
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 29: Trump announces majority control of 65 billion Venezuelan barrels, September Fed odds...
August 29, 2026The Federal Reserve sets the price of money for the entire world, and the US economy’s signals – jobs, inflation, growth, sentiment – decide where global capital flows. The Rio Times covers the Fed, the dollar and US macro data through an emerging-market lens, because nothing moves Latin American rates and currencies more.

USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 29: Trump announces majority control of 65 billion Venezuelan barrels, September Fed odds...
August 29, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief August 28, 2026: Fed chair Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole keynote and the day's key US...
August 28, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 27: Nvidia’s fifteenth beat, Jackson Hole opens with inflation at 3.7%, and Canada’s...
August 27, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 26: inflation prints hot at 3.7%, Nvidia reports after the bell, and Canada’s...
August 26, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 25: Washington opened an economic D-Day on Iran and put 50% tariffs on...
August 25, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 20: the Treasury will double its long-dated buyback operations from 9 September, after...
August 20, 2026
USA Canada Intelligence Brief August 19: Trump says he paused the 50% Canada tariff two hours out, but no legal...
August 19, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for 18 August: builders filed more permits and poured less concrete, and a 50% tariff...
August 18, 2026
USA Canada Intelligence Brief August 17: a constructive Sunday call, two days before a 50% tariff on $20bn of Canadian...
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