Wednesday, August 19, 2026
General
- Stocks higher as Treasury unveils plan to relieve bond market pressure: Live updates
- Yields pull back from multi-year highs after Treasury Department says it will double government debt repurchase size
- Oil hovers near three-week high on uncertainty over Hormuz
- Japan bond yields near 3% as inflation, fiscal worries mount
- Treasury announces upscaled buyback operation for longer-term debt, sending yields lower
- Hormuz traffic slows as uncertainty over waterway persists
- Trump pauses tariffs on Canadian imports, Carney says key work remains
- Demand from US data-center boom radiates out through factory supply chains
- Weekly mortgage demand stalls along with interest rates, but rates are now moving higher again.
- Behind the Curtain: The new existential threat to AI
- Record Pace of Bond Sales Jolts Europe Out of Its Summer Lull
- Analysis-Japan has few answers as bond rout puts fiscal plans at risk
- The bond market is sounding an alarm. Here’s what it means.
- Bessent Boosts Debt Buybacks After Yields Hit Multi-Decade Highs
- Carry Traders Pivot to Swiss Franc After Yen Volatility Spikes
- The $19 Trillion Bond Question Confronting Central Banks
- Korea Bears Brunt as Higher Bond Yields Weigh on Chip Stocks
- Japanese Stocks Slide as Bond Market Anxiety Hits AI Sentiment
- Ocean Heat Waves Threaten to Supercharge Storm Season in Europe
- Threatening Friends and Courting Enemies in Trump’s ‘Upside-Down World’
- Bonds Are Getting Hammered, and Wall Street Says the Rout Won’t End Anytime Soon
- Iran’s Attacks on Ships in Hormuz Mount, Testing U.S. Military Restraint
- Inside Big Tech’s Frantic Race to Quell the Growing Backlash to AI
- US Treasury to double buybacks of long-term government debt
- The US economy is running hot
- America’s brands lose their magic
- Global food security may be collateral in Ukraine war
