Operation Economic Outcast: Inside America’s Economic War on Iran
Operation Economic Outcast designated 78 targets on day one, opened five Iranian sectors to secondary sanctions and warned every country...
August 30, 2026Section
US Markets & Wall Street
Wall Street sets the global risk appetite, and when it moves, emerging markets move with it. The Rio Times tracks the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, the dollar, Treasury yields, IPOs and the deals driving US and Canadian markets – through an emerging-market lens, with an eye on how every Wall Street swing reaches Latin American assets.
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The 50% Wall: How the US-Canada Trade Relationship Collapsed in a Week
Canada walked out of trade talks, Washington imposed 50% duties on $20 billion of goods under Section 338, and Ottawa...
August 30, 2026
Kevin Warsh’s Fed: The Jackson Hole Sentence That Moved September
Kevin Warsh’s first keynote as Fed chairman pushed September rate-rise odds from about 35 to 56 per cent. What he...
August 30, 2026
The 55 Percent Deal: How Washington Claimed Venezuela’s Oil Without a Signature
Washington says it holds majority control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil. No text is public, no operator is...
August 30, 2026
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, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief
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
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
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
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 25: Washington opened an economic D-Day on Iran and put 50% tariffs on...
August 25, 2026