UPDATED AUGUST 19, 2026 · 1133 STORIES ON THE WIRE

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01MACRO

Dollar weakness risks are building, currency strategists say

The dollar is under growing pressure from a cluster of forces that currency strategists say could weaken the greenback. Currency strategist is the term for analysts who specialize in forecasting exchange rates, the price at which one…

AUGUST 19, 20261 MIN

02REGULATORY

Disney sues Trump administration, calling ABC licence review retaliatory

A broadcast licence is the federal authorisation a television station must hold to legally transmit over public airwaves. Disney filed suit against the Trump administration, arguing that the Federal Communications Commission triggered a…

AUGUST 19, 20262 MIN

03CRYPTO

Kraken launches cash back debit card in push to make crypto part of daily spending

A debit card draws directly from an account balance rather than extending credit. That makes it closer to spending cash than borrowing it. Kraken, the cryptocurrency exchange, has launched one with cash back rewards, and the move is a…

AUGUST 19, 20261 MIN

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04WORLD

China loosens Nvidia H200 chip restrictions as AI race escalates

An export control is a government rule that restricts which goods can cross a border. Beijing has loosened its controls on Nvidia's H200 chips, permitting small shipments to enter the country. The beneficiaries are China's leading…

AUGUST 19, 20261 MIN

05ENERGY

Long-term U.S. bond yields push toward 22-year highs on oil and Iran tensions

A basis point is one-hundredth of one percentage point. On Tuesday, 30-year U.S. Treasury yields added more than one of them, pushing to around 5.322%, just short of the highest reading for that maturity since 2002.

AUGUST 19, 20262 MIN

06PRODUCT

Novig clears $125 million in prediction-market volume in week one

More than $125 million in contracts traded on Novig, a newly launched prediction-market platform, in its first seven days. Notional trading volume, the figure Novig cited, counts the face value of every contract that changed hands, not the…

AUGUST 19, 20262 MIN

07ENERGY

Bond sell-off squeezes Main Street borrowers as Wall Street watches Warsh

A sell-off in long-term Treasuries is raising borrowing costs, and the pain is landing unevenly. Long-term Treasuries are U.S. government bonds with maturities beyond a decade; when investors sell them, prices fall, yields climb, and those…

AUGUST 19, 20262 MIN

08DEALS

Olympus chief Bob White adopts private equity methods to deflect buyout interest

A company can sometimes make itself too expensive to acquire by doing what an acquirer would eventually do to it. Private equity tactics, in their core form, mean a fund buys a company and runs it more intensively to surface value the…

AUGUST 17, 20261 MIN

09TECH