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Coverage · August · 2026 · Markets · 64 articles

China's August data lands soft: airlines bleed on fuel, property slides on mortgage rules

China's earnings season delivers the same verdict from three sectors: demand is cooling, fuel is biting, and the price war is thawing

Bessent sets a weekly sanctions tempo on Iran, with a yen warning held steady

Six months into the Iran war, Trump’s ‘little excursion’ meets the bond market

Anthropic widens the shareholder exit while the AI labs try to speak with one voice on cyber defence

OPEC+'s Pricing Power Is Slipping as China Reshapes the Oil Map

Meta writes an $18 billion cheque to settle the social-media-addiction fight

Asian chip names rise into Nvidia's earnings test as oil eases on Hormuz headlines

Future Fund CEO Raphael Arndt to step down by year-end, board begins successor

Tehran and Muscat move to redraw the Strait of Hormuz traffic map

Ottawa hits back: Canada lines up C$20 billion in counter-tariffs and a C$7.5 billion support package

Canada strikes back with C$27.6bn in retaliatory tariffs as the US trade fight hardens into a waiting game

Trump floats 'Lake America' as US-Canada trade posture hardens

Grayscale's Zcash ETF lands on US tape: a wrapper, a 70% monthly ZEC move, and the privacy question the SEC now has to answer

A used-car scarcity, a state commodity desk, a Microsoft workforce shifting

Oil steadies, defence rallies as Europe's traders weigh a wider sanctions net on Tehran

Tariff Refunds, Used-Car Prices, and a Cable-Ship Budget: Three Asia Wires, One State-Shaped Morning

Bessent has two levers. The market may only feel one

Tehran names 45 tankers as Hormuz becomes the next market stress test

Shein launches Hong Kong listing at up to $27bn after New York-London-Hong

Iran's gas find lands in a sanctions week: how a 7.5 trillion cubic feet claim meets an oil-market standoff

Bessent's 'economic D-Day' for Tehran meets a gas-field counter-pitch as the

Alibaba raises $10.2 billion for AI push, shares slide on dilution

Alibaba's $10.2bn AI placement and Shein's Hong Kong IPO land in the same week

CTA equity exposure returns to pre-Iran levels as Treasury shorts hold and Tehran broadens its sanctions warning

Diversification gospel sits one news cycle from a UN cheque: the late-summer 2026 picture for US investors

Mexico signals it wants the US-Canada terms Ottawa refused as 50% levy takes hold

'Tehran Talks Tough, Trump Talks Tougher: The Sanctions Spiral Resumes'

Trump Talks Iran 'Right Deal' While Bessent Question Hangs Over the Curve

Cattle slip, Polymarket pulse, Lebanon toll: three prints on 21 August

Oil heads into the weekly close with sanctions risk back at the centre of the tape

Asia's markets close a heavy week as yields and crude refuse to give ground

BofA fund managers still call it stagflation, just less loudly

Three Trump statements in 36 hours: a Strait he says is open, a venue he says is coming onshore, a crypto bill he says he wants

Beijing tightens one capital handle and opens another: offshore trust scrutiny meets a new yuan debt market

China's industrial stack pulls in two directions: a record year for electric trucks and buses, a yuan bond push offshore

US-run Hormuz oil corridor moves millions of barrels a day, Axios reports; Polymarket prices 35% chance of normal traffic by year-end

Three signals from Beijing on the same morning, none of them reversible on a quarterly cycle

Ghalibaf at the Soleimani memorial: a Baghdad staging that doubles as policy

Ghalibaf's Baghdad Visit Puts Soleimani Memory Beside a Wider Diplomatic Agenda

Yuan share of Hong Kong fast-payment rail hits six-month high on a quiet trading day

Japan’s bond market tests a ceiling policymakers can no longer ignore

Trump pulls the MoU off the table while the 30-year yield prints a 19-year high

Brookfield's $627m Japan rental deal lands as Tokyo reopens the yen debate

Reddit's S&P 500 entry is a test of index power

Reddit's S&P 500 promotion turns a retail-favourite forum into an index heavyweight, and the buy-the-news math starts now

Anthropic's $3 trillion whisper, an M&A brain, and agents that talk back

Houthis claim fresh drone strike on Aramco's Jizan facility on eve of Geneva accord

Tata Sons chairman exit exposes a $400bn governance fault line

Shein aims to open Hong Kong bookbuild as soon as 19 August at US$35 billion reported target

Oil spike on Iran tensions reshuffles US sector bets

Trump signs vaccine order, extends Jones Act waiver, signals Iran damages claim on a single news day

Hormuz standoff stalls as traders price in a long blockade

Japan's weak yen is two stories on one tape: a corporate windfall and a current-account deficit

Hyperscalers pass $1.46 trillion in physical assets, narrowing the gap with Big Oil

Wintermute files to trade US commodities and ETFs as a paycheck-to-paycheck data point lands the same day

Blasts on Qeshm, talks through Muscat: Iran walks two tracks in the Strait of Hormuz

Oil falls, yen pinned at 157, and a Gulf tech rethink reverberates

Japan's defence review lands as nursing-care firms cross into China

SpaceX faces its first public earnings test while rivals watch the satellite squeeze

War premium returns to Japan's trading houses as Iran shock lifts commodity prices

Tokyo and Washington back the yen as Japan runs three pressures at once

Japan's $32bn yen defence, and the line Tokyo is now holding

The U.S. Treasury Joined Japan in the Yen on Friday. By Monday, Tokyo Was Already Trading the Aftermath.