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Brazil’s Real Recovers as Forecasters Hold Their Dollar Call
Markets: Brazil Key Facts —The rate. The official PTAX rate closed at R$5.1490 per dollar on Tuesday, August 25 — the real’s…
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Iran Says It Will Join the BRICS Bank — Bank Can’t Confirm
BRICS: Expansion Key Facts —The claim. Iran will soon join the New Development Bank, central bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said…
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Venezuela’s Oil Exports to the US Hit a Seven-Year High
Energy: Venezuela Key Facts —Record flow. Venezuela shipped about 786,000 barrels per day to the United States in July 2026 — the …
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Stock market today: Sensex falls 183 points, Nifty 50 ends at 24,208; mid, small-caps outperform
Stock market today: The Sensex ended 183 points, or 0.24%, lower at 77,472.94, while the Nifty 50 declined 127 points, or 0.52%, t…
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Experts project N100bn revenue, 250,000 from waste recycling in Nigeria by 2030
Environmental engineers have projected that Nigeria could generate N100 billion in revenue from waste recycling by 2030, while cre…
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Gold and Bitcoin Are Rebounding—2 ETFs Give Investors a Different Kind of Exposure
Gold and Bitcoin are rebounding from recent sell-offs, and ETFs like VanEck Gold Miners ETF (GDX) and iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (I…
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip Could Change the AI Hardware Race
OpenAI's Jalapeño ASIC reportedly beats Blackwell in inference efficiency, as Microsoft advances its Maia 300 chip, raising questi…
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LatAm Expat & Nomad Daily Guide for Wednesday, August 26, 2026
The Short Version In short: Your LatAm expat and nomad daily guide for Wednesday, August 26. Buenos Aires’s city airport is …
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Atiku will restore petrol subsidy, phase it out later — Ibe
Paul Ibe, Spokesperson for former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, has said the African Democratic Congress (ADC) Presidential candi…
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Euro stablecoins get a mainstream push as Revolut begins rolling out EURR in Europe
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Aroundtown Q2 Earnings Call Highlights
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MTN gets NCC Approval-in-Principle for IHS deal, but final clearance hangs on conditions
MTN Nigeria has secured an Approval-in-Principle (AiP) from the Nigerian Communications Commission for its proposed acquisition of…
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How Mark Carney’s speeches have become political earthquakes | Ted Widmer
The quiet-spoken Canadian prime minister has spoken unutterable truths Is it perhaps a sign of the times that Mark Carney, the pri…
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‘132F’: meet the man calling out NYC’s infernally hot subway stations
Jack Klein takes heat readings, gives fans to overheated passengers and lugs big jugs of water into the stations On a recent Augus…
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Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated Are you a Canadian boy…
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How North Dakota State Invested Millions In Move To Football Bowl Subdivision
On Saturday, North Dakota State will host Jacksonville State in the Bison's first game as a member of the Football Bowl Subdivisio…
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Will Kevin Warsh Tell The Truth About Inflation At Jackson Hole?
Will Kevin Warsh be able to begin educating global central bankers and financiers about the true nature of inflation?
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Why the global push to break free from Big Tech keeps falling short
In this excerpt from the book “The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud,” writer Cecilia Rikap examines how Euro…
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Nvidia earnings could reveal its fastest-growing business isn't chips: Chart of the Day
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Investigation into Dodgers owner is a reminder that 'zombie insurers' walk among us — critics warn 'they will blow up'
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Mortgage and refinance interest rates today, Wednesday, August 26, 2026: Rates down across the board
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NKT brings first cables ashore on €3.1 billion Spain-France power link (Gallery)
first cable pull-ins at Lemóniz in northern Spain, marking what it describes as an important construction milestone on a multibill…
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Bitcoin consolidates near $79K ahead of US PCE, GDP Data; whales book record $1.2 billion profit in 3 days
Bitcoin traded near $79,000 on Wednesday as traders await key US PCE inflation and GDP data. While the broader trend remains bulli…
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