Inflation cooled sharply in June while Morgan Stanley delivered record earnings and IBM suffered its worst trading day on record. Markets reacted positively to the inflation data and bank results but remain on edge over potential oil-price spikes from Middle East conflict.
U.S. inflation posted its largest monthly decline since 2020.
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IBM stock plunged 25% after weak preliminary Q2 results.
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The Dow fell more than 4% in September while Micron posted an 11-fold data center revenue increase and beat expectations. Kashkari stated inflation is still too high at around a 3% rate.
A $110 billion media merger closed Tuesday while Elon Musk regains trillionaire status and former AI researchers issue safety warnings. Investors are watching these developments as markets open higher.
OKXICE has notified the SEC of plans to operate nonstop tokenized trading for more than 60 U.S. equities under the Innovation Exemption, with pairs against stablecoins and access limited to verified wallets on XLayer.
NVD published records for three IBM DataStage on Cloud Pak for Data 5.4.0.0 vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-82101, CVE-2026-82103, CVE-2026-82110) that IBM rates 9.6 CVSS. They are covered by IBM's Sept. 21 bulletin, which says to upgrade to 5.4 patch 7 or later.
IBM disclosed CVE-2026-96012, a privilege escalation flaw in Db2 Mirror for i versions 7.4, 7.5, and 7.6 that IBM rates 9.9 CVSS. An authenticated attacker could bypass checks to execute malicious code and gain elevated privileges. Fixes are available.
