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Credit Agricole SA has delayed selling a 10-year Canadian dollar bond after France’s prime minister resigned unexpectedly on Monday, according to people with knowledge of the transaction.

President Donald Trump said 25% duties on medium- and heavy-duty trucks would begin Nov. 1, the latest expansion of his tariff regime aimed at protecting domestic industries.

OpenAI/AMD, Antifraud Co., M&A scoops, World Cup tickets, Gary Gensler’s cell phone and Citadel Insecurities.

Christine Lagarde suggested the European Central Bank has circled in on its inflation target and expects the economy to pick up in 2026.

Christine Lagarde suggested the European Central Bank has circled in on its inflation target and expects the economy to pick up in 2026.

The steady drum beat of federal funding threats totaling billions of dollars is renewing municipal investors’ qualms about lower-rated state and local borrowers.

Verizon Communications Inc. named Dan Schulman as chief executive officer, replacing Hans Vestberg as the company faces fierce competition for subscribers in a tight market. Vestberg, who has served as CEO since 2018, will stay on through Oct. 4, 2026, to help ensure a smooth transition in leadership, including the integration with Frontier Communications, the company said in a surprise announcement on Monday.  Bloomberg’s John Butler reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Fifth Third Bancorp agreed to buy Comerica Inc. for about $10.9 billion in stock, the largest US bank deal this year and a sign that the logjam blocking big mergers in the industry may have broken under the Trump administration’s deregulation efforts. The deal will create the ninth-largest bank in the country, with about $288 billion in assets, the two companies said in a statement Monday. The per-share transaction value represents a 17% premium to Comerica’s closing share price Friday. Bloomberg’s Herman Chan reports. (Source: Bloomberg)

Expected volatility in the Treasuries market has sunk to the lowest in almost four years as the US government shutdown delays key economic data releases and deprives traders of catalysts for large price swings.

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on «Bloomberg Open Interest.» OpenAI strikes again–inking a deal with AMD that’s sending shockwaves through the chip industry. Fifth Third scoops up Comerica for nearly $11 billion dollars — in the biggest US bank deal this this year. The CEO Tim Spence joins the show to talk about the deal. Tesla is leading the Mag 7 higher as the electric-car maker teases a product announcement in a series of cryptic posts. And Voyager Chairman and CEO Dylan Taylor joined the C-Suite on Bloomberg Open Interest to talk his company’s new AI-enabled space station Starlab. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Spain’s Naturgy Energy Group SA is offering a 3.5% stake in an effort to increase the stock available for trading in the market.

Voyager’s stock may have cooled since its public debut in June, but its ambitions are anything but grounded. The company’s AI-powered space station, Starlab, is ready for launch. CEO Dylan Taylor joined Bloomberg Open Interest in the C-suite to talk about its mission in bringing AI to space. (Source: Bloomberg)

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President Emmanuel Macron gave his outgoing prime minister, Sebastien Lecornu, 48 hours to negotiate with France’s political parties in a last-ditch effort to prevent the country from falling deeper into crisis.

US President Donald Trump is pressing Israel and Hamas to secure a settlement to the two-year conflict that’s devastated Gaza and destabilized the Middle East, with the warring sides starting mediated negotiations.

Michael Goldfarb so admired Brooklyn Dodgers legend Jackie Robinson that he kept a brick from Ebbets Field in his childhood bedroom.

Chemicals giant Ineos Group Ltd. plans to cut production in Germany, blaming high costs and cheap imports.

Shell Plc.’s LNG Canada is currently on track to load its first liquefied natural gas cargo from the facility’s second unit as soon as this week as the project continues to ramp up in the next month, according to people familiar with the matter.

For the Treasury market, this historically has been a bad week. If it happens again this year, Morgan Stanley strategists say investors should buy the dip “with both hands.”

New Zealand’s central bank is expected to cut interest rates this week but economists are divided over how aggressively it will respond to the weak economy.

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said Britain must boost investment if it wants to reap the rewards from any economic boom triggered by artificial intelligence.

France’s Bruno Le Maire said he has stepped down from the government in order to facilitate the formation of a new cabinet after the resignation of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu.

France’s Bruno Le Maire said he has stepped down from the government in order to facilitate the formation of a new cabinet after the resignation of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu.

France’s Bruno Le Maire said he has stepped down from the government in order to facilitate the formation of a new cabinet after the resignation of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu.

The Trump administration is not currently considering a deal that would see it take a stake in Critical Metals Corp., a White House official said Monday, after a report suggesting Washington was considering a position in the rare earths company sent shares skyrocketing.

A federal judge in Maryland denied the Justice Department’s request to pause Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation fight during the government shutdown.

Giorgia Meloni’s candidate Roberto Occhiuto won a regional election for governor in Italy’s Southern region of Calabria, further boosting support for the Italian Prime minister.

Ukraine is in talks with key donors to pay for another batch of US weapons even as some allies have been dragging their feet over providing financing, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

Kenya will spend what’s left over from refinancing its 2028 eurobonds on its budget and raise domestic resources to pay off maturing syndicated loans, according to Treasury Secretary John Mbadi.

Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to change when Canada releases major fiscal documents, moving the country’s federal budget to the fall on an ongoing basis.

Fifth Third Bank Chairman, CEO and President Tim Spence discusses details of the bank’s $10.9 billion deal for Comerica Inc. He says the window for this deal seemed right and lets Fifth Third get more access to explosive growth in the Southeast. He speaks on «Bloomberg Open Interest.» (Source: Bloomberg)

Mexican billionaire German Larrea is offering to buy full control of Citigroup Inc.’s Banamex at a slightly higher valuation than his rival had proposed for just a minority stake. It’s still a long shot.

Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asked Donald Trump to remove tariffs on the country’s goods and sanctions on top officials in the first extensive conversation they’ve held since the US leader thrust the South American nation into the center of his global trade war.

Illinois sued the Trump administration over its plan to deploy National Guard troops to the Chicago area, setting off a fresh legal battle over the president’s authority to use soldiers to respond to protests over his immigration crackdown.