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August 29, 2026

Morning Brief — 29 Aug 2026

MORNING BRIEF
The week in markets · What was worth reading · Three lines worth keeping
Saturday, 29 August 2026
 
The week
 
24 Aug 2026 – 28 Aug 2026
NIFTY 50 24,090.85   -0.58%
Flows FII +2,437 Cr; DII +16,250 Cr
Best Metal +2.80%
Worst FMCG -1.73%
Worth your Saturday
 
Technology
Affirm CEO: American Consumers Are Healthy
Affirm CEO Max Levchin joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the company's recent earnings report, including an upbeat revenue outlook as the short-term loan company sees its most…
Startups
Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine
Xpeng's robotics unit raised over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation, the largest embodied AI funding round in China.
Markets
US stocks today: US stocks end lower as Warsh keeps inflation fight front and centre
S&P 500 fell 0.26% after Fed Chair Warsh reinforced commitment to 2% inflation target, keeping rate hike expectations for September.
Logistics
Jim Beam maker chooses next chief supply chain officer
Manuel Cabañas, with Suntory since 2000, becomes SVP and chief supply chain officer effective September 4.
Technology
SentinelOne CEO on Earnings, AI's Cybersecurity Impact
SentinelOne co-founder, chairman and CEO Tomer Weingarten discusses earnings and AI Cybersecurity in an interview with Romaine Bostick and Emily Graffeo on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)
Also from the week
 
Startups
Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses?
XREAL's a01 smart glasses display content via USB-C connection at around $300 price point.
Three lines to think about
 
Practice Knowledge without practice decays. The reading is not the doing.
Leverage Say less than necessary. The fewer words you commit to, the fewer you have to defend later.
Signal Track what you were wrong about. It is the only reliable signal about your own calibration.
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Market data: NSE India, Twelve Data, Yahoo Finance and CoinGecko. Headlines from public RSS feeds; titles link to their original sources. Story blurbs are drafted by Claude from the linked articles — all figures above come from the data sources, not the model. Personal research note; not investment advice.
Udit Kakar · Morning Brief · Research, not investment advice
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