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After Houthi drones crippled Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline, Riyadh restored lost exports by channeling an extra ~2 million bpd through the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a scramble for ships that pushed very-large crude carrier (VLCC) hire costs above $1 million a day.
On 22 Sept 2026 Alibaba unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator—claimed to be China’s fastest—and paired it with a pledge to build 20 GW of global data-centre capacity by 2032 while training a 5-10 trillion-parameter model.
August 2026 customs data show China’s shipments of rare-earth magnets fell sharply—down 21 % to the US and 17 % to Japan—just weeks before the 24 September Trump–Xi meeting that will decide whether November export controls snap back into force.
Missile-and-drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s capital by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on 19 Sept 2026 injected a fresh Middle-East risk premium, snapping crude’s slide and sending benchmark prices sharply higher in Monday’s Asian trading.
On 21 Sep 2026, Bitcoin closed above $85,000 for the first time in eight months, clearing its 50-week moving average and igniting a sharp risk-on rally across crypto and equities.
On 21 Sept 2026 Copenhagen, Nuuk and Washington unveiled a no-expiry accord that grants the U.S. permanent basing and overflight rights in Greenland while formally widening NATO’s responsibility for Arctic security, with signing slated for the UN General Assembly the next day.
Within 24 hours of Washington sanctioning eight more Cuban-linked companies on 19 Sept 2026, Cuba’s national grid collapsed for the sixth time this year, an outage cutting electricity to virtually all 9 million residents and spotlighting the embargo ahead of the 34th UN vote on 27 October.
VW’s board warned investors it now sees a maximum 1 % operating margin in 2026, down from 4-5.5 %, after booking about €10 billion in one-off charges—€6 billion of which stem from writing down its 75 % stake in Porsche amid collapsing Chinese demand and U.S. tariffs.
After a 10 Sep drone strike halted the kingdom’s 7 mbd East-West line, Saudi Aramco told European refiners on 18 Sep they will get no October shipments and is now rushing a bypass that could restore roughly half the pipeline’s flow within “days” and full capacity in about six weeks.
On 16-17 Sept 2026, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen publicly proposed creating a first-ever “associate membership” category for Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney hailed the idea in Strasbourg, and within 48 hours U.S. President Donald Trump answered by slapping 50 % duties on US$20 billion of Canadian goods, prompting retaliatory tariffs and setting the stage for a bruising debate as Canada’s Parliament reconvenes 21 September.
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