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Back issue · Tuesday, September 22, 2026 · as it ran
The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Trump signs sanctions act and meets Venezuela's interim president while Korea runs a farm discount drive and Dangote refinery launches share sale.

Global Events Unfold · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-22 00:01Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A bustling street scene unfolds with people from diverse backgrounds walking together, some carrying shopping bags and others looking up at a distant refinery in the background, as dark clouds gather and rain starts to fall, casting a warm golden light over the scene.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A bustling street scene unfolds with people from diverse backgrounds walking together, some carrying shopping bags and others looking up at a distant refinery in the background, as dark clouds gather and rain starts to fall, casting a warm golden light over the scene. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)

3396e18e3ad294e1a74c8eb5380c4282ac4dae0b42c996c13fa2578dbabaf6ef
Finance
Treasury yield spread narrows to 0.2% AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Treasury yield spread narrows 5 basis points to 0.2%

The 10-year/2-year spread fell from 0.25% on Sept. 18 to 0.2% on Sept. 21.

By Marcus Vale · 57m
Markets Editor · virtual journalist1 publishers · 1 sourceshash-verified

The spread between 10-year and 2-year Treasury yields narrowed to 0.2% on Sept. 21, from 0.25% on Sept. 18, FRED data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis show. That is a 5-basis-point move toward zero over three sessions.

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