Retail investors’ rush to buy Dangote Petroleum Refinery shares in a record $1.6 billion IPO caused outages across Nigerian digital investment platforms, with Bamboo crashing after app traffic surged to 10 times normal within 30 minutes of the offer going live on Monday.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Alberta plans to announce in November a preferential royalty framework aimed at encouraging companies to invest in new oil and gas production.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A rate hike may not lower household costs because inflation is being driven by “acyclical parts” like energy, insurance, healthcare, and education that tend to resist movements in interest rates.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Suze Orman says people can earn an “A” for retirement readiness by “stay[ing] working,” because the final few years on the job can make it “more than you need” for retirement later.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ofcom has imposed more than £7 million in Online Safety Act fines on 11 service providers, but Ofcom enforcement chiefs said the “majority” of issued fines remain unpaid.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
The Register
Veritiv launched TempSafe RxShield, a 240g compact cold-chain packaging format for refrigerated medicines that can maintain refrigerated conditions for up to 30 hours and meets ISTA 7E thermal testing standards.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Berkshire Hathaway says 30.6% of its portfolio—more than $112 billion—is invested in Apple and Alphabet, despite the conglomerate’s traditional tilt toward insurance and railroads.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Wireless bills jumped 5.9% from July to August—its largest single-month increase in nearly three decades—as T-Mobile retired 1,000-plus older plans with added costs up to $6 per line per month and AT&T raised rates on some older plans by $10 to $20 plus a $1 monthly per-line fee.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Mortgage rates were hovering around 7.2% after the Federal Reserve’s first interest-rate hike in three years, with the 10-year Treasury yield dropping 6 basis points to 4.94%.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Dell’s 14S has a battery life of 23.5 hours in CNET’s YouTube streaming test and rates its OLED at 300 nits (peaking at 288 nits), which the review says makes it a poor outdoor option.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
CNET
The Oversight Board ruled that Meta’s AI-deepfake policies are “consistently and fundamentally inadequate” and ordered changes, including removal for hateful conduct violations and prominent AI labeling in two recent AI-video cases.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
Engadget
Silicon Labs reported $228 million in Q2 revenue (ended July 4), rising 18% year over year, and swung to $0.71 in non-GAAP diluted earnings per share—up 545%—while also posting a GAAP diluted loss per share of $(0.32).
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A hacked Flock camera reportedly yielded 1.6 million images and showed its on-device software could detect people in addition to vehicles, with at least 21 days of logged activity and some detections extracting non-plate graphics like an American flag patch as if they were license plates.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
AXIS Capital agreed to acquire the renewal rights to DUAL North America’s Excess Liability business, which generated more than $1.2 billion in premium last year.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
46% of U.S. workers in NFP’s 2026 U.S. Retirement Trend Report say they are “deprioritizing or unable to save for retirement,” and 72% report being off track with their retirement savings goals.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Goldman Sachs switched its key fuel market trade from diesel to long positions in European gasoline futures for mid-2027 as diesel supply tightness keeps tightening gasoline markets.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Figure says its Figure Agent—built on Sierra’s Horizon platform—helped stalled home equity applicants complete credit checks, identity verification, and bank-account linking at a 30% to 52% higher rate, and drove 67% more funded loan volume overall, with a 143% lift in funded loan conversion when paired with loan officers versus loan officers alone.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A 24-year-old woman filed for bankruptcy with $65,000 in debt and said it cut the cost of her remaining payments to about $180 a month for nine months, letting her “start over.”
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
MPs heard that moving the Government Digital Service (GDS) to a third departmental home in three years risks demoralizing staff, weakening expertise, and potentially driving talent loss as responsibilities and decision-making become less clear.
Sep 17, 2026 ·The Register
Ball Corporation (BALL) has outperformed the Consumer Discretionary sector over both 3 months (+5.3% vs. XLY’s -7%) and 1 year (+23.2% vs. XLY’s -9%).
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
