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HighUpdated Sep 12, 9:09 AM

Oil posts its first weekly close above $100 since May despite a Friday pullback on Hormuz-talks hopes

WTI settled at $100.05 (-2.4%) and Brent at $104.61 (-2.8%) on Friday as profit-taking and tentative optimism over Iran-Gulf shipping talks eased prices, but both benchmarks gained about 9% on the week — the first weekly close above $100 since May. The IEA said more than 10M bpd of Gulf output is shut in, deferring a supply recovery to 2027.

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A Friday dip masks a big weekly gain driven by the Hormuz crisis.

CNBC and Yahoo Finance reported oil falling Friday on profit-taking and talk of possible Iran-Gulf negotiations, yet posting sharp weekly gains to close above $100 for the first time since May.

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The IEA frames the shock as a structural supply loss, not a spike, with recovery pushed to 2027.

The IEA's September report said more than 10 mb/d of Gulf output is shut in and global supply is set to fall in 2026, with Gulf diesel exports at roughly a quarter of pre-war levels and a recovery deferred to 2027.

StandardUpdated Sep 12, 1:09 AM

Bitcoin slides below $77,000 as near-5% yields and CPI risk pressure crypto

Bitcoin slipped below $77,000 on Friday, its lowest in about two weeks and down roughly 6% on the week, as a hot August CPI and next week's Fed decision weighed on non-yielding assets. Ether traded around $2,437, roughly flat, as the pullback tracked the broader risk-off tone from surging Treasury yields and rising rate-hike odds.

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Crypto coverage ties the slide to high yields and inflation-data risk.

Yahoo Finance reported bitcoin falling below $77,000 with ether near $2,440 and Solana around $100, pinning the weakness on the near-5% 10-year yield and the August CPI reinforcing Fed-hike bets.

HighUpdated Sep 11, 9:17 AM

Wall Street rebounds after longest losing streak since April as oil eases, despite hot August CPI

US stocks bounced Friday — Dow futures up about 470 points (0.9%), with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 up roughly 0.9-1% — as retreating oil offset a hotter-than-expected August CPI and rising Fed-hike odds. The major averages had fallen four straight sessions, the Dow's longest daily losing streak since late April, pressured by triple-digit oil, a hot PPI and yields near 5%. Oracle's blowout results added a tech tailwind.

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Markets coverage frames Friday as a relief bounce driven by easing oil rather than the inflation data.

TheStreet and Yahoo Finance reported futures rising Friday as investors looked past the sticky CPI to focus on retreating crude, after a four-session skid driven by $100 oil, a hot PPI and yields near 5%.

CriticalUpdated Sep 12, 9:09 AM

A global bond selloff pushes the 10-year Treasury yield to the cusp of 5%

The 10-year Treasury yield eased about a basis point Friday to roughly 4.96% but rose about 20 basis points on the week, near its highest since 2007, as a global bond selloff reflected bets on a possible Fed rate hike. Futures now price the fed funds rate near 4.1% by December, pressuring equities, housing and Treasury financing costs.

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Bond bears position for a Fed hike, sending yields toward 5%.

Bloomberg reported a global bond selloff driving 10-year Treasury yields to the cusp of 5%, with strategists calling it 'worrying times' for bonds as markets brace for tighter policy.

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Investor-focused coverage weighs what a near-5% yield means for income and borrowing.

CNBC examined what a 10-year yield approaching 5% means for income-seeking investors and for the cost of mortgages, corporate debt and government financing.

HighUpdated Sep 11, 9:17 AM

Oracle posts record quarter as AI cloud drives 121% infrastructure growth and a $664B backlog; shares surge

Oracle's fiscal Q1 beat with revenue of $19.35 billion, up 30% year over year, and adjusted EPS of $1.92. Cloud-infrastructure revenue more than doubled (up 121% to about $7.4 billion) and remaining performance obligations hit a record $664 billion, up $209 billion year over year, on $30 billion-plus of new AI-cloud bookings. Shares jumped about 7% after hours and rose again in Friday premarket, a rare bright spot amid the macro selloff.

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Coverage frames the blowout as validation of Oracle's AI data-center bets and a bellwether for the AI capex trade.

CNBC and Bloomberg reported Oracle's record quarter — 30% revenue growth, 121% cloud-infrastructure growth and a $664 billion backlog — sending shares sharply higher and reinforcing the AI-cloud demand story even amid a broad market selloff.

CriticalUpdated Sep 12, 1:09 AM

August CPI holds at 3.4%; core tops forecasts as a September Fed rate hike stays a coin flip

The delayed August CPI rose 0.4% on the month and 3.4% from a year earlier (unchanged from July); core rose 0.3% — hotter than the 0.2% forecast — though core annual eased to 2.4%, the slowest since 2021. Gasoline (+3.9%) drove more than a third of the headline gain. Despite 'locked-in' talk, CME FedWatch puts a Sept 16 quarter-point hike near 56% (Kalshi ~48%, Polymarket ~49%); about 89% see at least one hike this year. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh faces intense pressure into the Sept 15-16 meeting.

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Consumer-focused coverage stresses that even a cooler report might not spare households a rate hike amid an affordability crisis.

CNN Business framed the report around the affordability squeeze, noting that with inflation still above target and oil above $100, the Fed appears poised to raise rates next week regardless of the exact print.

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Business coverage frames the sticky print as effectively locking in a September Fed hike.

CNBC and Bloomberg reported the hotter-than-expected core print and framed it as keeping a September hike live but far from certain — CME FedWatch near 56% for the meeting — with Chair Warsh pressed to 'put up or shut up' on a rate increase.

HighUpdated Sep 12, 9:09 AM

US stocks snap a four-day skid but still log a losing week ahead of the Fed decision

US stocks rebounded Friday, with the Dow up about 509 points (+0.98%) to 52,573.29, the S&P 500 at 7,656.98 (+0.86%) and the Nasdaq at 26,333.04 (+0.96%), as oil above $100 and yields near 5% eased intraday. All three benchmarks still finished lower on the week, leaving next week's FOMC decision as the overhang.

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A technical relief bounce after a brutal week, fragile with a Fed hike looming.

CNBC and Yahoo Finance reported the indexes snapping a four-day slide as oil and yields eased intraday, with the Dow closing at 52,573.29; all three still logged weekly losses, leaving the FOMC decision as the key overhang.

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Easing oil and a pause in the bond selloff gave equities room to recover.

TheStreet and WTOP reported the concrete closing levels and framed the recovery as easing oil and a steadier bond market helping stocks, even as hot core CPI strengthened the case for the Fed to tighten next week.