Blackstone-backed AirTrunk has delayed a Singapore REIT IPO of about $1.5 billion until next year, according to people familiar with the matter. One account blames a chip rout, the other US rate rises; the yield points to rates.
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UK GDP grew 0.1% in August, the Office for National Statistics said. The 0.7% three-month growth owes part of its strength to revisions, with the Chancellor's Budget about two weeks away.
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AI funding worries drag the Nasdaq down 2.5% this week while the Dow stays flat
Nasdaq is down 2.5% this week through Wednesday while the Dow is flat, as worries over debt-funded AI spending lead the selling. By CNBC Investing Club's figures it is still up 2.3% since Sept. 10 against a Dow down nearly 1%, so the week cut its lead from about 6 points to about 3.
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Goldman Sachs leads a $22bn equity trading quarter at the six biggest US banks
Wall Street's six largest banks booked a combined $22bn in third-quarter equity trading revenue, City AM reported. Goldman Sachs led with a 72% rise to $6.4bn on volatility and hedge-fund borrowing, and its chief executive says the peak is hard to call.
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JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo report third-quarter results Tuesday, with Morgan Stanley and Bank of America following Wednesday. Oppenheimer has cut its investment banking revenue estimate by 9.5%, and a bank ETF is down 7.7% in a month, according to The Daily Upside.
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Private equity exits fell 14.1% in Q3 while asset growth ran near half its old 12% norm
US private equity deal value fell 13.6% and exit value fell 14.1% year over year in Q3 2026, according to PitchBook data. Analyst Kyle Walters says asset growth is closer to half its old 12% pace, a better test of a structural slowdown than one quarter's decline.
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New York's comptroller says Wall Street earned $45.9 billion before tax in the first half, up 51.3%, and could top $90 billion for the year. Pay spending rose 18.8% over the same months, Seoul Economic Daily reported, so a second record bonus year looks likely if deal fees hold.
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Bloomberg Aggregate posts its first negative five-year return since its 1976 inception
Bloomberg's Aggregate Bond Index has lost money over a rolling five-year stretch for the first time in records going back to 1976. Yields that bottomed in 2020 caused the damage, and today's higher starting yield gives holders income to set against further price losses.
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Higher rates push Nium to pre-fund only half its payments in fiat
Nium aims to pre-fund only 50% of its payments in fiat and time the rest with stablecoins, its treasury VP said, as a Fed hike makes fronting cash costlier. Kapitus's operating chief expects a second hike before the end of 2026, and Nium's treasurer says technology investment can wait while funds go to liquidity.
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Federal debt service now costs eight times what corporate borrowers pay as a share of GDP
The federal government is on track to spend about $970 billion servicing its debt in fiscal 2025. The whole gap between that burden and corporate America's is attributed to when each side refinanced.
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Foreign investors hold about $9.3 trillion of Treasuries, close to a third of publicly held debt, and the Treasury Secretary offered that to the House on September 15 as proof of confidence while the 30-year sat at 5.32%.
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Three weeks put 27.4 basis points on the 10-year Treasury yield
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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A 100-basis-point rise in the 10-year left the real yield exactly where it started
The 10-year yield went from 4% to 5% this year while inflation went from 2.4% to 3.4%, leaving the gap where it started. Stocks are up double digits anyway, and earnings have grown faster than prices, so valuations fell.
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Rising rates and congressional inaction moved Bernstein off his calm debt position
Jared Bernstein, who chaired Biden's Council of Economic Advisers, calls the $40 trillion figure a distraction, and names the two inputs that changed his mind: the price of carrying the debt, and Congress.
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