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Last updated: October 2026
Japan hikes, and the yen falls anyway — Magna Bureau
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
NewsThe OECD Stops Believing in Soft Landings — Magna Bureau
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure…
NewsCourt kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next…
The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours.
NewsSamsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era
Samsung commits to High-NA EUV chipmaking tools in memory production by 2028 — an industry first. The ASML deal that redraws the AI chip map.
NewsThe foundry that can't keep up:… — Magna Bureau
Apple, Nvidia and their rivals just raised 2-nanometre orders by up to 20%. TSMC's most advanced lines are full, its Arizona bet has swollen to $265 billion — and the AI chip shortage now looks like a
News'A very clear message': Tokyo puts — Magna Bureau
Japan's top FX diplomat told markets Monday that the yen's slide is sending 'a very clear message' — the sharpest intervention warning yet, with the currency near 157 and July's joint operation with W
NewsThe super-peso is gone: the carry trade — Magna Bureau
The peso has slid to 17.76 per dollar — a five-and-a-half-month low, down 5% since early September. Banxico held at 6.50% and refused to follow the Fed mechanically. The trade that loved Mexico is lea
NewsRare-earth checks clog Indonesia's — Magna Bureau
About 120 surveyor reports are still pending under September's mandatory rare-earth content checks, the smelter group FINI says. Jakarta's anti-corruption assay is holding up nickel, bauxite and tin s
NewsThe BOJ's next hike could come in… — Magna Bureau
BOJ insiders see hikes coming 'faster and more regularly.' October 29–30 has a one-in-three shot — Thursday's Tankan survey is the tripwire.
NewsThe 5% world: US 10-year yield hits 2007 high…
The 10-year Treasury yield hit 5.1%, its highest since 2007, on a hot September PMI; markets now price another Fed hike in October at up to 73%.
NewsBlackRock and IFM close in on the $25B Stack deal…
A BlackRock-backed consortium is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data centers for up to $25B — the biggest bet yet that AI's…
NewsPink October: The Race to Outrun Breast… — Magna Bureau
October is breast cancer awareness month, and France is all in — 61,000 diagnoses a year, a national screening push, and a Paris lab growing 'tumors on a chip' to beat the disease in four days.
NewsThe euro's French discount: currency of a… — Magna Bureau
At $1.1237 the euro sits at a 17-month low — and the market has named the culprit: France. As the 10-year OAT flirts with 5% and the spread over Germany hits crisis-era wides, the bond vigilantes are
NewsThe Market Stopped Trusting Governments — Magna Bureau
Treasury yields hit their highest since 2002, the dollar reached a 17-month peak, and Europe’s bond markets buckled under France’s fiscal mess — all in a single day.
NewsUkraine urges tighter sanctions as Russian… — Magna Bureau
Shahed drones hit the Southern and Paton bridges, stranding a capital of three million — while Zelenskyy says every Russian missile is built on smuggled Western components.