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Wall Street's AI Debt Machine Is Starting to Choke on Supply

Investors bought $47 billion of AI infrastructure bonds in Q3, triple last year's pace—and now nobody wants more.

Brent at 7, Americans All In

Oil's spiking, stocks are wobbling, and retail just set a new record for equity exposure. What could possibly go wrong?

Foreign Treasury Buying Fell 59% and Your Mortgage Just Felt It

International investors dumped U.S. debt at the fastest pace in years while long yields cracked 5.3%, and the bond vigilantes are back.

The S&P Just Hit a Record While 84% of Its Stocks Are Down 10%

The index touched an all-time high this week even as the vast majority of its components sit well off their own peaks—here's what that actually means.

AI Is Less Regulated Than Milk

Microsoft's president said the quiet part out loud this week. Meanwhile, robots are delivering blood and oil tankers are taking the scenic route.

GARNER, NC49 HOMESITES · FGC

The Pivot Has an Address. FG Communities Holdings Buys a 49-Homesite Community Outside Raleigh.

Less than a month after its board approved an affordable housing strategy, FG Communities Holdings (Nasdaq: FGC) closed on a manufactured housing community in Garner, North Carolina: 49 homesites on over 59 acres in the Raleigh metro.

The Ten-Year Just Hit 5.36% and the Fed Hiked Anyway

First rate increase since 2023 arrived with Treasury yields already at multi-decade highs—markets shrugged, then climbed.

All-Time Highs While Literally Everything Else Gets Weird

The S&P and Nasdaq are partying at record levels while bond yields surge, oil tanks, and India's market does the opposite of what economics textbooks say it should.

Wall Street Is About to Pay Itself $90 Billion This Year

The Street's on pace for record profits in 2026, and bonuses are expected to follow — all while bond traders warn yields could blow the party up.

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VerifyMe Is Now OpenWorld. Here Is Everything in the Closing 8-K.

The merger closed at 11:00 a.m. ET on September 30. VRME becomes OPNW on October 1, OpenWorld holders own about 85% of the company, a $1.50 special dividend pays Friday, and about three quarters of the shares are locked up on a 180 day schedule.

Everything Is Moving in Lockstep Now, and That's the Story

Oil and bonds are trading like conjoined twins. Markets can't decide if AI is an asset or a reckoning. And Michael Burry is feeling confident again.

Nasdaq Hit an All-Time High While Oil Quietly Cracked

The Nasdaq closed at a record Monday as Treasury yields fell for the fifth straight session and Brent crude slipped below $100 on Iran diplomacy rumors.

15,000NO VACANCY

Cities Are Putting Rats on Birth Control. The Company Making the Pill Just Had Its Best Quarter.

The Atlantic says the rat pill has gone mainstream in American cities. SenesTech, the Nasdaq micro cap behind it, just posted record revenue and a 73.6% gross margin, and most of its sales now come from online orders.

FGNX → FGC AFFORDABLE HOUSING PIVOT

FG Nexus Bought Back 46% of Itself. Now It Is Becoming an Affordable Housing Company.

A $10 million stake in FG Communities, a plan to buy land lease communities outright, a new name and a new ticker. After shrinking its share count nearly in half, FG Nexus (Nasdaq: FGNX) picks a lane.