Morning Edition · Saturday, August 29, 2026
Macro
Warsh Says Inflation Is Too High, and Traders Move to Price a September Rate Increase
Odds of a Federal Reserve rate rise next month jumped to about 57 percent from roughly 35 percent a day earlier, and gold fell more than 3 percent.
Markets
Trump Says the United States Has Taken Majority Control of 65 Billion Barrels of Venezuelan Oil
Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, said the arrangement covers 17 fields and would bring about $209 billion into the state treasury.
Geopolitics
Iran's President Says Foreign Trade Has Fallen About 35 Percent as Washington Targets Dubai
Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said imported goods are not arriving, while the United States moves against the Emirati banking channels Iranian firms have used for decades.
Macro
Debate Over Forcing Investors to Hold Government Bonds Moves Into the Mainstream
The Treasury's buyback program and its push to widen use of a Federal Reserve facility for foreign reserves are being described by analysts at Citadel Securities and Deutsche Bank as a soft form of financial repression.
World
Nepal Doubles Its Estimate of the Missing After Himalayan Flood, With More Than 2,400 Unaccounted For
Kathmandu reversed a refusal of foreign assistance within a day, and officials confirmed that two new glacial lakes have formed above the disaster zone.
Geopolitics
China Removes Its Highest-Ranked General From the State Military Commission
Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli were stripped of their posts eight months after the defence ministry said they were suspected of serious violations of discipline and law.
Geopolitics
Attackers Strike Niamey's Airport and the Perimeter of Niger's Presidency
Gunfire and explosions were heard across several districts of Niger's capital before dawn, in the second assault near the international airport this year.
Crypto
Decade-Old Bitcoin Wallets Moved $40 Million, but Dormant-Coin Activity Is at Its Lowest Since 2022
Bitcoin traded near $79,000 on Friday while gold fell more than 3 percent, a split that shows the two assets responding to different forces.
Geopolitics
Two-Thirds of South Koreans Now Support Building Nuclear Weapons, Gallup Korea Finds
Support reached 65 percent after Washington curtailed joint military exercises, and 58 percent of those who see no risk of war still favored an arsenal.
World
Nearly 200,000 People Have Been Forcibly Returned to Haiti This Year, the United Nations Says
The figure was presented to an emergency Security Council session called after gangs killed 47 people and abducted more than 50 near Port-au-Prince.
Markets
The August Payrolls Report and Broadcom's Results Will Test a Rally Built on Two Assumptions
Economists expect payrolls near 80,000 and unemployment at 4.2 percent on September 4, two days after Broadcom reports quarterly results against a guided $16 billion in artificial-intelligence chip revenue.
World
Ecuador Sentences Former President Lenin Moreno to Five Years Over Bribes From a Chinese Builder
A court found that Sinohydro paid about $76 million through consulting contracts tied to the $2 billion Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant, and also sentenced China's former ambassador to Quito.