Friday, July 17, 2026
General
- Stocks tumble, head for losing week, led by chipmakers; Netflix plunges: Live updates
- Slumping AI stocks drag Wall Street lower, oil prices jump as US launches more airstrikes on Iran
- Global stocks drop on growing semiconductor rout; oil set for weekly gain
- Oil prices rise after Kuwait says Iran attacked water desalination and power plant
- US strikes bridges and collapses a tower at a key port as its Iran campaign expands
- Iranian strike damages a Kuwait desalination plant, exposing water vulnerability in dry Mideast
- US, Iran each attack infrastructure in risky escalation
- Trump alleges vast conspiracy to commit and cover up election fraud
- Trump Stokes Doubts on US Election Security in Combative Speech
- Trump accuses China of 2020 election interference, contradicting U.S. intel
- China's open-weight Kimi model stuns AI world with frontier-level results
- China just erased America's AI lead
- AI Is Becoming a Commodity, and That’s a Problem for OpenAI and Anthropic
- US import prices unexpectedly rise in June
- US single-family housing starts, building permits fall in June
- Homebuyer affordability slipped for fifth straight month, real estate index shows
- US Corporate Insiders Are Selling Stocks at a Near Record Pace
- Summer is smoke season now
- Bank of England says action needed on gilt repo market regulation
- China's top airlines warn of heavy losses ahead of uncertain summer
- Fuel crisis, attacks in Azov Sea tighten squeeze on Russian farmers
- Iran Attacks Kuwait Water and Power Plants as Hostilities Worsen
- China’s Powerful New AI Surprises Investors, Fueling Tech Rout
- Hyperscalers Are Dragging Down Bond Gauges Across Global Markets
- Japan’s ‘Decisive Action’ Threat Does Little to Scare Yen Bears
- DeepSeek Champions China’s Bid to Flood the World With Cheap AI
- China Warns of Severe Flood Risks, Heat Waves Through Mid-August
- Shipping in the Persian Gulf Nears a Halt and Oil Prices Rise
- A.I. Is Running on Borrowed Money
- GOP Package to Fund Iran War Runs Into Republican Doubts
- How Sky-high Deficits Threaten the Bond Market
- AI’s Wider Availability Is Good for China, Not Great for OpenAI and Anthropic
- Trump’s 25-Minute Speech Opens Can of Worms on Elections
- China’s Moonshot AI Releases Model to Challenge Top U.S. Systems
- Global tech stocks fall as AI trade goes into reverse
- South Korean market’s extreme volatility alarms regulators
- Why Iran is returning to war
- How far will Iran go for the Strait of Hormuz?
- Xi Jinping lays out China’s global AI leadership ambitions
