Market News for September 30, 2026
Every story Market Flux published on September 30, 2026.
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Jabil Stock Drops 10% Despite Record Q4 Beat and Raised FY27 Outlook Driven by AI Demand
Jabil reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $10.62 billion, up 29% year over year and well above the roughly $9.72 billion Wall Street had expected. Core earnings per share came in at…
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Fed Inspector General Finds No Criminal Wrongdoing in Powell-Era Headquarters Renovation But Cites Major Management Failures
The Federal Reserve's inspector general released a long-awaited 120-page report on September 30 finding no reasonable grounds to believe federal criminal law was violated in the renovation…
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Jabil Beats Q4 Estimates and Raises FY27 Outlook But Stock Falls 10% on the Day
Jabil reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $10.62 billion, up 29% year over year and well above the roughly $9.72 billion Wall Street had expected. Core earnings per share came in at…
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Northrop Grumman Shares Drop 4% After Losing Navy F/A-XX Fighter Jet Contract to Boeing
Northrop Grumman fell sharply on September 30 after the Pentagon and White House announced that Boeing had won the contract to develop and build the U.S. Navy's next-generation F/A-XX…
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General Mills Names COO Dana McNabb as CEO, Effective January 1 as Harmening Moves to Executive Chair
General Mills announced on September 30, 2026 that its board of directors unanimously elected Chief Operating Officer Dana McNabb to succeed Jeff Harmening as Chief Executive Officer, with…
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Synopsys Signs 1B-Plus AWS Silicon IP Deal and OpenAI Partnership to Build Specialized Chip Design AI Model
Synopsys landed two major strategic agreements on September 30, cementing its position at the intersection of chip design and artificial intelligence. First, the company signed a multi-year…
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Multiple Single-Stock Catalysts Drive Sharp Moves Across Equities on September 30
A broad set of individual company catalysts drove outsized stock moves on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, with deals, clinical data, earnings, and sector news all contributing to sharp gains…
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Micron Posts Record Fiscal 2026 Results and Guides Well Above Estimates for Q1 2027
Micron Technology reported record fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 results on Wednesday, beating analyst expectations on both revenue and earnings as surging AI-driven demand for…
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OpenAI Partners With Synopsys on Specialized Chip Design Model as FTC Opens AI Safety Probe
Synopsys and OpenAI announced a strategic, multi-year partnership on September 30 to jointly develop GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model designed to accelerate semiconductor design. Under…
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Trump Demands Powell Resign or Face Lawsuit After Fed Watchdog Report Finds No Criminal Wrongdoing
President Trump escalated his campaign against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on September 30, calling for Powell to be "forced to resign" from the Fed's board and saying that if he…
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Trump Renames AI to Super Intelligence and Pentagon Launches Project Meridian Warfare Study
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on September 30 directing the entire executive branch to replace the term "Artificial Intelligence" with "Super Intelligence," or "SI," in…
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FTC Opens Broad Safety Probe Into OpenAI and Anthropic as OpenAI Accuses Chinese Rival Moonshot AI of Mass Data Theft
The Federal Trade Commission has opened an industry-wide investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other artificial intelligence companies over the potential dangers their products pose to…
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Google Launches Gemini 4 Argon with 1M Output Tokens and Cybersecurity Focus as OpenAI Partners with Synopsys on Chip Design AI
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, its most advanced AI model and the flagship of the Gemini 4 generation, after months of delays following strong pretraining evaluations…
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Synopsys and OpenAI Sign Multi-Year Deal to Build GPT-Synopsys Chip Design AI Model
Synopsys and OpenAI announced a strategic multi-year partnership on September 30, 2026, to jointly develop and commercialize GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model designed to accelerate…
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Softer US Core PCE at 3.0% Sparks Stock Rally and Pushes Goldman to Delay Fed Hike Forecast to December
A cooler-than-expected US inflation reading for August sent stocks higher and reduced pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise rates in October. The core PCE price index rose 3.0%…
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Bitcoin Retreats Below $84,000 After Brief $85,500 Spike as Bond Yields Rise and Bitget Hack Fallout Continues
Bitcoin surged briefly to $85,500 on Wednesday before giving back all gains, falling to $83,956 on Binance spot trading by 1:38 p.m. ET. The rally was sparked by August core PCE data that…
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Softer US Core PCE at 3.0% Sparks Stock Rally and Pushes Goldman to Delay Fed Hike Forecast to December
A cooler-than-expected US inflation reading for August sent stocks higher and reduced pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise rates in October. The core PCE price index rose 3.0%…
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Fed Inspector General Finds No Criminal Wrongdoing in Powell-Era Headquarters Renovation But Cites Major Management Failures
The Federal Reserve's inspector general released a long-awaited 120-page report on September 30 finding no reasonable grounds to believe federal criminal law was violated in the renovation…
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Open Standard Launches OUSD Stablecoin on Four Networks Backed by Visa, Stripe and Mastercard
Open Standard, backed by more than 200 companies including Visa, Stripe and Mastercard, launched its dollar-pegged stablecoin OUSD on September 30, deploying it simultaneously on Ethereum…
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Boeing Wins $20 Billion Navy Fighter Contract as Broad Market Rally Lifts Tech and Biotech Stocks
Boeing shares rose more than 3% on Wednesday after the company beat out Northrop Grumman to win a U.S. Navy contract worth more than $20 billion to develop and build the sixth-generation…
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Cal-Maine Foods Swings to a Q1 Loss as Egg Prices Collapse 42% and Results Miss on Every Metric
Cal-Maine Foods reported a net loss of $58.6 million for its fiscal first quarter of 2027, a dramatic reversal from a profit of $199.3 million in the same period a year ago, as a sharp…
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US Private Sector Added 90,000 Jobs in September as Hiring Accelerated for First Time Since May
The US private sector added 90,000 jobs in September, well above the consensus estimate of 38,000 and higher than the revised August figure of 36,000, according to ADP's monthly employment…
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Trump and Top AI CEOs Sign Voluntary Safety Accord, Rejecting New Government Regulation
President Trump hosted nearly 20 technology executives at a White House lunch on September 29, signing a voluntary AI safety accord he described as "almost like a constitution." Signatories…
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Middle East Crude Exports Recover to Prewar Levels But Oil Markets Stay Unsettled
Middle East crude oil exports have returned to prewar levels, according to analysts, as the region's major producers ramped up supplies through alternative pipelines, ports, and…
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Dangote Picks Honeywell for $300 Million Engineering Contract on Planned Kenya Mega-Refinery
Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has awarded Honeywell International a $300 million contract to provide engineering services and technology for its planned refinery in Kenya…
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August Core PCE Inflation Cools to 3.0% Year Over Year, Undershooting 3.3% Forecast
The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge came in softer than expected on September 30, with August core PCE rising 3.0% year over year against Wall Street's consensus of 3.3%, and up…
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US Stocks Stabilize on Final Day of September as PCE Data Looms and SoundThinking Surges on Buyout Deal
US equity futures steadied on September 30, 2026, the last trading day of the month, as investors positioned ahead of a closely watched PCE inflation report while Treasury yields hovered…
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Markets Hold Steady Ahead of September PCE Inflation Report as Fed Rate-Hike Odds Fall Sharply
Financial markets entered the final session of September 2026 in cautious but stabilizing mode, with investors focused squarely on the release of the PCE inflation report, the Federal…
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Hawkish Fed Commentary and Key US Data Dominate Currency Markets at Quarter-End
Currency markets entered the final session of the third quarter on September 30, 2026, with the US dollar holding firm near crucial longer-term technical levels as hawkish Federal Reserve…
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French, German and Italian Inflation Surges in September, Keeping ECB Rate Hike on the Table
Inflation accelerated sharply across major European economies in September, driven by surging energy costs and raising the prospect of another European Central Bank interest rate increase…
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Treasury Yields Slip on September 30 as Markets Brace for PCE Data and October Fed Hike Decision
U.S. Treasury yields pulled back on September 30, offering a brief reprieve to investors after the 30-year bond yield hit its highest level since 2002 the prior session, reaching just above…
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Trump Signs Morally Binding AI Accord With Tech Leaders and Rebrands Artificial Intelligence as Super Intelligence
President Trump convened the chief executives of America's leading artificial intelligence companies at the White House, emerging with a signed accord that the parties described as morally…
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China September PMIs Return to Growth as Mini Stimulus Package Draws Skepticism
China's factory activity expanded in September for the first time in three months, with the official manufacturing purchasing managers' index rising to 50.1 from 49.8 in August, snapping a…
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China Manufacturing PMI Returns to Growth in September as AI Boom Lifts High-Tech Output
China's official manufacturing purchasing managers index rose to 50.1 in September from 49.8 in August, ending two straight months of contraction and matching the median forecast in a…