The US dollar has held around familiar areas with July’s inflation matching the consensus precisely. American inflation, headline and core, on 12 August was as expected, generating relatively little volatility as markets are seasonally less active around the middle of August. This article summarises the latest news affecting the US dollar then looks briefly at
Intel did not lose $11 billion last quarter. That number is real, it is audited, and it sits at the top of the company’s own Form 10-Q for the quarter ended 27 June 2026 — and it is still one of the most misleading figures in large-cap technology. The loss was caused almost entirely by
The market did not sell Micron because a Chinese company started making high-bandwidth memory. It sold Micron because a Chinese company listed. ChangXin Memory Technologies closed its first session on Shanghai’s STAR Market on 27 July 2026 at 49 yuan, up 465.8% from an 8.66 yuan offer price, after raising 57.92 billion yuan — about
Key facts Gold rose ~7% on the week to $4,340.70/oz — its strongest weekly showing since mid-January and a seven-week high. US nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July against expectations for an 80,000 gain, reshuffling Fed rate expectations. September Fed hike odds dropped to ~44%, down from 67% a week earlier, with the Fed
Riot Platforms has signed a 20-year lease for 191 megawatts of data-center capacity at its Rockdale campus in Texas, turning power once developed for bitcoin mining into $9.1 billion of expected contract revenue. Riot called the customer a “leading frontier AI lab” in its 10 August filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, while Bloomberg
CoreWeave does not need to beat the Street on Tuesday, because CoreWeave already told the Street it would not. The company guided second-quarter revenue to $2.45bn–$2.6bn, a midpoint of $2.53bn that sits roughly $160m below the $2.69bn LSEG consensus that was standing when the guide was issued. That is not a company sandbagging into a
Nebius is not being valued on the quarter it reports on Wednesday. It is being valued on a promise it has to keep by December, and the arithmetic of that promise is the most under-discussed number in the AI-infrastructure complex. Nebius exited the first quarter of 2026 with annualised run-rate revenue of roughly $1.92bn. Management
The July jobs report released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed that the US economy shed jobs in July, a result almost no one forecast, and it landed nine days after the most divided Federal Reserve meeting in a decade. Nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000, against expectations of an 80,000 gain, and
Gold can be expected to rise further to the next resistance level 4400.00 (former top of wave iv from the start of June and the target for the completion of wave 3). Gold broke resistance area Likely to rise to resistance level 4400.00 Gold recently broke the resistance area between the key resistance level 4200.00
Novo Nordisk raised its full-year outlook twice in 2026 and the stock is down 28% from its January peak. That combination is the whole investment case, in either direction. On 4 August the shares fell 6% on 47.5 million ADRs, the heaviest volume of the past year, and the headline everywhere was that the Wegovy