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Central bank rate decisions, policy stance, and the transition between easing and tightening cycles.
BoJ Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said bond sales by AI firms are pushing up long-term rates even as AI stock gains have eased financial conditions. The easing side of that balance depends on profits that he warned may not come.
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US 10-year Treasury yields hit 5.34% on 1 October, their highest in 24 years, while oil traded back above $100 a barrel. Rates and oil both reversed within days, so teams planning Q4 headcount, infrastructure or fundraising should budget both as ranges.
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Cathie Wood cites 99.99% annual falls in AI inference costs against Bill Ackman's warning that the Fed's September hike won't slow AI spending. Her figures price AI's output and his worry is demand for its inputs, so both can hold at once.
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US 10-year Treasury yields briefly hit 5.34% on Thursday, the highest since 2002, while traders priced only a modest chance of a Fed hike this month. Companies and governments rolling over debt are refinancing at the long-end price whatever the Fed decides.
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US 10-year Treasury yields hit 5.34% on 1 October, the highest since 2002, in a selloff Reuters partly ties to AI and data-centre construction. For teams that borrow to build, AI's own investment is part of why markets expect rates to stay high into 2027.
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Fed Governor Lisa Cook says about $2 trillion in announced AI investment is pushing up input costs such as electricity before it delivers productivity gains. Her doubt that the Fed can still look through supply shocks links data-center spending to rates in 2027.
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US 10-year Treasury yields rose to 5.30% on Wednesday, their highest since 2002, even though inflation came in cooler. Whatever drove it, growth or government debt, a cash-flow model that counted on cooling inflation to lower its discount rate now needs a higher one.
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New York Fed President John Williams lists AI demand for chips and power equipment among the forces behind inflation he forecasts at 3.5% for 2026. He also said the productivity payoff that would argue for easier policy has yet to show up in the data.
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Fed Governor Michael Barr said more rate hikes are likely needed, citing inflation above 2% for five-plus years and a surge in data center investment. He also urged planning now for AI job losses, casting the technology as a price pressure today and a labor risk later.
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Australia's Reserve Bank raised its cash rate a quarter point to 4.60% on Sept. 29, its highest level in 15 years. It is tightening into a housing downturn because it believes higher fuel costs are now passing into the prices of other goods and services.
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Australia's central bank lifted its cash rate to a 15-year high of 4.60% on Sept 29, its fourth hike of 2026. The board says it is ready to go further, so teams on floating Australian rates should plan for one more step into early 2027.
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Bitcoin traded near $83,000, down about 1.8% in 24 hours, after Trump rejected Iran's seven-day ceasefire plan and Brent crude climbed back above $100 a barrel. Futures now price a 64% chance of an October 28 Fed hike, a rough setup for a non-yielding asset.
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Real-estate owners face costlier, harder refinancing after the Federal Reserve lifted its target a quarter point to 3.75%-4%. The pressure runs through the ratio tests lenders use to size loans and control cash, so rent growth carries more of the case for owning.
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Bank of Korea says momentum behind domino price hikes is building, with more than 30 firms announcing increases this year against 32 in all of last year. The bank's bad-case oil scenario adds four times as much to next year's inflation as to this year's.
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Fed policymakers hiked in September against inflation that supplies about 4 points of the 6%-plus nominal growth now outrunning a 5.16% 10-year yield. With the $2 trillion deficit adding about 5% a year to the debt, a slowdown that leaves yields near 5% would push the debt ratio up.
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South Korea's government wants authority to move a tax windfall of more than 60 trillion won into a new fund while the Bank of Korea is raising rates. Whether the money repays deficit bonds or feeds fund spending will help decide how far rates have to rise.
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July retail sales fell by the most in over a year. Home Depot, TJX, Target and Walmart will show whether that is a pause or a trade-down.
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Job postings in AI-exposed occupations peaked as the Fed began hiking in March 2022, says a former Fed economist citing a study of 238 million postings. The same column then credits AI with keeping the slump going in jobs it can automate.
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Oaktree's co-chairman has wanted a non-activist Fed for years, and the Fed he is endorsing has been open four months, with five task forces, one Jackson Hole speech and a single unanimous hike behind it.
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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said hyperscaler fundraising partly explains rising yields, as companies add about six times the Treasury's increase in bond supply. Pension funds and insurers that buy 30-year paper are being asked to fund both borrowers from a pool Employ America's Skanda Amarnath calls finite.
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