General Wire › 7 Oct 2026
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General Wire — 7 October 2026
The RBI is expected to deliver its first rate hike since 2023, Wall Street heads for record profits, Ray Dalio warned China and Japan may step back from Treasuries, French school protests drew more than 250,000, and Nvidia closed in on a $6 trillion valuation.
Business
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Markets Daily.
New York’s trading and investment-banking firms are on course for record earnings of more than $90 billion this year, with bonuses expected to hit an all-time high. — Bloomberg
Option Care Health jumped 27% before the open on a Financial Times report that McKesson and Clayton Dubilier & Rice are close to buying it for more than $5 billion. — Bloomberg
Economics
Sourced from The Economist’s World in Brief and Business in Brief, Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas, and The Economic Times.
The Reserve Bank of India is expected to raise its repo rate to 5.5% from 5.25% today, its first increase since 2023, with inflation at 4.8% in August and bank economists eyeing 6% by end-FY27. — The Economic Times
Scott Bessent’s renewed promise to bend America’s debt curve through growth and spending restraint met scepticism, with economists expecting a deficit of roughly 6% of GDP this year. — Bloomberg
France and Germany proposed giving the EU power to strike back quickly at countries that retaliate against its defences against unfair competition, a move aimed at China ahead of EU-China trade talks. — The Economist
Finance
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Markets Daily and Evening Briefing Americas.
Ray Dalio warned that Treasuries are exposed to a pullback in demand from China and Japan, and repeated that the US could face a debt crisis within three years. — Bloomberg
JPMorgan is offering an 11% yield on a $5 billion leveraged loan for Volta Infrastructure, among the highest borrowing costs yet for risky debt financing the AI boom. — Bloomberg
Deeply distressed US loans have risen to their highest level since the pandemic. — Bloomberg
Politics
Sourced from The Economist’s World in Brief and Bloomberg’s Evening Briefing Americas.
More than 250,000 people joined student-led protests over school conditions across France on Tuesday, by the Interior Ministry’s count, with over 6,000 arrests since the unrest began last month. — Bloomberg
Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called Donald Trump’s treatment of US allies “appalling” and said Canada and others should retaliate. — Bloomberg
Tech / AI
Sourced from Bloomberg’s Markets Daily and The Economic Times’ ET AI.
Nvidia is on the verge of becoming the first company worth $6 trillion, with its shares up close to 30% this year against 14% for the S&P 500. — Bloomberg
OpenAI is in talks with UAE funds and BlackRock about a $30 billion financing round, while DeepSeek is close to raising at least $12 billion in Tencent-backed funding. — Bloomberg · Bloomberg
The World Bank said private AI investment in India more than tripled to $4.1 billion in 2025 from $1.2 billion, placing it among the top 10 emerging markets for AI readiness. — The Economic Times
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