Business & Markets — September 10, 2026

TSMC August revenue hits record. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported August sales rose more than 53% year-over-year to a record high, reflecting continued AI-driven demand for advanced chips.

As the world's largest contract chipmaker, TSMC's monthly sales figures serve as a closely watched gauge of demand across the global technology economy, according to CNBC. The company manufactures advanced processors for major technology firms, and the latest surge underscores how spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure continues to flow through to the semiconductor supply chain, with TSMC positioned at its center.

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ECB expected to raise rates Thursday. The European Central Bank is widely expected to raise rates Thursday as oil above $100 a barrel fuels inflation. Bond investors remain split on how far the tightening goes.

The anticipated move comes as energy costs have emerged as the primary driver of the inflation shock confronting the central bank, MarketWatch reports. While the rate increase itself is viewed as near-certain, the more consequential question for Wall Street is the trajectory that follows, with fixed-income investors divided over the eventual endpoint of the tightening cycle and bracing for signals about the bank's next steps.

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Home-insurance premiums reach record high. U.S. home-insurance premiums hit a record high as hurricanes, storms, and wildfires push insurers to reprice risk. The sharpest increases came in disaster-prone states.

The record reflects a broader repricing of climate-related risk by the insurance industry, according to MarketWatch, as repeated hurricanes, severe storms and wildfires drive up the cost of covering homes. The burden is falling unevenly across the country, with homeowners in states most exposed to natural disasters absorbing the steepest premium increases, widening the gap between high-risk and lower-risk markets.

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