Azerbaijan passed legislation in July to create a legal framework for investment instruments that aims to let startups structure deals locally instead of setting up in foreign jurisdictions, with foreign venture capital and institutional investors expected to fund a significant share of the industry.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
U.S. July retail sales fell for the first time in nine months, helped by an oil-price reversal and Amazon shifting its Prime Day into June, while the miss aligns with weaker University of Michigan consumer confidence and cooled inflation-backed expectations for a September Fed hike.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
US stock futures were mixed ahead of this week’s retail earnings as traders weighed the Federal Reserve’s next policy move, with Dow Jones futures down 0.1%, S&P 500 futures near flat, and Nasdaq-100 futures up 0.4%.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The dollar index fell to its lowest level since early June as traders cut U.S. rate hike bets after a run of softer economic data, pushing the euro to a two-month high at about $1.1614.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
ONGC secured a U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control license to resume operations in Venezuela, potentially unlocking access to more than $500 million in outstanding dividends from its San Cristobal (40% stake) and Carabobo (11% stake) projects.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Foreign investors put $214.4B into emerging-market debt through July, up from $177.7B a year earlier, as governments issued a record $187B of bonds year-to-date and sold about $19B in July (twice the decade monthly average).
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A Wyoming woman identified as Jane Doe 4 says her stepfather used xAI’s Grok to generate more than 7,000 fake explicit images of her as a child, and later traded them online.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Engadget
Sainsbury’s temporarily suspended live facial recognition alerts at its East Dulwich store after staff wrongly ejected Matt Arnold on Aug. 6, marking the second such incident at the chain this year, and said the cause was human error rather than a false match by its Facewatch system.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
The Register
Argentina LNG, backed by YPF, Eni and XRG, applied to be included in Argentina’s RIGI framework for a $51 billion integrated LNG export project with 12 million tonnes per year of floating liquefaction capacity from Vaca Muerta.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Stellantis swung to Q2 net profit of €293 million (from a €1.87 billion loss a year earlier) and raised adjusted operating income to €773 million, but the stock fell nearly 10% after results missed a €914 million estimate and days later Unifor said Stellantis is weighing selling its Brampton, Ontario plant amid US tariffs on Canadian goods.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
If Drake’s offer is treated as a taxable dating-show prize, the IRS would generally require Pinkchyu to pay ordinary income tax on the house’s market value at up to 37% federal rates (and 0% state income tax if she remains in Texas).
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Eight oil majors—Aramco, BP, Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies, Eni, Chevron and ExxonMobil—reported combined profits of over $90 billion in April–June, more than doubling from just below $50 billion in Q2 2025, as Strait of Hormuz trade disruption drove Brent to nearly $100 a barrel in May.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The SEC is preparing to release its “innovation exemption” framework for trading tokenized versions of Wall Street-listed stocks as early as Friday, with details still being worked on.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Amazon updated its terms and conditions so disputes are resolved through binding arbitration and arbitration is conducted only on an individual basis with a class action waiver.
Aug 16, 2026 ·
The Verge
Home Depot (HD) reports Tuesday, Target (TGT) and TJX (TJX) report Wednesday, and Walmart (WMT) reports Thursday as the key retail-earnings cluster to gauge consumer spending strength across income segments via traffic, basket sizes, and trade-down behavior.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said AI backlash is “fundamentally a crisis of trust” driven by public suspicion that companies and governments are “cooking up some new way to screw them over.”
Aug 16, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
“Dark” Strait of Hormuz shuttle shipments are moving more than market estimates of 4 million barrels a day and have helped keep Brent oil futures mostly between $80 and $90 a barrel in August despite the Iran war.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta is set to face a trial Tuesday in Oakland, Calif., over allegations from 29 states that its Instagram and Facebook features violated child-safety and consumer-protection laws and harmed children's mental health, including claims the company allowed children under 13 without parental consent under COPPA.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi said the Fed’s refusal to provide “forward guidance” about its reaction function could lead to “more volatility” and a future market sell-off that risks the broader U.S. economy.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
He hasn’t filed taxes in four years and plans to avoid the IRS by paying his kids up to $15,000 a year for work, but the article notes his premise is incomplete and the “tax free” benefit depends on filing and meeting specific legal conditions.
Aug 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
