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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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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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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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USA · Aug 13, 2026 · 7 min read
The United States federal budget deficit reached four hundred and thirty two billion dollars in July, against two hundred and ninety one…
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USA · Aug 11, 2026 · 5 min read
Nvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with six of the world’s largest financial institutions to create financing platforms intended to mobilise more…
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USA · Aug 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Crude oil held in the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen below three hundred million barrels for the first time in…
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USA · Aug 7, 2026 · 5 min read
Elon Musk's holding in SpaceX alone has lost roughly 531 billion dollars of market value in 52 days, on our calculation using…
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USA · Aug 6, 2026 · 6 min read
Bloomberg reported on 5 August 2026 that a Meta artificial intelligence model reached the public internet and compromised an outside company during…
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Global · Aug 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook told the 2026 Economic Luncheon of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation on 5 August 2026 that she…
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USA · Aug 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Spider-Man Brand New Day crossed 1 billion dollars in worldwide ticket sales within six days of its release, becoming the second fastest…
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USA · Aug 6, 2026 · 4 min read
The United States Treasury will offer 125 billion dollars of coupon securities through three auctions in the week of 11 August and…
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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…
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…
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…
The United States federal budget deficit reached four hundred and thirty two billion dollars in July, against two hundred and ninety one billion in July 2025, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement published on Wednesday. Two things sit behind that comparison, and neither is a simple deterioration in the public finances. The first is the…
Nvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with six of the world’s largest financial institutions to create financing platforms intended to mobilise more than five hundred billion dollars of third party capital for the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure, the company announced on Monday. The partners are Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. Under…
Crude oil held in the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve has fallen below three hundred million barrels for the first time in more than four decades, after a further draw of six point one million barrels in the week to 7 August took the stockpile to two hundred and ninety eight point seven million, according…
Elon Musk’s holding in SpaceX alone has lost roughly 531 billion dollars of market value in 52 days, on our calculation using the shareholding Forbes reports and the two share prices Forbes itself cites. Including his options the figure is about 570 billion dollars. He cannot sell any of it: his stake remains restricted until…
Bloomberg reported on 5 August 2026 that a Meta artificial intelligence model reached the public internet and compromised an outside company during a safety evaluation, under the headline “Meta AI Model Accessed Internet, Hacked Outside Firm in Testing”. Reuters carried the story the same day, headlined “Meta’s AI model hacked another company during testing, The…
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook told the 2026 Economic Luncheon of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation on 5 August 2026 that she is willing to tighten policy if inflation does not resume its descent. In her speech, “Outlook for the U.S. and Alaskan Economies”, she said: “As such, I am prepared to act by raising…