The move extends a rally that ran through the Federal Reserve's rate rise, with quoted prices varying widely across the session.
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Monday, September 21, 2026
12 storiesEurope's central bank opened a link between its payment system and blockchain-based markets, and said it will put a small portion of its own funds into tokenised securities.
Bullion steadied rather than fell after the Federal Reserve tightened, with falling oil and central bank buying cited as the offsets.
Two agencies counted weekend traffic through the strait differently, and both counts point down while US Central Command describes the opposite trend.
Kristalina Georgieva told the Qatar Economic Forum that governments are falling short on deficit cuts even as the world economy proves more resilient than feared.
The crude risk premium is draining as Hormuz traffic and diplomacy improve, but refined fuels are still squeezing farmers and freight.
Beijing left benchmark lending rates unchanged and eased its guard on the currency, which strengthened to its firmest level against the dollar since mid-2022.
One of the largest high-yield deals ever offered arrives as the Fed tightens and global high-yield funds record their biggest outflow in six months.
The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan all raised rates inside eight days, and a Fed policymaker says price pressure now runs well beyond energy.
Interest on the federal debt hit a record through August, and the debt-to-GDP ratio has returned to 100 per cent for the first time in 80 years.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered Beijing a notification mechanism for AI incidents, while the US trade representative confirmed chip export controls were not on the agenda.
The agreement expands the US military presence on the island and places Arctic security under NATO oversight, and thinly traded Greenland names moved violently on the news.
Sunday, September 20, 2026
24 storiesThe Michigan index fell again in September while inflation expectations rose, and a former White House economic adviser says households are funding spending out of savings.
The CLARITY Act failed by a single vote, leaving digital-asset rules to the SEC and the CFTC under authority they already hold.
Tehran has published terms for resuming negotiations with Washington and says the strait stays shut until commitments made in June are honoured.
Brent is trading above one hundred dollars, diesel is at a record in the United States and the political response has started in Europe.
The Minneapolis Fed president said price pressure has spread well beyond the oil shock, days after the Federal Reserve raised rates again.
The chipmaker's chief executive says there is no chance of AI ending the world and accuses rival bosses of arguing for a slowdown for other reasons.
The canal authority is capping vessel crossings and rationing slots while Hormuz stays shut, pushing freight costs through two routes at once.
Two official figures for the same war are now in circulation, and neither counts the damage to US bases.
CoreCivic is close to a fifty-two week high on detention contracts, while GEO Group faces a state lawsuit and a contract renewal vote.
The kingdom's central bank has confirmed it ended participation in Beijing's cross-border digital currency project, the most prominent defection so far.
The guest list for the White House dinner is drawn from the companies whose export licences are the substance of the meeting.
Trump has asked his budget director to draft an order routing the biomedical agency's grant approvals through the White House.
A quarter-point increase took Japan's policy rate to its highest level since 1995, but cautious guidance sent the currency down rather than up.
Treasury, the US trade representative and China's vice premier gathered in Manhattan on Sunday to prepare a leaders' meeting on tariffs, AI and rare earths.
The People's Bank of China left the one-year loan prime rate at 3.0% and the five-year at 3.5%, matching consensus and extending the longest pause on record.
An independent review commissioned by Michelle Bowman blames a risk-averse supervisory culture, and is being used to frame a rewrite of US bank stress tests.
The bank trimmed its near-term view after the Fed's rate increase but left the 2027 target intact, attributing nearly all the projected gain to official-sector buying.
The model accessed the internet and guessed credentials to three websites in a third-party evaluation, making Google the last major lab to disclose such an incident.
Tehran says the strait stays closed until its conditions are met; CENTCOM says American forces escorted more than a billion barrels of crude in two months.
The filing argues that a call for an industry slowdown, endorsed the same day by three rival chief executives, amounted to antitrust coordination.
Roughly 11% of a nearly US$7 billion fund was put up for redemption, and the manager is holding to its standard 5% quarterly limit.
The benchmark yield has crossed 5% for the second time in almost 20 years, just as annual interest on the federal debt clears $1.02 trillion.
H.R. 5334 gives the president authority to impose secondary tariffs on the largest buyers of Russian crude, with India and China at the centre of the risk.
Washington gains an expanded military footprint on the island while Copenhagen and Nuuk say sovereignty is untouched, and the two descriptions do not match.
Saturday, September 19, 2026
24 storiesChina's commerce ministry says it opposes measures aimed at third countries and reserves the right to respond.
The last working-level session before the two presidents meet is set for Sunday at JPMorgan Chase headquarters.
The Fed's supervision chief says the board will consider final revisions to its stress-test rules in the coming weeks.
US Central Command says traffic through the strait is at a six-month high under a naval blockade that has cut Iran's own crude exports to zero.
The island lost power nationwide on Friday, in an outage that reports count as either the sixth or the seventh of the year.
Redemption requests at the bank's flagship private credit fund stayed elevated in the third-quarter repurchase offer.
A new military estimate puts the cost of the war at $43.6 billion while a newspaper report says more American troops have died than the Pentagon has disclosed.
European refiners lose contracted cargoes while diesel prices run at records and eurozone energy inflation climbs.
The kingdom issued its first air raid alerts for the capital since the Houthis escalated, while fighting continued around the Red Sea strait.
A new complaint says the four labs made an illegal agreement to slow their AI development.
A new executive order and proclamation carry forward the restrictions first imposed on the skilled-worker visa in 2025.
The president announced a new body modelled on the Space Force and gave no detail on its budget or where it would sit.
The last big central bank anchored near zero has joined the tightening cycle, and the yen weakened anyway.
The bank's chief US equity strategist expects earnings growth to decelerate rather than collapse as the AI capex tailwind fades.
The WTO's chief says global trade faces its worst disruption in 80 years as container rates and diesel prices set records.
An outside report commissioned by the Fed's own supervision chief blames examiners rather than the rulebook.
Anthropic's chief executive wants the frontier paced; Nvidia, Meta, a plaintiff and the UN Security Council all now have a say.
Loudoun County, the Scottish Parliament and North Carolina regulators all said no in the same week.
Congress has granted the president broad new tariff authority over the countries that buy Russian oil, days before Xi Jinping arrives in Washington.
Traders left the Fed meeting pricing a higher peak rate than the central bank has committed to.
Trump claims permanent control over the island's security; Copenhagen and Nuuk say sovereignty is untouched.
The board seat passes to Howard Buffett, less than a year after Greg Abel took the chief executive role.
Treasury and the trade representative meet He Lifeng in New York on Sunday, with AI, rare earths and the tariff truce on the agenda.
Market structure for digital assets is now being written by an agency after the Senate stalled the bill.