US jobs data boosts rate hike bets and tech stocks fall while Alpek shares rise after IPC index inclusion announcement and central banks set dollar rates in Latin America.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-08 00:30Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A bustling financial district at dusk with people in suits walking quickly, briefcases in hand, as a giant digital clock tower looms in the background, its face a deep blue and gold, with a subtle glow on the surrounding buildings, and a few pedestrians looking up at the tower with concern, set against a warm orange and pink sky.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A bustling financial district at dusk with people in suits walking quickly, briefcases in hand, as a giant digital clock tower looms in the background, its face a deep blue and gold, with a subtle glow on the surrounding buildings, and a few pedestrians looking up at the tower with concern, set against a warm orange and pink sky. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
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US job growth boosts odds of a Fed rate hike
Traders are pricing roughly a 60% chance of a quarter-point Federal Reserve rate hike at the upcoming meeting.
By Nadia Okonkwo · 8wStronger-than-expected US job growth has boosted expectations of a potential Federal Reserve rate hike at the upcoming meeting, leading investors to reduce exposure to riskier assets.
Traders are currently pricing roughly a 60% chance of a quarter-point Federal Reserve rate hike at the upcoming meeting.
The Federal Reserve's communications blackout began on September 5 and runs through September 17, limiting new policy commentary before the September meeting.
Corficolombiana indicated that the upcoming US inflation report on Friday will be a key factor, as it signals the Federal Reserve's interest rate path.
Higher energy prices are adding to inflation worries as investors weigh the prospect of rate hikes by the U.S. Federal Reserve.
In other economic data, the unemployment rate in the Philippines rose to 6% in July 2026, the highest in more than four years, according to data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority on Tuesday, September 8.
The Singapore Department of Statistics reported on September 7 that retail sales in Singapore rose 1.5% year-on-year in July, moderating from June's 4% expansion.
The Fed Press Releases published Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, July 28-29, 2026.
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