Monday, 14 September 2026
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Signals
Oman called off Monday's talks on the Strait of Hormuz. Diesel in the United States passed $6.20 a gallon on Sunday, a record.
Saudi Arabia's pipeline around the strait stayed shut after drone strikes, and a barrel of oil rose to $107.51 on Monday. Hiring a tanker on Middle East routes costs close to 500% more than a year ago.
UK inflation rose to 2.9% in July because of energy costs. Household energy prices in the UK rise by nearly 4% in October.
Goldman Sachs, a US bank, now expects the US central bank to raise interest rates on Wednesday. Markets see a 76% chance that Japan's central bank raises its rate on Friday.
A 30-year fixed US mortgage reached 7.07% on 10 September. Australia's average new home loan rate passed 6% after three rate rises in a row.
A US court said the Energy Department went beyond its powers when it kept Michigan's 64-year-old Campbell coal plant open. EDF, the French electricity company, borrowed 1 billion euros to keep its nuclear reactors running for longer.
Eutelsat, a French satellite company, signed up for a robot spacecraft that docks with an old satellite and adds about five years to its working life. It is the robot maker's third order of this kind.
Divers at Studland Bay in Dorset now see seahorses on every dive, where 87 special moorings keep boat chains off the seagrass. A ban on one kind of lobster pot near Jersey has helped lobster stocks since 1997.
A review of six trials with 800,000 men found PSA blood tests likely prevent about two prostate cancer deaths for every 1,000 men tested. Among US veterans, the COVID vaccine was linked to fewer heart attacks and strokes.
12 editions
World
The truth: Sweden is still counting, and one seat separates Magdalena Andersson's centre-left bloc from Ulf Kristersson's right-wing bloc, so whether the far-right Sweden Democrats join a government for the first time rests on the rest of the count.
Finance
The truth: Saudi Arabia's main way of getting oil around the blocked Strait of Hormuz has been shut since Friday, and the Iran-Gulf talks set for Monday were postponed with no new date.
Tech
The truth: Anthropic's boss asked AI companies on Saturday to slow down, and Anthropic is still preparing to sell shares on the Nasdaq as soon as next month.
Mind & body
The truth: The CPAP mask stops almost every blocked breath, but people in trials wore it for about 4.5 hours a night, and up to half give it up within a year.
Climate
The truth: The Trump administration is reported to be about to remove the carbon limits on US coal and gas power plants, three days after a court ruled its emergency orders keeping Michigan's Campbell coal plant open went beyond its powers.
Space
The truth: SpaceX flew its 107th orbital mission of the year on Sunday, and it is now cutting back how often its Falcon 9 flies.
Biotech
The truth: A Danish study found that baby girls exposed to paracetamol in the womb had smaller ovaries, and it cannot show the drug caused it.
Money
The truth: Kalshi and Polymarket list sports bets as financial contracts under the CFTC, a US federal agency, so they can take bets even in states where sports betting is banned.
Sports
The truth: World Athletics paid $10m for three nights in Budapest because it needs a big television event in the one year in four with no Olympics and no World Championships.
Gaming
The truth: Blizzard, which Xbox owns, put a 2029 date on Diablo 5 and a 2030 date on a new StarCraft at its own show, while Xbox plans about 1,600 more job cuts over the next year.
Food
The truth: Scotland's government now treats bluetongue as a disease that is staying, and its agriculture minister has told farmers to prepare for it across Scotland.
Cyber
The truth: A researcher showed that Microsoft's 3 September fix for Defender, the antivirus built into Windows, can still be got round, and Microsoft did not answer two security news sites that asked about it.