
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for Tuesday: the AI trade that powered the market turned against it, dragging the Nasdaq...
June 23, 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 Tuesday: the AI trade that powered the market turned against it, dragging the Nasdaq...
June 23, 2026
A US$10.9 billion takeover lands at a 49 percent premium. Home prices hit a record. The market roars. And the...
June 22, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for Monday: Alan Greenspan's death drew Washington's tributes as a near-eleven-billion-dollar drug deal, a record...
June 22, 2026
Canada's economy stalled in the first quarter as housing weakened, yet a patient central bank and resilient spending complicate the...
June 19, 2026
Past the Fed market drama, the real US signal was a frozen labor market and a stalled housing sector. The...
June 19, 2026
New Fed chair Kevin Warsh held rates but cut the statement to 130 words and dropped forward guidance. A central...
June 19, 2026
USA and Canada Intelligence Brief for Thursday: markets reeled then steadied after Warsh's hawkish Fed turn, but the day's deeper...
June 18, 2026
USA and Canada Intelligence Brief for Wednesday: the Fed's verdict lands with a near-certain hold and a dot plot poised...
June 17, 2026
USA and Canada Intelligence Brief for Tuesday: US housing starts collapsed to a five-year low as high rates bit hard,...
June 16, 2026Brazil runoff date: Sunday, October 25, poll closing times and when results start · Brazil runoff polls: Flávio 51%, Lula 49% · Kalshi and Polymarket odds