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SVET

• US ten-year Treasury yields stall just below 5 percent, Fed warns of inflation. Following the FOMC meeting on September 16, 2026, US Treasury yields fell and the ten-year settled just below 5 percent. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh reminded that inflation remains too high, and most Fed officials expect further rate hikes.
• Oil fell after China, at Saudi Arabia’s request, asked Iran to limit Houthi attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure.

EURÓPA

• Italian debt heads towards 139 percent of GDP, Giorgetti speaks of alarming pace. Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Giancarlo Giorgetti warned of rapidly growing costs of servicing Italian debt, expected to reach almost 139 percent of GDP this year, overtaking Greece in the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the Eurozone.

SLOVENSKO

• NKÚ: three consolidation packages failed to stop debt, heading towards 92 billion euros. NKÚ SR states that despite three consolidation packages, state debt continues to grow and is heading towards 92 billion euros, also pointing to the risky sale of hospital claims to private traders.

ZLATO

• Venezuelan government and opposition nearing agreement to move gold to New York. According to the Financial Times, the parties are nearing an agreement to move 31 tons of gold from the Bank of England to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with the interim government gaining legal control, but not being able to immediately monetize the gold.

AKCIE

• Buffett handed over the position of chairman of Berkshire after over 50 years, stock lags behind S&P 500 for the second year. Warren Buffett became honorary chairman of Berkshire Hathaway on September 18, 2026, with his son Howard as the new chairman, Greg Abel remaining CEO, while the stock lags behind the S&P 500 index despite strong profits.
• Stocks finished mixed with higher yields, gold and silver hold weekly gains. US stocks finished mixed on Friday as the yield on the 10-year US Treasury jumped to 5.00 percent after the Fed’s rate hike, but gold and silver held weekly gains.
• Kyndryl to assess commercialization of AI platform MAX Power for hydrogen exploration. MAX Power Mining Corp. commissioned Kyndryl to develop a commercialization strategy for the MAXX LEMI platform within a nine-week engagement with no guaranteed outcome.

KRYPTO

• Bitcoin reached $80,846, short positions worth over $445 million liquidated on the market. The sharp rise in Bitcoin triggered a short squeeze, resulting in the forced liquidation of short positions worth more than $445 million, although Bitcoin remains nearly 20 percent below its previous all-time high.
• US sanctioned Iranian crypto exchange BitBank for bitcoin payments to IRGC. The Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on BitBank, controlled by Babak Zanjani, for transferring hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin on behalf of the Revolutionary Guard.
• XRP rose by 6.93 percent, daily chart still bears bearish death cross. According to price data from CoinGecko, cited by the Decrypt portal, XRP rose by 6.93 percent as Bitcoin returned above $80,000, but the XRP daily chart still bears a bearish death cross formation.

NEHNUTEĽNOSTI

• US homebuilding fell again in August, permits turned negative. Instead of the expected 6.1 percent increase in housing starts, there was a 2.6 percent decrease, with single-family home construction growing, but apartment construction plummeted by 21.7 percent and building permits also fell.

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