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Tuesday, September 8

World

Meta unveils AI personal assistant linked to WhatsApp and InstagramFT · 6m
Iran Launched Undisclosed Second Wave of Attacks on U.S. Navy ShipsWSJ · 43m
Heathrow and Gatwick flights disrupted by air traffic control failureFT · 1h
Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first chief executive, 1937-2026FT · 1h
European Nations Impose Trade Bans on Israel Over West Bank SettlementsWSJ · 1h
UK says it will force tech giants to stop children sharing nude imagesFT · 2h
Smithsonian head to resign after Trump attacks US slavery exhibitsFT · 2h
War and weather threaten fresh burst of UK inflation, BoE governor warnsFT · 3h
Opinion | Taiwan’s Drone Bill Signals Stronger DefenseWSJ · 3h
Opinion | Who Really Rejected Peace in the Middle East?WSJ · 3h
Growth in every postcode: good politics, dubious economicsFT · 3h
Israel retaliates after UK bans trade with Israeli settlements in West BankFT · 4h
Elon Musk documentary hits Venice Film Festival with cold dose of realityFT · 4h
Opinion | What Went Wrong After 9/11WSJ · 4h
What follows quiet luxury? Róhe is bringing the calmFT · 4h
Putin praises US peace efforts in call with TrumpFT · 5h
UK selects Canada’s statistics chief to run data serviceFT · 5h
The counterfeit cigarettes made inside the EUFT · 5h
Unpaid Ebola Workers Let Families Touch the DeadWSJ · 5h
One of the World’s Highest-Paid Political Leaders Just Got a Big RaiseWSJ · 6h
Canada’s Carney Vows to Backstop Economy as U.S. Trade Row EscalatesWSJ · 6h
Iranian Airline Favored by the Regime Is Defying Sanctions and ExpandingWSJ · 6h
Young Americans have never witnessed a functioning foreign policyFT · 6h
UK pays highest borrowing cost since 1998 at gilt saleFT · 6h
To safeguard Israel’s future, the UK is right to sanction settlersFT · 6h
Trump calls for Bombardier boycott as Canada hits US with tariffsFT · 7h
Iceland summons US ambassador over Trump’s Stars and Stripes mapFT · 7h
Former Swiss bank lobby chief convicted of bribery and money launderingFT · 7h
The crisis for Merz and the CDUFT · 7h
Thieves Raid Renoir Museum in Latest French Art HeistWSJ · 7h
Best High-Yield Savings Accounts for September 2026: Up to 4.50%WSJ · 7h
As it happened: BoE governor warns UK inflation risks ‘on the upside’FT · 7h
Submit your questions: is Trump losing his touch?FT · 8h
Russia launches missile strikes against Kyiv as pause in raids endsFT · 8h
Harry and Meghan Return to the U.K.—and Tensions With the Palace Are BackWSJ · 8h
Is it time for Eurozone GDP ex-Ireland?FT · 8h
Ceuta demands EU help over migrant ‘pressure cooker’FT · 8h
Yemen’s Houthi Militants Attack Saudi Energy InfrastructureWSJ · 9h
The Morning Risk Report: How Billions in Iranian Money Passes Through U.S. BanksWSJ · 9h
Why Seeing China as a Normal Rising Power Misses the PointWSJ · 9h
Three Numbers That Show Just How Big China’s Export Boom IsWSJ · 10h
Oil Nears $100 a Barrel as Fresh Attacks on Saudi Energy Operations Raise Supply ConcernsWSJ · 11h
Terra Drone Bets Supply Chains Key to Drone WarfareWSJ · 13h
China’s Trade Surplus Widens as Export Growth AcceleratesWSJ · 15h
The Trillion-Dollar Bright Spot in China’s Economy: TourismWSJ · 18h
See How Drones Are Infiltrating NATO Territory in EuropeWSJ · 18h
Greenland Seeks to Turn Peril Into Profit After Trump’s Threats to Take It OverWSJ · 21h
Opinion | Mamdani Denounces an Indian NonprofitWSJ · 23h
Opinion | What Trump Could Learn From BushWSJ · 23h
Opinion | Europe Hits the Snooze ButtonWSJ · 23h

Business

Meta unveils AI personal assistant linked to WhatsApp and InstagramFT · 6m
Oil Climbs Toward $100 a Barrel Following Houthi AttacksNYT · 12m
Investors led by L Catterton to buy controlling stake in HyroxFT · 15m
Ford’s Use of Chinese Tech Called ‘Unacceptable’ by Transportation SecretaryWSJ · 50m
Heathrow and Gatwick flights disrupted by air traffic control failureFT · 1h
Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first chief executive, 1937-2026FT · 1h
Brian Dyson, the Coca-Cola Executive Who Championed New Coke, Dies at Age 90WSJ · 1h
CCRCs Are Expanding Retirement Home Care to Seniors’ Own HomesNYT · 2h
UK says it will force tech giants to stop children sharing nude imagesFT · 2h
TSA PreCheck Now Unlocks Access to Visit Airports Without a Plane TicketNYT · 2h
China’s Surging Exports Loom Over Trump’s Talks With XiNYT · 2h
Opinion | California’s Wealth Tax Will Drive Talent Out of the StateWSJ · 3h
OpenAI Says It Has Solved a Millennium Prize Problem—a Holy Grail of MathWSJ · 3h
Gaming group Evolution’s own report found it made money in banned marketsFT · 3h
Trump Media Launches MAGA-Friendly Truth Social ETFsNYT · 4h
Carney Says Retaliation Against U.S. Tariffs Was UnavoidableNYT · 4h
Energy & Utilities Roundup: Market TalkWSJ · 4h
Auto & Transport Roundup: Market TalkWSJ · 4h
Bombardier Shares Down as Trump’s Trade War Targets Canadian Jet MakerNYT · 4h
Apple looks to AI capabilities to drive its new foldable phone salesFT · 4h
The Economic Fallout From a Potential Return to $100 OilNYT · 4h
How Japan Made American Denim Its Own—and Built a Cult FollowingWSJ · 4h
EasyJet sued for $72mn over abandoned planes in sanctions disputeFT · 5h
Shipping Powers Say Wars, Shadow Fleets Threaten Free SeasWSJ · 5h
The counterfeit cigarettes made inside the EUFT · 5h
GE Aerospace to Buy Consolidated Precision Products for $11.75 BillionWSJ · 6h
GameStop Profit Rises, Boosts Full Year OutlookWSJ · 6h
Why Stocks Are Defying Gravity and What Could Bring Them DownNYT · 6h
Verizon, Corning Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Agreement for Broadband ExpansionWSJ · 7h
Cerberus nears £1bn deal for Goodwin defence unitFT · 7h
The Heart Drug Pelacarsen Fails, Shocking Novartis and CardiologistsNYT · 7h
Liberty Global seals €669mn towers sale ahead of Ziggo spin-offFT · 7h
Democratic Socialists Embrace Experiential Marketing to Woo Young VotersWSJ · 7h
Former Swiss bank lobby chief convicted of bribery and money launderingFT · 7h
‘60 Minutes’ Prepares for a High-Pressure Premiere After Its Turbulent Shake-UpNYT · 7h
NextEra Energy, DOE Close on $1.9 Billion Loan for Nuclear Power Plant in IowaWSJ · 8h
United Natural Foods Guides for Sales to Rise This Fiscal YearWSJ · 8h
How chicken conquered the worldFT · 8h
No Luxury Spared: New High-End Cruise Ships Set SailNYT · 8h
Tamarack Valley to Merge With Headwater Exploration in Over $7.24 Billion DealWSJ · 8h
Labor Day Musings; Range Rover Maker to Cut 4,000 JobsWSJ · 9h
The yawning gap between ambition and action on nuclear energyFT · 9h
Boston Scientific Won’t Meet Guidance Due to CyberattackWSJ · 9h
New Panama Canal Chief Must Navigate Drought and GeopoliticsWSJ · 9h
Novartis shares sink on latest trial setbackFT · 10h
U.S. Small Business Confidence Edged Lower Last MonthWSJ · 10h
Europe plays catch-up in spaceFT · 10h
FirstFT: Top credit rating sought for Anthropic and OpenAIFT · 11h
How Almar Latour Steers Dow Jones Through DisruptionWSJ · 11h
French A.I. Start-Up Mistral Raises $3.5 Billion as Part of Strategy ShiftNYT · 11h
Will data centres avoid the curse of the mega-project?FT · 11h
Seaweed Is Their Way of Life. A Company’s Sweeping Plan Threatens It.NYT · 11h
The complicated implications of the spectacular ‘Apollo premium’FT · 12h
DWS embraces Deutsche Bank name eight years after distancing itselfFT · 12h
Canada Imposes New Tariffs on U.S. Goods After Trump’s Latest LeviesNYT · 13h
Australia proposes opt-out law for social media algorithmsFT · 14h
Mistral AI Exceeds $24 Billion Valuation After Samsung-Led Investment RoundWSJ · 15h
Antitrust not the enemy of industrial policy, says EU competition enforcerFT · 15h
Mistral raises record €3bn as Europe strains to keep pace in AI raceFT · 15h
Offshore borrowing in renminbi hits record high of nearly $150bnFT · 16h
Global shipping rules are collapsing, say maritime nationsFT · 16h
The Trillion-Dollar Bright Spot in China’s Economy: TourismWSJ · 18h
Rivian R2 Review: A Tidier (in Size and Price) SUV Is Ready for the SuburbsNYT · 18h
How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. ChipsNYT · 18h
‘Jeopardy!’ Just Hired a New Clue Writer. Could You Do the Job? Take Our Quiz.WSJ · 20h
Amazon Plane Crash Probe Examines Aircraft Speed, Runway SafeguardsWSJ · 22h

Markets & Economy

Canada’s Tariffs Take EffectWSJ · 20m
Google, Blackstone Venture Faces Delays at Data-Center SitesBBG · 26m
Stocks Slide as U.S.-Iran Tensions Push Oil Toward $99 | Closing BellBBG · 33m
Copper Scales New Heights on U.S. Tariff Fears, Supply ChallengesWSJ · 34m
U.S. Stocks Fall After Saudi Oil Facilities HitWSJ · 35m
Yen Nears Break Point That Could Accelerate RallyWSJ · 40m
Massachusetts Will Require New Data Centers to Use Clean EnergyBBG · 49m
Cerberus Sells Real Estate Firm Tenet Equity for $1.6 BillionBBG · 50m
Lender Chaos Hampers Australia Developer Bathla’s Hunt for CashBBG · 51m
Why the Bond Market Has Everyone On EdgeBBG · 56m
SpaceX Shares to Get a Boost If Nasdaq 100 Increases WeightingBBG · 1h
Rising Interest Rates and Surging Bond Yields Explained: Big Take PodcastBBG · 1h
U.S. Natural Gas Retreats as Weather Set to Cool DownWSJ · 1h
Major Food Companies Allege US Sugar Producers Colluded on PriceBBG · 1h
Bessent’s ‘Fever’-Quelling Debt Buybacks Put Wall Street on EdgeBBG · 1h
Oil Rises to Multimonth Highs on Middle East EscalationWSJ · 1h
What to Know About Anthropic’s Planned IPOWSJ · 1h
US Consumer Borrowing Rises on Surge in Non-Revolving CreditBBG · 1h
UK Youth Unemployment Czar Hints at Change in Minimum WageBBG · 1h
Strong-Form and Weak-Form AnthropomorphizationBBG · 2h
Gold Settles Lower Awaiting This Week’s Inflation DataWSJ · 2h
Kyiv Allies See War Going Into 2027 After Envoy MeetingsBBG · 2h
Stocks Slip as Oil Pares GainsWSJ · 2h
From Nike to Starbucks, Tariff Relief for Stocks Is FleetingBBG · 2h
NSE Set to Price India IPO at 1,700 to 1,785 Rupees a ShareBBG · 3h
Energy & Utilities Roundup: Market TalkWSJ · 4h
Financial Services Roundup: Market TalkWSJ · 4h
Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market TalkWSJ · 4h
Basic Materials Roundup: Market TalkWSJ · 4h
Opinion | What if California Becomes a ‘Failed State’?WSJ · 4h
Why the US-Canada Trade War Is EscalatingBBG · 4h
Aranceles de Trump golpean a pequeñas empresas de CanadáBBG · 4h
Bessent Says Buyback Move Aimed at Quelling Market ‘Fever’BBG · 4h
Firms Crowd US Loan Market in Push to Cut Costs, Fund DealsBBG · 5h
Carney Says Tariffs on US Goods Meant to Protect Canada, Not Escalate ConflictBBG · 5h
NY Fed Survey: Americans Feeling Worse About Finances in AugustBBG · 5h
Qatar Has Widest Deficit in a Decade as Hormuz Ties Up Gas TradeBBG · 6h
Bank of England Warns Holidaymakers to Expect Higher AirfaresBBG · 6h
UK pays highest borrowing cost since 1998 at gilt saleFT · 6h
Post-Labor Day US High-Grade Bond Rush Gets Off to Slower StartBBG · 6h
Cerberus nears £1bn deal for Goodwin defence unitFT · 7h
10 of the Best Financial Advisor Companies: Well-Known Fiduciary Investment Firms to ConsiderWSJ · 7h
US-Canada Trade War Has Small Businesses Struggling With Tariff ShockBBG · 7h
Robinhood Strikes Deal With Crypto.com in Latest Prediction-Markets PushWSJ · 8h
China’s trade surplusBBG · 9h
Healey Says UK Borrowing ‘Too High’ in Signal of Fiscal RigorBBG · 9h
Chile Inflation Comes in Above Expectations Before Rate DecisionBBG · 9h
Germany Latest: Political Earthquake Tests Merz’s Economic RecoveryBBG · 9h
Latin America Leads Gains in Emerging-Market FX Ahead of US CPIBBG · 9h
Hungary’s Deficit Swells to $16.5 Billion on EU Fund PrepaymentsBBG · 10h
US Earnings Upgrades Are on Their Longest Run in Five YearsBBG · 10h
Chile Set to Hold Rates as Fed Risk Overshadows Growth SlumpBBG · 10h
Does Your Portfolio Need an Inflation Tax Break?WSJ · 10h
Investors Brace for a Choppier Fall as the Fed, Inflation Return to Center StageWSJ · 10h
AI Is Disrupting Software Companies—but Not as Fast as Many FearedWSJ · 11h
Saudi energy facilities hit by wave of Houthi strikesFT · 12h
Stock Market Today: Dow Drops 628 Points, Oil Marches HigherWSJ · 12h
Senegal Debt Revamp Risks 60% Losses for BondholdersBBG · 12h
The complicated implications of the spectacular ‘Apollo premium’FT · 12h
DWS embraces Deutsche Bank name eight years after distancing itselfFT · 12h
European Indexes Edge Lower as Inflation Concerns LoomWSJ · 12h
Bessent’s Yen Bet Is Paying Off—for NowWSJ · 13h
UK Pays Most Since 1998 to Borrow After Gilt SelloffBBG · 13h
Global Bond Rush Builds as Issuers Race to Avoid HeadwindsBBG · 14h
The strangely disappointing EM inflowsFT · 15h
Asian Stock Markets Mixed, Investors Await U.S. CPI DataWSJ · 15h
Offshore borrowing in renminbi hits record high of nearly $150bnFT · 16h
The cost of being ApolloFT · 16h
Why Japan Inc can brush off interest-rate hikes — and America can’tFT · 16h
‘Apollo premium’ drives up debt costs for group’s portfolio companiesFT · 16h
The $2tn monsterFT · 16h
Anthropic and OpenAI bankers push for top-tier credit ratings post-IPOFT · 16h
The world’s approach to sovereign debt needs to changeFT · 16h
Is the global maritime order breaking down?FT · 16h
Argentina will file criminal case against Falklands oil drillerFT · 18h
Yen surges to six-month high as traders stay alert for signs of interventionFT · 19h
The Stock Market’s Breezy Summer Is Over. Investors Beware.WSJ · 19h
Hunter Biden (and His Laptop) Enter the Cryptosphere With New Meme CoinWSJ · 21h
Latest Oil Market News and Analysis for Sept. 8BBG · 22h
Stocks Fall as Middle East Jitters Spur Oil Rally: Markets WrapBBG · 22h

Tech

Meta unveils AI personal assistant linked to WhatsApp and InstagramFT · 6m
The End of the Captcha? Not So FastWSJ · 50m
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 1h
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 1h
UK says it will force tech giants to stop children sharing nude imagesFT · 2h
OpenAI Says It Has Solved a Millennium Prize Problem—a Holy Grail of MathWSJ · 3h
How Shopify’s Push into AI Is Working OutWSJ · 3h
Apple looks to AI capabilities to drive its new foldable phone salesFT · 4h
Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With CustomersWSJ · 5h
Think Your Anonymous Account Is Safe? AI Might Figure Out Who You AreWSJ · 6h
AI Infrastructure Will Cost Trillions MoreWSJ · 7h
Innovation is the answer to Britain’s elusive growth problemFT · 10h
Europe plays catch-up in spaceFT · 10h
AI Is Disrupting Software Companies—but Not as Fast as Many FearedWSJ · 11h
Will data centres avoid the curse of the mega-project?FT · 11h
Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms studentsFT · 12h
Terra Drone Bets Supply Chains Key to Drone WarfareWSJ · 13h
Australia proposes opt-out law for social media algorithmsFT · 14h
Mistral AI Exceeds $24 Billion Valuation After Samsung-Led Investment RoundWSJ · 15h
Mistral raises record €3bn as Europe strains to keep pace in AI raceFT · 15h
AI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at workFT · 16h
Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bidsFT · 16h
Anthropic and OpenAI bankers push for top-tier credit ratings post-IPOFT · 16h
Can Huawei build China’s answer to ASML?FT · 17h

Deal Flow

M&A / Strategic

Ken Griffin's Citadel is seeking to buy US shale oil production assets10h
PE-backed Florida-based EverBank Financial will merge with PWN-based WaFd to create a lender with $75B in assets10h
Blackstone is looking to buy the 15.2% stake in $3B-listed Indian shadow lender IIFL Finance from Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings10h
EQT agreed to acquire a majority stake in UK insurance broker McGill and Partners from Warburg Pincus for $2B10h
Dutch PE firm Waterland plans to make a higher offer for UK telecoms firm Gamma Communications than the $1.4B bid from UK PE firm Epiris10h
Australian developer Ingenia Communities rejected a $1.4B takeover bid from Warburg Pincus despite a 30% premium10h
Hedge fund Toscafund will take-private UK's biggest private hospital operator Spire for over $1.4B10h
Sweden will buy Lockheed Martin's Himars artillery rocket system in a $730M deal10h
LVMH-linked PE firm L Catterton is close to buying a controlling stake in fitness competition brand Hyrox from Switzerland-based Infront Sports & Media at a $700M valuation10h
Angola plans to raise $230M from a 34% stake sale in Standard Bank de Angola previously held by a convicted insurance tycoon10h
Abu Dhabi AI firm G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to American firms to safeguard access to US chips10h
Abu Dhabi's ADNOC is in talks with Thai refiner PTT and African conglomerate Dangote for stakes in their refineries10h
Spanish banking group BCC-Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar ended talks over a potential acquisition of Portuguese bank Banco CTT from CTT - Correios de Portugal10h
Australian energy firm Santos acquired an additional 3.3% stake in the Papua LNG project from France's TotalEnergies for $190M to raise its stake to 21% after TotalEnergies transferred operatorship to ExxonMobil and cut its stake to 20% to focus on other JVs10h
P*rn tycoon David Sullivan raised his stake in UK soccer club West Ham United to 40% despite sex abuse allegations while Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky became the biggest shareholder with a 46% stake after acquiring shares from Vanessa Gold10h
Polish anti-drone company Advanced Protection Systems is exploring a sale10h
South Africa's Industrial Development Corp. plans to sell its 10.5% stake in Namibia's Rossing Uranium to cut ties with Iranian and Russian entities10h
Portugal asked Air France-KLM and Lufthansa to submit improved offers for a 49.9% stake in the privatization of flag carrier TAP10h

VC

Google-backed Indian space tech startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by SWF Temasek and Seraphim10h
Nua, a women's wellness brand, raised a $50M Series C led by Peak XV Partners and Filter Capital10h
Gimlet Labs, an applied AI research and product company, raised a $300M Series B at a $3B valuation led by a16z10h

IPOs / Listings / Issuances / Block Trades

Anthropic will launch its $100B IPO in mid-October with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs set to lead the offering10h
China's Moonshot AI is considering raising $5B in a Hong Kong IPO this year10h
Jio Platforms, the telecoms unit of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, is set to market its record $4B India IPO this week; the listing could fetch a $150B valuation10h
Nigeria's Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals is seeking to raise $1.6B at a $49B valuation in Africa's biggest IPO ever10h
SHEIN shares are down 19% from their IPO price to become Hong Kong's worst IPO in years after raising $1.75B at a $26.5B valuation10h
KKR-backed South Korean fashion retailer Musinsa plans to IPO at a $7.5B valuation in Korea's biggest IPO in years10h
Blue Owl Capital is seeking to launch a $6.5B-listed data center REIT10h
Swedish smart ring maker Oura Health named Robinhood as an underwriter in its first ever IPO mandate10h
RNA-focused Adarx Pharmaceuticals filed for an IPO10h
Indonesian miner Merdeka Battery Materials is considering a Hong Kong share sale10h
South Africa is seeking to spinoff Eskom Transmission into a fully independent transmission system operator10h
Japanese unicorn chip startup Preferred Networks plans to IPO this decade10h

Debt

China's ByteDance secured a $29.6B loan from 30 banks for its AI push10h
UK AI cloud firm Nscale is seeking to sell $1.5B of convertibles and secure $2B in financing from Nvidia ahead of its $3B US IPO10h
Africa's largest mobile network operator MTN Group is exploring its first international bond sale in a decade to fund its $2.2B buyout of the remaining 30% shares of IHS Towers10h
Chinese University of Hong Kong is seeking a $510M bank loan to refinance a facility supporting its private hospital10h
Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp., the software-focused private credit fund of Blue Owl, raised $150M in a private placement its its third financing since June10h

Bankruptcy / Restructuring / Distressed

A slice of EQT-backed French medical diagnostics firm Cerba Healthcare's revolving credit facility is up for sale as the firm moves toward a court-supervised restructuring to tackle $5.8B in debt10h
Struggling Ukrainian iron ore miner Ferrexpo raised $100M from investors to stave off insolvency10h

Funds / Secondaries

Millennium AUM is nearing $100B amid a $22B fundraising haul10h
Saudi's leading AI firm HUMAIN plans to launch a large $10B VC fund10h
UK venture debt firm Claret Capital raised $670M for its fourth European growth debt fund to back 'less sexy' startups10h
A group of Nordic companies and investors are seeking to create an investment fund to close a funding gap for firms who seek capital outside the region10h

Reforma

Atacan a federales en carretera en Sinaloa; caen cuatroNacional · 1h
Rebate CSP resultados de PISA; defiende su nuevo modeloPortada · 4h
Nominan a Quiñones y Scarlett Camberos al Balón de OroPortada · 5h
Análisis de expertos: Atraso en educaciónPortada · 9h
Exhibe PISA fracaso educativo en MéxicoPortada · 9h
Acaparan pensiones 67% de los apoyos socialesPortada · 9h