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Ousted Paraguay president under house arrest after banking crisis leaves 60% of country unable to access accounts

The Guardian /

Also: The New York Times Paraguay’s President Removed and Arrested Over Financial Crisis, MercoPress Paraguay’s Senate removes Santiago Peña, who is placed under arrest, and Pedro Alliana takes office

In other languages: Valor Econômico Ostentação, edifício 'The Matrix' e obras de arte: os sinais de que algo estava errado com o ueno bank (pt), Expansión (México) Quiebra de Ueno Bank exhibe fallas de supervisión y corrupción en Paraguay, advierte Moody’s (es), Handelsblatt Staatskrise in Südamerika: Santiago Peña als Präsident Paraguays abgesetzt (de), NRC Paraguay beëdigt nieuwe president temidden van financiële crisis, oud-president onder huisarrest (nl), Jornal de Negócios Banco central do Paraguai começa a devolver fundos aos lesados do banco Ueno (pt), Estadão Paraguai começa a devolver dinheiro aos correntistas do Ueno Bank (pt), Diario Financiero Senado de Paraguay aprobó por unanimidad la destitución de Santiago Peña por la quiebra de Ueno Bank (es), Aftenposten Paraguays president avsatt i riksrettssak og pågrepet – ny president tatt i ed (no) · see all

  1. Fast-Money Systematic Funds Stoked $2.3 Trillion Tech-Stock Rout

    Natalia Kniazhevich / Bloomberg /

    Also: The New York Times After a $2.5 Trillion Wipeout, Tech Investors Brace for More Pain, The Guardian Global stocks fall amid ‘big worries over AI’ after Democrats’ midterms triumph, Semafor Stock selloff goes global in worst rout in years, BBC Why the US midterms sparked an AI stock selloff, MarketWatch Data centers run on debt. That was a problem for bonds this year — and it’s only going to get worse., The Wall Street Journal Taiwan Activates Market-Stabilization Measures to Stem AI Bleeding, Canary Media Voters gave a big middle finger to data centers, Sky News Extinction events, data centre dramas and the US midterms: Why AI stocks lost trillions in one day, The Business Times Nasdaq futures rise after steep AI sell-off as chip stocks stabilise, Heatmap Was This Really the Data Center Election? · see all

  2. Anatomy of a Selloff: Sudden Chain Reaction Rattles Wall Street

    Jan-Patrick Barnert / Bloomberg /

  3. Data-Center Pullback May Shield Real Economy From AI Bubble

    Cecile Daurat / Bloomberg /

  4. Anthropic to press ahead with IPO targeting $1.5tn valuation

    Financial Times /

    Also: Bloomberg Anthropic IPO Valuation Under Pressure After Tech Rout

    In other languages: Dagens industri Källor: Anthropic trotsar AI-stormen – går till börsen snart (sv), Valor Econômico Anthropic enfrenta pressão para reduzir avaliação do IPO após tombo das ações de IA (pt), Diario Financiero Desconocida firma de inversión redobla su apuesta por Anthropic a pesar del desplome del sector tecnológico (es)

  5. Tesla to axe Cybertruck as Musk shifts focus to robotics and AI

    Financial Times /

    Also: The Guardian Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production as Elon Musk focuses on robotics and AI, The New York Times Tesla Is Ending Production of Its Cybertruck and Refocusing on the Cybercab, The Globe and Mail Tesla to pull the plug on Cybertruck after years of poor sales, Euronews Elon Musk's Tesla to 'wind down' Cybertruck production next year, DW Tesla to 'wind down' production of flop Cybertruck · see all

    In other languages: Le Figaro Tesla va progressivement arrêter la production du Cybertruck vers mi-2027, annonce Elon Musk (fr), Expansión (México) Elon Musk frenará la producción de Cybertruck tras su fracaso en ventas y le entrega su lugar al nuevo robotaxi de Tesla (es), Valor Econômico Tesla encerrará gradualmente produção do Cybertruck no Texas (pt), Dagens Næringsliv Tesla avvikler produksjonen av Cybertruck (no), Frankfurter Allgemeine Pick-up-Transporter: Tesla gibt den Cybertruck auf (de) · see all

  6. Contest to Succeed ECB Head Lagarde Is Officially a Two-Horse Race

    Paul Hannon / The Wall Street Journal /

    Also: Bloomberg Knot and De Cos Are the Only Two Candidates for ECB President

    In other languages: Le Temps Succession de Christine Lagarde à la BCE: les Pays-Bas et l’Espagne s’affrontent sur fond de tensions inflationnistes (fr), Le Figaro BCE : l'Espagnol Pablo Hernandez de Cos et le Néerlandais Klaas Knot candidats à la succession de Christine Lagarde (fr), Jornal de Negócios Espanhol Cos e neerlandês Knot são os candidatos à presidência do BCE (pt), Børsen To kandidater indstillet til at afløse Lagarde som ECB-chef (da) · see all

  7. Microsoft AI data-centre site in Amsterdam breached by protesters as Europe’s opposition grows

    Mike Corder and Suman Naishadham / The Globe and Mail /

    Also: Bloomberg Protesters Break Into Microsoft Data Center in Amsterdam

    In other languages: Handelsblatt Niederlande: Protest gegen Microsoft-Rechenzentrum in Amsterdam – viele Festnahmen (de), Jornal de Negócios Manifestantes invadem obras de centro de dados da Microsoft em Amesterdão (pt)

  8. Brent Crude Climbs Above $100 as Middle East Oil Supply Risks Persist

    Farhan Rafid / The Wall Street Journal /

    Also: Bloomberg Iran Oil Exports Near Zero But Peace Deal Not Likely, FGE Says

    In other languages: Aftenposten Oljefondet har falt med over 1500 milliarder under børsuroen (no), Dagens Næringsliv Oljefondet oppnådde forlik på over to milliarder etter Silicon Valley Bank-kollapsen (no), Jornal de Negócios Há "estrangulamentos", mas meta dos EUA para o petróleo da Venezuela "vai ser atingida" (pt), Cinco Días El Ibex firma su mejor semana en siete meses al calor de la banca y la caída del petróleo (es) · see all

  9. U.S. urges China to meet rare earths and agriculture commitments ahead of Trump-Xi meetings

    The Japan Times /

  10. The concentration of AI spending

    CEPR /

  11. Ottawa and Silicon Valley are both after Canadian AI processing power. Who will win?

    Murad Hemmadi and Joe Castaldo / The Globe and Mail /

  12. In Mexico, the concentration of data centers raises concerns among residents of Querétaro state

    Le Monde /

  13. Researchers Identify Suspicious Activity on Kalshi and Polymarket Before Times/Siena Poll Release

    Lauren McCarthy and Stuart A. Thompson / The New York Times /

  14. Tiger Brokers targets Hong Kong growth as Beijing curbs overseas stock trading

    Zoe SL Chan / South China Morning Post /

  15. Nvidia faces a more hostile Washington

    Ashley Gold / Semafor /

  16. ‘We Don’t Want Yalta 2.0’: Zelensky Warns Trump’s Russia-Europe Security Deal Could Be ‘Dangerous’

    Kyiv Post /

  17. Beijing Vows to Hit Back Against US Sanctions on China Companies

    Bloomberg /

  18. The midterms give Fed more room to raise rates, mut maybe less reason to do so

    Mint /

  19. Trump and U.S. Congress set to clash over economic costs of tariffs

    The Japan Times /

  20. US Treasury sanctions Canadian money services firms over Iran-related transactions

    Al-Monitor /

  21. Ottawa plans to shift oversight of banks’ anti-money-laundering efforts from FinTRAC to OSFI

    Alexandra Posadzki / The Globe and Mail /

  22. Turkey sets out $500bn energy plan to 2040 days before COP31, keeps coal in mix

    Ben Aris / bne IntelliNews /

  23. Japan and China shifting toward selective economic dependence

    The Japan Times /

  24. Three men charged in US with using AI to impersonate CEOs and steal millions

    Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian /

Earlier today

  1. ECB Considers Review of Bank Data Center Lending on AI Risk

    Laura Noonan and Esteban Duarte / Bloomberg /

  2. EU accuses TikTok of designing algorithm that creates ‘rabbit holes’

    Eliza Gkritsi / POLITICO Europe /

  3. For oil markets, Trump is anything but a lame duck

    Eric Reguly / The Globe and Mail /

  4. OpenAI Completes $11 Billion Portion of Funding at $1.25 Trillion Value

    Natasha Mascarenhas and Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg /

  5. Europe alarmed by US plans for security deal with Russia

    Financial Times /