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The biggest finance & markets story right now is: US debt interest costs hit $3 billion a day and jumped 8% in 2026—faster than spending, revenue, GDP - Fortune. US federal debt interest costs have climbed to $3 billion per day in 2026, an 8% jump that is outpacing the growth of federal spending, revenue, and GDP, while the overall budget deficit has swelled to nearly $2 trillion for the year.
Based on the latest finance & markets coverage: US debt interest costs hit $3 billion a day and jumped 8% in 2026—faster than spending, revenue, GDP - Fortune; AI Sell-Off Deepens on Hot Inflation; Nasdaq Drops 4.5%; Dussehra 2026: 6 bad money habits to give up this festive season. See the latest articles below for the full breakdown, with each story linked to its primary source.
Based on the latest finance & markets coverage: US debt interest costs hit $3 billion a day and jumped 8% in 2026—faster than spending, revenue, GDP - Fortune; AI Sell-Off Deepens on Hot Inflation; Nasdaq Drops 4.5%; Dussehra 2026: 6 bad money habits to give up this festive season. See the latest articles below for the full breakdown, with each story linked to its primary source.
Based on the latest finance & markets coverage: US debt interest costs hit $3 billion a day and jumped 8% in 2026—faster than spending, revenue, GDP - Fortune; AI Sell-Off Deepens on Hot Inflation; Nasdaq Drops 4.5%; Dussehra 2026: 6 bad money habits to give up this festive season. See the latest articles below for the full breakdown, with each story linked to its primary source.
US federal debt interest costs have climbed to $3 billion per day in 2026, an 8% jump that is outpacing the growth of federal spending, revenue, and GDP, while the overall budget deficit has swelled to nearly $2 trillion for the year.
The Nasdaq fell 4.5% last week — its worst weekly drop since June — as hotter-than-expected September inflation data revived fears the Federal Reserve will keep rates elevated, hammering AI-related stocks and sparking a rotation into health
Dussehra 2026, falling on Tuesday, 20 October, prompts financial advisor Yudhajit Baul to urge readers to ditch six 'toxic' money habits — from budget-less festive spending to blindly following social media stock tips — in favor of discipli
CoreWeave's mounting troubles threaten to shut down the market for AI-linked high-yield debt, according to Bloomberg's Credit Weekly, with rival coverage highlighting price hikes and its Nvidia relationship as the cloud provider's main defe
AI stocks are selling off ahead of a closely watched earnings season, with the Financial Times framing the pullback as a 'dress rehearsal' for a broader reckoning while markets await results from AI-favorite names like Microsoft and Shopify
Indian investors holding US-listed stocks like Apple and Nvidia cannot claim India's ₹1.25 lakh long-term capital gains tax exemption, which applies only to domestic equity investments and requires a longer 24-month holding period for forei
Multiple outlets report US federal interest costs have surged to a record $1 trillion annually, with the 2026 budget deficit hitting $1.992 trillion and debt-service growth of 8% outpacing spending, revenue, and GDP.
The US federal budget deficit for fiscal 2026 came in at $1.992 trillion, up 12% year-over-year, while US debt interest costs climbed 8% to roughly $3 billion per day.
Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Morgan Stanley each pitched tokenization as a growth opportunity on their Q3 earnings calls, framing it as additive to trading, payments, and advisory revenue rather than a threat to traditional finance.
Nine blockchain organizations launched the Quantum Alliance, an IETF-style open standards body to define 'quantum-ready' and create shared verification methods, as roughly 6.04 million BTC (~30% of supply) sit exposed to future quantum atta
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