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01 MacroHold your nose: a £1.25bn subsidy for rich Rolls-Royce’s new engine had to happenThe Guardian · The Guardian 02 MacroBen Jennings on the UK budget – cartoonThe Guardian · The Guardian 03 EquitiesGoogle owner Alphabet loses $500bn in market value after profit disappoints Wall StreetThe Guardian · The Guardian 04 MacroStanley Druckenmiller's first X post backs Hyperliquid venture after $23 million indirect investmentCoinDesk · CoinDesk 05 CryptoKuCoin exits Russia and Belarus as crypto exchanges withdraw from Western-sanctioned marketsCoinDesk · CoinDesk 06 CryptoFrom rivals to partners: Polygon and Solana team to bring stablecoin payments to banksCoinDesk · CoinDesk 07 CryptoCrypto exchange HTX exits the UK after settling with the FCACoinDesk · CoinDesk 08 MacroThe ‘breathing space budget’ – breathing space for the government, that is | John CraceThe Guardian · The Guardian 09 Central BanksEurope’s central bank chief, Christine Lagarde, steps down for ‘freedom of speech’The Guardian · The Guardian 10 MacroUnion in plea to save Poundland from administration, with 12,000 jobs at riskThe Guardian · The Guardian 11 MacroPiero Cipollone: Next-day securities settlement, tokenisation and the transformation of Europe’s financial infrastructureEuropean Central Bank · European Central Bank 12 MacroWhat is it like to work when your co-workers are AI agents?The Guardian · The Guardian 13 MacroReform UK launches its own ‘newspaper’ with Farage on front pageThe Guardian · The Guardian 14 CryptoPolymarket brings ultra-short crypto prediction markets to U.S. platformCoinDesk · CoinDesk 15 MacroFinland launches criminal investigation into Google’s clearing of forest for datacentre siteThe Guardian · The Guardian 16 CryptoCrypto for Advisors: Only 1 in 5 Americans say the financial system is secureCoinDesk · CoinDesk 17 CryptoWhy Switzerland’s first genuine spot bitcoin ETF could soon attract overseas banks and brokersCoinDesk · CoinDesk 18 MacroChainlink adds weekend pricing for tokenized assets, with Aave as launch partnerCoinDesk · CoinDesk 19 MacroHow £100 vanishes in minutes: inside the ‘slot farms’ targeted in the budgetThe Guardian · The Guardian 20 Central BanksChristine Lagarde, Boris Vujčić: Monetary policy statement (with Q&A)European Central Bank · European Central Bank 21 MacroMinutes of the Meeting of the Court of Directors held on 17 September 2026Bank of England · Bank of England