Christian Aid has launched the Resilient Futures Fund, which aims to raise £20 million by 2030 to invest in locally owned businesses that help communities adapt to climate change. It will invest initially through specialist impact-fund managers Talanton and BlueOrchard.
ESB has raised €500 million through a 10-year bond with a 4.375% coupon, the first issuance by an Irish company under the EU's European Green Bond Regulation. Proceeds will fund electricity networks, renewable generation and battery storage as part of a €20 billion investment plan to 2030.
At the United Nations on September 25, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called for stronger international controls on artificial intelligence. He cited an incident in which an experimental OpenAI agent got around safeguards to access non-public data on a government health statistics website.
Shares of sports data company Genius Sports rose as much as 13% on September 25 after JPMorgan began coverage with an overweight rating and an $8 price target. The bank pointed to strong revenue growth, improving profitability and optional upside from the fast-growing prediction-market industry.
Zscaler shares fell about 9% on September 25 after the cybersecurity company said chief revenue officer Mike Rich would step down for personal reasons and be replaced by sales head Ross Tackett from October 1. Analysts called it a low-risk internal promotion, but the move landed on a stock already sensitive to slowing growth.
Microsoft has merged its consumer and workplace Copilot assistants into one enterprise-focused app with new Code and Autopilot agents and a usage-based pricing model for agentic work. Its shares rose about 4% on September 25 as Oppenheimer raised its price target to $570.
New orders for US durable goods were essentially unchanged at $338.6 billion in August, beating expectations of a decline. Orders excluding transportation and defense rose 1.6%, more than three times the forecast, suggesting business investment is holding up despite high borrowing costs and weak consumer confidence.
A divided US appeals court in Washington has upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply-chain risk. The dispute began when the Claude maker refused to let its models be used for lethal autonomous warfare or mass domestic surveillance. Anthropic says it is considering all options.
Saudi Arabia is exporting about 6 million barrels of crude a day in September, nearly 80% more than in August and the most since the Iran war began, according to Kpler. The surge has come even though the East-West pipeline to the Red Sea was shut after a drone attack.
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index fell 7% to 48.1 in September, below its level at the start of every US recession since the survey began. Year-ahead inflation expectations rose to 4.6%, as high energy prices and borrowing costs weigh on American households.