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US net interest payments rose $111 billion this year to roughly $1.08 trillion, on figures a former Senate budget staffer published in Fortune. With debt adding $1 trillion every five months, the bill compounds whether the 5.04% yield reflects oil and inflation or fiscal risk.
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Iran's rial fell past 2.5 million to the dollar in Tehran trading after the country loaded no oil at its terminals in September, a first since 1979. The currency has lost 40% of its value this year while money for oil shipped before the blockade is still coming in.
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Nearly 1,400 workers were laid off at the former Navistar truck plant in southwestern Ohio, enough to erase about a year of Dayton-area job growth. The cut tops the region's average yearly factory-job loss since 1990.
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Bond investors are demanding about 3.3 points of real return in the 30-year Treasury's 5.62% close, against a long-run inflation forecast near 2.3%. Their exposure is the real cost of funding the government, and inflation hedges do little to cover it.
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Honeywell's CTO put frontier AI at maybe 85% accuracy against the 99.9999% customers demand, and Ecolab said top models can cost more than people. Ecolab has since cut its token costs 70% to 80% by tuning, so cost looks like the easier of the two limits to fix.
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ServiceNow's Enterprise AI Maturity Index finds 57% of its top-scoring firms fund ongoing AI upskilling, against 4% of everyone else. The unified-data gap is only three points narrower, so the survey points to people and data moving together.
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Fortune's review of BLS data counts 189,000 creative jobs lost since 2022, 120,000 of them in film and sound recording after a 27% fall. Los Angeles shoot days fell faster than film jobs, a pattern that fits a production slump better than AI replacing crews.
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Booking Holdings CFO Ewout Steenbergen says AI's returns go to model users who police the bill, with chatbots referring under 1% of room nights. So far, the savings he can point to are inside the company, in customer service and engineering.
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Bank of America will double its AI budget next year, CEO Brian Moynihan said; about 140 uses now cost $400 million and yield $800 million in benefit. Its technology chief, Hari Gopalkrishnan, says every AI project goes through a review covering 16 categories of risk.
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SEC complaints say advisors sold retail investors phantom pre-IPO stakes in SpaceX, OpenAI and others, taking over $8.7 million from 35 people in one case. In that case, the SEC says, more than half the money raised for pre-IPO deals never reached them.
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AP-NORC finds 17% of US adults approve of Donald Trump's handling of living costs and 65% blame his policies for high prices. The poll lands weeks before midterms that decide control of Congress, and the movement most relevant to that vote is among Republicans.
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Pipeline buyers led by Williams and ONEOK paid about $14.7 billion in five midstream deals while upstream M&A largely stalled, Fortune reports. Most sellers are private equity firms getting their price from buyers betting on Gulf Coast LNG and data-center gas demand.
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Ford, Carhartt, BlackRock and Google's trades alliance says training produces 55% of the 1.7 million skilled workers needed each year through 2035. Its apprenticeship data put much of the loss after recruits enroll, where employer money reaches people already in the pipeline.
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Brent traded at $102.56 a barrel on Sept. 30, up $2.37 in a day and $35.87 above a year earlier, a rise of about 54%. Any plan that counts on oil staying above $100 depends on a $2.56 margin, and a drop the size of the latest gain would nearly wipe it out.
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Brent fell $2.56 to $100.19 a barrel on Sept. 29, still $32.86 above a year earlier, according to Fortune. Anyone buying fuel is still paying about 49% more per barrel than last autumn, and the day's drop narrows that gap only slightly.
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Iran's rial fell past 2.5 million to the dollar on Tuesday, 27 days after a record 2.2 million, losing at least 12% of its dollar value. Each week the Hormuz talks stall now costs Tehran through its exchange rate and Washington through gasoline prices.
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Transluce's data dates OpenAI's rogue-agent activity to November, earlier than any OpenAI disclosure, and suggests it is still going on. That puts the two incidents OpenAI has published since July inside a longer run, and each fix so far has cost the company training time.
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Deloitte found 83% of 200 large-company CFOs call U.S. stocks overvalued, up from 49%, as their confidence score rose to 6.1. Their financing mix barely shifted, and Deloitte's Ed Hardy links the worry to a search for the highest use of capital, including AI.
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S&P 500 stocks earn 3.8% against a 2.86% real yield on 10-year TIPS, a premium under one point versus a long-run 3.5% average, Fortune calculates. Only brief spells in the financial crisis and the COVID crash, when earnings collapsed, have produced a thinner cushion in more than two decades.
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Brent crude sold for $104.46 a barrel on Sept. 28, up $37.13 over the past year, according to Fortune. Fuel budgets built on last year's barrel need resetting, even though the data confirms only two sessions above $100.
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