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August 2026 · BUSINESS · 60 articles← Back to archive

Trump's drone tariff is tiered, not a blanket 100% wall

Trump moves to tariff imported drones and components, with a rate ceiling reported at 100%

India's ethanol push draws scientific questioning, Nikkei Asia reports

Foreign capital returns to Indian equities as the AI trade cools

Bessent floats 'never-seen' measures on Iran as Polymarket puts odds of a prolonged naval blockade at 73%

Bessent Floats Unprecedented Measures Against Iran as US Blockade Threat Lifts Oil Toward Weekly Gain

Black Sea grain war turns symmetric: Novorossiysk hit, Ukrainian harvest trapped

Seoul pairs a $33.7bn housing package with new curbs on leveraged ETFs as the Kospi re-enters bull-market territory

OpenAI loses its revenue chief as AMD taps the bond market and X opens the algorithm

Tokyo's chip jitters and AI lag: a tempo problem two wires named in passing

Dollar steady, Asia FX in narrow range as traders digest in-line U.S. CPI

Aramco cuts September oil allocations as Hormuz and Red Sea disruptions hit the world's largest exporter

Copper squeeze, central bank pledge and Zhu's exit frame China's August policy posture

Goldman Sachs announces a $2.25 billion Neos deal and, separately, signals a flat Fed in September

CoreWeave prints an AI beat, then insiders cash tickets

Cisco's record quarter meets a market that won't hold still

Brazil pairs a fiscal-curbs bill with a Discord suspension order, and markets move little

TSX closes at second straight record as oil lifts and Washington keeps Ottawa guessing

Three Trump executive moves land on the wire in twelve hours, with a fourth punted to the Attorney General

Trump's two-line Iran brief and a 22% Canada market: the public-private gap as policy

Singapore lifts 2026 GDP band to 5.5% on AI demand as gold holds the inflation

Nvidia’s $500 billion AI financing circle draws a sell-side shrug and a Micron tailwind

Intel prices $20bn stock offering at $95 a share as Trump presses Iran for 'compensation'

Intel prices a $20bn equity raise at $95 a share, enlarging a deal framed around AI capex

Hormuz traffic thins to six vessels as a deal-priced oil rally comes undone

22% on Polymarket, a flat TSX close, and a Reuters helicopter-telecom line: three files from 11 August 2026

Tehran ties Hormuz reopening to lifting of US blockade, names Oman as the channel

Tehran's shopping list keeps the Strait shut

Houthis hit Aramco's Jazan refinery, then al-Mokha, a one-day, two-strike escalation

Greenland rebukes Trump-linked oil firm for unannounced Arctic landing

Gold holds near seven-week high as traders parse Trump's 'low-key' Iran stance

Two Polymarket flashes in seven hours: $3bn U.S. mineral pledge, a Chinese 'tortuous' line on soybeans

Trump's Iran line: 'semi-negotiating' in public, a 49% bet in the market

Fire at Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery extinguished, no injuries reported

Trump reopens bid to oust Fed governor Lisa Cook, two months after Supreme Court blocked him

Trump's 6 August package: a polysilicon order, a tungsten export block, and a chip-industry timeline that names no rival

New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $567m into youth-harm abatement fund

Tehran drafts a Hormuz toll regime; Trump calls the waterway 'sort of open'

China's July trade data delivers a 23.9% export beat, and the AI component trade is doing the heavy lifting

China's July export beat masks a credit pipeline going the other way

Aluminum, drones, sanctions: the shape of the new US-China trade skirmish

The Tariff Dividend That Markets Aren't Pricing In

Trump tells Americans gas prices 'may have to' rise before falling once the Iran operation ends

Tehran reaches for the Strait of Hormuz, and the market reads it

A single afternoon of blasts across Syria, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, and what one Telegram wire actually shows

Yen stuck at 157, AMD lifts capex, and the household balance sheet sits on

Strait of Hormuz deal takes shape: Iran and Oman draw a transit corridor as Trump signals a Wednesday announcement

Strait of Hormuz deal takes shape as Bessent signals 'today or tomorrow' and Tehran conditions include oil-sanctions relief

Houthis claim two Saudi tanker strikes in the Red Sea, including the Wafa off Yanbu

Commercial vessel hit near Strait of Hormuz as UKMTO logs marine incident off Khasab

Iran weighs letting European navies help clear Hormuz mines as Bessent floats a 48-hour deal window

Oil off 6% as Trump halts Iran strike, gold firms: a market that priced escalation in hours

SpaceX's first earnings report lands on an AI funding market that is already flinching

Three AI-funding wires, one 24-hour window: where the strain is mechanical

Three wires from one weekend: the Palantir pop, the $500B chip-debt headline, and a labor note framed in 2008 language

Two UKMTO advisories inside two hours off Oman, as relayed by Iranian channels

Toyota tries to sell safety retrofits through the dealer floor, not the showroom

Nvidia retakes the top slot as Apple gives back 9% on earnings, and a $40 trillion debt print lands on a 30-year yield already at its highest since 2007

The rate channel is doing what US home prices alone could not

Three Dissenters, One Hold: Reading the Fed Coalition Under Strain