Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Wednesday's News Links

[CNBC] Stocks fall as Brent crude trades above $100 per barrel: Live updates

[CNBC] Brent crude tops $100 for first time since July as fighting escalates in Persian Gulf

[CNBC] U.S. 2-year Treasury yield rises as oil tops $100 a barrel

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Dollar Eyes Seven-Month Low With US Buybacks, Inflation In Focus

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Diesel Crunch Threatens Lasting Price Pain, Consumption Cutbacks

[Reuters] Fearless US stock market vulnerable to shocks as midterms loom

[Reuters] What is the yen carry trade?

[CNBC] Bessent bond plan details to be revealed as Treasury secretary warns FX traders he’s ‘the house now’

[Reuters] Iran and US hit tankers in biggest wave of attacks on shipping since war began

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Hits Several Iran Oil Tankers in Response to Warship Attack

[AP] Iran is forging a new ring of proxies to threaten US allies in the Gulf, officials say

[CNBC] Iran says it hit American vessels, oil tankers in Hormuz in retaliation for U.S. strikes

[Axios] Trump bans some Canadian imports as North America trade war intensifies

[Yahoo/Reuters] US to ban Canadian motorcycle, dairy, alcohol imports as trade war sizzles

[Yahoo Finance] Bessent: We can grow our way out of debt with 3% GDP growth

[Yahoo/Reuters] Japan manufacturers' mood hits near 5-year high on semiconductor demand: Reuters poll

[Bloomberg] Fed Officials Signal Openness to Warsh Proposal for Fewer Policy Meetings

[Bloomberg] The Fed’s Three Choices as Warsh’s Honeymoon Ends

[Bloomberg] US Mortgage Rates Rise to 6.85%, Highest in More Than a Year

[Bloomberg] Global Credit Market Revs Up Again After $70 Billion of Issuance

[Bloomberg] US Firms Unleash Record Wave of Bond Sales in European Markets

[Bloomberg] Wall Street’s Leveraged ETF Push Gets New Twist With Hourly Bets

[Bloomberg] Canada and Europe Are Building a Hedge Against America

[Bloomberg] Chinese Inflation Revives as Oil Spike, AI Boom Feed Into Prices

[Bloomberg] China Banks Snap Up Bonds to Seek Returns as Loan Slump Deepens

[NYT] Iran Signals Readiness to Escalate Fight in Face of Rising U.S. Pressure

[NYT] Carney Tells Canadians: Retaliation Against U.S. Tariffs Was Unavoidable

[WSJ] Is China Stealing American AI? Why ‘Distillation’ Has Washington Up in Arms

[FT] AI borrowing boom shakes up Swiss credit market

[FT] What does the return of El Niño mean?