The Polylog Global Intelligence Brief

Morning Edition · Friday, September 11, 2026

Macro

Treasury's $6bn Buyback Fails to Stop Yields Rising Before Inflation Data

August consumer prices rose in line with forecasts on Friday morning, and the 10-year Treasury yield pushed toward 5 percent, leaving traders positioned for Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh to raise rates next week rather than cut them.

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Markets

Houthis Take Perim Island and All of Yemen's Red Sea Coast, With Brent Near $108

Yemen's internationally recognized government says its coastal withdrawal was a planned reorganization and that it will counter-attack. Saudi Arabia struck Mokha's airport on Friday after President Trump declined two requests from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to hit the group, according to Axios reporting relayed in Israeli media.

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Crypto

Bitcoin Falls Below $77,000 as Traders Position for a Federal Reserve Hike

Ninety-five of the 100 largest digital assets declined over 24 hours while gold held near $4,390 an ounce, a split that again separates the two assets sold as inflation hedges.

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Geopolitics

Iran and Gulf States Meet to Turn a Temporary Hormuz Arrangement Into a Reopening

Vessel tracking recorded seven transits through the strait on September 10, a level that shows how little commercial traffic the current arrangement has restored.

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World

Dubai Airports Plans Underground Fuel Tanks to Withstand Missile Strikes

The United Arab Emirates is continuing a multibillion-dollar aviation expansion while redesigning the most vulnerable part of it, the fuel supply.

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Geopolitics

BRICS Leaders Gather in New Delhi as Road Closures and Evictions Anger Residents

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are due at the two-day summit that ends with a New Delhi Declaration, while a protocol dispute with Bangladesh has already surfaced.

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Geopolitics

Drone Attack Sets Fire to Ozon Logistics Centre in Saratov

Russia's largest online retailer suspended new orders and deliveries across the Saratov region after an overnight strike that also hit a nearby oil refinery and an industrial site in Volgograd, with no casualties reported at the warehouse itself.

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Geopolitics

Manila Says Chinese Forces Fired Flares at a Coast Guard Aircraft Over the Spratlys

The Philippine Coast Guard disclosed the September 7 encounter near Subi and Mischief Reefs three days later, along with video and a count of militia vessels in both lagoons.

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Tech

Anthropic Researcher's Extinction Warning Revives the Push for United States AI Rules

President Trump said he is not worried that artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity, as Europe debates whether data, not models, is where it can still compete.

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World

Hong Kong Jails Three Tiananmen Vigil Organisers for Five to Seven Years

The sentences under the national security law arrived in the same week a local restaurant group cleared its listing hearing for an offering of up to HK$400 million.

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Geopolitics

Algeria Severs Ties With the United Arab Emirates and Closes Its Airspace

Emirati civilian and military aircraft are barred from Friday, with flights to Algiers exempt until the end of 2026, in a rupture Algiers blames on unspecified hostile acts.

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World

Twenty-Five Years After September 11, the Order It Created Has Largely Dissolved

Commemorations in New York coincide with a Russian account, carried by state media, that Washington converted global sympathy in 2001 into its own strategic project.

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