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US inflation cools to 3.4%, core CPI up just 0.2%Core CPI rose 0.2% in July, the softest monthly print in months, pulling annual inflation down to 3.4%. That is still nearly double the Fed's target, but the direction of travel is what markets wan…Yardeni lifts S&P target to 8,400 on earnings momentumEd Yardeni raised his S&P 500 target to 8,400, citing what he calls fabulous earnings momentum running through Q2 reporting season. That is one of the more bullish calls on the Street right now, co…Apple, Amazon book tariff refunds straight into earningsApple added $0.11 to diluted EPS and two full percentage points to gross margin from tariff refunds this quarter, while Amazon booked $600 million, according to Bloomberg's reporting on the rollbac…Karoline Leavitt to step down as White House press secretaryLeavitt is leaving the podium after roughly 18 months as one of the youngest press secretaries in White House history. The exit lands amid a broader reshuffle of Trump's communications operation he…Ex-CDC official says cyclospora numbers don't add upFormer senior CDC official Debra Houry says federal and state case counts diverge wildly, with Michigan alone reporting 2,640 cases on 13 July against a national CDC figure of just 843 that day. RF…A US judge let Adani's case go, then torched the processJudge Nicholas Garaufis dismissed three of five counts against Gautam Adani but called the Justice Department's handling of it highly unusual and singled out Trent McCotter, a senior political appo…A DEF CON crowd may have run a fake Wi-Fi hotspot mid-flightDelta Flight 591, carrying 199 passengers from Las Vegas to Atlanta the day after DEF CON 34 ended, had an unauthorised wireless network appear onboard that the airline says it did not provide or o…A rival app store just walked back into Google Play after 12 yearsAptoide Games is now installable directly through Google Play in the US, the first competing Android marketplace to get that access since Google removed the company from Play in 2014, as TechCrunch…The yen intervention rally is already half goneJapan and the US ran their first joint yen-buying operation since 1998 last week, hauling the currency from a 40-year low near 164 per dollar to about 155.20. It's now back to roughly 158.4, having…Washington just bankrolled the world's first primary scandium mineSunrise Energy Metals shares jumped as much as 29% after the US Department of War's Office of Strategic Capital offered up to $400 million in conditional debt financing for the Syerston project in …Data centres are fleeing suburbs for oil fieldsTexas Pacific Land, LandBridge and EagleRock are pitching remote Permian Basin acreage to AI developers as an escape route from a backlash that has already killed a $1.5 billion project in San Marc…Gold has its best week since January on a jobs missUS nonfarm payrolls fell by 23,000 in July, reversing a downwardly revised 20,000 gain in June, and spot gold jumped 2.3% to $4,336.11 an ounce on the release, hitting a seven-week high according t…FCC scraps the national TV ownership capThe FCC has voted to repeal the rule capping how much of the US television audience a single broadcaster can reach, a limit that's stood in some form since the 1940s. Removing it clears the way for…The Sell America trade is back, and this time it has receiptsDollar bears got quiet after the spring tariff panic faded, but the underlying complaint never actually went away: foreign holders of US assets are recalculating what Washington's policy volatility…Airlines are refusing to be ICE's enforcement armCarriers pushing back against immigration enforcement at US airports puts them in an old bind: caught between federal demands and customers who expect a business, not a border checkpoint. Airlines …California's wealthy are buying an exit, not a holiday homeNew Zealand's golden visa overhaul dropped the minimum investment and cut the required time on the ground, and wealthy Californians are the ones responding fastest. Applications skew toward tech fo…US beef prices hit recordsCattle herd sizes are at their lowest since the 1950s after years of drought-driven culling, and rebuilding a herd takes years, not quarters. Restaurant chains reliant on burgers and steaks are alr…Schwartz confirmed as CDC directorThe confirmation went through despite a hearing widely seen as a stumble, a sign the Senate math mattered more than the performance. Public health officials will be watching his first policy moves …White House keeps its AI cyber rulebook classifiedWashington has written a framework for how federal agencies should defend against AI-enabled cyberattacks and decided the public, and most of the private sector, don't get to see it. Keeping the ru…Waymo drops the waitlist in Dallas, opens robotaxis to everyoneWaymo removing the waitlist in Dallas means it's confident enough in fleet reliability and regulatory standing to serve any rider who opens the app, not just vetted early adopters. Dallas becomes a…AbbVie borrows $8bn for Apogee as pharma dealmaking keeps its paceAbbVie is raising at least $8 billion in debt to fund its Apogee Therapeutics acquisition, adding to a pharma M&A cycle that's barely paused since the Pfizer and Bristol Myers deals of the past two…Tokyo and Washington confirm the intervention everyone already priced inCentral banks rarely admit to currency intervention while it's happening, so Japan and the US confirming a joint operation to prop up the yen is the unusual part, not the intervention itself. The y…Union drives are coming for gig platforms nextOrganised labour's next target after grocery and warehouse workers is the gig economy, and Uber's driver base is the biggest single pool to organise given the scale of its US and UK operations. Ube…Education Department wipes loans for another 170,000 defrauded borrowersThis is the latest tranche under borrower defense to repayment rules, the mechanism that lets defrauded students at collapsed for-profit colleges get federal loans discharged, and 170,000 more appr…Michigan confirms first two deaths in cyclospora outbreakCyclospora outbreaks are typically linked to contaminated fresh produce imports, making this a supply chain traceability problem for grocers and importers as much as a public health one.US growth slowed and nobody's sure if that's good newsA weaker-than-expected second quarter GDP print lands at an awkward moment: soft enough to strengthen the case for Federal Reserve rate cuts, but not so soft that it looks like the hard landing bea…Fauci pleads the Fifth in front of the SenateAnthony Fauci invoking Fifth Amendment protection at a Senate hearing on Covid origins and policy is a significant escalation from his previous congressional appearances, where he defended the reco…Washington intercepts Iranian missiles, readies new Russia sanctionsTwo fronts moved at once and neither is contained. US forces say they intercepted an Iranian missile attack described as a surprise, the kind of phrase that should worry anyone pricing Gulf shippin…A quiet Medicare subsidy cliff lands on insurers in 2027The federal subsidy program supporting Medicare drug plans is set to end after 2026, and the insurers running Part D plans, Centene, CVS's Aetna, UnitedHealth, are the ones left holding the pricing…Oil traders are stuck waiting on OPEC+ and Iran, againCrude is holding in a tight range this week with no fresh catalyst, leaving traders parked on the same OPEC+ supply decisions and Iran sanctions questions that have driven the last month of price a…Trump is courting blue-collar voters again, and tariffs are the pitchThe renewed push to rebuild ties with working-class voters leans heavily on the tariff and reshoring narrative rather than new policy, framing existing trade measures as the proof of a promise kept…Another defence startup files for a US IPO, and the queue is getting crowdedTrive-backed Lyntris joining the defence IPO rush confirms investor appetite for military tech hasn't cooled since the sector's valuations reset upward on NATO spending commitments and the Ukraine …The US-Saudi nuclear pact quietly rewrites Gulf energy politicsA civil nuclear agreement between Washington and Riyadh gives Saudi Arabia a US-backed path to nuclear infrastructure it's wanted since normalisation talks with Israel stalled. US nuclear cooperati…Singapore pushing back on US forced-labour tariffs is a test case for allies, not just rivalsUS Customs and Border Protection's forced-labour designation has mostly targeted Chinese supply chains, so applying it to Singapore-linked goods marks an unusual expansion Singapore's trade ministr…Congress can't agree whether Trump should be allowed to sell crypto, and that's holding up the Clarity ActThe Clarity Act, the closest the US has come to a comprehensive crypto market structure bill, is stuck on a provision about barring the president from selling crypto assets while in office. That's …Taylor Farms confirmed as the source of the diarrhea outbreakHealth officials have narrowed the outbreak to Taylor Farms produce despite days of conflicting signals, a reminder that the fragmented US food supply chain still struggles to trace contamination q…Trump's 50% Canada tariff is the biggest bet yet on decoupling workingFifty percent is not a negotiating opener, it's a number designed to stop trade rather than reprice it. Canada sends roughly three quarters of its exports south of the border, so a tariff at this l…A federal judge just handed state AGs leverage they didn't expect to getA temporary restraining order on a $110bn deal is rare enough that Paramount's lawyers are scrambling, and the fact several state attorneys general triggered it suggests antitrust risk on this merg…IPO windows don't get much narrower than a sandwich chain and a denim labelJersey Mike's chasing $1.09bn and Reformation seeking $239m in the same week suggests underwriters think the US IPO market has a short runway before rates or politics shut it again. Jersey Mike's, …Brent above $90 and London's earnings season is the first casualtyProfit warnings from FTSE-listed firms are running well ahead of last quarter's pace, and the common thread in every one of them is the same line about fuel costs and freight disruption through the…