👤 Liz Hoffman

2026-11-03 · Semafor · Politics

The US midterms decide who gets blamed for the economy that’s coming

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2026-10-27 · Semafor · Technology

Anthropic’s IPO needs believers to bridge it to the payoff

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2026-10-19 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Saudi to decide on postponing FII after Wall Street lobbying

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2026-11-03 · Semafor · Politics

Corporate America prepares for post-midterm Democratic backlash

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2026-11-03 · Semafor · Technology

Voyager CEO on space death, why Mars matters, and how to fix data centers 500 miles up

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2026-11-02 · Semafor · Economy/Business

‘Bragawatts’ and why all data-center investing isn’t created equal

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2026-09-06 · Semafor

🔮 The Clippers will forfeit their next five first-round draft picks as penance for giving Kawhi Leonard “no-show” jobs, steered his way by team owner Steve Ballmer, to skirt the league’s salary cap. assertive

2026-09-14 · Semafor

🔮 Graft and political influence are particular concerns among international investors whose goodwill Indonesia, which runs both a budget deficit and a trade deficit, needs. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 Will the Fed follow? assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 We at Semafor Business aren’t tech experts, but we do know IPOs, and “we might cause the end of civilization” is a doozy of a risk factor. mixed

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 Todd Sisitsky, who has been TPG’s president since 2021, will join CVC by early 2028 after his non-compete expires, CVC announced. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 The deal, which unites Fox’s content empire of news and sports with Roku’s dominant connected-TV operating system, has worried some rivals, who fear that Fox will favor its own content. mixed

2026-09-17 · Semafor

🔮 Big bank executives this week warned that their third-quarter revenues would be down from the spring, when manic interest in AI stocks led to trading-floor windfalls. assertive

2026-09-17 · Semafor

🔮 Picture three competing CEOs, worried that their product might kill people, hopping on a conference call to discuss shutting it all down for a while. assertive

2026-09-22 · Semafor

🔮 Kalshi will let users juice their bets with borrowed money — but only some, showing where the prediction-markets platform thinks its future lies. assertive

2026-09-22 · Semafor

🔮 We might be early, but I don’t think we’re wrong. assertive

2026-09-29 · Semafor

🔮 The author of America First Antitrust and former Senate aide to JD Vance, Slater brought a tough enforcement mindset to the early months of Trump’s second term, but was marginalized as the administration took a pro-corporate turn and lost internal fights over mergers involving HPE and Live Nation, where the role of outside lobbyists drew criticism. assertive

2026-10-01 · Semafor

🔮 The case for boutiques hasn’t disappeared — there will always be a place for independent advice from talented bankers — but the ground has shifted. assertive

2026-10-08 · Semafor

🔮 I’ve written a lot that I think the panic in private credit is overblown, but there are real questions about how these loans will hold up, especially as interest rates stay high and borrowers get squeezed. assertive

2026-10-19 · Semafor

🔮 Saudi Arabia is set to make a final decision on whether to postpone its flagship investment conference in Riyadh as soon as Monday, after Wall Street executives privately relayed safety concerns to organizers, including the boss of the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, people familiar with the matter said. assertive

2026-10-26 · Semafor

🔮 About $60 billion will come in the form of new, nonvoting shares that the company created last week, a move that telegraphed its rapacious need for cash and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s desire to raise it without diluting his control stake (and pay his tax bill). assertive

2026-10-26 · Semafor

🔮 Further from Wall Street, he reset US foreign policy by cutting Ukraine off from Starlink — a move that says enough about who’s in charge that President Donald Trump claimed credit for reversing it — and dominated the midterm-elections homestretch with spending that will near $450 million this cycle. assertive

2026-10-26 · Semafor

🔮 The most expensive slice of the $40 billion of private credit borrowing it’s finalized in recent days will cost as much as 8.75%, a person familiar with the matter said, having shot higher since we reported on price talks last week. assertive

2026-10-27 · Semafor

🔮 Believers will see a fast-growing company with blue-chip backers, $131 billion of cash, and founders with a seriousness of purpose. assertive

2026-10-29 · Semafor

🔮 Notable - “While we are proud of the privileged position we play in the AI investment cycle, no one knows how the demands for capital and compute will evolve as the broader AI ecosystem matures,” Goldman Sachs’ CEO David Solomon said on a recent call with analysts. assertive

2026-11-02 · Semafor

🔮 For a long time, private equity firms could borrow cheaply, ride a rising market, and look like geniuses. assertive

2026-11-03 · Semafor

🔮 We also talked to Taylor about building data centers in space, which would sidestep the energy needs and political backlash back on Earth. assertive

2026-11-03 · Semafor

🔮 As Democrats appear poised to take the gavel, at least in the hearing-happy House of Representatives, the task of helping corporate executives prepare for their turn in the chair — a DC practice known as “murder-boarding” — will be in high demand. assertive

2026-11-03 · Semafor

🔮 Reports that the White House is planning post-midterm strikes on Iran may push political fallout from an unpopular war outside the election window, but the economic weight of high gas and diesel prices lands on whoever’s nominally in charge come January. assertive