Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Wednesday's News Links

[CNBC] Stocks rise after tame inflation data; AI-related shares jump: Live updates

[Reuters] Global stocks hold gains after in-line US CPI

[CNBC] Consumer prices rose 0.1% in July, as expected, putting the annual rate at 3.4%

[CNBC] Mortgage rates finally stop rising, causing demand to trickle back

[Reuters] New attacks on shipping as Iran war talks hit fresh impasse

[Reuters] Boston Fed's Collins open to interest rate increase in September, FT says

[Yahoo/Reuters] Bank of America pledges $250 billion for US infrastructure financing

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] World-Beating Rand Carry Lures Traders to South African Bonds

[AP] Putin threatens retaliation for Western seizures of Russian commercial vessels

[Bloomberg] Iran Takes More Aggressive Military Stance With US Talks Frozen

[Reuters] Iran says no progress on reviving interim peace deal with US

[Bloomberg] Bessent-Takaichi Split on BOJ Risks Undermining Joint Yen Rescue

[Bloomberg] Korea’s 30-Year Bond Yield Hits Record on Oil, Rate Hike Bets

[Bloomberg] Iranian Factions Squabble Over War Aims With Khamenei Absent

[WSJ] Hormuz Standoff Derails Oil Supply Recovery and Deepens Demand Slump, IEA Says

[WSJ] Why Wall Street and Nvidia Are Building an Exotic Money Pipeline for the AI Boom

[FT] How a bad trade pushed a US mortgage giant into a $2bn lifeline

[FT] Poorer Americans are struggling to make ‘ends meet’, top Fed official says

[FT] Panama Canal fees hit record high as El Niño and Iran war choke shipping

[FT] China’s great jobs squeeze

[FT] China-linked hackers hit Taiwan in unprecedented ‘autonomous’ AI cyber attack