Sina Finance reports that U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Canada has objected to how certain proposed terms would be implemented in the planned U.S.–Canada trade agreement.
In a media interview, Greer outlined aspects of the proposed deal and addressed Canada’s retaliatory measures, stating, "This will not bring us any economic disaster."
Fidelity clients have net bought $413 million worth of Bitcoin over the past nine days, with net purchases occurring on every trading day in the period.
ChainCatcher notes that Fidelity’s cumulative Bitcoin purchases since the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs have surpassed $10 billion.
The CME FedWatch tool shows a 63.5% odds that the Federal Reserve will hold rates steady in September, with a 36.5% probability priced in for a 25-basis-point increase, according to Jiemian News.
For October, the odds of no change are 47.3%, while a cumulative 25-basis-point hike is priced in at 43.4% and a 50-basis-point move at 9.3%.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said frontier AI labs will continue to be long-term customers, even as the industry leans toward custom chip designs.
ChainCatcher reported Huang's remarks in the context of a broader move toward more specialized hardware within the chip sector.
According to Wallstreetcn, South32 reported its full-year results with underlying revenue of $8.11 billion and a net profit of $1.09 billion.
Its underlying profit for the year was $1.03 billion, ahead of analysts' expectations of $1.02 billion.
According to Jin10, Nvidia reported stronger-than-expected results for the second quarter of fiscal 2027 after the U.S. stock market closed on Wednesday, with shares briefly dipping in after-hours trading before later climbing as much as 5%.
Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress told analysts that fiscal 2028 revenue is expected to grow roughly 70%, compared with analysts' earlier estimate of about 44%.
Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang stressed that the company has never provided guidance a year in advance and noted that demand growth has already exceeded 70%.
The political backlash against data-center projects is slowing growth in the sector, Bloomberg reports.
Developers and their financiers are reassessing plans in light of community concerns.
South African authorities intercepted 50 eggs believed to be from endangered parrots at Johannesburg's main airport last Thursday, with reports that some of the eggs have hatched since.
A 50-year-old Thai national was arrested on suspicion of attempting to smuggle the eggs in a homemade incubator bag carried as hand luggage, according to the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment.
The eggs are being treated at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria, where they are under intensive care as officials investigate the case.
If convicted, the suspect could face a fine of up to 10 million rand, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both, the department said.
Initial investigations indicate the eggs belong to a parrot species protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
The department said the arrest followed a joint operation involving the Green Scorpions and police, and noted that a 23-year-old Thai citizen was also arrested in July at OR Tambo International Airport over an alleged attempt to smuggle 418 parrot eggs.
Jin10 reports that Nvidia is scheduled to announce its earnings after the close of U.S. markets.
Jin10 sources indicate the United States has made some progress in clearing naval mines in international waters.
Nevertheless, allied assessments suggest that all of the 80 to 150 mines Iran laid remain in place and have not yet been removed.
US diesel inventories have fallen to a seasonal record low, according to Bloomberg, as demand season approaches.
The tighter supplies may push diesel prices higher as heating and agricultural activity begins in the coming months.
Nvidia Corp.'s AI spending trajectory and revenue outlook are expected to be the primary focus as it reports results on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg and comments by Mizuho Securities analyst Vijay Rakesh.
Rakesh noted that investors will closely watch AI spending and revenue guidance. He shared these remarks on Bloomberg Open Interest with Dani Burger and Yahaira Anand.
Jin10 reported that the SC crude oil main contract extended its intraday rally, rising by more than 2% and last trading at 575.80 yuan per barrel.
West Texas Intermediate futures reversed a more-than-3% intraday slide and were trading 0.06% higher at $82.41 per barrel, according to Jiemian News.
The dollar rose the most in nearly four weeks, erasing about half of the losses sparked by last week’s surprise move by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to back the bond market, according to Bloomberg.
The move came as inflation data reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve could begin lifting interest rates by the end of the year.
Based on data from Wallstreetcn, the SOFR was 3.66% on August 25, rising from 3.65% the prior session.
The effective federal funds rate stood at 3.63%, unchanged from the previous day.
Google has rolled out a new set of tools intended to counter pricing pressure in the artificial intelligence sector, according to ChainCatcher.
The report notes that Google described the tools as designed to address pricing dynamics in the AI market.
President Donald Trump has pursued a strategy to broaden his influence over monetary policy by removing Federal Reserve officials and replacing them with his own appointees. Odaily reports that court challenges and Senate resistance have slowed these efforts, but four openings remain: the Lisa Cook case, Powell's term, Jefferson's status, and a candidate for the Atlanta Fed presidency.
The central question is not only who joins the Fed but how such changes could reshape the voting balance on the Federal Open Market Committee.
Dallas Fed economists estimate that tokenized deposits could reduce U.S. banks' capacity to hold long-term interest rate risk by about $700 billion if savers become 10% more sensitive to rates, a figure reported by Foresight News. A separate scenario puts the decline at roughly $580 billion if deposits exit banks 10% earlier.
The calculations assume deposits remain in banks for an average of four years, and that so‑called other deposits currently support about 80% of the industry’s long‑term rate exposure. The researchers say tokenized deposits would move funds on-chain, enable programmable payments and real-time settlement, and could allow yield‑seeking savers to switch banks almost instantly.
They caution that smart contracts and AI agents could automate such movements, weakening deposit stickiness and raising banks' funding costs, which could in turn influence borrowing costs for households and businesses.
A study of Brazil's Pix instant payments network found that greater use of the system has led local banks to hold more liquid assets and reduced the scale of credit intermediation. The Clearing House is developing a tokenized deposit interoperability network for cross‑bank settlement, with involvement from banks including Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo.
Wallstreetcn reported that Moderna and Merck's personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, Intismeran Autogene (mRNA-4157/V940), administered with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab, reached positive Phase 3 results in melanoma.
In the trial, both recurrence-free survival and distant metastasis-free survival met the key endpoints set for the study.
Hong Kong's capital markets expanded solidly in the most recent quarter despite volatile global conditions.
According to Ming Pao, offshore investment products gained traction, southbound Stock Connect inflows remained steady, and initial public offering activity stayed brisk.
The Securities and Futures Commission notes in its Quarterly Report that these trends underpinned the market's overall performance.
Tencent Holdings Ltd. carried out a share repurchase on August 26, acquiring 672,000 shares for HK$300.4 million, according to a filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
ChainCatcher noted that the buyback details were disclosed in the exchange document.
The Polymarket submarket covering the LCK play-in match between KT Rolster and HANJIN BRION showed KT Rolster's implied win probability decline to 67.5% from 84% in roughly one hour, a 16.5 percentage-point swing.
ChainCatcher's monitoring tool Catcher Predict flagged the price move, noting that related breaking news could be influencing the market.
MINIMAX-W (00100.HK) disclosed in a Hong Kong stock exchange filing that first-half 2026 revenue reached $117 million, up 283.1% year over year, while the interim period net loss narrowed 11% to $358 million.
The company also reported gross profit of $20.813 million, up 464.8% from the year-ago period, according to Odaily.
Revenue from AI-native products climbed 100.9% year over year to $42.6 million, up from $21.2 million.
The AI-native growth was driven by higher user engagement, greater willingness to pay, and ongoing commercialization of Hailuo AI and other AI-native offerings.
Jin10 reports that the Bank of Thailand does not see a need to raise policy rates at this time.
Saudi Aramco has reportedly offered Arab Medium and Arab Heavy crude grades for September loading to Asian refiners, according to sources cited by Jin10.
Moonshot AI is reported to be in early-stage revenue-sharing discussions with three major cloud providers—Microsoft, Amazon, and Google—regarding the company's Kimi K3 AI model.
According to sources cited by Jin10, the talks are in their initial phase, with proposals on the table for as much as a 30% share of revenue from services tied to K3.
Onchain Lens said Wintermute reduced its short exposure on Hyperliquid from $212 million to $80.48 million since the last update.
According to Odaily, Wintermute still holds $80.48 million in short positions and $5.51 million in long positions, while its HYPE short exposure rose from $5.6 million to $10.2 million, and the unrealized loss was $568,800.
Wintermute has reduced its short exposure on Hyperliquid, trimming the position from $211.5 million to $80.48 million, according to data from Onchain Lens.
Foresight News reports that the firm now holds an $80.48 million short position and a $5.51 million long position.
The short exposure to the HYPE token rose from $5.6 million to $10.2 million, with an unrealized loss of $568,800.
Lighter, a decentralized exchange, says its verification system has improved significantly, lowering the average time to verify a block from roughly 5.3 minutes to about 1 minute over the past month. The company attributes the gains to two separate upgrades, per Foresight News.
The first upgrade introduces a heavy-light split that partitions the verification circuit by transaction complexity. This allows simple transactions, which account for more than 98% of activity, to incur lower verification costs and, in effect, halve the verification time.
A second upgrade stemmed from a prover-optimization competition with Eigen Labs aimed at infrastructure-level improvements to the Plonky2 prover. The initial results went live on August 23, delivering another substantial reduction in verification time by more than half.
Lighter’s verification stack runs on a cluster of Apple Silicon Mac mini machines plus an elastic cloud overflow layer. As throughput improved, cloud overflow usage fell from several hours per day to nearly zero. The baseline withdrawal finality time also dropped from roughly 21–22 minutes to about 16–17 minutes.
Additional optimization work from the prover competition continues to roll out. In a test environment, verification time for a 500-transaction block fell from about 187 seconds to under 30 seconds, representing roughly a 10-fold improvement since mid-July. Lighter said it will announce the competition winners in the coming days.
Chinese steel producers are under pressure as higher input costs weigh on profitability.
Soft demand in domestic markets, combined with more expensive raw materials, is compressing margins. Bloomberg notes the strain is likely to endure through year-end.
Changjiang Business School reported that the August China Business Conditions Index (BCI) stood at 48.3, down from 50.1 in July, according to Jiemian News. The BCI is the arithmetic average of four sub-indices, and this month shows one uptick and three declines.
Sub-index movements: the forward-looking sales index rose to 60.3 from 60.0, while the profit outlook index declined to 42.1 from 45.7; the financing conditions index eased to 43.6 from 44.3; and the inventory outlook index slipped to 47.2 from 50.3.
On costs and prices, the forward-looking labor cost index dipped to 69.8 from 70.4; the total cost outlook index rose to 70.9 from 70.4; and the consumer goods price outlook index fell to 43.9 from 46.6.
NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang is described as personally reviewing pay and compensation recommendations for about 42,000 employees at the end of each compensation cycle, with the practice commonly resulting in higher operating expenses.
According to a report cited by ChainCatcher, Huang told the outlet that taking care of employees helps other priorities fall into place and that his leadership team has produced more billionaires than any other CEO.
The same report references a survey of about 3,000 Nvidia staff, indicating roughly 76% to 78% had become millionaires, with about half reporting a net worth above $25 million. The article notes employees can purchase company stock through a plan at a 15% discount, and Nvidia’s stock has climbed about 3,800% since 2019, significantly boosting worker wealth.
CanSino Biologics said its Shanghai unit has signed a strategic framework agreement with Depsys Biotech to jointly develop an mRNA personalized therapeutic cancer vaccine. The alliance aims to combine mRNA vaccine technology with tumor neoantigen discovery and design to advance research, clinical development, regulatory filings, and commercialization for gastrointestinal solid tumors and rare cancers worldwide, according to Jiemian News.
The collaboration covers early-stage research and development, clinical translation, regulatory submissions, and eventual commercialization.
Separately, Cathay Securities said mRNA cancer vaccine technology has reached a historic breakthrough after the first personalized mRNA cancer vaccine delivered positive results in a phase III melanoma trial. Jiemian News also reported that as of 9:32 a.m. on August 26, 2026, the Penghua Hang Seng Connect Innovative Drug ETF's benchmark index rose 2.79%, with CanSino Biologics up 17.23%, Everest Medicines up 8.90%, and Remegen up 3.80%.
The company posted 2026H1 revenue of 151 million yuan, an increase of 17.07% from the previous year. However, net profit attributable to shareholders plunged by 98.47% to 351,400 yuan, and when non-recurring items are excluded, the attributable net loss widened to 1.4617 million yuan from 321,500 yuan.
The growth was chiefly driven by a new server-leasing arm, which generated 34.9212 million yuan in revenue and represented 23.13% of total revenue after being consolidated via an equity infusion in Payan Technology, where Kexin Development holds a 51.22% stake.
Construction revenue declined 6.87% to 110 million yuan, while revenue from self-owned asset rental dropped 3.80% to 6.0452 million yuan.
Operating cash flow improved to 16.6073 million yuan from a negative 8.7027 million yuan a year earlier. Total assets rose 36.34% to 1.094 billion yuan, and total liabilities increased 83.30% to 613 million yuan.
Jin10 reports that Microsoft 365 indicated an ongoing maintenance task unexpectedly impacted the Microsoft Teams service in the Asia-Pacific region, leading to reduced functionality for users.
The vendor said the maintenance activity has been paused and that Teams has returned to standard availability.