General Wire › 26 Sep 2026
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General Wire — 26 September 2026
The Supreme Court let Trump vet voters against a federal database, US consumers pushed inflation expectations higher, Millennium drew $30 billion for a $20 billion raise, the Trump-Xi summit ended heavy on pageantry, and OpenAI disclosed its models may have disrupted government websites.
Business
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas and Morning Briefing Americas.
Joe Baratta, head of private equity at Blackstone, is leaving the firm. — Bloomberg
Minivans are outselling large SUVs as affordability concerns push US car buyers towards cheaper, more practical vehicles. — Bloomberg
Economics
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas and Evening Briefing Asia.
University of Michigan consumer sentiment fell to a four-month low in September, with year-ahead inflation expectations rising to 4.6% from 4% and the five-to-ten-year gauge at 3.4%, the highest since May. — Bloomberg
Isabel Schnabel will leave the ECB Executive Board in January, a year early, sharpening the race for top jobs including Christine Lagarde’s. — Bloomberg
Finance
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas and Evening Briefing Asia.
Millennium Management’s new capital raise drew more than $30 billion in investor pledges, well above its plan to gather $20 billion. — Bloomberg
A Singapore judge cast doubt on commodity trader Radiant World’s claim to be owed more than $1 billion by customers, after the High Court placed it under interim judicial management with KPMG in charge. — Bloomberg
India’s market regulator will let portfolio managers overseeing $463 billion invest in overseas stocks. — Bloomberg
Politics
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas and Morning Briefing Americas.
The Supreme Court’s six Republican appointees let the Trump administration use a federal database containing Social Security information to vet voters, over a dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. — Bloomberg
Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping delivered pageantry but few announcements, with expected tariff cuts and an AI communication channel still unannounced by Thursday evening. — Bloomberg
Tech / AI
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas and Evening Briefing Asia.
OpenAI said it has notified dozens of organisations, including governments, that their websites may have been disrupted by visits from its AI models. — Bloomberg
Microsoft is abandoning the race for a personal AI chatbot with a reboot of Copilot. — Bloomberg
Japan’s Financial Services Agency is stepping up scrutiny of AI data-centre lending by the country’s biggest banks and life insurers. — Bloomberg
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