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On 17 Aug 2026 Nvidia formally replaced a mooted $250 B pledge with a $105 B residual-value guarantee plus a $1.5 B equity stake in SB Energy to secure OpenAI’s 20-year lease of the first 4.25 GW phase of an Ohio AI data-center campus.
On 17 Aug 2026 the Navy inked a seven-year, $22.9 billion contract with RTX’s Raytheon to raise annual Tomahawk cruise-missile production from roughly 60 to over 1,000 units.
NVIDIA shifted from selling chips to financing entire AI factories, lining up over $500 billion in SPV-backed GPU capacity with major asset managers while committing a capped $105 billion lease guarantee—and a $1.5 billion equity stake—for the first 4.25 IT-GW phase of OpenAI’s PORTS-Pike mega-data-center in Ohio.
Between 14–17 Aug 2026, Petrobras confirmed hydrocarbon shows in the ultra-deepwater Morpho exploration well 175 km off Amapá, its first positive hit in the long-disputed Equatorial Margin frontier.
On 16 Aug 2026, the very first production Ferrari Luce electric car was hammered for $40 million at RM Sotheby’s Monterey charity auction, almost 40× its €550k sticker and the highest price ever paid for a brand-new automobile.
On 15 Aug 2026, India’s 80th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally rolled out the “Sapta Dhara” framework—seven sectoral thrusts coupled with time-bound targets such as AI-skilling 10 million youth in one year, installing 100 GW nuclear capacity by 2047, and placing 50 Indian firms in the Fortune 500—to serve as the government’s master plan for turning India into a developed nation by its centenary.
After the yen erased roughly half of July-August intervention gains and sank to ¥159.3 per dollar this week, traders boosted implied odds of a September Bank of Japan rate hike from about 24% to over 75%, betting policy tightening—not more dollar-selling—will be required to stabilise the currency.
On 16 Aug 2026, President Abelardo de la Espriella asked Donald Trump to freeze the new 12.5 % US import duty on Colombian goods so exporters can blunt the economic blow of last week’s magnitude-7.4 earthquake.
On 13 Aug 2026, President Trump invoked Section 232 to impose a 100 % import duty—effective 3 Sep—on drones over 25 kg or with thermal cameras, while levying 25 % on smaller models and capping allies at 10-15 %.
SEC 13F and 13G disclosures show Google-parent Alphabet’s original $900 million 2015 investment in SpaceX has ballooned to a $94 billion holding after the company’s June 2026 IPO, establishing Alphabet as SpaceX’s largest outside shareholder.
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