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ING Group is a Dutch multinational bank offering retail, commercial, and investment banking services across Europe and beyond.
The dollar index is set for a 0.45% weekly fall, CNA reported, yet it rose on Wednesday when tech stocks sold off. The case that AI stress no longer lifts the dollar rests on one session and a conditional forecast.
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S&P 500 stocks hit a record on tech gains as Goldman Sachs forecast that Nvidia and Micron would supply a third of the index's third-quarter earnings growth. That leaves the season's headline growth rate dependent on two chip suppliers.
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Brent fell to $99.49 as Gulf crude flows outside Iran climbed past 81% of pre-war levels and the G7 agreed to release 100 million barrels. Rising tanker attacks near Hormuz keep the cost of shipping and insuring those barrels high.
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France's bond spread over Bunds touched about 150 basis points on Friday, the most since 2011, and the euro fell to $1.1118 on Monday, a 17-month low. Holders of unhedged euro assets now carry French fiscal risk through the currency as well as through the bonds.
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Britain's 30-year gilt yield touched 6.02% on Oct. 1, the first G7 long yield above 6% since Italy's in 2012, with the US 10-year at a 24-year high of 5.34%. Governments pay these rates on debt they roll over or newly issue, so the bill depends on how long yields stay up.
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Kalshi prices Democrats taking the Senate at 61% and Polymarket at 65%, while Piper Sandler's upgrade reached only 45% and still calls the chamber roughly a toss-up. The two baselines sit 16 points apart.
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Fast Company reports that Treasury secretary Scott Bessent backed a 90-day government preview of new frontier models so agencies could patch first. The order that emerged asks for 30 days, voluntarily, and deployers read whatever the vendor chooses to publish.
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The far right's landslide in Saxony-Anhalt leaves the mainstream parties a majority they can only build with the Left Party, which the CDU also refuses to touch, so the firewall's margin now depends on wasted votes.
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U.S. diesel futures hit their highest since 2022 and the crack spread topped $106 a barrel. Against $90.33 crude, that puts 54 cents of every wholesale dollar in the refining step. That margin is priced in months. A plant is priced in years.
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European gas storage sits at 63% against a flexible 75% November target. The front month has traded above deferred contracts all summer, and the shortfall carried out of March lands in 2027 budgets.
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Every megawatt of both North Lanarkshire buildings is contracted, and a £202m National Wealth Fund guarantee still covers 80 percent of the commercial bank tranche.
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A logistics contractor's intrusion stopped shipments and exposed customer delivery data at Bol, De Bijenkorf, ING and Valve. None of them were breached themselves.
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