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The Best Bonds of 2026 Bet That Inflation Never Left

The Global Agg has lost money this year. Broad EM local debt returned 1.5%. One $886 billion corner of the bond market returned 11.3% — by assuming inflation would stay. How the trade worked, and where the money is rotating next.

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Why Corn Is Up 23% While Everyone Watches Oil

USDA just made a bigger-than-expected cut to the US corn yield, this week's crop tour is confirming a Corn Belt split between drought and flood, and exports are running 82% above last year. The quietest repricing of 2026 is in the dirt, not the strait.

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American Drug Prices Just Broke a 63-Year Record

Prescription drug prices are falling at the fastest annual rate since 1963 — seven straight months of deflation in a category that almost never deflates. Washington is fighting over the credit. The real question is who absorbs the cut.

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Wednesday, August 19

Moderna surges 80%+ on FDA approval, Keysight beats by 24%, and the Iran blockade reshapes the energy and defense setup. Here are the 10 names worth watching today — with watch levels, trigger setups, and the afternoon FOMC catalyst mapped out.

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$AMLX: Amylyx Just Won Its Phase 3. Now the Offering Changes the Math.

A 64% single-day surge on historic Phase 3 data. Then a $350 million equity raise announced the same evening. Here is what the dilution math, balance-sheet clock, and NDA calendar actually mean for the distribution of outcomes from here.

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How a Lake 85 Feet Above the Sea Is Repricing Global Trade

With Hormuz closed, the Panama Canal was the world's fallback — until El Niño began draining Gatun Lake. Transit slots now auction for $2.5 million, and the bill is landing on trans-Pacific freight just as holiday shipping season begins.

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Space Economy Featured

Can China Land a Rocket Before Its Starlink Window Closes?

Tonight a Chinese startup attempts the landing only three American companies have ever pulled off — with an $11 billion IPO priced off the outcome and China's twin answers to Starlink already 100-plus satellites behind schedule.

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Can the World's Biggest Stablecoin Stay in America?

Treasury just published the rule that decides who may issue and sell digital dollars in the US. The clock now runs to July 2028 — when offering an unlicensed stablecoin to Americans becomes a federal crime. Tether's $183 billion has 23 months to choose.

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$XOS: The Micro-Cap That Just Won Its First Air Force Contract — and the Float Math Behind the 126% Pop

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch — Tuesday, August 18

Iran's ceasefire is dead, crude is climbing, and Home Depot just delivered the market's first positive earnings surprise of retail season. Here are ten names with identifiable catalysts for today's session.

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10 Stocks Worth Watching This Week: Retail's Verdict on the Consumer Ahead of Jackson Hole — August 17–21, 2026

Four retail giants report, Reddit joins the S&P 500, and Wednesday's FOMC minutes reveal how close the Fed came to hiking — the 10 stocks that matter this week, with the catalyst, thesis, and risk for each.

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Why the Pentagon Is Buying Shoebox Atomic Clocks

GPS jamming now touches 1,500 flights a day, and the NTSB says a US military jamming test contributed to a fatal crash in New Mexico. With the Space Force's backup program canceled, the fix is being bought from a four-layer commercial market. Here is the map.

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Why Can't $750 Million Keep Hollywood in Hollywood?

California doubled its film tax credit to $750 million — and Los Angeles shoot days still fell 13%. The subsidy war is no longer fought over shoots; it's fought over soundstages, and the stages are being built somewhere else.

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Top 10 Stocks to Watch -- Monday, August 17, 2026

Memory stocks rip as SanDisk's investor day momentum carries into Monday. A five-stock earnings gauntlet begins Tuesday. Here are the ten names worth watching today.

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Where Does America Borrow When the Credit Cards Are Full?

US household debt just posted a rare quarterly decline — while home-equity borrowing rose for a 17th straight quarter. Locked into 3% mortgages and priced out of 20%+ credit cards, Americans are turning the house back into a credit line. Here's who collects.

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BE: The AI Power War Has a Winner -- and the Balance Sheet Math Most Analysts Are Getting Wrong

Bloom Energy posted $1.065B in Q2 revenue -- up 166% YoY. Then NVIDIA-backed Nebius picked its fuel cells for a 300 MW AI data center. Here is the scenario math at $229 a share.

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Berkshire Is Buying America's Frozen Housing Market

Everyone read Friday's Berkshire 13F for the Alphabet number. The real story: an $8.5 billion homebuilder takeover plus new Lennar and D.R. Horton stakes — the largest housing bet in Berkshire's history, placed at the bottom of builder confidence.

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Wall Street Is Pricing Middle East Peace at 25 Cents on the Dollar

Israel's deadliest strikes since the June framework hit southern Lebanon on Saturday. The cleanest read on whether the peace survives isn't in any communique -- it's the price of a bond Lebanon stopped paying six years ago.

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How the White House Unplugged the Vaccine Market Without Banning a Single Shot

Executive Order 14420 cuts the universal childhood schedule from 17 diseases to 11. No vaccine was banned — but in America the recommendation is the purchase order, and rewriting it reprices the entire pediatric vaccine business.

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The Pentagon Lost the AWACS Fight in Congress. Now It's Winning It in Orbit.

Congress forced the radar planes back into the budget. The Space Force answered with $6.8 billion for satellites — and Rocket Lab just crossed the line from launch company to defense prime.

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Argentina Is About to Make Money-Printing Illegal

On August 19, Argentina's Congress votes on banning the central bank from financing the state — the closest any country has come to outlawing its own money printer. What passage, dilution, or failure does to Argentine bonds, banks, and the peso.

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How a Rainforest Island Ran Out of Water

San Juan is on 48-hour water shutoffs after the driest July in 120 years — on an island with a literal rainforest. The failure isn't the sky: Puerto Rico's utility loses up to 60% of its treated water to leaks, and it's a preview of the repricing coming for America's D-grade water systems.

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Why Is the Robotaxi Race Being Decided in Europe?

America banned Chinese robotaxis before they picked up a single passenger. Today's Uber–Pony.ai deal to field 2,000 of them across Europe shows where the autonomy war will actually be fought — and who collects the toll.

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How Gold and Bitcoin Stopped Being the Same Trade

Gold and bitcoin both peaked within months of each other and both crashed. Only one is recovering — and the difference is the identity of the marginal buyer. This week's CPI print made the divergence official.

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CAPR: The FDA Has Eight Days to Decide — and One Analyst Just Doubled the Stock

Capricor Therapeutics surged 96% pre-market after Cantor Fitzgerald set a $28 price target on a $4 stock. Eight days from now the FDA decides. Here is what the three scenarios actually look like.