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PepsiCo filed an 8-K after the close on 17 September 2026 disclosing that its board has elected Joaquin Duato — the sitting chairman and chief executive of Johnson & Johnson — as an independent director, effective 1 December 2026, and placed him on the audit committee from day one. No executive or director departed. This is an addition to the board, not a shake-up. What the filing actually says Who: Joaquin Duato, 64. At J&J since 1989; worldwide chairman of pharmaceuticals 2011–2018; vice chairman of the executive committee 2018–2021; CEO since 2022, chairman since 2023. When: elected 17 September 2026, seat effective 1 December 2026. Commit…

Coming up Friday, Sep 18 in the US: August industrial production at 9:15 AM ET (previous +0.2%). Before that, the Bank of Japan wraps its two-day meeting in Tokyo. The policy rate is 1.00% now, and 66 of 68 economists polled expect a hike - a BoJ move swings the yen and global carry trades. → Full calendar: https://marketchacha.com/calendar

Texas Instruments filed an 8-K after the close on September 17, 2026 disclosing that it will raise its quarterly cash dividend 7%, from $1.42 to $1.52 a share — $6.08 annualised, and its 23rd consecutive year of increases. It was filed under Item 7.01, not the earnings item, which tells you something about what this document is. The numbers New quarterly dividend: $1.52 per share, up from $1.42 — a 7.0% increase. Annualised rate: $6.08 per share, up from $5.68. Dates: payable November 10, 2026 to holders of record on October 30, 2026. The catch: "contingent upon formal declaration by the board of directors at its regular meeting in Octobe…

Salesforce filed an 8-K on 17 September 2026 attaching the investor presentation it used at its Investor Day at Dreamforce. The deck sets out a $63B+ FY30 revenue target and the largest accelerated share repurchase the company has ever done — $25 billion . The numbers in the deck FY27 revenue guidance: $46.1–$46.4B, against FY26 revenue of $41.5B — about +11.7% at the top of the range. FY30 target: $63B+, an 11%+ CAGR from FY26 . The deck footnotes this as of May 2026 and says it includes Informatica and other announced M&A. Non-GAAP operating margin: 34.3% guided for FY27 versus 34.1% in FY26 and 18.7% in FY22 — 1,560bps of expansion since F…

CoreWeave filed an 8-K before the bell on 17 September 2026 announcing two fundraises at once: a proposed $3.0 billion of convertible senior notes due 2033 (plus a $500 million option, taking it to $3.5 billion), and — disclosed only in the body of the filing, not the press release — a new at-the-market (ATM) equity programme for up to 35,000,000 shares . The terms Convertible notes: $3.0bn principal, maturing 1 April 2033, senior unsecured, sold privately under Rule 144A. Coupon and conversion rate are set at pricing, not today. Capped calls: bought alongside the notes to blunt dilution if they convert, up to a cap. ATM programme: up to 35m…

A day after the Fed's first rate hike in three years, the mood has flipped: US futures point higher as Treasury yields back off multi-decade highs and oil extends a sharp slide, letting beaten-up chip stocks lead a broad pre-open bounce. Futures now Trading Economics reports S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Dow contracts all around 1% higher , erasing two sessions of losses; index ETF proxies were up 1.16%–1.60% against Wednesday's close (StockAnalysis.com). The driver is the bond market. The FOMC raised the fed funds target 25bp to 3.75%–4.00% in a unanimous vote — its first hike since July 2023 — and Chair Kevin Warsh reaffirmed the inflation fight…

Coming up Thursday, Sep 17 in the US: weekly initial jobless claims at 8:30 AM ET (forecast 209K vs 206K prior), plus August housing starts and building permits and the Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index (forecast 30 vs 47.4 prior). Pending home sales at 10:00 AM ET. Overseas, the Bank of England decides at 12:00 PM BST - 3.75% hold expected, with a hike flagged as a live risk. → Full calendar: https://marketchacha.com/calendar

It is Fed decision day, and for the first time in this cycle the debate is about a hike, not a cut. US futures are nudging higher into the open, but the whole session hangs on the 2:00 PM ET FOMC verdict — with markets pricing a roughly 92% chance of the first US rate increase since 2023. Futures now Per CNBC, S&P 500 futures are up about 0.2% , Nasdaq-100 futures about 0.4% , and Dow futures up around 77 points (0.2%) . It is a cautious, wait-for-the-Fed bid after two down days: Tuesday closed with the Dow off 0.6% at 52,092, the S&P 500 down 0.5% at 7,585, and the Nasdaq Composite down 0.8% at 25,981 (Kiplinger). The main event — FOMC at 2:…

Uber Technologies filed an 8-K on September 15, 2026 disclosing that it has completed its first-ever euro bond sale — a €4.5 billion (about $5.2 billion) offering of senior unsecured notes split across five tranches maturing between 2029 and 2046. The notes are plain debt: Uber borrows money from bond investors now and pays it back with interest later. The offering at a glance €750M of 3.750% Senior Notes due 2029 €1.0B of 4.125% Senior Notes due 2032 €1.0B of 4.375% Senior Notes due 2034 €1.0B of 4.750% Senior Notes due 2038 €750M of 5.250% Senior Notes due 2046 Demand: reported investor orders topped €21 billion — roughly 5x the amount on o…

Coming up Wednesday, Sep 16 in the US: the FOMC rate decision plus a new Summary of Economic Projections and dot plot at 2:00 PM ET. The current upper bound is 3.75%; CME FedWatch odds on Sep 8 had a hike near a coin flip after August CPI ran 3.4%. Also on the slate: August retail sales at 8:30 AM ET (previous -0.6%), August import and export prices, and EIA weekly crude inventories at 10:30 AM ET. → Full calendar: https://marketchacha.com/calendar

Applied Optoelectronics filed an 8-K on 15 September 2026 disclosing that its wholly owned Chinese subsidiary, Global Technology, Inc., has signed a ten-year lease on a roughly 38,312 square-metre factory building in Ningbo, China. It is not an earnings filing and not a deal — it is a capacity filing, and it lands while a proposed US rule on Chinese-made optics is still open. What the lease actually says The building: approximately 38,311.8 m² (about 412,000 sq ft) in Haishu District, Ningbo. Term: ten years, 16 September 2026 to 15 September 2036, agreed on 10 September 2026. Rent: RMB 6,896,124 a year — roughly $1.03 million at the 15 Septe…

CrowdStrike closed up about 14% on Monday and Palo Alto Networks about 13% - on a day the broad market fell. Neither had company news. The trigger was the AI slowdown debate: essays and comments from frontier AI lab leaders pushed money toward the companies that get paid when cyber risk rises. → Why it moved: https://marketchacha.com/movers

US stock futures point lower into a tense open , as a fresh slide in chip stocks and a 10-year Treasury yield that just pierced 5% set a defensive tone hours before the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting that markets expect to end in a rare rate hike. Futures now S&P 500 futures were down about 0.5% , Nasdaq-100 futures off roughly 1.2% , and Dow futures lower by around 0.3% (~180 points) , as reported by CNBC and Investing.com. The single biggest driver is the jump in yields: the 10-year note topped 5% Monday — a 19-year intraday high near 5.01% before easing to about 4.96% — as surging oil revived inflation worries (Trading Economics,…

Amazon.com (AMZN) filed an 8-K with the SEC on 14 September 2026 to confirm it has closed its first-ever bond sale in British pounds — £4.25 billion of debt raised across four tranches. In plain terms, Amazon borrowed a very large sum from bond investors, and for the first time it did so in sterling rather than dollars. The deal in numbers Total raised: £4.25 billion (about $5.8bn) — net proceeds of roughly £4.235bn after underwriting discounts. Four tranches: £1.25bn at 5.200% due 2029, £1.0bn at 5.550% due 2032, £1.0bn at 6.250% due 2038, and £1.0bn at 6.650% due 2045. Demand: the order book reportedly peaked above £12bn before settling nea…

Coming up Tuesday, Sep 15 in the US: Empire State manufacturing at 8:30 AM ET (forecast 15, previous 20.6), and the Fed's two-day FOMC meeting gets under way - the rate decision and dot plot land Wednesday at 2:00 PM ET, consensus 4.00% upper bound vs 3.75% now. China's August industrial output, retail sales and fixed-asset investment also drop overnight. → Full calendar: https://marketchacha.com/calendar

Oracle filed an 8-K this morning under Item 8.01 disclosing that Larry Ellison — Executive Chair of the Board and Chief Technology Officer — has cancelled the Rule 10b5-1 plan under which he could have sold Oracle stock. The filing states that no Oracle stock was sold under the plan before it was terminated, and the attached press release adds that he "has no other plans to sell any of his Oracle stock." The timeline is the story June 22, 2026 — Ellison adopted the plan, "adopted and precleared in accordance with Oracle's Insider Trading Policy" per the 10-Q. Up to 50 million shares — the ceiling. Against 3,023,736,000 shares…

US futures are pointing to a rough open, and for once the trigger came from inside the AI trade itself: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei used a weekend essay to argue the industry should slow the pace of frontier model development — with OpenAI's Sam Altman broadly agreeing — and chip stocks are paying for it, just as Brent tops $108 and the 10-year knocks on 5%. Futures now Nasdaq-100 futures 28,901.75, -1.65% — the epicentre (Yahoo Finance) S&P 500 futures 7,607.25, -0.68% Dow futures 52,880, -0.23% — the value/energy tilt is cushioning it VIX 17.83, +12.6% ; gold 4,353.80, -1.25% Two forces, one direction: an AI-safety headline that questions th…

Wall Street snapped a four-day losing streak on Friday, with all three major indices climbing at the open after August inflation landed almost exactly as forecast — but the relief comes even as traders now see a Fed rate hike next week as all but certain. The open At the opening bell the S&P 500 rose 0.96% , the Dow gained 1.15% , the Nasdaq added 0.88% and the Russell 2000 climbed 1.04% (TheStreet). By midday the S&P was near 7,671 , up roughly half a percent on the day (24/7 Wall St.), as buyers stepped in despite rising rate-hike odds. Macro today — CPI was the main event August CPI (8:30 AM ET): headline +0.4% m/m and 3.4% y/y , both in l…

Oracle filed an 8-K with the SEC after the close today reporting its fiscal Q1 2027 results (the quarter ended 31 August 2026). Revenue and earnings both came in ahead of analyst estimates, driven by cloud infrastructure revenue that more than doubled — but the same filing shows capital spending tripling and free cash flow going deeper into the red. The numbers Total revenue: $19.35bn, up 30% year-on-year (from $14.93bn). Analysts had modelled about $19.14bn — a beat. Non-GAAP EPS: $1.92 vs the ~$1.74 consensus — a beat, and up 30% year-on-year. GAAP EPS was $1.56, up 55% from $1.01. The segment that is the story — Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS)…

Coming up Friday, Sep 11 in the US: August CPI at 8:30 AM ET (previous 3.4%), core CPI alongside it (previous 2.5%), then the preliminary September Michigan consumer sentiment at 10:00 AM ET. CPI is the single biggest input to Fed rate expectations this week. → Full calendar: https://marketchacha.com/calendar