Morning News: September 12, 2025

China Warns Mexico Against Tariffs That Could Harm Chinese Goods

Russia’s Central Bank Cuts Key Rate for Third Consecutive Meeting

African Nations Tap IMF for $69 Billion With Pivot to Lender Seen Lasting

A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work

Georgia ICE Raid Netted Workers With Short-Term Business Visas

America’s Friends Will Never Trust the US Again

Charlie Kirk’s Killing Requires Trump to Soothe, Not Inflame

Golf and Diplomacy: How Alexander Stubb Won a Seat at Trump’s Table

The BLS Hallucinated a Million Jobs. The Fed Can’t Fix This

Wall Street Braces for Quarter-End Liquidity Stress in Money Markets

It Looks Like the ‘Vibecession’ Had It Right

Firm Inflation, Soft Jobs Data Pull Fed in Opposing Directions

Economists See Fed Rate Cut Next Week, at Least One More in 2025

The Fed Is Not ‘The Apprentice’: Trump Can’t Just Fire Whomever He Wants

Mortgage Rates Are at an 11-Month Low. Will That Save This Housing Market?

CEOs, Here’s Your Excuse to Watch Football

Labor Hoarding Looks Close to a Painful End

Solar Makers Battered by Trump’s Policies Are Ready to Counterpunch

Astroscale Sees Increase in Satellite Orders From UK, Japan

Freight Startup Flexport Forecasts Profitability in 2025—With an Asterisk

OpenAI Realignment to Give Nonprofit Over $100 Billion Stake

AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula—No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun

How Much Do We Want AI to Remember About Us?

CVC Strikes $1.5 Billion Deal for GoDaddy Rival Namecheap

Tesla Pivots to Robots as Investors Question Sales and Soaring Valuation

Health Care Costs Are Soaring. Blame Insurers, Drug Companies — and Your Employer

CEO of Tylenol Maker Lobbied RFK Jr. Not to Cite Drug as Autism Cause in Report

Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

If Pepsi Wants to Win, It Has to Play Coke’s Game

Is That Product Any Good, or Is It Just a Brand Halo?

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Posted by on September 12th, 2025 at 7:03 am


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