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Markets · Aug 18, 2026 · 5 min read
Wall Street closed lower on Monday as oil held near 91 dollars following the expiry of the 60-day deadline between the United…
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Global · Aug 17, 2026 · 3 min read
The Public Investment Fund published its 2025 annual report on 17 August. Revenue rose 9 percent to 120 billion dollars, net profit…
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Germany · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
German companies invested 4.3 billion euros directly in the United States in the first half of 2026, the lowest level since 2023,…
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China · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
China's July activity data disappointed on every headline measure. Industrial value added grew 4.5 percent from a year earlier, down from 5.3…
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Global · Aug 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Japan's economy grew 0.3 percent in the second quarter, an annualised 1.1 percent, according to the first preliminary estimate published by the…
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EU · Aug 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Five European Central Bank economists published a post on The ECB Blog on 17 August arguing that a correction in US technology…
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China · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min read
The China to Europe Arctic container express route entered regular weekly operation on Saturday 15 August, Xinhua reported. The vessel Dubai Tower,…
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Global · Aug 17, 2026 · 3 min read
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than 7 billion dollars, Bloomberg reported on 16 August. Neither company has confirmed the…
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Markets · Aug 16, 2026 · 6 min read
SpaceX's first quarterly report as a public company, together with a cluster of ownership filings lodged in the past week, provides the…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 15, 2026 · 6 min read
Gold fixed at 4,390.70 dollars on 14 August after a second consecutive weekly gain, leaving it 0.52 percent higher for 2026 and…
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EU · Aug 15, 2026 · 6 min read
Pony.ai and Uber announced plans for more than 2,000 robotaxis across five European cities on 13 August 2026, with the expanded partnership…
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Global · Aug 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan producer prices rose 0.1 percent in July, with petroleum and coal products subtracting 0.20 percentage points and utilities adding 0.23.
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Wall Street closed lower on Monday as oil held near 91 dollars following the expiry of the 60-day deadline between the United States and Iran, per CNBC. The S&P 500 fell 0.52 percent to 7,745.06, the Dow Jones Industrial Average 0.51 percent to 53,459.78 and the Nasdaq Composite 0.32 percent to 26,644.91, per CNBC, a…
The Public Investment Fund published its 2025 annual report on 17 August. Revenue rose 9 percent to 120 billion dollars, net profit more than doubled to 17 billion, and assets under management passed 900 billion. The asset trajectory is the number to hold. Assets under management stood at about 150 billion dollars in 2015 and…
German companies invested 4.3 billion euros directly in the United States in the first half of 2026, the lowest level since 2023, according to calculations by the German Economic Institute reported by Reuters on 16 August. The figure is down by nearly two thirds from the same period a year earlier and by nearly 80…
China’s July activity data disappointed on every headline measure. Industrial value added grew 4.5 percent from a year earlier, down from 5.3 percent in June. Retail sales of consumer goods rose 0.6 percent, down from 1 percent. Fixed asset investment excluding rural households fell 6.7 percent across the first seven months, having fallen 5.7 percent…
Japan’s economy grew 0.3 percent in the second quarter, an annualised 1.1 percent, according to the first preliminary estimate published by the Cabinet Office on 17 August. That undershot the 2.0 percent annualised rate expected in a Reuters poll of economists and followed 0.5 percent growth in the first quarter. Two rows further down the…
Five European Central Bank economists published a post on The ECB Blog on 17 August arguing that a correction in US technology valuations should be expected, and the argument does not rest on the claim that today’s prices are wrong. The authors write that economic research on past technological revolutions points to what they call…
The China to Europe Arctic container express route entered regular weekly operation on Saturday 15 August, Xinhua reported. The vessel Dubai Tower, operated by Zhejiang Seaport Logistics Group, sails from Ningbo-Zhoushan Port to Felixstowe, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Gdynia across the Northeast Arctic Passage, and the operator advertises a transit of approximately 20 days. What is…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than 7 billion dollars, Bloomberg reported on 16 August. Neither company has confirmed the transaction. Stripe’s newsroom and OpenRouter’s blog carry no announcement, Stripe does not comment on rumours, and Bloomberg notes the final price may vary. What follows treats it as an agreed deal that has…
SpaceX’s first quarterly report as a public company, together with a cluster of ownership filings lodged in the past week, provides the clearest picture yet of who owns one of the world’s most valuable technology companies — and shows that a $60 billion all-stock acquisition has moved Elon Musk’s control of it by roughly half…
Gold fixed at 4,390.70 dollars on 14 August after a second consecutive weekly gain, leaving it 0.52 percent higher for 2026 and 18.77 percent below its January PM fixing high.