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Topics include Alberta’s vote rejecting a separatist bid and broader implications for Canadian unity, plus European and Middle Eastern policy responses such as Paris curfews and UK support for Saudi Arabia. Financial markets coverage highlights investor demand for credit default swaps amid rapidly expanding AI-linked debt issuance, escalating CDS spreads, and concerns over borrowing-driven risk and profitability. 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voteAlbertarejectsseparatist bid\n\nBriefing  \nSupporters o the Forever Canadiangroupin Edmonton,Alberta,celebrateyesterday after voters in the oil-richprovince overwhelmingly backedremainingpartof Canada.  \nMerzdefends landlordsThe German chancellor has  \nMore than 75 per cent of voters inAlberta were against holding a referen-dum on whether to leave Canada,while25per cent voted infavour,with 80percent of the ballots counted.  \nwas raised in Edmonton,had urged vot-ers in the final days of campaigning tostay in Canada and builda united frontagainst US President Donald Trump'shostilities.\"Above all,Albertans choseCanada,\"hesaid yesterday.  \nUK jets to assist Saudis  \nCarney,who was Bank of Englandgovernor during Britain's Brexit refer-endumin 2016,had warned Albertansthat many proponents who wanted toleavethe EU now regrettedthe decision.Carney hails votepage4  \n▶Pensions chief attacks PE  \nAI debt nerves trigger race for defaultinsurance in case boom turns to bust  \nBucharestends impasse  \n◆$9bn of CDStraded per weekoCost of protection hits recordoDerivatives famous for financial crisis  \nstructure to OpenAland Anthropicsuch  \nas Oracle and Alphabet.  \nFive-year MetaCDS has this monthclimbed to 108 basis points,meaning itcosts $108,000 a year to insure S10mnof debt against default,while deriva-tives tied to Nvidia have climbed to101bp.Protection against Alphabet andAmazon default is also at record highs.  \nUS home salesslumpHousing activity in the US has  \nBut while the price of some top techgroups'CDS is on the rise,it is stilrela-tivelylowcompared with spreads on theAIcompaniesinvestors deem riskier.  \n40racle's CBS is notw 322bp,up fromyearCDStiedto CoreWeave debt istrad-ingat about 1,090bp,with demand sohigh that abuyer ofs10mnofprotectionwould need topay$1.82mn upfront.Spoils of boom &US dominance page9  \nIt is a truth universallyacknowledged,that a single man inpossession of a goodfortune,must be inwant of a rare book.SHAPEROSHAPERO.COM  \nStanley Research.US corporate CDSindex trading volumes this year haveInvestors are racing to buy creditovertaken last year's total,according todefault swaps to protect theirportfoliosBloomberg.in the event that the AI boom unravels,In a sign of investor unease over thesending trading volumes surging for anborrowingbinge,the cos of buying CDSinstrument that shot to prominenceon many AI-linked groups this monthduringthe global financialcrisis.hit record highs.This so-called spreadThe wave of borrowing to financehas climbed not only for groups thattrillions of dollars of A infrastructureinvestors judge as riskier,such as AIspending is fuelling demand for thesecloud-computing provider CoreWeave,insurance-like derivatives,which payout if the company they are tied tobut also forthose such as Microsoft.              defaults onits debt.  \nRAMSAY HODGSON—NEW YORK  \n\"CDS has become a key bellwetherofinvesto sentiment towards hyperscalerfundingand the broader AItrade,\"saidManish Kabra,head of US equity strat-egy at Societé Générale.\"The market isincreasingly focused ontwothings:CDSand free cash flow.\"  \nwhere the risk is very concentrated,what you want to buy is CDS,\"said JimCaron,chief investment officer of theportfolio solutions group at MorganStanley Investment Management,add-ing that these swaps were also a “cheaphedge\"forinvestors.  \nEUAN HEALY—LONDON  \nAI-linked debt issuance has rocketedwith companies raising an estimated$466bn so far this year,up from$101bnin the same period in 2025,accordingtoMorgan Stanley,to fund infrastructuresuchas datacentres and chips.  \nTraditionally the reserve of purecredit investors,multi-asset and equitymanagers are increasingly using theseswaps as way to hedge AI exposure.\"One part [of demand]is a true bondinvestor looking to hedge their book,\"said Caron.\"Another part is multi-assetand equity speculators trying to find 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