M — Morning Briefs

Morning Brief: Tech Stocks Slump Driven by AI Safety Concerns; Hormuz Meeting Delayed; Speculators Turn Net Long on Yen

14 septembre, 2026
Morning Brief

Find here our morning brief which compiled the main macro news — released on Twitter — concerning Americas, Asia and Europe.

Americas

Markets

🌎 Stocks Drop on AI Slowdown Concerns, Oil Advances: Markets Wrap – Bloomberghttps://t.co/mUx3epTJis pic.twitter.com/gkjJRhjJmW

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) September 14, 2026

There is zero demand for Nasdaq puts pic.twitter.com/qf248s4eGP

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 14, 2026

*Focus on AI

🇺🇸 AI Bosses Risk Clash With Wall Street and Trump Over Safety Call – Bloomberghttps://t.co/IoxCjbd9ih

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) September 14, 2026

DB Reid: Buy-backs have turned into issuance for the hyperscalers pic.twitter.com/jsIzoNmJ67

— Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 (@MikeZaccardi) September 13, 2026

Economic Indicators and Prospects

Core services ex-housing rose 0.51% in the August CPI, the highest reading since January and up 3% on the year.

Core goods was +0.11% (+0.7% on the year)

Shelter was +0.26% (+3% on the year) pic.twitter.com/YT36CcYUvN

— Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) September 11, 2026

Core CPI was firmer than expected in August, rising 0.29% on the month (3.5% annualized)

The three-month annualized rate was 2% (previous month: 1.6%).

The six-month annualized rate rose to 2.6% from 2.4%.

The 12-month change barely rounded down to 2.4% from 2.5%. pic.twitter.com/zhtcjXYLqz

— Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) September 11, 2026

Preliminary core PCE projections are clustered around 0.22%-0.26%

Note: these have bigger uncertainty bands than they normally do given the upcoming NIPA revisions pic.twitter.com/RvAZMIbgPW

— Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) September 10, 2026

US Univ. Of Michigan Sentiment Sep P: 47.8 (est 51.0; prev 51.7)
– Current Conditions: 50.9 (est 51.3; prev 51.9)
– Expectations: 45.8 (est 51.0; prev 51.5)
– 1-Year Inflation: 4.6% (est 4.2%; prev 4.0%)
– 5-10 Year Inflation: 3.4% (est 3.3%; prev 3.3%)

— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) September 11, 2026

US Household Change In Net Worth (USD) Q2: 12.803T (prev 113B; prev R 793B)https://t.co/3GA4ULW0aQ pic.twitter.com/nyIL0EVvpO

— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) September 11, 2026

At 6.6%, current YoY US Nominal GDP is at the highest YoY rate since 2005, outside of the COVID bounce-back period

1.5ppt higher on the 10yr? DB

Since the early 1960s, 10 yr UST yields have typically tracked Nominal GDP pic.twitter.com/kAFpzewiNu

— Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖 (@MikeZaccardi) September 13, 2026

Monetary Policy

Warsh And Trump On Collision Course As Investors Expect Fed To Raise Rates – FThttps://t.co/iE7aJrnj6p

— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) September 14, 2026

Goldman Sachs Flips Forecast, Now Sees September Fed Rate Hike – RTRShttps://t.co/XzocqZQ9vP

— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) September 14, 2026

🇺🇸 How Do Market Expectations React to the FOMC Dot Plot? – Chicago Fedhttps://t.co/PNoDp8IGh3 pic.twitter.com/ZsDDw9toBR

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) September 14, 2026

Fiscal Policy

U.S. on track to spend $1.7 trillion annually in interest payments if rates remain stable, which would surpass social security as the largest government expenditure 🚨 🚨 pic.twitter.com/wdqEVx71HS

— Barchart (@Barchart) September 14, 2026

Trade, Politics and Geopolitics

🇺🇸 HUGE: The US House will vote next week on a sweeping Russia sanctions bill that could also impose tariffs on countries buying Russian oil and gas pic.twitter.com/AzFh07j1gB

— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) September 11, 2026

Focus on Middle East conflict

#OOTT | Oil Gains As Shutdown Of Saudi Pipeline Deepens Energy Crisis – BBGhttps://t.co/t45oyGQ5or

— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) September 13, 2026

#OOTT | Hormuz Meeting With Iran And Gulf Nations Postponed, Oman Says – BBGhttps://t.co/53G17W3w8m

— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) September 13, 2026

Asia/Middle East

Markets

🌎 Tech stocks slump in Asia, driven by AI safety concerns – Nikkei Asiahttps://t.co/m6GOyeS9G6

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) September 14, 2026

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 #China Spy Chief Warns of AI Risks as Anthropic CEO Urges Brakes – Bloomberghttps://t.co/gFoGNnMy7X

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) September 14, 2026

🇯🇵 Speculators turn net long on #yen for first time since February – Reutershttps://t.co/CH88XZblMc pic.twitter.com/PIAg5s6O1v

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) September 14, 2026

Some investors are snapping up New Zealand bonds, betting sluggish economic growth will keep the central bank cautious on interest-rate hikes and extend the debt’s outperformance over global peers https://t.co/gHTpAbvXaQ

— Bloomberg (@business) September 14, 2026

Economic Indicators and Prospects

🇨🇳 #China’s Economy Enters Critical Phase Determining 2026 Stimulus – Bloomberghttps://t.co/BL1tcDY6t7 pic.twitter.com/yALndbS3AP

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) September 14, 2026

Japan Industrial Production (M/M) Jul F: 0.2% (prev 0.1%)

– Japan Industrial Production (Y/Y): 3.9% (prev 4.1%)

— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) September 14, 2026

Monetary Policy

🇨🇳 Chinese Local Banks Urged to Boost Clients’ #Yuan Hedging – Bloomberghttps://t.co/gFoGNnMy7X pic.twitter.com/7rjFNouJl1

— Christophe Barraud 🇫🇷 🇲🇨 (@C_Barraud) September 14, 2026

Bank of Japan set to raise policy rate to 1.25% next week https://t.co/ktV6VyvQRZ

— Nikkei Asia (@NikkeiAsia) September 11, 2026

Trade, Politics and Geopolitics

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷 Foreign Ministers from Russia, Iran, and China cosy up during the BRICS summit in India

U.S. foreign policy was supposed to isolate its adversaries; instead, it’s helping drive them closer together

Assuming we survive a potential apocalypse or AI takeover, future… pic.twitter.com/si86NhV6ig

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 13, 2026

Europe

Economic Indicators and Prospects

Sweden CPI (Y/Y) Aug F: 0.3% (est 0.3%; prev 0.3%)
– CPI (M/M): -0.3% (est -0.3%; prev -0.3%)
– CPIF (Y/Y): 0.7% (est 0.7%; prev 0.7%)
– CPIF (M/M) -0.2% (est -0.3%; prev -0.3%)
– CPIF Ex Energy (Y/Y): 0.5% (est 0.5%; prev 0.5%)
– CPIF Ex Energy (M/M): -0.5% (est -0.6%; prev…

— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) September 14, 2026

Boomers cling to UK jobs as young people get locked out https://t.co/E4o0MYkw5c via @irinaanghel12 pic.twitter.com/ddFIHm69rT

— Zoe Schneeweiss (@ZSchneeweiss) September 14, 2026

Monetary Policy

The Bank of France issued a statement denying it has sold debt holdings on the market as the central bank faces increasing criticism from presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his far-left party https://t.co/hkrdZPweh2 via @WHorobin pic.twitter.com/9htp75lUn7

— Zoe Schneeweiss (@ZSchneeweiss) September 13, 2026

#OOTT | Oil Price Surge Revives Prospect Of Bank Of England Rate Rise This Year – FThttps://t.co/vqma5NJ4GN

— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) September 14, 2026

BOE’s dovish majority tested by Iran war pressures https://t.co/9PdKU4n9kc via @tomelleryrees @PhilAldrick pic.twitter.com/4GtFf7bWoV

— Zoe Schneeweiss (@ZSchneeweiss) September 14, 2026

Fiscal Policy

EU finance chief rejects banks’ bid to split reform package in two https://t.co/0EVEWpVIuS via @LauraNoonanX @stephencrrll pic.twitter.com/tnFvdFxMvu

— Zoe Schneeweiss (@ZSchneeweiss) September 14, 2026

France targets €30 billion in budget savings to tame the deficit https://t.co/Me7aW9eOqf via @tarapatelparis pic.twitter.com/DuFyB5KGHK

— Zoe Schneeweiss (@ZSchneeweiss) September 13, 2026

Trade, Politics and Geopolitics

Sweden’s election will go down to the wire, the tightest in its history, and one that will hinge on the complete counting in coming days of late-arriving ballots and votes from overseas https://t.co/LmjPPnjT6T via @CharlesDuxbury @CJungstedt @CharlesCredit pic.twitter.com/LtaMQp6suW

— Zoe Schneeweiss (@ZSchneeweiss) September 14, 2026

Germany To Approve Small Boxer Batches As Large Orders Languish – BBGhttps://t.co/07CNW2Xi5I

— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) September 11, 2026

Other Areas And Global Economy

Week Ahead | 14 September

Inflation, spending and the Fed are three events shaping this week’s economic calendar. 🗓️

Wednesday brings UK CPI, US retail sales and the FOMC rate decision, followed by US jobless claims on Thursday.

Swipe for the key figures and release times.

— Vantage (@vantagemarkets) September 14, 2026