Inflation's New Spark: Energy

Plus, Disney eyes ABC sell-off

15 Sep

*past 24-hour performance

  • ECB hits historic rate hike: The ECB announced its 10th consecutive interest rate increase yesterday, pushing its policy rate to the highest in the two-decade history of the Eurozone (NYT)

  • Arm’s long reach: Shares of computer chip design firm Arm (ARM) surged by as much as ~25% after the company went public yesterday on the Nasdaq, rekindling investor hopes for a turnaround in the moribund market for IPOs (Reuters)

  • The new influence on inflation: Energy prices charged by suppliers surged 10.5% in August, the Labor Department reported; that included jumps in prices for gasoline (up 20%), jet fuel (23.6%) and diesel fuel (41.1%) (WSJ)

  • US-Taiwan ties tighten: The Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to strengthen U.S.-Taiwan economic relations, likely leading to a tax treaty and increased Taiwanese investment in the US semiconductor sector, a move that could escalate tensions with China (NYT)

  • Cloudmates: Days after reporting disappointing earnings and a bleak annual outlook that led to a historic stock decline, Oracle (ORCL) reveals a partnership with Microsoft (MSFT) to integrate some of its database infrastructure and services into the Azure cloud (TechCrunch)

  • Disney eyes ABC sell-off: Disney (DIS) has held exploratory talks about selling its ABC network and TV stations to local broadcaster Nexstar Media Group Inc. (Reuters)

  • Caesars says “same here”: Days before MGM's (MGM) computer systems were taken down in an ongoing cyberattack, casino operator Caesars (CZR) paid out a ransom worth $15 million to the same cybercrime group (CNBC)

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  • An overhaul to bitcoin on the balance sheet (CoinSnacks)

  • ‘One of the most hated people in the world’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s 250 pages of justifications (NYT)

  • Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (Washington Post)

  • Kuppy and Mike Alkin “Uranium” interview at the 2023 World Nuclear Association Symposium (Praetorian Capital)

  • Walmart is debuting its first store-brand compostable cutlery — and making it cheaper than the plastic ones it sells (Axios)

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