What? Finance again, Toronto, ON (2026)

09/02/2026

🗺 International newss for 2 September 2026:

1. 🗺 AI and robotics will drive significant productivity growth in the economy, - Musk.

2. 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump said he is no longer interested in negotiations with Iran.

3. 🇺🇸🇮🇷🇷🇺 Bessent on Iran and Russia:

- No one should support this regime. My message to everyone is to stay away.
- Airlines, maritime shipping and digital assets could become targets.
- We intend to systematically eliminate bad actors.

4. 🇨🇦 Canada — Central Bank Rate = 2.25% (expected 2.25% / previous 2.25%).

5. 🇨🇦 Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: if we see inflation becoming a problem, multiple interest rate hikes may be necessary.

6. 🇪🇺 EU countries have called for the abolition of the veto on foreign policy issues. The veto system has repeatedly paralysed the bloc’s work in recent years, while the current international situation requires the EU to be able to deploy its combined influence quickly and effectively. A shift from unanimity to qualified majority voting is being proposed, - Euronews.

7. 🇩🇪🇷🇺 Germany has terminated the agreement governing the activities of the “Russian House” in Berlin and initiated an expansion of sanctions against Russia. Germany will close Russia’s Consulate General in Bonn by 18 September.

8. 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇷🇺 Macron said France fully supports Germany and backs new European sanctions against Russia.

9. 🇯🇵 The Bank of Japan intervened in the yen.

📊 Market newss for 2 September 2026:

1. 🛢🇺🇸🇻🇪 Chevron will expand its operations in Venezuela and more than double production through $7bn of investment over five years.

2. 🛢🇺🇸🇻🇪 US Energy Secretary Wright: I believe Venezuelan oil production will exceed 1.5 million barrels per day by the first half of next year.

3. 🛢🇺🇸🇻🇪 US Energy Secretary Wright: Venezuelan oil production has increased by 25%, while exports have risen by 50%.

4. 🛢🇶🇦🇦🇪 Qatar and the UAE have begun ship-to-ship LNG transfers, bypassing the Strait of Hormuz passage.

5. 🛢🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳 US Energy Secretary Wright: China will have no rights to Venezuelan oil fields.

6. 🧠 The CEO of Palo Alto Networks said that the current cybersecurity infrastructure is completely unprepared for the challenges that AI is already beginning to create.

7. 🍫 The global cocoa market could face a supply deficit for the first time in three years due to a strengthening El Niño threatening production in key growing regions. A deficit of 300,000–400,000 tonnes is expected in the 2026–2027 season.

8. 🇺🇸 Google’s new Gemini model outperformed Claude Opus 5 in tests.

9. 🇺🇸 OpenAI said its new AI “Astra” is capable of carrying out cyberattacks without human involvement.

10. 🇺🇸 DELL raised its guidance for fiscal 2027.

11. 🇺🇸 Uber will cut 3,300 jobs, or 10% of its workforce.

12. 🇺🇸 On 1 September, Robinhood’s Robinhood Chain generated $3.75m in daily fees, setting a new record for the fourth consecutive day and becoming the network with the highest daily fee revenue.

13. 🇩🇪 Volkswagen will be removed from the Euro STOXX 50 index after its shares fell almost 27% year-to-date amid intensifying competition from China and the company’s difficult restructuring.

14. 🇺🇦 Vyriy Industries raised more than UAH 1bn from the Inzhur MilTech investment fund to scale up FPV drone production.

15. 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Rubio: The US is currently negotiating with Ukraine over the issuance of a licence for Patriot.

16. 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Fedorov announced his own defence tech company, with the CEO of Palantir becoming its first investor.

17. 🇺🇦🇨🇦 Nova Post has entered the Canadian market and launched parcel delivery with delivery times starting from five days.

09/01/2026

📰 Economic news for 1 September 2026

🗺 International news:

1. 🇺🇸 US — JOLTS job openings (July) = 7.271m (expected 7.330m / previous 7.359m / revised 7.182m).

2. 🇺🇸 Trump announced new agreements on drug pricing, naming BeOne and CSL among the companies involved.

3. 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump is considering targeted strikes in the Strait of Hormuz to reduce the risk of Iranian attacks on tankers.

4. 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump said he will not use nuclear weapons against Iran.

5. 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Bessent vowed to squeeze Iran through sanctions and said the US has significant support from the EU, ECB, UK, UAE and Bahrain.

6. 🇺🇸🇷🇺 Bessent ruled out economic assistance to Russia or bilateral agreements until the conflict in Ukraine ends, - RTRS.

7. 🇺🇸🇷🇺 Bessent told Siluanov that there can be no easing of sanctions or new agreements until the conflict in Ukraine ends, - CNBC.

8. 🇪🇺 Eurozone — CPI (August, flash):

- m/m = +0.4% (expected +0.5% / previous +0.2%)
- y/y = +3.3% (expected +3.3% / previous +2.9%)
- core CPI = +2.4% y/y (expected +2.5% / previous +2.5%)

9. 🇺🇦 The government is introducing strict austerity measures for budget funds not allocated to defence needs. We have already identified UAH 70bn in savings, which will be directed entirely towards the army, - Koretskyi.

10. 🇺🇦 Ukraine’s parliament failed to pass the parcel tax legislation demanded by the IMF and EU.

11. 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇷🇺 US Treasury: Bessent conveyed to Siluanov a demand to end hostilities in Ukraine, - Politico.

12. 🇨🇳 China has updated its National Defence Mobilisation Law for the first time in 16 years. The law will take effect on 1 October. The amendments clarify the powers of military and civilian authorities, rules for mobilising resources and personnel, and coordination with the emergency response system. The main objective is to enable a rapid transition from peacetime to wartime and convert the country’s economic and social potential into defence capabilities.

08/25/2026

📊 Market news for 25 August 2026:

1. 🌕🇨🇳 China is buying significantly more gold than official reports indicate, according to Goldman.

2. 🛢🇺🇸 The US continues to draw down its Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) at a record pace.

3. 🛢🇨🇳 Sinopec: Chinese oil demand appears to have peaked last year.

4. ☢️ Uranium prices have surpassed their February peak and reached a seven-month high.

5. 🇺🇸 Fox Business reporter: According to Wall Street representatives, US Treasury Secretary Bessent is preparing to take decisive measures to push the 10-year US Treasury yield towards 5%.

6. 🇺🇸 The Fed’s balance sheet now holds more than half of all outstanding US government bonds with maturities of 10–15 years.

7. 🇺🇸 JPMorgan is concerned that stocks could fall this autumn. The bank says AI stocks currently remind it of the peak of the dot-com bubble in 2000.

8. 🇺🇸 Apple unveiled the new Mac Mini.

9. 🇺🇸 Nvidia has provided free access to the APIs of dozens of AI models through NIM, including DeepSeek V4, Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2.

10. 🇺🇸 Strategy’s unrealised profit from its BTC investments has exceeded $4bn, according to Lookonchain.

11. 🇩🇪 German 10-year government bond yields continue to rise and are now at their highest level in 15 years.

12. 🇩🇪 German auto-parts manufacturers are shifting towards the defence and healthcare sectors, as well as robotics, - FT.

13. 🇨🇳 Chinese stocks have never been this cheap relative to US stocks, - Barchart.

08/25/2026

🗺 International news for 25 August 2026:

1. 🗺 Global annual inflation slowed to 4.7% in June from 4.9%, according to the IMF.

2. 🗺 Musk: “Humanity is disappearing.”

3. 🇺🇸 The Trump administration is proposing a fee of more than $100,000 for new H-1B work visas.

4. 🇺🇸 The US could send diplomats to the Middle East as early as this week, - NYT.

5. 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Trump threatened Canada with even more serious consequences if Canadian officials refuse to comply.

6. 🇺🇸🇨🇳 The US is expected to impose a 7.5% tariff on Chinese excess capacity, ahead of Xi Jinping’s talks with Trump.

7. 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US is imposing new sanctions on Iran and warning third countries and companies that they could face restrictions for cooperating with Tehran. Washington is also urging world leaders to halt economic transactions with Iran. The US Treasury is threatening sanctions against parties that comply with Iranian demands when transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

8. 🇺🇸🇨🇺 Trump extended the embargo on Cuba for another year.

9. 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Canada is imposing retaliatory tariffs on US goods: 15–50% on products worth around $20bn in total. Tariffs on US steel will double from 25% to 50%.

10. 🇨🇦🇪🇺 Canada will begin negotiations with the EU this autumn to strengthen economic and security ties, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said.

11. 🇩🇪 Germany — GDP (Q2 2026):

- q/q = +0.3% (expected +0.2% / previous +0.4%)
- y/y = +1.0% (expected +0.9% / previous +0.7%)

12. 🇺🇦 The UK and France have unblocked licences allowing Ukraine to manufacture Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles, - Zelenskyy.

13. 🇺🇦 Rubio and Germany’s Foreign Minister discussed the importance of a lasting peace between Russia and Ukraine.

14. 🇨🇳🇮🇳 Xi Jinping intends to visit India for the first time in seven years, - RTRS.

15. 🇮🇷 Iran has pledged to respond to the new US sanctions with strikes against energy infrastructure.

08/24/2026

📊 Market news for 24 August 2026:

1. 🪙 Demand for gold call options has risen sharply since the beginning of August, according to Goldman data.

2. 🛢🇺🇸 The Trump administration will end the requirement to blend the summer petrol formulation two weeks earlier than planned in an effort to increase fuel supplies and reduce prices, - RTRS.

3. 🛢🇹🇷🇷🇺 Russia has received its fifth shipment of petrol from Turkey, - BBG.

4. 🧱 Copper orders on the LME increased by 51,400 tonnes, the highest level since May, according to the exchange.

5. ☕️ Heavy rains in Brazil are delaying the coffee harvest, - BBG.

6. 🇺🇸 Bessent will struggle to manage the rise in Treasury yields, - BBG.

7. 🇺🇸 In the first half of 2026, 227,500 property foreclosure filings were recorded in the US, up 21% from last year and 30% from two years ago.

8. 🇺🇸 Trump made more than 1,000 stock market trades in June worth up to $263.1m.

9. 🇺🇸 ARK Invest’s founder: Circle could become one of the major beneficiaries of the transformation of the traditional financial system driven by technology.

10. 🇺🇸🇨🇭 The FDA approved a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease developed by Roche and Eli Lilly, - WSJ.

11. 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Nvidia signed a $6bn deal with AI start-up Poolside to develop a competitor to Chinese AI models, - WSJ.

12. 🇩🇪 Volkswagen management will hold a series of meetings with employees at German plants this week amid statements that the company’s situation is “more than critical”, - BBG.

13. 🇯🇵 SoftBank plans to issue $6.3bn in bonds. The proceeds will be used for AI-related capital expenditure, - WSJ.

14. 🇨🇳 Michael Burry closed his long position in Alibaba, calling the company “overvalued”. He has begun increasing his long position in rival JD.com.

15. 🇨🇳 Alibaba shares fell sharply after the company announced a $10.2bn share placement to finance AI development.

16. 🪙 Tether’s CEO said the use of USDT is increasing across a number of emerging markets.

17. 🪙 Solana has launched voting on its constitution, inflation reduction and fee reform proposals.

08/24/2026

🗺 International news for 24 August 2026:

1. 🗺 Japan has unveiled the world’s first viral drug treatment for oesophageal cancer, - Nikkei.

2. 🇺🇸 “The world should forgive the US its $40tn debt”, - NYT.

3. 🇺🇸 According to sources, Bessent may deploy around $1tn from the Treasury General Account to finance bond buybacks, - CNBC.

4. 🇺🇸🇨🇦 Trump: From 1 January 2027, tariffs on all passenger and commercial vehicles, both large and small, as well as auto parts and steel, will be raised to 50%. US-made goods will face ZERO tariffs. Canada will no longer be treated as a state!

5. 🇺🇸🇮🇷 US Treasury Secretary Bessent announced the start of “D-Day” for Iran. “D-Day” marks a new phase of the “economic strangulation” of Iran, aimed at cutting off the remaining financial and trade channels supporting the Iranian economy.

6. 🇩🇪 S&P Global Ratings: Germany could lose its top credit rating because of rising debt.

7. 🇺🇦 European allies are travelling to Kyiv to pledge stronger protection against Russian bombardment, - FT.

8. 🇺🇦 Zelenskyy said that Kyiv, together with the US and Europe, has developed a package of proposals for ending the war.

9. 🇺🇦🇬🇧 The UK has allowed European defence company MBDA to transfer classified data on British components for the long-range SCALP missile to Kyiv, enabling its assembly to be established in Ukraine.

10. 🇺🇦🇪🇺 The European Commission approved €6.1bn in funding for Ukraine to purchase weapons, including air and missile defence systems, missiles, ammunition and radar systems.

11. 🇺🇦🇳🇴 Ukraine and Norway signed agreements on cooperation in defence and energy, - Zelenskyy.

12. 🇯🇵 Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi announced a major reorganisation of Japan’s Ministry of Defence amid “difficult times”.

13. 🇦🇲🇪🇺 Armenia intends to begin the process of applying for EU membership in the near future, - Pashinyan.

14. 🇺🇿🇦🇿 Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan signed a treaty of “eternal friendship”.

15. 🇨🇳🇺🇸 China’s Foreign Ministry said it is prepared to take countermeasures if the US imposes sanctions over Iran.

08/23/2026

📊 Market news for 22–23 August 2026:

1. 🛢 NATO countries could this time assist the US in the Strait of Hormuz, but each country would operate independently so that NATO would formally remain outside the operation. Such an option is currently under discussion, - RTRS.

2. 🛢🇺🇸🇪🇺 Hedge funds are aggressively increasing long positions in petrol and diesel futures in Europe and the US, betting on further price increases.

3. 🇺🇸🪙 Ray Dalio believes the US could face a debt crisis within the next three years. He recommends selling US government bonds and buying gold and BTC.

4. 🇺🇸🪙 Trump again called on the US Congress to pass the CLARITY Act.

5. 🇺🇸 Nvidia is raising AI server prices by an average of 15%. The company’s largest customers have received corresponding notifications.

6. 🇺🇸 Apple is cutting jobs in its Siri and Vision Pro divisions to focus on new devices and artificial intelligence.

7. 🇺🇸 LMT has cut the price of the PAC-3 ACE missile for Patriot systems by half, but the missile has lost its ability to intercept moving targets. It will now detonate near the target rather than directly hitting it.

8. 🇪🇺 Finance ministers from Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland and Portugal, together with Spain’s Economy Minister, have proposed introducing a Europe-wide windfall tax on oil companies whose profits have surged following the outbreak of the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, - AFP.

08/23/2026

🗺 International news for 22–23 August 2026:

1. 🇺🇸 Trump: Economic growth will solve the problem of the national debt.

2. 🇺🇸 “The era of low interest rates is over. The economic consequences are only beginning”, - NYT.

3. 🇺🇸 The 30-year mortgage rate reached 6.72%, its highest level in a year.

4. 🇺🇸🇨🇦 The US imposed 50% tariffs on some Canadian goods after negotiations failed. The new tariffs have already taken effect and cover $20bn worth of goods, slightly more than 5% of Canada’s exports to the US.

5. 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump: Iran would like to reach a deal, but it is not yet ready for an acceptable agreement.

6. 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump said the shift towards an economic war strategy against Iran does not mean abandoning military measures.

7. 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will introduce dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs on $20bn worth of US goods from 8 September.

8. 🇩🇪 Germany plans to establish a long-range weapons arsenal. The aim is to create a long-range strike capability to deter Russia, according to government documents.

9. 🇮🇷 Iran has shifted from a defensive to an offensive military doctrine. One element of the new doctrine is the use of preventive operations, according to Iran’s Armed Forces.

10. 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran will target US economic interests if Washington imposes “large-scale sanctions”, the head of Iran’s National Security Council said.

11. 🇸🇾🇮🇱 Syria said it has suspended contacts with Israel following a strike on an airbase.

08/21/2026

📊 Market news for 21 August 2026:

1. 🗺 According to LSEG data, there have been inflows into global equity, bond, money market and other asset funds for three consecutive weeks.

2. 🇺🇦 Almost half of venture capital investment in Ukrainian start-ups in the first half of 2026 went to DefenceTech.

3. 🇺🇸🪙 The CFTC Chairman said that the cryptocurrency market structure rules presented jointly by the CFTC and SEC will be adopted regardless of the outcome of the vote on the CLARITY Act.

4. 🇺🇸 Bill Dudley, former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, warned that the US stock market bubble could burst towards the end of 2027. All the conditions for this are already in place.

5. 🇺🇸 The median value of Americans’ equity portfolios has reached a record $350,000.

6. 🇺🇸 OpenAI has given ChatGPT access to iMessage.

7. 🇺🇸 Tesla announced the largest vehicle recall in its history in China, affecting almost 6 million vehicles, - RTRS.

8. 🇺🇸 Anthropic plans to conduct an IPO no smaller than SpaceX’s IPO. The company will file for the offering at the end of August, - BBG.

9. 🇺🇸 Waymo has developed its own 5nm chip to process camera and radar data in its robotaxis in real time.

10. 🇺🇸 In the mid-1980s, the CIA saved Steve Jobs’ NeXT from bankruptcy by ordering 20,000 workstations for satellite intelligence. The contract enabled Jobs to regain control of Apple and turn the company into a success, - WSJ.

11. 🇪🇺 Most analysts are optimistic about European equities, with a further 10% rise forecast by the end of this year, - BBG.

12. 🇸🇪 Spotify increased its share buyback programme by $1.5bn.

13. 🪙 Tether issued 3,000,000,000 USDT and subsequently burned 2,000,000,000.

08/21/2026

🗺 International news for 21 August 2026:

1. 🇺🇸 The failure of intervention in the US Treasury market threatens to trigger a collapse in the dollar, - BofA.

2. 🇺🇸 Bessent: The US is pursuing a strong-dollar policy.

3. 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US Treasury announced new sanctions against Iran.

4. 🇺🇸🇮🇷 On Monday, 24 August, Bessent will provide details of the US plans to isolate the Iranian economy, - BBG.

5. 🇨🇳🇺🇸 China is rapidly closing the gap with the US in artificial intelligence, - BBG.

6. 🇹🇷🇮🇱 Relations between Turkey and Israel are deteriorating rapidly.

7. 🇮🇷 Iran will rebuild its defence industry taking into account the lessons learned from the war, - Defence Ministry.

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