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The Mexican currency appreciates to levels last seen in May 2024 as the USD/MXN falls to a two-year low as the US Dollar tumbles even though business activity in the services sector improved. The exotic pair trades at 16.92, down 0.22% for the week and 0.50% for the week.USD/MXN weakens on soft US Dollar and carry supportOn Friday, sentiment improved as a tailwind for the emerging market currency, which is also supported by the carry trade, due to a 275-basis-point interest rate differential in favour of the Mexican Peso against the Greenback. The latter, according to the US Dollar Index…

Le fonds de la plus ancienne université américaine, Harvard (fondée en 1636), a investi dans la plus moderne des industries, la conquête spatiale. SpaceX est même un investissement d’une taille inhabituelle pour une université qui préfère généralement la diversification à la concentration des paris boursiers.Son montant de 1,7 milliard de dollars, au cours actuel (134 dollars), pèse pour 3 % des capitaux du fonds de dotation de l’université américaine. Disposant de 57 milliards de dollars, cette cagnotte est gérée par la société de gestion de Harvard, Harvard Management Co (HMC).

Paramount Skydance representatives are reportedly meeting on Monday with the California attorney general’s office to discuss a path to a potential settlement of the antitrust lawsuit seeking to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, The New York Times reported Saturday.Pressure to settle the suit has grown in recent weeks as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and the Directors’ Guild of America, among others, have called for a settlement. However, there are no assurances that this latest set of talks will lead to meaningful negotiations toward a settlement, the Times reported, citing people briefed on the…

Tina Fordham is the former chief global political analyst at Citigroup and founder of Fordham Global Foresight. Tina has spent more than 25 years advising senior business, government and military leaders on navigating political and geopolitical risk; she has served as a senior adviser to the UK prime minister and advised military leaders. She also sits on advisory boards at Columbia University and the University of Cambridge. Her forthcoming book, Mad World: A Geostrategy Survival Guide for Leaders, is published by Whitefox in September 2026.Matthew Partridge: Your new book, Mad World: A Geostrategy Survival Guide for Leaders, argues that in…

PharmaceuticalsEli Lily and Novo Nordisk treatments received approval at least 6 months agoTrump’s drug price control policy could add pressure on Japan to raise prescription drug prices. (Source photos Nikkei)Nikkei staff writersAugust 23, 2026 05:49 JSTTOKYO — The release of newly approved breast cancer and diabetes treatments by oversea drugmakers has been delayed in Japan as they continue to negotiate sales prices, highlighting foreign pharma’s concern that Japan’s state-mandated pricing tends to keep their product prices low.

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are widely synonymous with passive investing. So much so that when investors ponder how to invest in index funds, many instinctively turn to ETFs. ETFs’ links to passive, or index-based, investing are among the reasons why the asset class was once viewed as a threat to active mutual funds. That perceived threat was enhanced by the facts that ETFs trade like stocks (all day while the market is open), offer tax perks relative to mutual funds (minimal odds of capital gains distributions), and generally feature lower fees. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In…

Trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed Friday in part amid a last-minute standoff over cutting US tariffs on Canadian medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, people familiar with the matter said.  Both countries had the outline of a deal, which would have lowered US sectoral tariffs on autos, steel, aluminum and lumber, and were locked in talks Friday. But the two sides remained at odds over the treatment of larger vehicles, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe private negotiations.  The Canadians insisted on the additional relief in a phone call late Friday, and the Americans balked,…

Korea’s income-loving LP community is leaning more heavily into equity opportunities as private credit drama prompts an allocation rethink. Many Korean institutions halted their private credit activity earlier this year in response to a software-related reckoning among business development companies and other evergreens, affiliate title Private Debt Investor noted in April.

Rising bond yields and oil prices put stocks under pressure this week, while another bout of volatility in the AI trade tested investors’ conviction in the market’s biggest growth theme. The S & P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite snapped their three-week winning streaks, down roughly 1.43% and 2.05%, respectively. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.85%. Much of the pressure came from the bond market, where long-term yields surged to levels not seen in nearly two decades as tensions with Iran pushed oil prices higher and revived concerns about persistent inflation. The Treasury Department stepped in Wednesday morning…

The U.S. imposed 50% tariffs on some Canadian products on Saturday after trade talks between the two countries fell apart on Friday.In response, Canada said it would impose its own retaliatory tariffs beginning on Sept. 8.Negotiators for both sides had been working on a deal all week, at times signaling that an agreement was near. President Donald Trump had postponed the original deadline of Wednesday just hours ahead of it being imposed, saying that there was a soon-to-be finalized deal. Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s trade minister for the U.S., told reporters on Thursday that a deal was “very close.”However, both sides…