General Wire › 25 Sep 2026
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General Wire — 25 September 2026
The 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest since 2004 and Japanese yields returned to 1996 levels, Xi pressed Trump on Taiwan at the White House summit, seven-percent mortgages forced US home sellers to cut prices, and Anthropic signed an $11.6 billion computing deal with Akamai.
Business
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas, Morning Briefing Asia and Energy Daily.
Starbucks is closing 250 locations to redirect investment towards stores with more potential. — Bloomberg
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, at the centre of a supplement contamination scandal, is weighing a buyout offer worth more than ¥500 billion ($3.2 billion) from CVC Capital Partners and Nippon Sangyo Suishin Kiko. — Bloomberg
Registrations of fully electric cars in Europe jumped 52% year on year in August as record fuel prices pushed drivers away from combustion engines. — Bloomberg
Economics
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas.
Nearly one in five US homes for sale had a price cut in August, the highest share for that month in Redfin data going back to 2020, as mortgage rates near 7% kept buyers hesitant. — Bloomberg
Finance
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas.
The 30-year Treasury yield rose as much as seven basis points to 5.47%, its highest since 2004, as a fresh jump in oil prices deepened the global bond selloff. — Bloomberg
Japanese government bond yields climbed to levels last seen in 1996 as the market reopened after a three-day break. — Bloomberg
Politics
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas and Morning Briefing Asia.
Xi Jinping urged the US to formally “oppose” Taiwan independence during his White House summit with Donald Trump, his most explicit call yet for Washington to change its stance. — Bloomberg
CNN, MS NOW and Politico said their reporters were readmitted to the White House after a federal judge ordered the administration to lift its ban on the outlets. — Bloomberg
Tech / AI
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas and Morning Briefing Asia.
Anthropic signed an $11.6 billion, seven-year contract with Akamai Technologies for computing power, with Akamai also issuing a warrant convertible into 7.7 million of its shares. — Bloomberg
Oracle sent a force majeure notice to the Blue Owl unit developing a large New Mexico data centre, seeking to avoid payments if the delayed build-out slips further. — Bloomberg
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