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A federal judge approved Paramount’s settlement with 12 states, clearing its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition to close under five years of production, worker and competition safeguards.
Four senior senators introduced a bipartisan permitting bill that would speed energy-project reviews and require data centers to cover associated transmission costs.
Brazil and the United States agreed on September 30 to create a working group on a possible trade agreement, but no deal or tariff changes have been finalized.
The Dallas Fed’s third-quarter Energy Survey found rising oil and gas production alongside wider uncertainty about prices and investment planning.
AMD’s planned $8.2 billion all-stock World Labs acquisition would add Fei-Fei Li and spatial-intelligence research to its expanding AI business.
The U.S. advance goods-trade deficit widened 11.5% to $132.6 billion in August as imports increased faster than exports, Census Bureau data show.
HPE says Vultr ordered $1.2 billion of AMD Helios AI racks for U.S. data centers as HPE raised its long-term networking growth targets.
BEA raised its third estimate of second-quarter real GDP growth to a 2.2% annual rate from 1.5%, citing revised investment, consumer and government spending.
BEA’s September 30 release puts August PCE inflation at 3.4% over 12 months and consumer spending up 0.9% from July, with broad revisions to prior data.
ADP’s September estimate showed 90,000 private-sector jobs added, up from a revised 36,000 in August. It is separate from the federal jobs report due Friday.