Regime · Aug 2026
ISM manufacturing hits a four-year high at 55.6, factory employment expands for the first time since January 2025, and the July selloff fully reverses. Score jumps to +9.
4 Aug · 7 min read
Playbook · Aug 2026
Manufacturing at a four-year high, factory employment expanding after 33 months. What’s good, what’s bad, what to watch — and the names each tilt points at.
5 Aug · 7 min read
Deep dive · Aug 2026
The first joint US–Japan yen intervention since 2011. What the carry trade is, why an unwind hits US stocks, what the popular explanations get wrong, and how it gets defused.
7 Aug · 12 min read
Deep dive · Aug 2026
Google booked $98bn of unrealised gains on Anthropic and SpaceX — 69% of its EPS. Those same two now pay SpaceX $26bn a year for compute. What the disclosed numbers actually support.
5 Aug · 13 min read