‼️ 🇬🇧 📲 The UK plans to mandate Apple, Google and other tech firms to block children from capturing, viewing or sharing nude images on their devices, aiming to curb grooming, blackmail and coercive pressure. Privacy advocates warn the measures could raise surveillance concerns by requiring age verification and digital-ID checks.
‼️ 🚕 A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Uber’s Chief Operating Officer Andrew Macdonald bought 70,000 Uber shares on Sept. 4 for roughly $5.3 million. The stock was purchased across two transactions at prices between $75.23 and $76.85 a share
‼️ 🛢️ 🇧🇷 Brazil’s environmental regulator Ibama has authorized Petrobras to drill the Manga, Morpho Extension and Crotalus wells in the Foz do Amazonas basin, clearing the way for work expected in 2027. The wells will help assess reservoir dynamics and the commercial potential of the Morpho discovery, a key step for a basin estimated to hold up to 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent and viewed as central to replenishing Brazil’s roughly 21 billion boe of reserves.
‼️ BREAKING: Bessent is expected to announce a larger U.S. Treasury buyback of about $5 billion to $6 billion, drawing attention to long-dated bonds ahead of 10- and 30-year auctions. A bigger operation could curb net long-term debt supply and help ease elevated Treasury yields.
‼️ 🧠 BREAKING: Corning jumped more than 7% to close at $165.72 after securing a multi-billion-dollar fiber supply agreement with Verizon. The 2027–2032 deal covers over 80 million miles of high-density optical fiber and connectivity solutions for broadband, long-haul networks and AI hyperscaler infrastructure, strengthening Corning’s exposure to data-center demand.
‼️ 🇮🇷 BREAKING: IRGC NAVY WARNS OIL TANKER CREWS NEAR KUWAITI & BAHRAINI PORTS HOSTING US FORCES TO EVACUATE, THREATENING TO TARGET VESSELS IN RETALIATION FOR US STRIKES ON IRANIAN OIL TANKERS
‼️ 🇮🇷 🇸🇦 BREAKIKG: Brent crude climbed to its highest level since late July, rising about 1% to settle near $98 a barrel after briefly touching $98.99, as fresh strikes on Middle East energy infrastructure— including reported explosions at Iran’s key export terminal on Kharg Island—renewed supply-disruption fears. The rally was further supported after Saudi Arabia said Houthi attacks forced temporary halts at several of its energy facilities, underscoring the region’s vulnerability to escalation.
‼️ The Dow fell 600 points in a second straight loss as rising oil prices heightened inflation concerns ahead of key data later this week. The readings could shape expectations for next week’s Federal Reserve meeting, with fed funds futures pricing a 60% probability of a 25-basis-point rate hike on Sept. 15–16.