Market News for September 28, 2026
Every story Market Flux published on September 28, 2026.
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Anthropic IPO Prospectus Reveals 1088% Revenue Surge and $42 Billion Net Loss in 2025
Anthropic has filed for an initial public offering, with its prospectus leaked to Reuters revealing dramatic growth alongside staggering costs. The Claude maker generated $4.59 billion in…
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OpenAI Cancels October Launch of GPT-6.1 Astra After Internal Safety Testing Reveals Deception and Authorization Failures
OpenAI has scrapped the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a more capable successor to its GPT-6 Astra model, after internal safety testing revealed that the model had regressed on…
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Oil Prices Slide as Oilfield Services Stocks and Key ETFs Break Technical Support Levels
Oil prices came under renewed selling pressure on Monday, with Brent crude breaking below its Ichimoku cloud support at $96.25 and WTI crude trapped in a bear flag pattern at $92.79…
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TotalEnergies CEO Warns US Diesel Export Ban Would Backfire by Lifting Gasoline Prices
President Donald Trump is actively considering a ban on US diesel exports as his administration seeks to combat high domestic fuel prices, but TotalEnergies chief executive Patrick Pouyanne…
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Kodiak Sciences Surges Over 150% After Both Drugs Hit Primary Endpoints in Phase 3 Wet AMD Trial
Kodiak Sciences shares rocketed more than 150% to a 52-week high of $61.28 on Monday after the company announced that both of its experimental eye drugs, Zenkuda and tabirafusp-ted, met…
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MongoDB CEO CJ Desai Quits for Meta as MDB Stock Drops Up to 26%
MongoDB President and CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai resigned effective immediately on Monday, September 28, to become Meta Platforms' chief enterprise platform officer, triggering one of the…
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Bloom Energy Shares Sink 8% on Profit-Taking as 76ers Jersey Patch Deal Announced
Bloom Energy shares fell 8% on Monday to around $253, unwinding part of a steep year-to-date rally as investors booked gains across the fuel cell sector. The selloff extended to peers, with…
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Meta Launches Enterprise AI Platform, Poaches MongoDB CEO as META Stock Slips 4%
Meta Platforms launched the Meta Enterprise Platform on Monday, which Mark Zuckerberg called "the next major pillar of our business," and hired MongoDB president and CEO Chirantan "CJ"…
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FAA Delays Boeing 737 MAX 10 Certification Over Software Glitch Affecting Automated Landing Guidance
Boeing shares fell roughly 7% on Monday after the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed it will delay certification of the 737 MAX 10, the longest and final variant of Boeing's…
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Qualcomm Drops 6% as Meta Muse Trade Fuels Chip Rotation Away From Mobile Semis
Qualcomm shares fell 6% on Monday September 28 as a broad semiconductor selloff hit mobile-chip names harder than CPU-oriented peers, reversing an earlier surge past $201 that had been…
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AMD to Acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 Billion in All-Stock Deal
Advanced Micro Devices agreed on Monday to acquire World Labs, a San Francisco-based AI startup founded by pioneering researcher Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at…
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Kodiak Sciences Surges Over 140% as Both DAYBREAK Drugs Beat AMD Trial Primary Endpoints
Kodiak Sciences shares surged more than 140% on September 28, hitting a 52-week high of $61.28, after the company announced that both Zenkuda and tabirafusp-ted met their one-year primary…
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Trump Announces Plans for $15 Billion Mesabi Metallics Steel Plant in Iowa, the Largest in US History
President Donald Trump unveiled plans Monday for a $15 billion steel plant in Iowa to be built by Mesabi Metallics, which would be the largest steel facility in US history. The announcement…
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Strategy Buys 1,665 Bitcoin for $143 Million, Setting New Holdings Record at 847,666 BTC
Strategy, the bitcoin treasury firm led by Michael Saylor, acquired 1,665 bitcoin between September 21 and September 27 for approximately $142.7 million, at an average price of $85,681 per…
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Citi and Coinbase Partner to Let Merchants Accept Stablecoin Payments Through Spring by Citi
Citigroup has expanded its partnership with Coinbase to allow institutional clients to accept stablecoin payments, connecting traditional banking infrastructure with digital asset rails…
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Strategy and Strive Buy 2700 Bitcoin in a Week as US Spot ETFs Log Biggest Weekly Inflow Since 2025
Corporate bitcoin accumulation accelerated sharply in the final week of September 2026, with Strategy and Strive together spending $232.5 million to add more than 2,700 BTC. Strategy…
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Iranian Officials Privately Pessimistic About Reaching US Deal Before November Midterms
Iranian officials have privately expressed pessimism about reaching a deal to end hostilities with Washington and reopen the Strait of Hormuz before the November 3 US midterm elections…
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Iran Agrees to Halt Uranium Enrichment as Trump Offers Sanctions Relief and Frozen Asset Release
Iran has agreed to halt uranium enrichment in exchange for the easing of U.S. sanctions, according to Al Hadath, marking a significant development in nuclear negotiations that have been…
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Rising Bond Yields and Inflation Fears Drag US Stocks Lower as ECB and Fed Stay Hawkish
US equity markets fell broadly on Monday as surging crude oil prices and climbing bond yields combined to pressure stocks. The S&P 500 dropped 0.51%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell…
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Nvidia Adds $150 Billion to Share Buyback Program, Setting a New U.S. Record at $235 Billion Total
Nvidia's board of directors has authorized an additional $150 billion in share repurchases, raising the total remaining buyback pool to $235 billion, the largest share repurchase…
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Bitcoin Slips Below $83,000 Even as ETFs Record Best Weekly Inflow Since October 2025
Bitcoin fell below $83,000 on September 28, pressured by elevated Treasury yields and rising geopolitical tensions linked to Iran, even as spot ETFs attracted $2.39 billion in weekly…
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Circle and Volante Bring USDC Settlement Into Bank Payment Systems as Stablecoin Adoption Broadens
Circle Internet Group and payments technology provider Volante Technologies announced a strategic collaboration to integrate USDC stablecoin payment and settlement capabilities directly…
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Evonik Rejects EUR 10.3 Billion Takeover Bid From BASF
Evonik Industries has turned down a EUR 10.3 billion, roughly $11.7 billion, takeover bid from larger German rival BASF, according to a report by the Financial Times published September 28…
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Nvidia Authorizes Record $150 Billion Buyback Boost Pushing Total Authorization to $235 Billion
Nvidia's board authorized a $150 billion increase to its share repurchase program on Monday, the largest single buyback addition in corporate history. The move pushes Nvidia's total…
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Bitmine Crosses 6 Million ETH Threshold After Adding 17,362 Tokens Worth $47 Million
Bitmine, the Ethereum treasury firm led by Tom Lee, surpassed 6 million ether in holdings after purchasing 17,362 ETH last week for approximately $47 million, bringing its total to…
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Bitget Resumes Withdrawals as Hacker Begins Moving $388 Million in Stolen Crypto
Bitget has resumed Bitcoin withdrawals following a $388 million security breach on September 24, with Ether withdrawals scheduled to return Tuesday and USDt withdrawals on Wednesday as the…
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Strategy Buys 1,665 Bitcoin for $143 Million, Setting New Holdings Record at 847,666 BTC
Strategy, the bitcoin treasury firm led by Michael Saylor, acquired 1,665 bitcoin between September 21 and September 27 for approximately $142.7 million, at an average price of $85,681 per…
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Trump Rejects Iran Seven-Day Truce Offer, Sending Oil Above $108 and Stocks Lower
President Donald Trump rejected Iran's conditional proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, dashing hopes that had briefly lifted markets late last…
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Qatar Extends LNG Force Majeure Into December as US Diesel Export Ban Debate Divides Washington
Qatar has extended force majeure on its liquefied natural gas shipments to buyers in Asia and Europe by another month, with disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz continuing to choke…
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Nvidia Board Approves Additional $150 Billion Share Buyback Through Fiscal 2028
Nvidia's Board of Directors authorized an additional $150 billion under the company's existing share repurchase program on September 28, calling it a record-breaking expansion of the plan…
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Nvidia Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Stop Rogue AI Agents After Hugging Face Breach
Nvidia introduced the Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28, a double-layered, open-source software security system designed to monitor and shut down AI agents that break out of their…