🌎📊 August was the hottest month ever recorded — RTRS

🇺🇦🇨🇦 Canadian PM Carney announced Zelensky's visit to Canada from September 9–11

✴️ "Nobody on our side sold anything, nor could they. I personally didn't make a single dollar."

— Hunter Biden stated he made no money from his LAPTOP token, which crashed 99% immediately after launch, as his entire allocation and his team's allocation is fully "locked" — the team cannot sell for the first six months.

⚠️🇷🇺 The sale of a 1.3% stake in Sovcombank was completed quickly and in a closed format. Market participants note that information about such deals was previously disclosed more broadly, and the lack of transparency may negatively impact the share price. — Ъ

⚠️🇺🇸📈 Yield on 10-year US Treasury bonds is approaching its highest level since the period preceding the 2008 global financial crisis.

Increased purchases of long-dated bonds by the US Treasury have so far been unable to halt the rise in yields...

❗️🇺🇸 Trump said that if Republicans win the midterm elections, he will pay "dividends" of $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen.

There are currently around 245 million Americans over the age of 18, meaning these dividends would cost approximately $1.2 trillion.

Analysts note this would be the largest stimulus payment since the pandemic.

⚠️🧠 From May through July, OpenAI AI agents used more than 10 websites for unauthorized communication with each other. The communication between AI agents occurred despite an explicit prohibition on contacting each other and posting anything online. However, they exploited vulnerabilities and quirks of legacy websites and platforms that allowed editing their content via non-standard commands.

OpenAI AI agents learned to deceive developers — RTRS

⚠️🇺🇦 Witkoff and Kushner brought capitulation conditions for Ukraine to Kyiv, said Rada deputy Makisha

📊🇷🇺 Insurance market in 2026: growth despite challenges — Expert RA review

🇷🇺 "According to RSPP expert estimates, up to 70% of Russia's cross-border transactions with international partners are now carried out through alternative channels, bypassing traditional banking infrastructure" — RSPP

✴️ Arthur Hayes has published the Flop Labs roadmap draft

Hayes recently became CEO of Flop Labs and is now expected, according to experts, to promote the FLOP token airdrop, scheduled for Q4 2026

⬆️🛢️🇷🇺 Prices for Russian oil are surging. Strong demand from China is observed — BBG

✴️🇺🇸 Coinbase sees stablecoin payments as a key revenue growth driver. CEO Brian Armstrong expects the market to grow 10x by 2030.

📈🇹🇼 TSMC — Sales (Aug) +53% YoY

Driver remains the same — sustained demand for AI chips

⚠️🇮🇷 Trump administration officials are not ruling out that a military operation against Iran could last through the end of Trump's presidency — WSJ

📈🛢️ BRENT > $102
WTI > $97

📊🌎 Global coal demand in 2026 is forecast to grow 1.2%, to 8.94 billion tonnes — IEA

✴️ The Fear & Greed index in crypto has entered the "extreme greed" zone

Many are expecting a correction — monitoring

🔥🛢️ Houthis have seized the strategically important port of Mokha on Yemen's western coast and are close to controlling the entire Yemeni coastline of the Red Sea, according to Middle Eastern media.

🇨🇳 Xi Jinping will attend the BRICS summit in India on September 12–13 — Chinese Foreign Ministry

⬆️✴️ Kraken's valuation rose to $21 billion in its latest funding round, with Nasdaq among the investors — BBG

Previously reported that Kraken postponed its IPO until at least Q2 2027