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Jefferies Financial Group is a global investment bank offering underwriting, M&A advisory, and capital markets services to corporate clients.
EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said China agreed to moderate hybrid and plug-in hybrid car exports to the EU, a cut that could top half. EU leaders still have the final say, so importers are planning around press remarks.
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Jefferies' Chris Wood says US hyperscalers' $695 billion of guided 2026 capex looks unsustainable as cheap Chinese open-source models win share. He blames a slump in the price of AI output, with demand intact, while guidance climbs toward $870 billion for 2027.
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Iridium Credit raised $3 million, led by Field Ventures and MGV, to run automated checks on every invoice a lender finances. It argues that US factors pay about $22 in staff time for each manual check, so they verify only one invoice in five and leave many small ones unfunded.
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Singapore's three big banks fell 4.29% to 5.16% on Thursday as a sell-off sparked by Citi's OCBC downgrade to sell ran a second day. DBS, still a Citi buy, dropped more than OCBC, a sign investors are pricing funding costs and valuations common to all three.
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CME's FedWatch has Wednesday's quarter point at 94.5%, up from under half a month ago, and the ten-year at 5.04% shows bond desks bought it in advance. The forecasts still diverge on what follows.
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Google priced Gemini 4 Argon at half Claude Opus 5.5's per-token rate for a model one composite index ranks third, behind two Anthropic models. On price alone it only matches OpenAI's newly discounted GPT-6.1 Sol, so the price edge Google is selling is against Anthropic.
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Banque de France governor Emmanuel Moulin warned France risks being "strangled by interest rates" while the euro traded near a 17-month low at $1.1206. Jefferies does not see a sovereign crisis yet, and what euro budgets pay this quarter depends on whether France passes its budget.
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FAA safety experts ruled a 737 Max software glitch poses no safety concern, clearing a late obstacle to Boeing's Max 10 and its nearly 1,500 orders. Officials told Reuters approval could come as soon as later this month, with crews following an interim procedure until Boeing finishes a software fix.
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Schneider Electric agreed to buy PTC for $22.6 billion in cash, a 42.3% premium at $205 a share. The cost savings it promises cover only part of that premium, so the price depends on PTC's engineering data selling more Schneider software.
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Meta launched Muse for Small Business on Tuesday, pitching the AI agent at the 200 million small business owners it says use its platforms. How much cash it brings in depends on how many owners pay for higher limits and how much ad spend comes from the campaigns it drafts.
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Shein's quarterly profit fell 67% in its first results since listing, and its shares dropped as much as 14% in Hong Kong on Tuesday. At about $17 billion, against $26 billion at its September 1 debut, the price now depends on whether the thinner margin is temporary.
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BMO lifted its U.S. return on equity to 9.2% from a 3.1% low in the fourth quarter of 2024 after selling 138 branches and lower-returning loan portfolios. With the pruning done, the last 2.8 points to its 12% goal for October 2027 depend on growing a commercial-heavy loan book.
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NPCI's new merchant discount rate caps at Rs 300 above Rs 75,000, exempts UPI AutoPay and charges fuel and utilities a flat Rs 5. Checkout cost in India now depends on category and funding instrument as much as on ticket size.
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A loan quoted below par is the only continuously updated figure anyone has on Oracle's quarter-built New Mexico AI campus, and whether it prices the buildings or the tenant's rating decides how much a stall report matters.
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The American Bankers Association's committee of 15 bank economists has PCE inflation peaking at 3.8% and falling to about 2.2% by the end of 2027, while the policy rate stays where December leaves it. Borrowers pay the difference.
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Aniket Shah of Jefferies and Al Gore's Generation Investment Management both say AI power is a small part of a 50 billion ton problem, while the share of asset owners calling AI an environmental risk has doubled to 25%.
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American Express is selling small businesses a savings account, a card whose 2% rewards can be redeemed as deposits, and from early 2027 a payroll system whose AI it licenses from Gusto.
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Dario Amodei's call for the industry to pace itself sent software past chips by 10.67 percentage points, the widest one-day gap Dow Jones Market Data has recorded, and the analysts making the bull case date the money to 2027.
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A single month of trading undid eight months of AI-disruption pricing in B2B software. That is a multiple moving, not a business changing. The winners were sorted by whose meter the agent workloads run through.
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Leggings are about a third of Lululemon's $11 billion in revenue and its best margin, so a 20% quarterly drop accounts for more than half of the 12% North American comparable-sales decline Heidi O'Neill inherited on Tuesday.
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