Wednesday, June 10, 2026

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Please check out the new thecreditbubblebulletin.com website. The "Timely Charts" on the home page and those in the "Financial Conditions" section of the Charts page are worth a look this week.

Wednesday Afternoon Links

[CNBC] Dow drops 700 points to session lows as Trump doubles down on Iran threat: Live updates 

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Jumps as Trump Threatens to ‘Hit Iran Hard’ Imminently

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Extends Pullback as Trump Threatens More Strikes on Iran

[AP] Live updates: US military says it fired on a tanker trying to transport oil from Iran

[Axios] Trump says U.S. will bomb Iran today: "They keep playing us for suckers"

[Axios] Trump boils over after Tehran kept him waiting

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Vows Immediate Attacks on Iran, Straining Ceasefire

[CNBC] Trump pledges more Iran strikes, saying U.S. will be ‘attacking them very hard’

[CNBC] Trump doubles down on Pulte for intelligence post, calls for short-term extension of foreign surveillance law

[AP] US households, businesses stung by higher energy prices that have pushed inflation above 4%

[Bloomberg] Ship Traffic Thins in Gulf as US-Iran Tensions Intensify

[Bloomberg] Pimco Warns a Wave of Defaults Is Coming for Low-Quality Borrowers

[Bloomberg] Trump Says US Won’t Renew USMCA, Signaling Yearly Reviews

[Bloomberg] Amazon’s Record Bond Deal Shakes Up Canada’s Credit Market

[Bloomberg] Private Credit Is Still a Hot Asset for Bond Investors Buying Debt

[Bloomberg] Subprime Auto Dealer America’s Car-Mart Seeks Rescue Funds

[Bloomberg] Beef Prices Hit Record in May as Screwworm Impact Looms

[NYT] Inflation Keeps Prospects of a Fed Rate Cut Low

[NYT] White House Again Shrugs Off High Prices Amid War With Iran

[NYT] Investors Feed A.I. Firms’ Voracious Appetite for New Money

[WSJ] Trump Says U.S. Will Launch New Attacks on Iran Later Today

[WSJ] Jeanine Pirro’s Prosecutors Probe Big Banks for Alleged ‘Debanking’

[WSJ] The AI Office Boom Feels Like 2000 All Over Again

[FT] Oil tankers increase ‘dark’ transits through Strait of Hormuz