Morning News: February 16, 2026

Diplomatic Feud With China Weighs on Japan’s Economy

Europe’s Flagship Climate Tool Tests Political Limits

Trump’s Coal Renaissance Comes at Cost for Taxpayers

Trump Administration Ends Credit for Start-Stop Feature in Vehicles

Trump’s Broad Use of Metals Tariffs Starts to Backfire, Requiring a Rethink

One of Big Oil’s Biggest Defenses Is Getting Blown Up

A Huge Bet on Supertankers Reverberates Through the Oil Market

The Oil Market Is Trading on Bearish Vibes — for Now

Visa’s Olympics Monopoly Highlights Europe’s Payment Headache

Trump’s New World Order Is Pushing Sweden to Warm Up to the Euro

A US Hedge Fund Has Made a Risky Bet on the London Stock Exchange

America’s Statistical System Is Breaking Down

Predicting Next Crash Made Harder as Private Markets Obscure Data

Farmers Are Aging. Their Kids Don’t Want to Be in the Family Business.

The Break Is Over. Companies Are Jacking Up Prices Again.

From Hyatt to Holiday Inn, America’s Free Hotel Breakfast is Facing a K-shaped Economic Threat

Want a Mortgage for Under 3% in 2026? Meet the ‘Assumable Mortgage’

America’s Most Powerful CEOs Are Awfully Quiet Lately

What C.E.O.s Are Worried About

Companies Are Replacing CEOs in Record Numbers—and They’re Getting Younger

Will 2026 Be the Year of the ‘Soonicorn’?

Rampant AI Demand for Memory Is Fueling a Growing Chip Crisis

Fund Beating 99% of Peers Sees Few Software Firms Surviving AI

Working in A.I. Lifted Their Compensation. Now They Want Prenups

Meta Is Wrong to Try to Sneak Into Privacy Intrusion

Musk Is Beating China’s 203,000 Paper Satellites

Musk Merger Puts New Twist on X as Everything App

Warner Bros. Weighs Reopening Sale Negotiations With Paramount

I Trusted Jeff Bezos. The Joke’s on Me.

How a Trump Tax Break Rescued Horse Racing

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Posted by on February 16th, 2026 at 7:07 am


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