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Low-rated companies have raised $88 billion for AI deals this year, Goldman Sachs figures show, and lenders now check revenue before they lend. Credit goes first to borrowers with long contracts and hard assets, so a small AI vendor's cost of debt shows buyers how lenders rate its staying power.
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A CFO and CMO exit, a volume guidance cut and a 22% drop landed on one day. The new headline metric and a mid-year accounting change point the same direction.
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Shanghai has valued a small but profitable robot maker above Figure AI, Baidu and JD.com. The multiple, not the machines, is the number to check.
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Morningstar says single-stock funds, leveraged and derivative ones included, account for more than half of ETFs whose first prospectus was filed by June 30. The ten biggest hold about 44% of the category's assets.
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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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The 10-year closed the week at 4.995%, eight tenths of a basis point under the 52-week high it set on Wednesday. About 28% of the yield's entire 2026 rise arrived in September, and Friday supplied 0.049 point of it.
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Ai Funds' new ETF hands stock selection to a proprietary model for 0.87% a year, against a 0.74% average for active ETFs, and it joins a category where all seven surviving funds have had outflows.
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Pacer's ACBH and ACBE join three ProShares funds and one from Rex Shares in a category barely a year old, all of them selling retirees an equity-linked coupon without a bank's balance sheet behind it.
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Dario Amodei's slowdown essay and Sam Altman's remark that a listing would be ill-advised took ASML down 6%, about EUR 33.6 billion of market value, while Nvidia fell 2.5% and TSMC 1.2%. The drops grew with distance from current revenue.
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The $60.50 offer is gone, PayPal closed at $53.66, and roughly half the premium the bid created is still in the price, leaving a $1.5 billion cost programme to justify what the market has not yet given back.
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US EV deliveries have fallen for three straight quarters since the $7,500 credit lapsed in September 2025. Most of the nameplates dropped this year were assembled outside the US, and each quarterly decline is smaller than the last.
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Bloomberg reported a six-year plan taking Microsoft from about 12 gigawatts to more than 38 by 2032, and the $329bn of data-center leases already signed but not yet commenced sits outside the $145bn capex line.
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China's four little GPU tigers now have public prices and a 2030 demand forecast big enough to justify them. The lock-up calendar has been repricing them faster than their losses have narrowed. Enflame is the newest of them.
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Oracle's $664bn of remaining performance obligations beat consensus by $46bn and lifted the stock 7 per cent after hours, while the fiscal 2027 revenue guide went from $90bn to at least $90bn and the EPS guide rose five cents.
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Fortune reports Hugh Johnston sees live sports as a driver of customer lifetime value, and sports advertising did rise 5% while entertainment advertising fell 1%. The segment itself added about $170m of revenue against streaming's $550m.
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David Sacks wants the listing paused until a departing researcher's safety claims are checked, which turns a governance argument into a calendar problem for a deal that has to price before the November midterms.
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Revenue rose 34% to $12.2bn and operating profit cleared $2bn, but the AI backlog behind the enterprise and sovereign margin story is only $6.3bn, roughly half of a single quarter's sales, and that is the number worth arguing about.
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The wheel-free car gets its production moment in Austin on Thursday, but the fleet it joins is still mostly Model Y, and the Bay Area will not let Tesla run any of it without a driver behind the wheel.
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The fiscal 2027 guide of $14.1bn to $14.2bn clears consensus by roughly $310 million, which reads as execution rather than a spending shock. The count of customers collapsing their tools onto one platform is the harder evidence.
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GE Vernova fell about half as much on gaining the same finance chief. The gap traces to what each company could publish: GE Vernova had dates, a retiring incumbent and an advisory overlap, while Rivian had only a search.
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