A New York Fed paper estimates tariffs raised annual inflation in 67 goods categories by 2.9 points at the February peak. Its own projection has that effect near zero by August, while prices stay about 2 percent higher.
Optimize My GEO started as a hands-on agency for local clients and became software that measures how often AI assistants recommend a business, then writes the fixes. It is aimed at the small and mid-sized businesses enterprise tools skip.
Benchmark yields matched levels last seen in 2002, pushed up partly by AI-era debt issuance and a Fed still signaling another hike. Freddie Mac's 30-year mortgage rate climbed to 7.28 percent the same week, and Realtor.com says that has already added more than $200 to a typical buyer's monthly payment.
Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman tied the overhaul directly to Silicon Valley Bank's 2023 collapse, and the plan also raises a community-bank asset threshold frozen since 2011.
A proposed class action filed October 2 in federal court in Chicago accuses McDonald's of using one AI pricing system across nearly 14,000 U.S. restaurants to coordinate prices rather than compete on them.
Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan, one of three officials who pushed for a September rate increase before the rest of the committee agreed, said on October 1 that the Fed needs to go another half point further. A day later, a weak September jobs report cut the odds of an October hike from near 70 percent to under 20 percent.
Anthropic's confidential prospectus shows a $42 billion net loss and $4.6 billion in 2025 revenue. Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says the real number is closer to $1 trillion.
Prediction markets cut the odds of an October 28 Federal Reserve rate increase from 63 percent to 18 percent after employers added just 29,000 jobs in September. December's hike odds still sit at 73 percent, the same month the Fed's own policymakers projected one more increase.
The debt behind Paramount Skydance's $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery priced at par on September 30 and traded at 95 cents by Thursday afternoon. The sale landed directly in the worst quarter for Treasury yields since 1994.
A government methodology change did most of the work on the Fed's favorite inflation number. Bond investors are not buying the all-clear: the 10-year Treasury yield just hit its highest level since 2002.
The ban took effect September 29 under a Depression-era statute no president had used to block imports outright before this year. It covers about a quarter of one percent of last year's trade with Canada, but a Quebec motorcycle maker and a small Ontario distillery are the ones absorbing it.
A credit downgrade and a surprise quarterly loss landed three days apart this month at two entertainment chains. Paired with a sector-wide bond distress ratio of 6.7 percent, the numbers point to consumers cutting leisure spending before it shows up in official retail data.
Two rules proposed September 24 would force Fed-supervised stablecoin issuers to hold reserves in cash and short-dated Treasury bills while promising customers their dollars back within two business days, a liquidity match regulators are building in from the start.
New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced a $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash on September 22, covering more than 260,000 delivery workers underpaid, unpaid, or paid late since 2022. DoorDash blames technical bugs. It is the largest settlement of its kind in city history, breaking a record set nine months earlier.
Gundlach Bundschu cut its workforce nearly in half and grew earnings four times over since 2023. The declaration its CEO filed in bankruptcy court says the real problem was a $11.6 million purchase made two months before COVID, not the export boycott squeezing other California wineries.
A federal watchdog found two lending companies responsible for most of $1.3 billion in defaulted SBA loans, while SBA disputes its own inspector general's numbers and hasn't run a safety exam on these lenders in over two years.
A Census Bureau working paper and a separate Dallas Fed study both tie the pay gap to a major's exposure to automation. A Stanford Review analysis blames the Fed's rate hikes and a 2022 tax rule instead. Tulane graduate Jack Zemke needed an AI side project, not a diploma, to get noticed.
As private equity rolls up independent restoration operators nationwide, Statewide Restoration turned down a buyout to stay family owned, betting hands-on service still beats scale.
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate to 3.75-4 percent on September 16, its first increase since 2023. The move reverses a July vote where three regional bank presidents were outvoted for wanting the same increase early. Chair Kevin Warsh left his own rate projection blank for the second straight meeting.
The Supreme Court voided 2025's IEEPA tariffs in February, opening up roughly $166 billion in refunds. Companies with a customs compliance staff are collecting fast. Businesses without one are stuck in line.
