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2026-10-19 · Semafor · Politics

Saudi to decide on postponing FII after Wall Street lobbying

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2026-10-08 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Blue Owl CEOs rebuff credit fears

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2026-10-01 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Where are Wall Street’s big egos today?

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2026-09-29 · Semafor · Politics

Trump antitrust chief Gail Slater plans a comeback

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2026-09-24 · Semafor · Politics

Newsmax stirs up trouble for Fox

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2026-09-22 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Fintech startups that hated banks are now becoming them

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2026-09-06 · Semafor

🔮 The Clippers will forfeit their next five first-round draft picks as penance for giving Kawhi Leonard “no-show” jobs, steered his way by team owner Steve Ballmer, to skirt the league’s salary cap. assertive

2026-09-14 · Semafor

🔮 Graft and political influence are particular concerns among international investors whose goodwill Indonesia, which runs both a budget deficit and a trade deficit, needs. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 Will the Fed follow? assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 We at Semafor Business aren’t tech experts, but we do know IPOs, and “we might cause the end of civilization” is a doozy of a risk factor. mixed

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 Todd Sisitsky, who has been TPG’s president since 2021, will join CVC by early 2028 after his non-compete expires, CVC announced. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 The deal, which unites Fox’s content empire of news and sports with Roku’s dominant connected-TV operating system, has worried some rivals, who fear that Fox will favor its own content. mixed

2026-09-17 · Semafor

🔮 Big bank executives this week warned that their third-quarter revenues would be down from the spring, when manic interest in AI stocks led to trading-floor windfalls. assertive

2026-09-17 · Semafor

🔮 Picture three competing CEOs, worried that their product might kill people, hopping on a conference call to discuss shutting it all down for a while. assertive

2026-09-22 · Semafor

🔮 Kalshi will let users juice their bets with borrowed money — but only some, showing where the prediction-markets platform thinks its future lies. assertive

2026-09-22 · Semafor

🔮 We might be early, but I don’t think we’re wrong. assertive

2026-09-29 · Semafor

🔮 The author of America First Antitrust and former Senate aide to JD Vance, Slater brought a tough enforcement mindset to the early months of Trump’s second term, but was marginalized as the administration took a pro-corporate turn and lost internal fights over mergers involving HPE and Live Nation, where the role of outside lobbyists drew criticism. assertive

2026-10-01 · Semafor

🔮 The case for boutiques hasn’t disappeared — there will always be a place for independent advice from talented bankers — but the ground has shifted. assertive

2026-10-08 · Semafor

🔮 I’ve written a lot that I think the panic in private credit is overblown, but there are real questions about how these loans will hold up, especially as interest rates stay high and borrowers get squeezed. assertive

2026-10-19 · Semafor

🔮 Saudi Arabia is set to make a final decision on whether to postpone its flagship investment conference in Riyadh as soon as Monday, after Wall Street executives privately relayed safety concerns to organizers, including the boss of the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, people familiar with the matter said. assertive