August 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
10 results
Goldman Sachs is buying a route into options-based fund income
Goldman Sachs agreed to acquire NEOS Investments for up to 2.25 billion dollars, adding a 19-fund options-income platform as bitcoin ETF flows separately remained a visible part of the wider exchange-traded-fund market.
In the US, the grocery basket and the tariff-refund door move on different tracks
PolitiFact reports prices up 4.3 per cent since January 2025 while the government asks the Federal Circuit to limit tariff refunds to firms that sued, so households and importers face different pressures.
Judgments, debates and lawsuits that still cannot collect their defendants
A Damascus court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, the Security Council debates West Bank settler violence, and four US rights groups sue over sanctions aimed at the International Criminal Court.
Laboratory tools move measurement closer to the moment it is made
An X-ray data network and a battery-free folding implant follow the same design direction in very different settings: reducing the wait between measurement and usable information.
Living therapies are learning to respond to measurements
A gut bacterium that releases a drug by glucose level and tumour screens of human T cells both frame treatment as a system responding to conditions, not simply a fixed substance.
Military signals in the Asia-Pacific intensify calls for advance notice
A planned drill, a 41-state notification call, and a ballistic-missile launch examine when information about military activity is disclosed in three separate contexts.
Military signals in the Asia-Pacific intensify calls for advance notice
The Focus Taiwan report on a drill east of Taiwan, North Korea's missile launch and a call by 41 states for advance notice put regional interpretations of military activity in focus.
Once internal states are imaged, their order can be reread
A single hole in a cuprate, a steady transition share in mouse ovaries, and thalamic coordination in deep sleep all rest on direct mapping of internal structure.
Pressure grows for advance notice on airspace and missile activity
NATO's airspace assessment, a 41-state notification call, and Taiwan's drill objection bring advance disclosure of military activity into focus.
Price pressure and digital-euro expectations send different signals in Europe
Dutch inflation accelerated in July while a ZEW survey found German companies expect limited business effects from the digital euro, pointing to different layers of the monetary agenda.