China factory-gate inflation slows more than expected in July

For the second straight time this year, Meta Platforms (META +3.28%) stock was slammed after the social media giant reported its quarterly earnings. The culprit this time appears to be a combination of missing earnings per share (EPS) expectations (which is not really the case) and, once again, an increase in its capital expenditures (capex)…

The number of job openings stood at 7.359 million in June, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Tuesday. This print followed the 7.537 million openings reported in May and came in slightly below the market expectation of 7.4 million. “Hires were unchanged at 5.3 million, while total separations changed little at 5.4 million….

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News release UK financial firms can adopt tokenisation and distributed ledger technology (DLT) with greater confidence, as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England set out a shared vision and seek industry views on the future of UK wholesale markets.   Tokenisation is the process of creating a digital representation of a…

Gig platforms offer seamless checkout for buyers, but emerging market payouts remain broken for workers. In June 2026, member states from more than 180 countries convened for the International Labour Conference to determine international labor standards for digital platform workers. However, even with those standards set, payments remain a big issue.  Imagine a freelance developer in Lagos,…

Brown Brothers Harriman’s Elias Haddad notes the British Pound (GBP) remains heavy versus the US Dollar (USD) and Euro (EUR) after a mixed United Kingdom (UK) June Consumer Price Index (CPI) report, with headline inflation cooling but core and services measures still sticky. Markets price 75 bps of Bank of England (BoE) tightening over twelve…