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Investment News 27 September 2025 - 1 October 2025

Vercel’s AI Breakthrough: $300M Raise Propels Developer Platform to $9.3B Valuation

Vercel’s AI Breakthrough: $300M Raise Propels Developer Platform to $9.3B Valuation

$300M Series F Round and $9.3B Valuation In late September 2025 Vercel announced a blockbuster Series F funding round that catapults the startup to a $9.3 billion valuation reuters.com bloomberg.com. The $300 million infusion was oversubscribed and co-led by VC firm Accel and Singapore’s GIC (Global Investment Corporation) reuters.com bloomberg.com. Joining the round were heavyweight asset managers and funds — BlackRock, StepStone, Khosla Ventures, Schroders, Adams Street Partners and General Catalyst — alongside earlier backers (Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global, GV, etc.) bloomberg.com gic.com.sg. Vercel also launched a roughly $300 million secondary tender for employees and early investors, which is slated
Georgia Power Taps the Bond Market with $1.5B Debt Sale – What It Means for Customers and Investors

Georgia Power Taps the Bond Market with $1.5B Debt Sale – What It Means for Customers and Investors

Deal Structure: Three New Bond Tranches Georgia Power’s SEC filing (Form 8-K) details the three offerings sec.gov. The Series 2025B “tap” adds $250M at 4.85% interest (due Mar 15, 2031) to the tranche originally issued in March 2025, bringing that series to $750M in total sec.gov. The new Series 2025D consists of $750M of 4.00% notes due Oct 1, 2028, and Series 2025E is $500M of 5.50% notes due Oct 1, 2055 sec.gov investing.com. All three are unsecured senior obligations, ranking pari passu with Georgia Power’s other bonds. The offerings were made via its shelf registration (No. 333-285111) for faster
30 September 2025
Tata Stock Split Frenzy: Tata Investment Shares Soar 25% in Two Days, Record Date Set – What Investors Should Know

Tata Motors’ Big Demerger and Tata Investment’s 50% Stock Surge – What Investors Must Know

Tata Motors Demerger: Historic Split into Two Companies Tata Motors – India’s automotive giant – has executed a long-planned demerger to separate its commercial vehicles and passenger vehicles businesses. Effective October 1, 2025, Tata Motors is split into two distinct entities following approvals from the board, regulators, and the National Company Law Tribunal dynamitenews.com. The existing listed company, which will retain the passenger vehicle, electric vehicle (EV) and Jaguar Land Rover operations, is being renamed Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd., while the spun-off commercial vehicle arm will take on the name Tata Motors Ltd. and be listed as an independent
Gold Soars to Record High as Silver Nears $50 – Key Drivers and Forecasts

Gold Soars to Record High as Silver Nears $50 – Key Drivers and Forecasts

Record Prices for Gold and Silver (Sept 29, 2025) Gold and silver prices are making history as of September 29, 2025. Gold soared past its previous records, trading around $3,829 per troy ounce by Monday afternoon reuters.com. It briefly hit an intraday high near $3,833/oz – the highest price ever recorded for the yellow metal reuters.com. This marks the first time gold has crossed the $3,800 threshold. Silver has likewise spiked, reaching roughly $46.8 per ounce reuters.com on the spot market – the loftiest level in over 14 years. For context, the last time silver was anywhere near this price
29 September 2025
Binance Drops Bombshell: Sui-Backed TRUTH Token to Launch on Exclusive Alpha Platform

Binance Drops Bombshell: Sui-Backed TRUTH Token to Launch on Exclusive Alpha Platform

Binance Listing Details Binance has formally announced that the Swarm Network token TRUTH will open for trading on its Binance Alphaplatform on October 1, 2025 at 12:00 UTC binance.com coincentral.com. The announcement explains that Binance Alpha– a part of the Binance Wallet app introduced in late 2024 – is a spotlight venue for new, early-stage tokens binance.com coincentral.com. TRUTH will be the very first coin on Alpha, giving users a chance to trade immediately before any mainstream listing coincentral.com binance.com. Binance emphasizes that it is “the first platform to feature and open trading for Swarm Network (TRUTH)” on both Alpha and its Futures market binance.com
29 September 2025
Gold Soars Above $3,800 Record as Silver and Platinum Rally – What’s Driving the Precious Metals Frenzy?

Gold Soars Above $3,800 Record as Silver and Platinum Rally – What’s Driving the Precious Metals Frenzy?

Record highs across gold, silver and beyond Gold prices have exploded in recent weeks. On Sep 29 spot gold briefly topped $3,812/oz, eclipsing last week’s record bloomberg.com. After six straight weekly gains, the metal is up roughly 45% year-to-date reuters.com. Silver surged above $46–47/oz, hitting a 14-year high reuters.com. Platinum also cracked a 12-year peak (~$1,612) and palladium climbed into the mid-$1,200s (both at multi-year highs) reuters.com. These moves mark broad, historic rallies: gold’s latest high pushes it well past the previous records from 2022, while silver and platinum are trading near levels last seen over a decade ago bloomberg.com
29 September 2025
Dalal Street in Turmoil: Sensex Plunges 2,500 Points in a Week – Should You Buy the Dip or Brace for More?

Dalal Street in Turmoil: Sensex Plunges 2,500 Points in a Week – Should You Buy the Dip or Brace for More?

Key Facts: Indian equity benchmarks slumped sharply last week. The BSE Sensex gave up roughly 2,587 points (3.2%) and the Nifty 50 fell about 672 points (2.7%) over six trading days upstox.com livemint.com. This was the worst weekly decline in nearly six months, erasing about 90% of the recent rally from early September upstox.com livemint.com. Markets were roiled by external shocks: U.S. President Trump announced 100% tariffs on imported branded/pharma products and hiked H-1B visa fees to $100,000 per worker. These policy moves hit India’s tech and pharma stocks hard. Sectorally, IT was the biggest laggard (down ~8% on the
27 September 2025
Tata Stock Split Frenzy: Tata Investment Shares Soar 25% in Two Days, Record Date Set – What Investors Should Know

Tata Capital’s $2 Billion IPO: Dates, Valuation, Risks – What Everyone’s Talking About

IPO Details: Structure and Timeline Tata Capital’s draft prospectus (filed Sep 26, 2025) confirms the offer opens Oct 6 and closes Oct 8, with anchor bids on Oct 3 timesofindia.indiatimes.com moneycontrol.com. The issue is being managed by a consortium of banks (including Kotak Mahindra, Axis, HDFC Bank, etc.) bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com. Per regulatory filings, the fresh issue is up to 210 million shares and the OFS up to 265,824,280 shares moneycontrol.com (equivalently 21.0 cr and 26.58 cr). Tata Sons is divesting 23.0 cr, IFC 3.58 cr in the OFS bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com. The combined IPO size (fresh + OFS) is about $1.85–1.9 billion (₹16,400–17,200
27 September 2025
Oklo (OKLO) Nuclear Stock Skyrockets 500% on AI Data Center Hype – Bubble or Breakthrough?

Oklo (OKLO) Nuclear Stock Skyrockets 500% on AI Data Center Hype – Bubble or Breakthrough?

Stock Performance & Financial Metrics Oklo’s stock has been wildly volatile. It was trading under $10 in mid-2024, but surged over 1,400% in one year through Sept 2025 carboncredits.com – driven by AI/data-center hype and policy tailwinds. In 2025 alone OKLO is up roughly 550% YTD marketbeat.com. Trading volume is heavy and retail interest intense. At $110 (Sept. 26, 2025), OKLO hit multi-year highs (52‑week: $7.90–$144.49) marketbeat.com. Financially, Oklo remains pre-revenue and cash-intensive. In Q1 2025 the company reported an adjusted loss of $0.07/sh (no revenue) coincentral.com. Full-year 2025 losses are expected in the tens of millions of dollars. Oklo
Thai Airways (TAWNF) Stock Takes Off: Turnaround Fuels 2025 Rally and Bullish Forecast

Thai Airways (TAWNF) Stock Takes Off: Turnaround Fuels 2025 Rally and Bullish Forecast

Key facts: Thai Airways (OTC: TAWNF) officially resumed trading in August 2025 after five years of suspension, sparking a massive share rally reuters.com. On its first day back (Aug 4), the stock jumped ~216% intraday (from ~THB3 to THB10.50) reuters.com, and continued to climb (closing ~THB13.40 by Aug 7, giving a ~THB379 bn market cap) nationthailand.com. The airline emerged from court-supervised restructuring in mid-2025 with about THB190 bn of remaining debt (nearly THB94 bn repaid) reuters.com. Importantly, Thai has reported operating profits every quarter since 2023 reuters.com. In Q2 2025, net profit (including one-off items) was THB12.13 bn, versus THB0.31 bn a year earlier nationthailand.com
27 September 2025
Vanguard’s Crypto U-Turn: $10T Giant Opens Doors to Bitcoin ETFs

Vanguard’s Crypto U-Turn: $10T Giant Opens Doors to Bitcoin ETFs

Background: Vanguard’s Historic Crypto Caution For years Vanguard famously shunned cryptocurrencies. Its founder, John Bogle, viewed Bitcoin as “speculative” and not fitting Vanguard’s long-term, value-focused philosophy cryptoslate.com coinlaw.io. Even after the first US spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in Jan 2024, Vanguard refused to list them on its brokerage platform coinlaw.io cryptoslate.com. By early 2024 it had removed even Bitcoin futures products from its offerings. In short, Vanguard had been a crypto outlier among big asset managers cryptoslate.com cryptoinamerica.com. That stance began to shift with the arrival of CEO Salim Ramji (formerly a top BlackRock ETF executive) in mid-2024. Ramji’s background
27 September 2025
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