Morning News: September 7, 2026

Oil Prices Churn After U.S. and Iran Trade Strikes

OPEC, Allies Agree to Keep Oil Output Steady in October

Trump’s Empire of Extraction Will Backfire

China to Pump $54 Billion Into State Banks, Insurers in Capital-Boosting Push

Yen Rises to Highest Since February, Tops Intervention Rally

Washington May Have Discovered the Limits of Economic Sanctions

Trump Says Canada’s Dollar ‘Imbalance’ With US Is Unacceptable

Canada’s Retaliatory Tariffs Set to Take Effect as Trump Threatens to Escalate

Trump’s ‘Erratic’ Tariffs Hurt Economy, House Democrat Says

Global Reserves Shift From Dollar Overstated, NY Fed Study Says

The Fed’s ‘Family Fight’ Spills Into the Open Before Key Rate Decision

The Fed Doesn’t “Print,” And The Federal Government Doesn’t “Spend”

Bitcoin Hack Drains $320 Million From Crypto Network

Switzerland’s New UBS Plan Is Complex, Costly And Bad

America’s White-Collar Workers Feel Stuck in Jobs They Don’t Like

Germany Is In a Very Dark Place, and Time’s Running Out

How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips

Jensen Huang Says “AGI has arrived” Following OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Launch

Target of Artificial General Intelligence May Be More Like a ‘Spiritual Concept’ for AI Leaders

When AI Goes Haywire, It Can Resemble a Teenage Psychopath

Social Media in China Is Getting Really Dark

The Sealed Document TikTok Doesn’t Want Two Senators to See

Spain Got a Head Start on Renewables — Now It Needs a Battery Revolution

German Industrial Production Contracts on Auto Sector Slowdown

A Tidier Rivian (in Size and Price) Is Ready for the Suburbs

Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine

Novo’s Wegovy Reversed Obesity in Study of Young Children

In Trump’s Second Term, the MAGA Merchandise Boom Is Going Bust

Hollywood’s Box Office Boom Comes With 248 Million Missing Tickets

There’s a Legal Fight Brewing at Oktoberfest

China’s Luxury Panic Leaves the US Holding the Bag

Diamond Mines Are Closing and South Africans Have Few Alternatives

Hermès Has Big Watchmaking Ambitions. The Cult of the Birkin Is Getting in the Way

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Posted by on September 7th, 2026 at 7:03 am


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