The 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.
Sunday, September 20, 2026
24 storiesThe 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.