🇨🇳 Chinese yuan hits its highest level against the U.S. dollar since January 2023.

The yuan has now strengthened more than 9% against the dollar in the last 4 months.

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🇯🇵 Bank of Japan is moving closer to another rate hike, with markets now pricing an 82% chance of a September move.

BOJ Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino says the bank needs to pay more attention to the risk of inflation moving above its 2% target.

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🇯🇵 Japanese investors sold ¥1.97 Trillion of foreign bonds last week, the largest weekly sale in 5 months.

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🇺🇸 US wages and salaries fall to just 43% of national income, the lowest since the Great Depression.

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🇺🇸 Venezuela discusses leaving OPEC as U.S. negotiates stake in oil fields, aiming to diminish OPEC influence.

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🇺🇸 Federal judge rules the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal, finding it violated the company's First Amendment rights.

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🇯🇵 Japan's 2-Year Yield jumps to highest level in more than 31 years.

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🇺🇸 President Trump says the US has made a deal to secure majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan crude oil "at no cost" to the American taxpayer.

Trump says this more than doubles US oil reserves and is "the biggest oil deal in world history."

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🇯🇵🇺🇸 USDJPY reclaims the 160, its highest level since July 31

Kevin Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole speech is pushing US interest rate expectations higher, which pulls money into the dollar.

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🚨🚨 Wheat prices have exploded 35% in just the last 2 months as US wheat production hits its lowest level since 1971.

US wheat stockpiles are set to drop 22% this year, down to 722 million bushels.

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🇬🇧 British pound has lost 90% of its purchasing power since 1976.

£100 in 1976 would need to be £1,000 today to buy the same goods and services.

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🇺🇸 US Treasury will buy back $12,500,000,000 of its own debt next week.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran says the US Treasury is lying about moving 130 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in the last 14 days.

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🇺🇸 Gold has overtaken the U.S. Dollar as the largest Global Reserve Asset.

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📊 Key Events This Week:

• August Chicago PMI data - Monday
• August ISM Manufacturing PMI and Prices data - Tuesday
• July JOLTS Job Openings data - Tuesday
• August ADP Nonfarm Employment data - Wednesday
• August ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI and Prices data - Thursday
• July Jobs Report - Friday

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🇸🇦Saudi Arabia's combined Persian Gulf and Red Sea crude exports averaged just 3.23 million barrels per day over the first 23 days of August, on track for their lowest monthly level since the start of the Iran War.

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📊 Brent Crude Oil surges back over $90 as US and Iran resume strikes.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran's IRGC says it has attacked US bases in Jordan after US forces bombed two rocket launchers on Iran's Larak Island.

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📊 Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO tomorrow.

Apple grew from a $350 billion company to a $5 trillion company under his leadership, a 14x growth.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 🚨 TRUMP - KHARG ISLAND BEING BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS

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