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- Monday, 24 August 2026 · Analysis
Jackson Hole with Warsh and Nvidia's quarterly report in the same week
The Kansas City Fed's symposium opens on August 27 with the debut of the new chair of the US central bank. The yield on the thirty-year bond is at its highest since 2007, and the quarterly report of the leading manufacturer of AI processors falls in the same days.
- Sunday, 23 August 2026 · Analysis
50% tariffs on Canadian goods, Ottawa announces response for September 8
Washington has hit Canadian products worth $20 billion since August 22. Prime Minister Mark Carney has suspended negotiations and announced counter-tariffs on six categories of goods. No new meeting appears to be scheduled.
- Sunday, 23 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer stated: "We don't have any new talks scheduled with the Canadians" (transl. from English). Carney recalled negotiators to Ottawa. The rupture complicates the future of the continental free trade agreement USMCA. NBC News
- Saturday, 22 August 2026 · Analysis
Mps launches two exchange offers worth 34 billion on Banco Bpm and Banca Generali
A different story from the one that opened this morning on US Treasury debt buybacks: in Siena, Mps's board approved the countermove to Intesa Sanpaolo's offer, with four directors out of thirteen against.
- Saturday, 22 August 2026 · Analysis
US Treasury doubles debt buybacks, dollar weakens
Bessent raises buybacks from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation. Wall Street closes higher on August 21, but S&P 500 and Nasdaq break a three-week winning streak; gold at three-month highs, euro above 1.17, Brent rises for a sixth consecutive session.
- Friday, 21 August 2026 · Lead Story
Mps responds to Intesa with two exchange offers worth 34 billion euros on Banco Bpm and Banca Generali
The board of Monte dei Paschi has approved two voluntary and simultaneous public exchange offers, entirely in shares: around 25.3 billion euros for Banco Bpm and 8.7 for Banca Generali. Milan's market reacted with a rise of 0.4%.
- Friday, 21 August 2026 · Analysis
Jackson Hole: Kevin Warsh's debut as Fed chair on a topic that isn't inflation
The Wyoming symposium runs from August 27 to 29 on the theme of financial innovation and payments. Warsh, installed in May after the narrowest confirmation on record for a Fed chair, speaks for the first time in that capacity.
- Thursday, 20 August 2026 · Analysis
Tariffs on Canada, Trump announces a deal the White House says is not signed
The tariff deadline is set for the night of August 21 and concerns approximately 20 billion dollars in goods. Ottawa and Washington give differing accounts of the agricultural chapter.
- Thursday, 20 August 2026 · Analysis
Fed minutes open the door to tightening, US Treasury doubles long-dated debt buybacks
The document from the late-July meeting, released on August 19, indicates that many participants consider tightening likely if inflation does not slow down. On the same day the Treasury Department announced an increase in buybacks on maturities between 10 and 30 years, with the 30-year yield at 19-year highs.
- Wednesday, 19 August 2026 · Lead Story
Brent tops 91 dollars, gas above 60 euros: markets price in the Hormuz stalemate
Oil at three-week highs, sovereign yields rising and the BTP-Bund spread back around 80 basis points. The same day brings the Federal Reserve minutes and Bank of Italy data on the balance of payments.
- Wednesday, 19 August 2026 · Analysis
Unitree raises $904 million as demand exceeds supply by 8,000 times
The Chinese humanoid robot manufacturer placed 40.4 million shares at 150.8 yuan on Shanghai's STAR Market, for an expected market capitalization of around 61 billion yuan. Individual investors submitted 9.8 million orders.
- Tuesday, 18 August 2026 · Analysis
Germany, ZEW expectations rise to 34.2 points as employment falls
A story the morning news did not tell: Germany's ZEW economic expectations index rises above economists' consensus, but on the same 18 August Destatis records 212,000 fewer people in employment than a year earlier.
- Tuesday, 18 August 2026 · Analysis
Euro area, gross domestic product grows by 0.4% while prices rise back to 2.9%
The Eurostat estimate of August 14 confirms a second quarter of moderate expansion, with employment nearly stalled. In the background, flat industrial production and markets that on August 17 followed artificial intelligence earnings more than oil.
- Monday, 17 August 2026 · Analysis
Stripe acquires OpenRouter: over $7 billion, more than five times May's valuation
This is not an update on this morning's Wall Street session, but a different story: according to Bloomberg and TechCrunch reports on August 16, the payments company has closed the acquisition of the platform that routes requests to over 400 artificial intelligence models. The news currently comes from a single source.
- Monday, 17 August 2026 · Analysis
Record and pullback: S&P 500 tops 7,800 then retreats on US consumer data
July retail sales fell 0.6% against expectations of growth, right after the index's all-time high. Annual inflation at 3.4% leaves markets betting on a Fed on hold in September, awaiting Jackson Hole.
- Sunday, 16 August 2026 · Analysis
Short week on the markets: oil below 90 dollars, gold heading towards 4,400, Seoul races ahead
A different story from the one on the yen opened this morning: with reduced volumes for the mid-August holiday, markets close out an interlocutory week, but three movements remain readable — crude oil supported by the Strait of Hormuz issue, precious metals approaching recent highs, the Korean index driven by semiconductors.
- Sunday, 16 August 2026 · Analysis
Yen stays close to 160 per dollar: the sticking point is the gap between Tokyo and Washington
Sanae Takaichi's government is open to a Bank of Japan rate hike between September and October, but the currency is not moving away from the threshold that in the past has preceded public intervention. On the other side of the gap, US data for July and August come in weaker than expected.
- Saturday, 15 August 2026 · Analysis
IEA cuts 2026 oil demand to −1.6 million barrels a day, Opec sees it rising
The two institutions that publish the reference estimates on the oil market diverge in sign. Meanwhile Brent climbs back toward $87 and gold moves closer to $4,400 an ounce.
- Saturday, 15 August 2026 · Analysis
Wall Street pauses after record: consumer confidence at 51 and retail sales decline
The S&P 500 closed Friday at 7,785.76 points, down 0.2%, a day after surpassing the 7,800 mark for the first time. Two indicators of U.S. domestic demand disappointed expectations in the same session.
- Friday, 14 August 2026 · Analysis
After S&P 500 record, markets pause: focus on retail sales
On Thursday the American index topped 7,800 for the first time; on Friday markets moved in mixed fashion as oil prices climbed back up. On the calendar: Fitch's review on the United Kingdom and the European Union's trade balance.
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