🆕 Newsmakers — 2:30p ET, 2026-08-20 — new since last alert

📰 NEW MARKET THEMES: • Treasury Blinked: A Bessent Put Too Small To Matter Treasury raised its buybacks by $2 billion an operation, and the whole long end rallied. I make that 0.15% of the $1,367 billion it expects to place over two quarters. — seekingalpha.com · 08/20 2:05p https://seekingalpha.com/article/4938673-treasury-blinked-a-bessent-put-too-small-to-matter • Goldman Sachs Confirms ETFs On Track to Cross $2 Trillion Milestone It's been another year of record-breaking feats for ETFs. Various firms are pegging this year's inflows to cross the $2 trillion milestone, and Goldman Sachs added its stamp of approval to that forecast. — etftrends.com · 08/20 2:05p https://www.etftrends.com/future-etfs-content-hub/goldman-sachs-confirms-etfs-on-track-to-cross-2-trillion-milestone/

🐘 NEW BIG-CAP MOVERS:

1. VALE +2% $14.21 (61B cap) (no fresh news today — likely technical / low-coverage move)

📈 NEW GAINERS:

1. XRP +19% $14.14 (2.6B cap) XRP ETF Inflows Just Returned. Is $5.8 Million Enough to Defend $1? XRP ETF inflows just snapped back to life as the token claws above $1, but the gap between what investors have put in and what their holdings are actually worth tells a more complicated story about where demand really stands. — 247wallst.com · 08/20 1:38p https://247wallst.com/investing/etf/2026/08/20/xrp-etf-inflows-just-returned-is-5-8-million-enough-to-defend-1/

2. SCSC +14% $58.49 (1.2B cap) ScanSource, Inc. (SCSC) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript ScanSource, Inc. (SCSC) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript — seekingalpha.com · 08/20 1:31p https://seekingalpha.com/article/4938831-scansource-inc-scsc-q4-2026-earnings-call-transcript

— new items only (already-sent headlines filtered). Full list in the 10am/3pm digest.