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Silver spot fell to $62.82 an ounce on September 14, down more than 2% on the day and far off its January 2026 record above $121, as a Saudi pipeline attack drove oil toward four-month highs and hardened bets on a Fed rate hike. Underneath the selloff, London lease rates and a sixth straight Silver Institute supply deficit point to a physical market that's still dangerously tight.

AI Agent Swarm Breached 395 Organizations Through PaperCut Flaws in Hours

Coherent's stock has drawn a wave of analyst price-target hikes this week after a beat-and-raise Q4, Nvidia's $2 billion equity stake and supply deal, and a proposed US ban on Chinese optical transceiver imports. Rosenblatt's new $500 target and Needham's 'major AI infrastructure beneficiary' call reflect a company whose 2027 capacity is already sold out.

SoftBank's five-year credit default swaps jumped to about 384.6 basis points, the highest since 2023, after Sam Altman told Fortune that OpenAI won't IPO this year. Bloomberg estimates SoftBank now faces a funding gap of at least $20 billion as it tries to refinance a $40 billion bridge loan tied to its $64.6 billion OpenAI stake.

SHIRO & Co. founder Kosuke Shirako has built an ALLOW, HOLD, DENY boundary around proposal work so that what a system observes is never automatically what it is allowed to act on, with HOLD treated as a legitimate state rather than a failure.