Hynix In Talks With Intel About Deal To Make Memory Chips In US - RTRS
- China Considers BYD To Join Xi’s CEO Entourage For Trump Summit - BBG
- Radiant Says Glencore Helped When Jefferies Probed Its Trades - BBG