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US stocks: Nasdaq, S&P 500 lifted by Nvidia’s forecast; investors eye speech by US Fed’s Warsh
Published Fri, Aug 28, 2026 · 06:15 AM[NEW YORK] The technology-heavy Nasdaq outperformed peers at the close of trade on Thursday (Aug 27) after chipmaker Nvidia’s bumper revenue forecast...
AI Agent Interoperability Gets a Neutral Home at Last
Google handed its Agent2Agent protocol to the Linux Foundation directed Agentic AI Foundation last week, putting it into the same governance as Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol. The transfer was...
US Canada Tariffs Escalate With Retaliation Set for Sept 8
Washington and Ottawa walked away from the table last weekend, and the collapse of those talks triggered 50 percent US tariffs on roughly $20 billion of Canadian goods. Canada...
Small Business Grants: 5 Lessons From Jobber’s $250K
Jobber handed out $250,000 to nine commercial and home service businesses this week, announcing the 2026 recipients from Toronto on August 25. Of the six years the program has...
Consumer Confidence Report: Now Is Fine, Later Is Not
The Conference Board’s August consumer confidence report, released Tuesday from New York, slipped 0.8 points to 89.4 on the 1985 base, down from 90.2 in July. The headline move...
Perplexity AI Valuation Tops $30B as Nvidia Circles
Nvidia is weighing a multibillion-dollar stake in Perplexity that would carry the AI search company past a $30 billion price tag, according to reports that surfaced this week. Neither...
Singapore plays premium data centre game as Johor, Batam take on scale
With land and power at a premium, the Republic homes in on workloads with stronger reasons to be hosted on its shores[SINGAPORE] Singapore is carving out a premium role...
SoftBank in talks to buy stake in humanoid developer 1X at US$6 billion valuation: report
Published Thu, Aug 27, 2026 · 12:41 PMSOFTBANK is in talks to buy a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer 1X Technologies in a deal that would value...
Bank of Korea delivers back-to-back rate hike to curb inflation risks
Published Thu, Aug 27, 2026 · 09:38 AMTHE Bank of Korea raised its benchmark interest rate at a second consecutive meeting, moving to contain inflation risks fuelled by stronger-than-expected...
Gold drifts higher as investors weigh Fed rate path
The US dollar-debasement narrative remains supportive of the metal in the medium termPublished Thu, Aug 27, 2026 · 09:32 AM — Updated Thu, Aug 27, 2026 · 11:38 AM[BENGALURU]...
