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BREAKING: Elon Musk is once again a trillionaire. Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk has officially regained his trillionaire status following a significant market rally driven by surges in both SpaceX and Tesla shares. Read more: https://t.co/bTez4SSCO5

Anthropic is reportedly still targeting an IPO this year, potentially as soon as November. Traders can already get exposure to Anthropic, OpenAI and Oura through pre-IPO perpetuals on Liquid. Anthropic’s pre-IPO perpetual currently implies a $2.089 trillion valuation https://t.co/uEMafnwoBX

"Americans hoping for an 08-style housing crash to afford a home are out of luck," per NYP Even if home prices were to fall by up to 20% overnight, there would still be more equity in today's homes as a share of value than was in the market before the decline in 2008, she explains. Read more: https://t.co/yoLXMF2J8a

BREAKING: The U.S. State Department is monitoring a reportedly fatal case of "pneumonia of an unknown etiology" linked to a plague research laboratory in Russia, per ABC The US Department of State, in a statement to Al Jazeera, said Washington was 'monitoring the situation closely with the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and our other interagency partners'. Read more: https://t.co/YHRqyHxakb

BREAKING: The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve just fell to 283 million barrels, its lowest level since 1982. It dropped about 767,000 barrels last week. The reserve has lost about 132 million barrels since March, when President Trump authorized a 172 million barrel release as part of a 32-country emergency drawdown. It's now at just 40% of its 714 million barrel capacity, and well under half its 2010 peak of 727 million. It's nearing the 250 million barrel level considered the minimum for safe operations.

BREAKING: Trump: If the Democrats win, you’ll have a depression. If the Republicans win, you’ll each have $5,000 in your pocket. "If the Democrats win, you will have an economic depression, much like 1929," Trump said. "If the Republicans win, you will each have $5,000 in your pocket and economic success for our country like we have never ever seen before." Read more: https://t.co/gKHrdIp3RA

BREAKING: The 30-year Treasury yield just hit 5.70%, its highest level since 2002.

AMD, $AMD, is up nearly 195% this year. It's one of the 10 best-performing stocks in the S&P 500. Q2 revenue hit a record $11.5 billion, up 50%. Its data center business more than doubled to $6.7 billion, now 58% of sales. Anthropic committed to up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's next-gen AI chips. AMD expects data center revenue to more than double again in 2027.

Nvidia's, $NVDA, biggest server maker just had one of its biggest quarter. Foxconn reported Q3 sales of $95.4 billion, up 47% YoY, beating expectations of $89 billion. September alone hit a record $36.5 billion, up 38%, its first month ever above T$1 trillion.

BREAKING: Trump announces $90 checks for 20 million ‘wonderful seniors’ to help cover Medicare premiums, per NYP President Trump announced Friday that over 20 million "wonderful seniors" will receive $90 checks this month to help cover Medicare premiums. Read more: https://t.co/cNfuK9hefs

Strategy, $MSTR, is profitable again, for the first time in four quarters. It booked a $21 billion unrealized gain on its Bitcoin in Q3, per Bloomberg. The swing is massive: Q1: $14.5 billion loss Q2: $8.3 billion loss Q3: $21 billion gain The company holds about 848,000 Bitcoin, worth roughly $73 billion.

JPMorgan says don't panic about bond yields. The 10-year Treasury yield recently hit 5.34%, its highest since 2002. "Equities got hurt by the spike in bond yields, but we do not think this will persist," strategist Mislav Matejka wrote. He calls current investor sentiment "overly bearish."

The AI boom is minting money for tech billionaires. The world's 100 tech billionaires added a record $845 billion through September, per Bloomberg. Their combined fortune now stands at $4.6 trillion. Billionaires outside tech? Down $62 billion. Elon Musk alone gained $310 billion, about 40% of the entire index's increase.

Trump has said if Republicans win Congress, he will rapidly pass a healthcare plan that ends direct payments to insurance companies, instead giving the money directly to Americans to buy their own coverage. "And we'll give the money directly to you, the people, so you can buy your own much better healthcare at a much lower price and have a lot of money left over," he said. Read more: https://t.co/KentAx7NBE

Sam Altman: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

Bessent: "I can't control the bond market. What I can do is try to get people to slow down and think." "What I meant by 'I am the house' is that I have superior information."

BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi has announced a new filing. She announced up to $1 million in REOF XXX, LLC, an investment in LLC which is acquiring and managing a commerical office property in San Francisco.

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US mortgage applications have hit the lowest level since 1995, per YF

1 in 4 Americans doubt kids' measles vaccine safety, per Axios.

U.S. homebuyer demand is now weaker than during the 2008 housing crash. NAR's pending home sales index hit 71.2 in August, below any reading from 2008 to 2011. Contract signings are down roughly 45% from the 2020 peak and about 30% below pre-pandemic levels. Mortgage rates are the problem: signings peaked in 2021 when rates were near 3%. Nationally, contract signings today are running roughly 30% below where they were in the years leading up to the pandemic. Read more: https://t.co/jzfcpWMCqo

"AI labs are running models with the safeguards off behind closed doors," Alan Chan, a research fellow at GovAI, has said.

Argentina to offer citizenship for foreigners that make a $350,000 contribution to its treasury, or invest $800,000 in its bonds Economy Minister Luis Caputo unveiled the so-called 'golden passport' scheme at an investor event in Paris, saying applications are expected to open before the end of the year. Read more: https://t.co/fY4mxRISL2

"Trump just soft-launched higher inflation as the new solution for rebalancing the $40 trillion U.S. national debt," per FORTUNE

The S&P 500 is up 11.8% this year. Its top stocks are up several hundred percent: Sandisk: +649% Moderna: +574% Dell: +347% Micron: +279% Intel: +233% AI hardware and memory are driving almost all of it. https://t.co/hs9iHd526S

More than 400 schools in France to be closed on today as more protests planned, per the Guardian. Education minister says 24 schools have been burnt or ransacked and 78 staff members injured since student unrest began last month

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Brazil’s presidential race will go to a second round after the far-right candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, beat the incumbent leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but failed to secure the outright majority he needed to avoid a runoff on 25 October.

Billionaire George Soros has donated $102 million ahead of the midterms, per FORTUNE Soros-linked organizations donated $102 million to Democracy PAC, which was founded by Soros in 2019, according to Federal Election Commission records. Read more: https://t.co/lDK3HQhY7w