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Anthropic could seek a valuation of at least two trillion dollars in an October IPO, which would put it above SpaceX’s $1.77 trillion debut and make it the most highly valued company ever at an initial public offering, the Financial Times reported. The paper said its expectations are based on conversations with half a dozen Anthropic investors, not formal guidance from the company. Investors are betting rapid revenue growth can support the valuation despite intensifying competition, regulatory pressure and rising customer sensitivity to the cost of advanced AI models. Anthropic declined to comment to the Financial Times.
Assets under management in ETFs reached a new record of nearly 3.1 trillion euros at the end of June 2026, according to LSEG Lipper’s European ETF Industry Review, published on Friday. The data provider said the growth in assets under management was driven by both the performance of the underlying markets and continued net inflows into ETFs. During the first half of 2026, investors allocated 222 billion euros to ETFs. According to LSEG Lipper, that is almost as much as the total inflows recorded during all of 2024. “It is fair to say that the European ETF industry is on the way to reach a new level of monthly inflows,” Lipper concluded, adding that this signals ETF adoption is accelerating rapidly in the portfolios of European investors. 
CVC Capital Partners expects its next flagship Europe/Americas Fund X to match or exceed the 26 billion euro raised for Fund IX, with a formal launch planned for early 2027. CVC’s Fund IX, launched in 2023, is the world’s biggest closed-end private equity fund. The Luxembourg-headquartered and Amsterdam-listed private equity firm said record distributions, strong investor demand for Europe and accelerating fundraising across its platform have strengthened confidence ahead of the launch. Chief executive Rob Lucas cited “positive fundraising momentum” and increasing LP interest in European private equity.
UBS has reported another strong quarter, with net profit of 2.8 billion dollars for the April-June period, in line with analyst expectations. Underlying profit before tax rose 45 percent to 3.9 billion dollars, while return on CET1 capital reached 16.4 percent. Invested assets climbed to a record 7.3 trillion dollars. The bank’s wealth management division attracted 36 billion dollars in net new assets.
The governing council of the European Central Bank has decided to leave its key interest rates unchanged but warned that uncertainty remains high amid volatile energy prices. Economists now expect the ECB to raise rates by 0.25 percentage points at its Sept. 9 meeting in Berlin in order to keep eurozone inflation under control. 

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