3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (131+ words) A look at the possible risk factors for the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs now that fear about AI destroying humanity is mainstream. The SceneExistential AI fears broke containment this week after an Anthropic researcher quit, warning that frontier labs are…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (492+ words) View / A long war will permanently damage oil demand Semafor View / A long war will permanently damage oil demand One lesson from the return of crude oil prices back above $100 per barrel is that US President Donald Trump seems to…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (154+ words) US long-term bond yields jumped to three-year highs Wednesday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond buybacks failed to impress markets. US long-term bond yields spiked to three-year highs Wednesday after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond buybacks failed to impress…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (140+ words) The Treasury Department will buy back up to three times its usual amount of long-term debt tomorrow as the Trump administration continues trying to bring borrowing costs down. Markets barely registered the announcement, with yields dropping before climbing back up....

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (149+ words) The Casablanca-based fund has backed more than 30 projects in 32 countries across multiple sectors. African infrastructure investor Africa50 plans to raise the value of its portfolio to $20 billion over the next five years, an executive told Reuters The Casablanca-based fund has backed…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (398+ words) Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is set to meet some of Wall Street’s biggest firms in New York this week as it seeks foreign backing for its spending plans amid cash constraints at home. The Saudi delegation is not fundraising…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (166+ words) Semafor Oil importers less vulnerable to supply shocks than expected Maritime shipping lanes may not be the most important chokepoint facing the global oil market. The evidence of the past few months suggests that most oil-importing countries are less economically…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (150+ words) Semafor Saudi soccer cuts spending Saudi soccer clubs spent $407 million on international transfers this summer, their lowest total since the 2023 buying spree that aimed to boost its international cachet, according to FIFA’s transfer report. Clubs signed more players this year,…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (194+ words) The company, whose 700,000 barrels-a-day oil plant is Africa’s largest, is set to raise about $1.6 billion. The Dangote Refinery has secured the approval of Nigeria’s securities regulator to launch an initial public offering on the stock exchange in Lagos The…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (172+ words) Bred on the same American farm, an ultra-white gyrfalcon chick went for 1.1 million dirhams ($300,000) while a pure-white gyr fetched 1.5 million dirhams. The Gulf is on a multi-million dollar falcon shopping spree, with two prized birds trading for eye-watering prices in…...