No major US data releases but this week will feature a big test on consumer health

US regulators throw banks a curveball on committed credit lines – Risk.net Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content New Basel III charge on undrawn facilities will hit largest banks in areas like fund finance and credit cards The US Basel III redraft of March 2026 has mainly drawn praise from banks…

Exposure to the artificial-intelligence boom has become virtually impossible for investors to avoid. The theme hasn’t just cornered the stock market. It has systematically swallowed up corporate credit and venture capital, too.

Qatar National Bank (QNB) wrote off 6.6 billion riyals ($1.8 billion) of loans and advances to customers in the second quarter, its largest quarterly total since at least 2018. The amount was more than 41 times the 159 million riyals written off in the first quarter and surpassed the previous record of 5.4 billion riyals…

Wall Street’s record-setting start to the week ran into two familiar sources of volatility: the artificial intelligence trade and oil. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday closed above 53,000 for the first time ever before renewed U.S.-Iran tensions erased those gains, leaving the blue-chip index down 0.5% for the week. Chip stocks — once…

By Erik Hertzberg and Mario Baker Ramirez (Bloomberg) — Canadians support Mark Carney’s approach to managing the economy, even though he’s presided over the worst first year of growth for a prime minister since at least 1963. A Nanos Research Group poll for Bloomberg News shows 60% of Canadians think Carney has done a very…

This morning could have been much worse. The bond market could have continued spiraling on fear that it is now responsible for conducting monetary policy–something that sounds weird when you first read it, but is actually central to the discussion based on Warsh’s comments in yesterday’s press conference. In short, bonds tightened policy yesterday and…