Finance
Generac Grants Amazon Warrants for Up to 1.69 Million Shares in Data Center Generator Supply Deal; Stock Jumps
Amazon can buy up to about 2.9% of Generac at $200.9266 a share, with most of the warrant vesting only as Amazon's payments for backup generators climb toward $8 billion.
House Panel Takes Up Bitcoin Reserve Bill a Day After Senate Blocks Crypto Market-Structure Bill 50-49
The House Financial Services Committee is marking up H.R. 8957 on Sept. 16; bitcoin, Coinbase and Circle all fell on Sept. 15 after the Senate's CLARITY Act cloture vote failed.
Lennar Reports Third-Quarter Results the Same Day as the Fed's Rate Decision
Lennar releases fiscal third-quarter numbers after Wednesday's close, hours after the Federal Reserve's September 16 announcement. FedEx, sometimes grouped into this week's earnings coverage, does not report again until its fiscal first-quarter results on October 28.
Baldwin Group Agrees to $32.50-a-Share Take-Private Deal Valued at $7.7 Billion With Sequence Holdings and Michael Dell's Family Office
The Tampa-based insurance brokerage said on September 14, 2026 that an entity formed by Sequence Holdings and DFO Management will buy a majority stake in an all-cash deal, with employees rolling over equity and closing targeted for the first quarter of 2027.
Chip and AI Stocks Fall in Seoul, Tokyo and U.S. Premarket After Amodei, Altman and Musk Call for Slowing Frontier AI Development
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on Sept. 12, 2026 urging labs to "pace the frontier"; Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed it, and AI-linked shares fell on Monday, Sept. 14.
SpaceX's Nasdaq-100 Weighting Set to Rise to About 2.8% From 1.3% in Sept. 21 Rebalance
Nasdaq's pro forma data show SpaceX's index weight more than doubling after lockup expirations expanded its tradable share count, a change analysts say will force billions in buying by funds that track the index.
Dollar Index Ends Friday at 99.04 After Touching 99.36 on August Inflation Data
The dollar gave back an early pop on September 11 as August core inflation came in at 0.3% and traders weighed roughly even odds of a Federal Reserve rate increase on September 16.
Oracle Reports 30% Revenue Growth and $664 Billion Backlog; Shares Close Down 1.7% After Intraday Rally
Oracle's fiscal first-quarter cloud-infrastructure sales rose 121% and its contracted backlog grew to $664 billion, while the stock gave up an early gain and closed lower on September 11.
University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index Falls to 47.8 in Preliminary September Reading
The survey's early-September estimate is down from 51.7 in August and below the 51.0 forecast, with year-ahead inflation expectations rising to 4.6%.
ECB Raises Key Rates 25 Basis Points, Lifting Deposit Rate to 2.50%; Euro Slips to About $1.16 as U.S. Producer Prices Rise 0.4% in August
The European Central Bank's second hike since the U.S.-Iran war began was unanimous and widely expected; the euro gained against most major currencies but fell against a dollar lifted by hot U.S. producer-price data one day before the August CPI report.
Kroger Reports 0.2% Identical-Sales Growth in Second Quarter, Lowers Full-Year Sales Outlook and Reaffirms Earnings Guidance
In CEO Greg Foran's first earnings report, Kroger posted $971 million in operating profit for the 12 weeks ended August 15, 2026, cut its full-year identical-sales range to 0.2%-0.8%, and left its adjusted per-share earnings forecast unchanged.
Gold Trades Back Above $4,400 an Ounce as Dollar Slips to Four-Month Low, Ending Three-Session Slide
Gold rose about 1% on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, as traders waited on U.S. inflation data before the Federal Reserve's September 16 decision; the metal remains roughly 21% below its January 28 intraday record of $5,589.38.