Coverage concluded on Sep 14, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. EDT.
The Federal Reserve initiates its two-way monetary policy gathering tomorrow, with virtually all participants anticipating that the American central bank will raise its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points.
Difficult trading session for banking equities as Bank of America points out third-quarter operational deceleration
While speaking at the Barclays Financial Services event in New York City, Bank of America chief executive Brian Moynihan stated that the firm anticipated third-quarter trading income to remain roughly unchanged compared to the same period last year. Dealmaking compensation is projected to land between $1.6 billion and $1.8 billion, dropping from the $2 billion recorded a year prior.
Equities quickly plummeted 4.3% following the announcement. Experiencing concurrent declines were Goldman Sachs, losing 4.1%; Morgan Stanley, dropping 3.8%; Citigroup, falling 4.1%; JPMorgan, down 2.2%; and Wells Fargo, lower by 2.7%.
Hyperscalers spearhead recovery as major averages erase the majority of initial losses
A little over two hours prior to Monday’s closing bell, both the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 traded lower by only about 0.3%. This represents a significant turnaround, particularly for the technology sector, coming after sharp morning drops triggered by weekend warnings from artificial intelligence figureheads regarding the industry advancing too rapidly.
A potential catalyst assisting the recovery involves discussions indicating that the United States and Iran might restart negotiations toward a peace agreement. Consequently, crude oil reduced its early advances of nearly 5% down to just 1.3% by the final check.
Even though numerous AI-focused favorites continue to face steep declines—with Micron, Intel, SanDisk, and Oracle all dropping in excess of 4%—the major hyperscale operators are posting positive movement. Alphabet advanced 3%, Microsoft climbed 2.7%, Meta added 2.8%, and Apple rose 0.7%.
Digital assets likewise maintain a slight upward trajectory for the session, with bitcoin advancing 2% to reach $78,800.
Crude oil retreats after Trump asserts Iran seeks an agreement
The leader of the free world proved exceptionally active across social media platforms throughout Monday.
President Trump declared moments ago, “The failing Nation of Iran wants to make a deal, quickly and badly. I will determine whether or not the U.S.A. will choose to engage – The concept of which we are open to.”
This development pushed down the cost of crude oil by approximately $1 per barrel, although it still maintains an advance of roughly 3% across the day.
American equities climbed to session peaks, though the Nasdaq continues to show a 0.5% deficit. Bitcoin sustains minor gains just above the $78,000 threshold.
Trump asserts Russia and Ukraine reached an understanding regarding energy infrastructure
President Trump remarked minutes prior via Truth Social, “Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy targets. Russia has agreed to do, likewise.”
This declaration surfaces as retail diesel costs have surged toward historic highs exceeding $6 per gallon across extensive portions of the United States.
The commander-in-chief noted, “The World’s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran.”
This announcement prompted an immediate contraction in sovereign debt yields, sending the benchmark 10-year Treasury return down four basis points to 4.96%.
‘Perfect little angel’: President Trump pushes back against Anthropic executive Amodei’s artificial intelligence warning
President Trump stated via Truth Social, “We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies.”
He added, “There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China.”
Trump’s statements arrived minutes after a weekend plea issued by Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei advocating for a deceleration in the artificial intelligence development race.
The president continued, “The Trump Administration has stopped AI ‘people’ from doing bad, or potentially bad, ‘things,’ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a ‘perfect little angel.’”
United States 10-year Treasury yield advances to reach 5%
Sovereign debt returns extended their persistent upward trajectory on Monday, as the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield added another 3 basis points to surpass the 5% mark.
With a 25 basis point adjustment anticipated for Wednesday now practically entirely factored into valuations, interest rate speculators have shifted focus toward the Federal Reserve meeting scheduled for October 28. Probabilities regarding a subsequent rate increase surged to 44%, compared to 15% one week prior and just 6% a month ago.
Crude oil preserves its upward momentum, with Brent Crude rising 4.5% and trading merely cents away from breaching $110 per barrel.
American equities absorb these macro shifts calmly, with the Nasdaq sliding a mere 0.75% while the S&P 500 drops only 0.5%.
Cryptocurrency valuations reside near session peaks, with bitcoin advancing 1.9% to $78,500, XRP climbing 4% to $1.40, and solana gaining 1.6% to reach $102.
Bullish receives buy upgrade from Compass Point
Pointing out that their baseline projection remains an unsuccessful legislative vote on the Clarity Act, Compass Point nevertheless revised its rating on Bullish from neutral to buy, arguing that the enterprise delivers premier exposure to a prospective SEC Innovation Exemption.
The analytical team wrote, “We expect the SEC to release an ‘Innovation Exemption’ quickly after Clarity fails.”
They continued, “We believe BLSH is the best way to play the tokenization theme, where BLSH is among the few public companies that can monetize this trend.”
Compass Point adjusted its price target upward from $51 to $70. Bullish equities advanced 8% during early Monday action to reach $38.
Bullish functions as the parent organization overseeing CoinDesk.
IREN chief executive asserts current artificial intelligence demand can maintain years of infrastructure expansion despite deceleration appeals
Reactions continue surfacing following Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s appeal to moderate frontier artificial intelligence research due to safety apprehensions.
IREN chief executive Dan Roberts countered that deploying existing artificial intelligence utilities independently can sustain multi-year requirements for computational infrastructure, even absent additional model enhancements.
He highlighted processing deficits across prominent artificial intelligence corporations, arguing that supplementary capacity unlocks broader utilization rates. In his perspective, supply remains the primary bottleneck, constrained by limited high-bandwidth memory output alongside construction delays for data facilities and electrical connections that threaten to restrict capacity below active demand.
Roberts noted, “The risk to demand continues to seem heavily weighted to the upside. The risk to supply continues to seem weighted toward less capacity getting built, not more.”
Bitmine acquires an additional $68 million in Ether
Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies persists in accumulating ether, securing another 27,180 tokens valued at approximately $68 million based on Monday’s pricing.
This latest acquisition expands total holdings to 5.96 million ETH, leaving the firm merely 144,000 tokens short of its target to secure 5% of the total circulating Ethereum supply.
Concurrently, Tom Lee highlighted additional drivers supporting further ether appreciation. The Bitmine chairman emphasized a strengthening ETH-BTC ratio alongside prospective advancements in American digital asset regulation as potential catalysts heading into the concluding months of the calendar year.
CoinShares outlines equity repurchase strategy following $23.9 million first-half deficit
Digital asset administrator CoinShares disclosed a net loss of $23.9 million during the opening half of 2026, contrasting sharply with a net profit of $77.6 million reported during the corresponding timeframe last year.
CoinShares intends to request shareholder authorization for a share buyback initiative during its extraordinary general meeting scheduled for Tuesday. Chief executive Jean-Marie Mognetti noted that the company’s objective involves capitalizing on having “no long-term debt, approximately $453 million of net assets and substantial available capital.”
CSHR shares declined in excess of 8% to hit $4.93 during pre-market operations.
Rumble jumps 11% following reported computational agreement with Anthropic
Defying the broader sell-off impacting artificial intelligence equities on Monday morning, Rumble registered a 10.7% advancement after The Information disclosed that the organization secured a $13.7 billion computational contract with Anthropic.
Based on the report, this six-year arrangement entails Anthropic leasing computing power originating from Rumble’s Maysville, Georgia facility. Furthermore, Anthropic acquired warrants granting rights to purchase up to 50.8 million shares of Rumble equity.
Strive bitcoin reserves advance to 25,000 tokens following modest weekly acquisition
Matt Cole’s Strive secured an additional 469 bitcoin throughout the prior week, elevating aggregate reserves to a total of 25,000 BTC.
Capital required for the acquisition was generated through liquidating the enterprise’s high-yield preferred equity instrument known as SATA, which—contrasting with Strategy’s STRC—maintains market pricing tightly aligned with its $100 par value.
ASST equities advanced 0.5% during pre-market movement.
Strategy maintains unchanged bitcoin inventory last week while repurchasing $139 million of STRC
Michael Saylor’s Strategy maintains a total inventory of 845,050 bitcoin following a week absent of any purchasing or liquidation activity.
The organization bought back 1.4 million units of its high-yielding preferred stock STRC for an expenditure of $139.3 million, as STRC continues trading marginally beneath its $100 nominal value.
Capital utilized for the share repurchase originated from corporate cash reserves already available on the balance sheet.
MSTR equities remained unchanged during pre-market hours as bitcoin exchanged hands at $77,800, exhibiting minimal variation from Friday afternoon levels. STRC continued trading around $98.64.
JPMorgan issues double upgrade for IREN
Designating IREN as a premier neocloud infrastructure supplier, JPMorgan bypassed a neutral rating to elevate the equity from underweight directly to overweight while raising its price target from $46 to $65.
IREN retreated 3.4% during pre-market operations to reach $42.33, moving in tandem with a broader market liquidation affecting artificial intelligence assets early Monday.
The JPMorgan analyst group observed that neocloud contract pricing has shifted upward to $15-$20 per megawatt, compared to previous ranges of $10-$15. Concurrently, customer advance payments are assisting in financing GPU acquisitions.
The institution noted that the enterprise’s targeted 0.5-gigawatt capacity expansion scheduled for next year could command substantially higher pricing structures than prior agreements.
Bitcoin defies risk-off liquidation pressures during early Monday action
American technology and artificial intelligence equities retreated during pre-market trading on Monday after prominent corporate leaders renewed apprehensions regarding the velocity of artificial intelligence expansion over the weekend.
Conversely, digital currencies experienced upward movement. Bitcoin gained approximately 1% across the preceding 24 hours to reach $77,800, whereas ether climbed 1% to land at $2,500.
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei advocated for the sector to decelerate development velocities to permit safety protocols to align with technological advances. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman alongside Elon Musk, whose xAI enterprise engineered Grok, expressed concurring viewpoints. Additionally, reports indicate Anthropic selected the Nasdaq exchange for its anticipated initial public offering, whereas Altman confirmed that his enterprise will not launch public share offerings throughout 2026.
South Korea’s Kospi index dropped 3%, and memory chip manufacturer SK Hynix—whose components are utilized by artificial intelligence corporations—slumped 6%. American technology equities experienced sympathetic pre-market declines, highlighted by the Invesco QQQ ETF tracking the Nasdaq 100 index dropping 1.5%.
Neocloud service providers Nebius and CoreWeave retreated 6% and 5% respectively, while semiconductor producers SanDisk and Intel each registered 5% losses.
Advancing crude oil valuations compounded economic pressures. Brent crude climbed in excess of 3% to reach $107 per barrel, while West Texas Intermediate traded above $103. Longer-duration sovereign debt returns dipped slightly, leaving the U.S. 10-year yield positioned just under 5% and the 30-year yield at 5.355%.
Precious metals likewise experienced pullbacks. Gold dropped roughly 1% toward $4,300 per ounce while silver retreated 1.5%.
Originally published at https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/09/14/live-updates-bitcoin-manages-small-gains-as-stocks-drop-on-ai-concern-oil-surges.
