The Fed, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan all decide within days, with the ECB already moved and the Swiss National Bank still at zero.
Saturday, September 12, 2026
24 storiesThe Anthropic chief proposed third-party evaluations and a coordinated brake; Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed it within hours, while prominent investors called the warnings overblown.
The Treasury secretary has a new name for detractors of his bond buyback programme, which has not stopped long yields reaching multi-year highs.
The New Delhi text calls for WTO and IMF reform and expands local-currency settlement, while stopping short of a common currency.
The University of Michigan index fell from 51.7 and missed consensus, with the expectations component falling further than the headline.
The White House is weighing the Defense Production Act to expand refining capacity as crude holds above $100 a barrel.
Oracle's executive chairman scrapped a Rule 10b5-1 plan to sell 50 million shares as the company raised its restructuring bill.
August's monthly shortfall narrowed sharply on calendar shifts, but the eleven-month total is flat against last year and interest costs have passed the defense budget.
Ship traffic through the southern Red Sea strait has halved, and the pipeline built to route Saudi crude around Hormuz is now offline.
Fitch's default reading and a stalled rally in listed managers sit alongside the first sign that withdrawal demands from the largest non-traded fund are slowing.
Futures pricing points to the first US rate increase since 2023, and former officials warn that the Fed rarely stops at one.
Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne each pledged a record £36 million, described in coverage as the largest gifts in British political history.
The Fed board split six to one on new guidance covering banks' core service providers, with Michael Barr dissenting.
The bloc's finance track settled on cross-border payment plumbing rather than a shared unit of account, according to its joint statement.
The bloc's leaders urged maximum restraint in the Middle East while negotiators worked late to agree the text of a Delhi Declaration.
The Netherlands and France have already shifted bullion out of the United States, and Spain is weighing whether to follow.
The Senate-passed bill reaches the House floor next week, with secondary measures aimed at third-country buyers the sharpest instrument in it.
Russia's central bank is working with the Reserve Bank of India on a mechanism to settle trade in central bank digital currency.
The Oracle founder has adopted a trading plan covering up to 50 million shares, disclosed as the company's data-centre spending strains its cash flow.
The chief executive reaffirmed $3 trillion to $4 trillion of AI infrastructure spending by 2030 while guiding to a sharp revenue increase next year.
The East-West line was the kingdom's main workaround for a blocked Strait of Hormuz, and it is now offline after drones launched from Iraq set it alight.
Markets expect the first US rate increase in years next week, and Kevin Warsh has left himself little room to talk them out of it.
Canadian retaliation now covers roughly $20 billion of US goods, even as Washington lifts one punitive levy on Canadian spirits.
Protection through the strait is now available only at set times, and transits have fallen to single digits.