China’s foreign exchange regulator (SAFE) has issued “window guidance” urging banks to raise corporate FX hedging ratios to protect exporters from yuan appreciation and potential volatility, with SAFE branches also subsidizing hedging options premiums for some firms.
Sep 14, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun called U.S. AI CEOs’ calls to slow AI development “fear mongering,” saying it would disrupt global AI governance.
Sep 14, 2026 ·
CNBC
NIRS found 50% of survey respondents overestimated how much $100,000 in retirement savings could produce, including 19% who thought it could generate at least $25,000 per year.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The UK government says it has begun rolling out passkeys to more than 23 million GOV.UK One Login users, and the switch is already saving taxpayers nearly £600 a day in SMS costs.
Sep 14, 2026 ·
The Register
After a year on the books, the EU right-to-repair documentation and spare-parts registry has about 2,300 entries, but only about 18% are anywhere near compliant.
Sep 14, 2026 ·The Register
Some buyers are restoring manufacturing back to China after finding that supplier networks and skilled labor there are hard to replicate abroad, despite earlier moves to cut U.S. tariff exposure.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Oil has pushed above $100 a barrel, with Brent briefly topping $108, raising expectations for a 25-basis-point Fed rate hike this week.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Saudi Arabia’s east-west oil pipeline shut after drone attacks could force exporters to run out of export stocks in 5–7 days unless it restarts within days, risking a loss of up to 4% of global oil supply as rerouted flows of about 4 million barrels per day to Yanbu are cut off.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) recommends cutting government bonds from 70% to 50% of its bond benchmark, a shift that could remove about $106B from global sovereign bonds and nearly $80B from U.S. Treasurys, according to an estimate cited by the Financial Times.
Sep 14, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, endorsed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, proposed a three-point AI regulation plan including requiring “embedded evaluators,” coordinating with democracies to set common safety standards and limits on “the rate of unchecked AI progress,” and coordinating as possible with authoritarian governments while verifying compliance.
Sep 14, 2026 ·The Register
A 40-year-old unvaccinated Jefferson County, Pennsylvania woman died of respiratory failure due to suspected measles, with the coroner saying her measles case was not yet confirmed by testing.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Brent crude topped $100 per barrel for the first time since July and U.S. WTI exceeded $100 after renewed U.S.-Iran tensions, with diesel hitting a record $6 a gallon average in the U.S. and gasoline at a record high for this time of year, renewing recession fears and raising the odds of a Fed rate hike next week.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Ninth Circuit ruled on Aug. 28 that sports-related prediction-market event contracts are sports bets, not “swaps” under federal commodities law—allowing Nevada to regulate them as gaming and denying Kalshi, Crypto.com, and Robinhood injunctive relief.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Trump said the U.S. is leading China in AI and that a pause or restrictions could let China outpace the U.S. in the AI race.
Sep 13, 2026 ·
The Verge
Obama said Democrats should make AI a “central agenda” and, after regaining the House majority, “put together a framework” for a “very public conversation” so AI’s fast private development doesn’t become “dangerous.”
Sep 13, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Sony’s $7.85 million PlayStation Store antitrust settlement will be paid as automatically deposited store credit to 4,407,533 eligible US PlayStation Network accounts—typically about $0.91 to $33.66 in credit per qualifying purchaser, with legal fees potentially taking up to 25% of the fund.
Sep 13, 2026 ·
Engadget
Ron Paul argues Americans should “own the gold, not the government,” citing Treasury bond buybacks rising to $6 billion in September and warning yields—especially on the 30-year—remain at multi-year highs.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Federal Trade Commission penalized General Motors with a five-year ban on selling customer data to consumer reporting agencies and third-party data brokers, after GM collected driving data through services like OnStar Smart Driver and shared it with brokers including LexisNexis and Verisk for insurance risk profiling.
Sep 13, 2026 ·The Verge
Robert Kiyosaki warns that “millions of baby-boomers” could lose retirement income once they stop working and end up “homeless or living in RVs,” as Social Security and Medicare are “broke” and higher oil prices raise food and fuel costs.
Sep 13, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Microsoft’s record-breaking Patch Tuesday fixed 974 CVEs, including decades-old and widely used components and protocols that “no one has talked about in years,” which researchers say AI agents can now surface and exploit quickly.
Sep 13, 2026 ·The Register
