Senator Josh Hawley’s subcommittee hearing on Flock Safety’s AI camera network on September 23 runs alongside his refusal to grant antitrust exemptions to AI labs — marking out a dual-front oversight posture in the Senate.
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Brent Crude Pulls Back Toward $97 as UNGA Diplomacy Signals Lift Risk Appetite
Brent crude fell to $97.43 a barrel on September 22 before recovering to around $100, as Trump’s UNGA remarks on Iran raised cautious hopes of a future deal and briefly reversed the Houthi-driven spike to $103.
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Eurozone Slips Back Into Contraction as September Flash PMI Falls to 48.9
The euro area’s composite PMI fell to 48.9 in September, an eight-month low and the first sub-50 reading since January, as the Iran war’s energy shock dragged manufacturing and services simultaneously below the contraction threshold.
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Trump Tells UNGA He Must Choose Between Annihilating Iran or Making a Deal
President Trump used his UN General Assembly speech to frame the Iran war’s endgame as a binary — destruction or a nuclear-free reconstruction deal — while tying any negotiations to November’s midterm elections.
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Pezeshkian Arrives in New York for UNGA Amid Active US-Iran War
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian landed in New York on September 22 for the UN General Assembly while his country remains at war with the United States.
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AMD Becomes Fourth US Chip Company to Cross $1 Trillion Market Cap
Advanced Micro Devices hit a $1 trillion market capitalisation on September 21 as AI-driven data centre demand pushed its stock up 180 percent in 2026 to an intraday record of $613.92 per share.
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Circle Launches Arc Blockchain With BlackRock and Visa as Founding Validators
Circle Internet Group opened the Arc public blockchain mainnet on September 16, naming BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard and DTCC among eleven founding validators and completing the genesis mint of 10 billion ARC tokens.
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Chinese State Buyers Place 260,000-Tonne US Soybean Order as Summit Goodwill Signal
Chinese state-owned enterprises placed orders for about 260,000 tonnes of US soybeans on September 21, a concrete trade gesture timed to signal goodwill ahead of the September 24 Xi-Trump summit in Washington.
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Bessent Calls Pre-Summit Talks Successful as Xi Prepares Washington Visit
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described his September 20 meeting with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng as successful, with the US-China trade board operationalised ahead of the September 24 Xi-Trump summit.
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Die Linke Wins Berlin as Germany’s Mainstream Faces Crisis on Both Flanks
Die Linke won Berlin with 25.7 percent on September 20 while the AfD secured a second straight state win, pushing Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU to the worst result in its 81-year history.