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The week that wasJoy can’t last forever, can it? The US Dollar (USD) rapidly faded its prior gains and resumed its marked downside this week, with the US Dollar Index (DXY) coming close to its psychological 100.00 barrier, only to see that dream turn to ashes as market chatter reignited speculation that the Bank of Japan (BoJ) might hike its policy rate at its next meeting.But nobody, or nearly no one, said anything about a potential FX intervention by the MoF-BoJ duo.Not even fresh tensions in the back-and-forth scenario in the Middle East were able to give the buck any fresh…

The week in one sentence: Speculative positioning became more defensive in the week ending September 1. Yen short positioning recorded the largest deterioration, while Gold length also retreated. Oil buying returned alongside stronger prices, and Canadian Dollar and Euro positioning improved, although Euro flows diverged from weaker spot prices.CAD: Short coverings resumesCanadian Dollar (CAD) net shorts narrowed by around 13.4K contracts to 108.1K, the strongest weekly improvement since August 25. Gross long positions were broadly unchanged, while gross shorts fell by 13.4K. USD/CAD rose modestly, suggesting a modestly weaker CAD despite the positioning improvement. In addition, net positioning rose to…

The Mexican Peso appreciates against the US Dollar, testing two-year highs near 16.85 as the USD/MXN sets aside a strong US Nonfarm Payrolls report, which was ignored by the Peso’s bears. At the time of writing, the emerging market pair trades at 16.88, poised to extend its losses and challenge the April 2024 lows at 16.74.USD/MXN Price Forecast: Technical OutlookPrice action suggests that the downtrend is poised to extend, as USD/MXN approaches two-year lows. Bearish momentum continues to increase as the Relative Strength Index (RSI) dives further into bearish territory.The first support area is the 16.50-mile milestone. Below the latter,…

Cleveland Federal Reserve (Fed) President Beth Hammack said on Friday that the current monetary policy stance is not restrictive, emphasizing that inflation is too high. In an article on LinkedIn, she added that local contact views indicate that “now is the time for the Fed to hike to control inflation.”Key highlights:Inflation is still above 3 percent. The labor market is stable and near my estimate of maximum employment.Both the hard data and the anecdotes are telling me the same thing: policy is not restrictiveInflation is too high—and the longer it stays above our objective, the harder it will be to…

Key PointsNuclear energy is gaining traction as AI data center power demands grow.NuScale Power develops next-generation small modular reactors that could become operational in the 2030s. NuScale is deploying industry-specific AI tools to its workflows to address key operational bottlenecks. 10 stocks we like better than NuScale Power ›Technology giants like Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and Oracle have moved to secure nuclear power agreements and are looking to the future of nuclear power by partnering with companies developing innovative small modular reactors (SMRs).NuScale Power (NYSE: SMR) doesn’t currently have any deals with hyperscalers, but it has a first-mover advantage as…

Available for over a yearThere has been a lot of talk about rising bond yields, from Japan to the UK and the US, and alongside this government debt is growing all around the world. That all plays into a feeling that many people have that life is about to get more expensive and that in many places interest rates are set to rise. Rahul Tandon is joined by David Kuo, co-founder of The Smart Investor in Singapore and German business journalist Ellen Frauenknecht. (Photo: Passersby stand before a stock market indicator board in Tokyo, Japan, 2 September, 2026. Tokyo stocks…

SLB (NYSE: SLB) just made a clear bet that data centers, not oil wells, define its next decade. On Aug. 31, the company announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Kelvion, a century-old thermal-management specialist, for approximately $3.4 billion in cash and the assumption of approximately $0.7 billion of debt, bringing the total transaction value to approximately $4.1 billion. Most coverage framed it as another modular infrastructure tuck-in to the company’s existing oil services business. That undersells it. Paired with SLB’s expanding NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) partnership and its rapidly scaling Data Center Solutions unit, the Kelvion deal signals SLB is building a genuine second growth engine. Management is targeting $4.5 billion to $5 billion in 2028 revenue for the combined Data Center Solutions business.…

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Prof Ian Walker, head of psychology at Swansea University, said people could be “constrained by automatic habits” when it comes to water usage.He said: “You might think, ‘I should take shorter showers’, but once you get in there, you go into auto-pilot and take the same time regardless.”One of the best things you could ask people to do is don’t have showers and don’t wash your clothes. But that’s not going to happen either.”He suggested an easier approach was to lock-in water savings measures, such as getting a low-flow shower.”You do that once as a deliberate choice, but then you…