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Ahead of its inaugural public earnings on 4 Aug 2026, SpaceX opened a Grok-run, anyone-can-ask Q&A portal even as its stock has already collapsed more than 40% from the June IPO frenzy and a 6 Aug lock-up will unleash a wave of insider shares.
At 02:01 EST on 2 Aug 2026, 4,400 WestJet flight attendants began a strike after contract talks collapsed, forcing the carrier to scrap over 300 holiday-weekend flights and idle most 737/787 jets.
On 31 July 2026 BP formally opened a sale process for its entire UK North Sea upstream business—five hubs producing 117 kboe/d—signalling an exit from the basin after six decades as part of CEO Meg O’Neill’s accelerated divestment push.
Between 28-29 July 2026 Japan unveiled a Q2 record ¥2.5096 trn in foreign-tourist outlays even as the Nikkei lost another 1 % and heavyweight firms posted sharply diverging April-June profits.
On 31 July 2026, New York’s attorney general sued Kalshi for unlicensed gambling, seeking an injunction and up to $36 billion in penalties, while the CFTC immediately vowed to block the shutdown, setting up a jurisdictional showdown.
On 30 July 2026 Microsoft shares leapt up to 17%, adding roughly $490 billion in market value—eclipsing Nvidia’s 2025 record for the largest single-session capitalization jump.
On 29 July 2026, Kevin Warsh’s FOMC kept rates unchanged for a fifth meeting, but a 9-3 split vote and stripped-down statement jolted markets, sending the 30-year Treasury to its highest yield since 2007.
On 29 July 2026 BMW rolled out a Germany-focused severance scheme that will trim roughly five percent of its global headcount—8,000 mainly administration and R&D posts—through voluntary departures completed by end-2027.
Late on 28 July 2026 the U.S. Senate cleared an 86-12 cloture vote sending the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia & Iran Act toward final passage, giving President Trump discretionary power to levy up to 100 % tariffs on the five biggest importers of Russian oil and gas.
On 30 Jul 2026 the FOMC kept the fed-funds target at 3.50-3.75 % in a 9-3 vote, triggering a bond-market sell-off that drove the 30-year yield to 5.22 %, its highest level since 2007.
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