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Broadcom and a banking syndicate are lining up $60 billion in fresh debt to finance artificial intelligence chips and infrastructure for customers including Anthropic. Banks are preparing syndication letters for a $42 billion Class A senior-secured tranche, while Blackstone is leading an $18 billion Class B junior debt tranche with a $9 billion personal commitment. The new borrowings arrive as Broadcom agrees to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion to fund roughly one-third of a five-year, $125.2 billion lease commitment for tensor processing unit computing capacity. That dual role makes Broadcom both the chip supplier and the lender, concentrating credit and operational risk on a single client expected to become its largest XPU customer in 2027. The $60 billion package would nearly double Broadcom's total debt from the $66.5 billion carried at the end of fiscal 2025. That debt reduction followed a prior-period jump to $68.9 billion in fiscal 2024 after the VMware acquisition, though net debt stood at about $35.4 billion alongside $24.0 billion in cash and short-term investments. Cash from operations reached $14.2 billion in the quarter ended August 2 against $532 million of capital expenditure. Analysts expect Broadcom's revenue to rise from $63.9 billion in fiscal 2025 to $106 billion in fiscal 2026, and eventually reach $272 billion by fiscal 2028. Anthropic's prospectus warns of potential conflicts of interest arising from Broadcom's dual position, noting that defaults could accelerate lease obligations and restrict access to the credit line. Anthropic is reportedly considering an initial public offering as early as mid-November.

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AT&T signed a multi-year supply agreement valued at more than $3 billion with Corning to purchase the fiber and cable required for its domestic network expansion. Corning will provide the infrastructure materials as the telecommunications operator works toward its target of reaching 60 million fiber locations by the end of 2030. The agreement builds on AT&T's commitment of more than $250 billion over five years to strengthen U.S. connectivity infrastructure, alongside its $5.75 billion acquisition of Lumen's fiber business. Surging data consumption is driving the expansion, with average monthly household usage on AT&T Fiber now exceeding 1 terabyte, which is five times higher than consumption levels recorded in 2016. That figure is projected to reach 2 to 2.5 terabytes per month by 2030 as streaming, cloud services, and artificial intelligence applications expand. Corning manufactures the optical fiber and cable at its U.S. facilities, supplying materials that support AT&T's union-represented workforce of technicians who build and maintain the network. Following the announcement, Corning shares rose 3.3 percent in premarket trading. The contract follows a similar multibillion-dollar fiber supply agreement between Corning and Verizon earlier in the month, as major network operators compete for domestic manufacturing capacity amid rising infrastructure demand.

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Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will operate under the corporate name Skydance following their pending $110 billion merger, CEO David Ellison announced Friday. The combined entity expects to close the transaction on October 6 and will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SKYD after moving from the Nasdaq. The corporate rebrand leaves the underlying studio names and networks, including Paramount+, HBO Max, CBS, CNN, and the DC Universe, intact as consumer-facing brands. Under the terms cleared by a judicial settlement with state attorneys general this week, Paramount must release a minimum number of theatrical films over the next five years, starting with 30 annually in the first two years. Former Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz will serve alongside Ellison as co-CEO of the newly formed conglomerate.

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Amazon is seeking external investors for an $8 billion financing structure to offload advanced Nvidia chips and ease the capital strain of its artificial intelligence expansion. The e-commerce and cloud provider has held discussions in recent weeks to place thousands of Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips already deployed across more than a dozen United States data centers into a special-purpose vehicle. Amazon would then lease the hardware back from the vehicle, adopting an asset-light route as heavy infrastructure spending weighs on cash flow. Under the proposed arrangement, the vehicle would issue debt to finance the hardware while offering outside investors an equity stake of up to 10 percent. The initiative follows a period where surging capital expenditures dragged trailing twelve-month free cash flow down to negative $7.6 billion, driven largely by a $66.1 billion increase in property and equipment purchases. Amazon shares edged 0.6 percent higher in premarket trading on Friday following the report, leaving the stock up 7.5 percent for the year despite a 3.9 percent decline in September.

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Nvidia shares hit a new all-time intraday high of about $237.83 on October 2, overtaking the previous record set in May. The immediate catalyst came from Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore, who restored Nvidia as the firm's top semiconductor pick after meetings with CEO Jensen Huang and CFO Colette Kress. Morgan Stanley kept its Overweight rating and $300 price target, pointing to Nvidia's new product cycle and growing demand from AI labs and agentic AI. A weaker-than-expected US jobs report aided the broader market by pushing investors away from expectations for another near-term Federal Reserve rate hike, helping the Nasdaq reach record territory. Nvidia also added $150 billion to its share-buyback authorization on September 28, taking the remaining program to $235 billion. Across 61 analysts tracked by S&P Global, Nvidia's average target now stands at $327.70, implying roughly 40% upside from Friday's close. Nvidia stock closed at an all-time high on Friday, capping a comeback that has lifted the chipmaker's total market value to around $5.7 trillion.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney designated the Pacific Link oil pipeline a project of national interest on Thursday, invoking new legislation to fast-track regulatory approval for the 1,250-kilometer project. The pipeline will carry up to one million barrels of crude oil per day from Bruderheim, Alberta, to a deep-water terminal near Delta, British Columbia, with construction targeted to begin in September 2027. The federal government estimates the project will cost between C$35.2 billion and C$43.7 billion, boost gross domestic product by up to C$30 billion annually, and create 140,000 jobs. Currently, 90 percent of Alberta's oil exports go to the United States, and the new route aims to reduce that reliance to between 65 and 70 percent by opening access to Asian markets. The project will be developed by Trans Mountain Corp. and is jointly backed by the federal and Alberta governments, alongside Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Corp., which holds an initial 10 percent stake with an option for another 10 percent. A further 10 percent ownership stake will be offered to Indigenous groups. The fast-tracked regulatory review will be conducted by the Major Projects Office and the Canada Energy Regulator, with a deadline set for September 1, 2027.

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Hormel Foods agreed to acquire value-added chicken supplier Brakebush Brothers for approximately $1.06 billion in cash, expanding its foodservice footprint and nearly tripling chicken's share of its protein portfolio. The transaction values Brakebush at roughly 10.7 times estimated adjusted EBITDA for calendar 2026 before synergies, or 8.9 times including anticipated annual run-rate cost synergies of $20 million. The Westfield, Wisconsin-based target generated $1.2 billion in net sales over the last 12 months across five production facilities and two research and development labs. Chicken has historically accounted for less than 5% of Hormel's protein portfolio, but that share will rise to closer to 13% following the acquisition. Brakebush will operate as a subsidiary reporting within Hormel's foodservice segment. Hormel plans to fund the purchase with cash on hand and new debt, pushing pro forma net debt to adjusted EBITDA slightly above its long-term target range of 1.5 times to 2 times at closing. The transaction is structured on a cash-free, debt-free basis and is expected to close during the first quarter of fiscal 2027.

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Novartis agreed to pay Abogen Biosciences up to $7.8 billion for access to its RNA technology and an option to license its lead program ABO-2203. Under the terms announced Friday, Novartis will pay $575 million up front for global rights to the lead asset and an option for next-generation T cell engagers, with the remaining $7.2 billion tied to R&D and commercialization milestones. The drug candidate is an mRNA-encoded biologic that targets CD3 and CD19 proteins to instruct patient cells to produce T cell engagers in vivo. Abogen presented early data in April from a study of ABO2203 in relapsed or refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Three trial participants experienced significant adverse events including drops in white blood cell counts and clotting proteins, though those side effects were resolved during the trial. The agreement follows a series of clinical setbacks for Novartis in September, including the pause of an autoimmune CAR-T therapy trial after three patient deaths, the failure of a genetic medicine developed with Ionis Pharmaceuticals, and the clinical trial failure of del-desiran.

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Bitcoin surged past $87,000 on Friday as September nonfarm payrolls missed expectations by a wide margin. The US economy added just 29,000 jobs during the month, falling well short of the anticipated 84,000 to 90,000 consensus. August payroll growth was simultaneously revised down from 162,000 to 133,000. The weaker labor data triggered an immediate retreat in US bond yields, with the 10-year Treasury yield easing to 5.2% and the 30-year yield settling at 5.573%. Traders rapidly scaled back hawkish interest-rate bets, reducing the implied probability of a 0.25% Federal Reserve rate hike at the October meeting to 18% from 64% a week prior. Bitcoin touched a high of $87,229 on Bitstamp before encountering overhead resistance and pulling back below $86,000. Equities participated in the relief rally at the Wall Street open, sending the S&P 500 up 1% and the Nasdaq Composite up 1.8%.

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The Competition and Markets Authority published its preliminary findings from a fast-tracked Phase 2 investigation into the £2 billion acquisition of broadband network Netomnia by nexfibre's parent companies, concluding the transaction would substantially lessen competition in the wholesale supply of fixed broadband services. Nexfibre, a joint venture backed by Liberty Global, Telefónica, and InfraVia Capital, agreed to buy Netomnia in February 2026 to add more than 3.4 million premises and over 500,000 customers to its footprint. The regulator argued that rival altnet CityFibre likely would have acquired Netomnia in an alternative scenario, preserving a third wholesale competitor across roughly 32 percent of the combined footprint rather than the 18 percent expected under the nexfibre transaction. The CMA also rejected the buyers' efficiency claims, noting that Virgin Media O2's independent cable-to-FTTP upgrade programme would achieve similar scaling without a merger. Parties involved now have until October 16, 2026, to submit remedy proposals before a final decision is reached by the statutory deadline of December 15, 2026.

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