Morning News: May 13, 2026

Oil Inventories Falling at Record Pace on Iran War, IEA Says

IEA Warns Recovery From Hormuz Supply Shock Will Take Months

Undersea Internet Cable Projects Are Getting Tangled in the Iran War

India Allocates $4 Billion to Support Converting Coal to Gas

China’s Secretive Missile Program Is Making Dozens of Companies Rich

Trump’s Shrinking Ambitions on China

Trump’s Trade War With China: How We Got to a Stalemate In 3 Numbers

Nvidia’s CEO Joins Trump in China With AI in the Spotlight

How China Could Wield Its Control of Rare Earths Against Trump

China’s AI Suppliers Can’t Keep Up as Component Shortages Bite

China’s $3 Billion US Clean Tech Exit Is an Investment Warning

Equinox, Orla Agree to Form $18.5 Billion Gold Major

Carney’s Pivot From US Is Dependent on High Gold, Oil Prices

What You Need to Know About the Federal Gas Tax

Prices at the Pump Are Wiping Out Wage Gains

To Dot or Not? Warsh’s First Fed Rate Projection Could Out His Views to The Public – And Trump

Why a Warsh-Led Fed May Keep Interest Rates Steady

Morgan Stanley Hikes S&P 500 Target to 8,300 on Earnings Boom

Investors Benefit From More Financial Data, Not Less

With Inflation on Rise, I Bonds Look Like a Good Place to Park Cash Again

Trump on US Banknotes? A Social Media Post Spurs Speculation

Apollo’s Pricing Plan Will Transform Private Credit

Anthropic’s Mythos Sends US Banks Rushing to Plug Cyber Holes

Please Stop, There’s No Such Thing As a “Bubble”

The U.S. State With the Most Population Growth, and Why It Grows

San Francisco’s Luxury Housing Boom Is a Warning

Even Silicon Valley’s Congressman Wants to Rein in AI

Lake Tahoe Power Crunch Shows AI’s Growing Energy Toll in West

Tomato Prices Soar as War, Tariffs and Weather Affect a Popular Crop

The Rising Impact of “Nuclear” Verdicts on Consumer Prices

China’s ‘Two Billion Feet’ Are Suddenly Running From Nike

Teens Helped Bring Malls Back to Life. Now They’re Getting Banned.

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Posted by on May 13th, 2026 at 7:04 am


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