Market News for September 21, 2026
Every story Market Flux published on September 21, 2026.
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Dollarama Soars on Blowout Quarter as USD/JPY Holds Short-Term Gains Despite Bessent-Led Yen Intervention
Dollarama posted a standout second quarter for fiscal 2027, with sales surging 17.6% year over year to more than C$2 billion and net earnings climbing to C$349.3 million. Diluted EPS rose…
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Nvidia and QIA-Backed Iambic Therapeutics Files for Nasdaq IPO Under Ticker IAM
Iambic Therapeutics, an AI-driven drug discovery company backed by chip giant Nvidia and the Qatar Investment Authority, filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC on September 21…
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Bitcoin Hits Eight-Month High of $87,000 as Short Squeeze Wipes Out Over $900 Million in Positions
Bitcoin surged to $87,000 on September 21, reaching its highest price level since January 2026 and completing a roughly eight-month return to that part of the range. The move was…
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AMD Crosses $1 Trillion Market Cap for the First Time Fueled by AI Demand
Advanced Micro Devices reached a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time on Monday, September 21, joining a select group of chipmakers to cross that threshold as investor…
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Magnachip Semiconductor Stock Surges 27% Premarket on Navitas Strategic Investment
Magnachip Semiconductor shares surged roughly 27.3% in premarket trading on Monday, September 21, after the company announced a strategic investment by Navitas Semiconductor, the…
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Critical Metals Surges Up to 43% as Trump-Denmark Greenland Security Pact Spotlights Tanbreez Rare Earth Deposit
Shares of Critical Metals Corp. (NASDAQ: CRML) surged as much as 43% in Monday trading after President Donald Trump announced Friday, September 19, that the United States had reached a…
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New Era Energy Locks In 20-Year, 207 MW Power Deal With Vistra for Texas Data Center
New Era Energy & Digital (NUAI) announced Monday that its subsidiary TCDC PowerCo LLC has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Luminant ET Services Company, an affiliate of Vistra…
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Brent Crude Settles at $100.34 After Four-Day Slide on Iran Diplomacy Hopes and Easing Saudi Supply Fears
Brent crude settled at $100.34 per barrel on Monday, a 3.4% decline, after briefly dipping as low as $98.98 during the session, marking a fourth consecutive day of losses and an 11-day low…
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Supertanker Freight Costs Hit Records as Libya Pipeline Shutdown and Persian Gulf Attacks Tighten Oil Markets
A convergence of supply disruptions is squeezing global oil markets even as WTI crude trades below $100 a barrel. Supertanker freight costs have surged to record levels, pushing crude…
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Delta Air Lines Plans Largest-Ever LAX Schedule for Summer 2027 as Stock Gains on Strong Trading Day
Delta Air Lines announced its biggest-ever schedule at Los Angeles International Airport for summer 2027, with more than 200 daily departures planned from the hub. The expansion includes…
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AMD Crosses $1 Trillion Market Cap for the First Time as AI Chip Rally Sends Stock to Record High
Advanced Micro Devices crossed a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time on Monday, September 21, becoming the 14th U.S. company ever to reach that threshold and the seventh…
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Intel Surges Up to 14% as Meta's Muse AI Agent Reignites CPU Demand Thesis
Intel shares jumped as much as 14% on Monday, September 21, closing up roughly 12% as a broad AI-driven rally swept through semiconductor stocks. The catalyst was the rapid rise of Meta…
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Qualcomm Surges 7% After Unveiling AI Die-to-Die Optical Interconnect Demo With Lumentum and Corning Ahead of Snapdragon Summit
Qualcomm stock climbed roughly 7% to $190 on September 21 after the company announced a joint demonstration with Lumentum Holdings and Corning Incorporated of a high-density die-to-die…
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Meta Surges 12% to Best Non-Earnings Session Since IPO Year as Muse AI Agent Tops Charts and Wells Fargo Hikes Target to $796
Meta Platforms stock rocketed roughly 12% on Monday, September 21, its best non-earnings session relative to the S&P 500 since its IPO year, adding more than $200 billion in market value…
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Paramount Settles with 12 States, Clearing Path for $110 Billion Warner Bros Discovery Merger
Paramount Skydance has reached a settlement with California and 11 other states that had sued to block its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, California Attorney General Rob…
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Nasdaq Closes at Record High as AI Stocks Surge, Meta Jumps Nearly 12% and AMD Hits $1 Trillion Market Cap
The Nasdaq Composite closed at an all-time high on Monday, September 21, surging roughly 2% as a broad rally in artificial intelligence-related stocks powered Wall Street higher. The S&P…
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Vicor Raises Q3 2026 Revenue Guidance to 20%-Plus Sequential Growth on New Power Delivery License
Vicor Corporation lifted its third-quarter 2026 revenue guidance on September 21, now expecting sequential growth of more than 20%, roughly double its prior outlook of nearly 10% growth…
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Trump Administration Proposes $5 Billion Fund to Rebuild Gulf Energy Infrastructure After Iran War
The Trump administration has proposed a $5 billion U.S. contribution to launch a new investment fund aimed at rebuilding energy infrastructure across the Gulf region that was damaged during…
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Bessent Says Post-Conflict Oil Supply Glut Will Bring Rates Down as Treasury Boosts Long-End Buybacks
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that once the U.S.-Iran conflict ends, oil markets will flip to oversupply and inflation pressures will ease, allowing interest rates to fall. Bessent…
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Bitcoin Surges Past $86,000 to 8-Month High Driven by Massive Short Squeeze
Bitcoin climbed above $86,000 on Monday, reaching its highest level since January and marking a gain of more than 30% since August 19. The rally was fueled by a massive short squeeze, with…
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Nasdaq Surges 2.5% as Brent Crude Drops Below $100 and Chip Stocks Lead Broad Rally
U.S. stocks climbed sharply on Monday, September 21, led by a renewed surge in technology and semiconductor shares as falling oil prices eased inflation fears and optimism built around an…
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Russia Set to Extend Diesel Export Ban as Global Prices Hit Records and Oil Slips on Hormuz Diplomacy
Russia is preparing to extend its ban on most diesel exports beyond September 30, with people familiar with the matter saying an extension is already understood to be coming, with the only…
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St. Louis Fed's Musalem Says Multiple Additional Rate Hikes Will Be Needed to Bring Inflation to Heel
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Alberto Musalem said on September 21 that more interest rate increases will likely be necessary to bring inflation under control, signaling a…
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Bitcoin Surges Past $86,000 as Short Sellers Lose $930 Million and ETF Investors Return to Profit
Bitcoin climbed above $86,000 on Monday, gaining roughly 6% in 24 hours to reach its highest level since late January, in a broad risk-on rally that also lifted stocks and bonds. The move…
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Trump Vows to Keep US Ahead of China in AI Race While Naming DOJ as Backstop on Risks
President Donald Trump declared Monday that artificial intelligence would be bigger than the Industrial Revolution or the internet, and that the nation leading in AI would hold a decisive…
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Bitcoin Climbs to $85,000 and Tech Stocks Gain as Treasury Yields Pull Back After Fed Rate Hike
Bitcoin surged to around $85,000 and technology stocks rallied on September 21 as Treasury yields eased following the Federal Reserve's 25-basis-point rate increase on September 16, which…
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AMD Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club as AI Chip Demand Powers Historic Milestone
Advanced Micro Devices crossed a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time on September 21, making it the 14th U.S. company ever to reach that threshold and the latest chipmaker…
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Meta Leads Monday Tech Rally on AI Agent Excitement and Wells Fargo Price Target Hike Ahead of Connect Event
Meta Platforms stock surged Monday morning, September 21, driven by a combination of factors including analyst optimism around its recently launched personal AI agent, Muse, and…
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Trump Announces Massive Belarus Potash Deal at Prices Below Canadian Rates
President Donald Trump announced on September 21 that the United States is working on what he called a "massive deal" to purchase potash from Belarus at prices substantially lower than it…
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Bessent Touts Warsh Fed Independence and Dollar Strength After Successful US-China Trade and AI Talks
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Monday, covering a range of major economic and diplomatic developments. On the Federal Reserve, Bessent confirmed that…
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AMD Crosses $1 Trillion Market Cap for the First Time Fueled by AI Demand
Advanced Micro Devices reached a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time on Monday, September 21, joining a select group of chipmakers to cross that threshold as investor…
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Trump Signals Iran Talks and Belarus Potash Deal as Xi Summit Approaches
President Donald Trump announced two major diplomatic and trade developments on September 21, posting on Truth Social that the United States is working on a deal to purchase potash from…
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OpenAI and Anthropic Neared Legally Binding Deal to Stress-Test Each Other's AI Models
OpenAI and Anthropic came close earlier this year to a legally binding agreement that would have allowed each company to stress-test the other's AI models for vulnerabilities and hidden…
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Bitcoin Surges to 8-Month High Above $86,000 as Short Squeeze Wipes Out $750 Million in Crypto Positions
Bitcoin climbed from roughly $82,000 to above $86,000 on Monday, September 21, reaching its highest price since January 2026 and completing a rally of more than 30% since August 19. The…
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CNN, MSNOW and Politico Sue Trump Administration Over White House Press Ban in First Amendment Case
CNN, MSNOW and Politico filed an emergency First Amendment lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington on September 21, 2026, seeking to restore their journalists' White House access after…
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Strategy Buys 950 Bitcoin for Around $75M, Ending Two-Week Pause
Michael Saylor's Strategy resumed its bitcoin buying program on Monday, acquiring 950 BTC between September 14 and September 20 for approximately $74 million to $76 million, marking the…
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Bitmine Buys 27,562 ETH for $75 Million, Pushing Holdings Past 4.9% of Ethereum Circulating Supply
Bitmine, the Ethereum treasury company chaired by Tom Lee, acquired 27,562 ETH for approximately $75 million, bringing its total holdings to over 4.9% of Ethereum's circulating supply and…
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Novo Nordisk Stock Falls Up to 7.4% as 2030 Strategy and $23 Billion Pipeline Target Disappoint Investors
Novo Nordisk shares plunged as much as 7.4% on Monday after CEO Mike Doustdar used a Capital Markets Day in London to lay out a long-term growth strategy that failed to calm investor…
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CNN, MSNBC and Politico File Emergency First Amendment Lawsuit to Reverse White House Ban
CNN, MS NOW and Politico announced Monday they are filing a joint emergency lawsuit in federal court against President Donald Trump, seeking to reverse his ban barring their journalists…
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Trump-Xi Summit Set for Thursday as Markets Rally and Officials Signal Optimism
U.S. equity futures climbed and oil prices slid more than 2% on Monday morning as investors grew optimistic about a high-stakes summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President…
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Strategy Adds 950 Bitcoin for $75.7 Million, Lifting Total Holdings to 846,000 BTC
Strategy purchased 950 Bitcoin for $75.7 million last week, paying an average price of $79,670 per coin, bringing its total treasury to 846,000 BTC. That stockpile was acquired at a…
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US Diesel Hits Record $6.51 a Gallon as Russia Extends Export Ban and Global Fuel Crunch Deepens
The national average price of diesel in the United States surged to a record $6.51 per gallon as of September 21, according to AAA data, up from roughly $6 a gallon just two weeks earlier…
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Oil Prices Hit 11-Day Low as UN Diplomacy Hopes and Saudi Export Recovery Weigh on Market
Oil prices fell to their lowest level in 11 days on Monday, September 21, as investors weighed the prospect of diplomatic progress between the United States and Iran at the United Nations…
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Bitcoin Surges to 8-Month High Above $86,000 as Short Squeeze Wipes Out $750 Million in Crypto Positions
Bitcoin climbed from roughly $82,000 to above $86,000 on Monday, September 21, reaching its highest price since January 2026 and completing a rally of more than 30% since August 19. The…