ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 The world of business spent this week confronting two realities at once. The first was exuberance. Artificial intelligence returned to the center of the market, pushing semiconductor companies higher, lifting the Nasdaq to a record and propelling AMD beyond a valuation once reserved for only the largest corporations on…
The Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan have raised interest rates as persistent inflation and energy pressures reshape the global outlook for borrowing costs, markets and the world economy.
ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 This was the week when several assumptions underpinning the global economy became harder to defend. Investors who spent years waiting for cheaper money watched the Federal Reserve raise interest rates for the first time in more than three years. Japan pushed borrowing costs to their highest level…
ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 For most people, artificial intelligence still exists behind a screen. A user types a question, a model produces an answer, and the interaction ends in the digital world. Anthropic is beginning to push beyond that boundary. The maker of Claude has established a wet laboratory in the San Francisco…
ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington next week, some of the most consequential people accompanying him may not be diplomats. Washington and Beijing are finalizing plans for a potential delegation of major Chinese business leaders to join Xi during his state visit, according to Reuters. Companies under…
ABE NEWS | SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 For much of the past two years, investors, companies and households had been waiting for the next great turn in monetary policy: the point at which inflation would retreat far enough for central banks to make money steadily cheaper again. This week delivered something very different. The U.S….
ABE NEWS | September 15, 2026 Eleven years ago, Intel spent approximately $16.7 billion buying Altera in one of the biggest semiconductor acquisitions of its era. The deal was supposed to give Intel a stronger position in programmable chips and bring another major technology business inside a company that was still one of the…
ABE NEWS | September 15, 2026 For much of the past few years, the global economy has been waiting for relief. Inflation had retreated from its worst levels, businesses had adjusted to a world of higher interest rates, and investors were increasingly looking toward the moment when borrowing costs could finally begin moving lower….
ABE NEWS | September 14, 2026 In 2019, Tabby’s proposition was remarkably simple. A customer wanted to buy something online but didn’t necessarily want to pay the entire amount immediately. Tabby placed itself at checkout and allowed that purchase to be divided into instalments. No bank branch. No traditional credit-card application. No complicated financial…
ABE NEWS | September 14, 2026 For decades, Canada has enjoyed one of the most valuable economic relationships any country could ask for. Immediately to its south sits the world’s largest economy. Canadian oil, cars, lumber, minerals, machinery, electricity and countless other products could cross one of the world’s longest borders into an enormous American…
