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The jobless rate fell unexpectedly to 4.7%, yet vacancies dropped to 691,000 as smaller businesses pulled back on recruitment, citing labour costs, in the last official labour market snapshot before the Budget.
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8 briefingsElon Musk has pledged one of his own SpaceX shares to every child in America, with the White House confirming the stock would be delivered through Trump Accounts. The pledge is worth roughly $10.7bn at Friday's closing price, but the mechanics, voting rights and tax treatment remain undefined.
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered civilian government agencies to remove DeepSeek technology and any third-party service built on its models, a ban that took effect at the end of July but was only made public this week.
Anthropic has said it will commit 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund, with an option to add 2% for every 50% rise in its value, as it prepares for a potential listing.
Microsoft has terminated its involvement in Nscale's £2bn Loughton AI data centre, leaving the UK's flagship sovereign AI project without its anchor tenant after grid connection dates slipped into the 2030s.
Opposition to data centres has moved from planning committees into US midterm politics, forcing infrastructure investors to treat permitting, power and water risk as core underwriting variables rather than late-stage obstacles.
A $1.2bn money-laundering penalty against Bank of America is a supervisory signal. Compliance teams should treat it as a prompt to audit KYC files, monitoring thresholds and correspondent-banking exposure.
A hotter-than-expected US inflation print has forced rate and FX desks to revisit assumptions on Federal Reserve easing, bond duration and dollar-sensitive exposures.
Reports of ship attacks near the Strait of Hormuz have reached a record high while oil exports slow, a signal for crude and freight markets to price war-risk cover, rerouting and delivery delay into term supply decisions.
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