US-Iran war uncertainty and semiconductor selloffs impact global markets as the Fed raises rates and Bitcoin climbs.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-19 00:44Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A crowded trading floor at dusk with anxious faces illuminated by computer screens and soft overhead lights, while a cityscape outside shows a mix of darkening skyscrapers and golden sunset hues, with people rushing to and from the exchange.
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 crowded trading floor at dusk with anxious faces illuminated by computer screens and soft overhead lights, while a cityscape outside shows a mix of darkening skyscrapers and golden sunset hues, with people rushing to and from the exchange. 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.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
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Gold slips to $4,250 after Fed's Sept 16 rate hike
The Federal Reserve raised rates on Sept 16; spot gold fell to $4,250 as the dollar and Treasury yields climbed, and officials signaled more hikes ahead.
By Marcus Vance · 7wGold's spot price fell to $4,250 after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Sept 16, as the U.S. dollar and Treasury yields rose. West Texas Intermediate crude traded around $97.20 that day after dipping to $94.63 intraday. By Sept 19, gold had recovered to $4,378.66 an ounce.
The Fed said it is determined to return inflation to its 2% target and signaled additional rate hikes could be considered. Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation "is very high and has been for a long time," calling the hike a correct step toward price stability. The dot plot shows 16 of 18 FOMC officials expect at least one more increase this year, and the Fed raised its 2026 inflation forecast to 3.7%.
Scott Welch, chief investment officer at Certuity, said the hike removed some uncertainty this week but is not the last, calling the cycle just beginning and saying it could weigh on stock prices in the coming months. He expects at least one more hike in 2026, possibly in October or after the elections, and likely once or twice more in 2027, with continued upward pressure on Treasury yields and elevated oil prices.
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