Finance
Paramount Skydance and 12 State Attorneys General Hold Settlement Talks Over Warner Bros. Discovery Deal, Reuters Reports
Reuters reported Friday that talks over the $110 billion takeover have advanced and could produce a deal within days; a court-ordered settlement conference is set for Oct. 14-15 and trial for March 2, 2027.
U.S. Expected to Hold Off on Announcing New 'Excess Capacity' Tariffs Until After Sept. 24 Trump-Xi Meeting, Bloomberg Reports
A Section 301 report that would recommend a 7.5% tariff on Chinese goods is not expected before the Washington summit, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg; the administration has not given a public reason.
Copart Begins $10.50-a-Share Cash Tender Offer for ACV Auctions, Valuing It at About $1.9 Billion
The offer, launched September 17 through a Copart subsidiary and backed by both boards, runs until September 30 and carries no financing condition.
Nvidia CEO Says Chip Unit Sales Should Roughly Double in 2027; U.S. Stocks Rebound Sept. 17 After Fed-Driven Drop
Jensen Huang told reporters in Scotland that Nvidia expects to sell about twice as many AI chips next year; U.S. indexes and semiconductor shares rose the same day, recovering ground lost after the Federal Reserve's rate increase.
Trump Signs Memorandum Directing Agencies to Identify and Remove Canadian-Origin Goods From Federal Civilian Purchasing
The September 16, 2026 memorandum orders OMB and the U.S. Trade Representative to find Canadian goods in the civilian procurement system and take steps to remove them, but does not itself ban any purchase.
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.