Trendly digest — 2026-08-22

Excerpt from TheStreet: “The company's turnaround efforts are paying off, and now Target is trying to share the wealth with shoppers.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"Exceptionally comfortable, even when worn for an entire day of walking."”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “President Donald Trump’s envoy for Syria and Iraq issued a stern warning after Israel’s recent strike on a long-shuttered military base near the Turkish border, invoking the downing of a Russian jet more than a decade ago that escalated regional tensions.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “India‘s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will visit Russia and co-chair the 27th India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission meeting on trade, science, technology, and culture.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Delta is trying to better discern which travelers need a lower fare and which don't.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “India garnered over $65 billion through special foreign currency deposits from its 35 million-strong diaspora, latest figures from the central bank showed Saturday.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Walmart is putting its massive tariff refund toward price investments.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces an awkward moment when a commission finally rules on the Premier League club’s legal saga.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Russia and Ukraine continued to trade strikes on infrastructure facilities overnight, including Ukrainian drone barrages that hit an oil refinery and a warehouse of a major e-commerce company deep within Russia.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"It's sturdy, comfortable, and super easy to move thanks to the wheels."”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Switzerland will soon go to the polls on the issue of food, in yet another test of voters’ appetites to answer big questions at the ballot box.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “The one-day budget with a decade-long shadow”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"It's a nice color and was simple enough to assemble."”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Reform UK is struggling to professionalize its insurgency against the British political establishment, with infighting over its direction spilling into the open just as Nigel Farage’s party seeks to convince voters it’s an enduring electoral force.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “US-Canada trade talks fell apart at the last minute, with fresh 50% tariffs on billions of dollars of Canadian goods taking effect and Prime Minister Mark Carney promising to retaliate.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Mexico’s top trade negotiator expressed optimism he can secure less burdensome tariff terms from the US on Mexican automobile and steel exports, similar to revised measures Washington is discussing with Canada.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Chris Mecray, CFO at ITG, joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss the company's performance since its July 1 IPO, and its role in the AI buildout as a fiber and communications company. Mecray says ITG is "the picks and shovels of the AI boom... with a long runway of…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “This week, Former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano discusses why companies may benefit from having a “Plan B” for AI implementation. And, AI may not be causing mass layoffs yet, but early data suggest it is already slowing wage growth in exposed occupations. Plus, Canada may have dodged…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are ProShares Head of Research & Active Investments CIO Alessio de Longis, KPMG Chief Economist Diane Swonk…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva maintained his lead over right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of Brazil’s October election, a new poll found.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Mike Cessario, Founder and CEO of Liquid Death, joined the program to discuss the growing public sentiment against the rapid expansion of data centers. Despite widespread interest in AI investments, the mood around data center growth has been notably negative. He speaks with…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Doctor Tsu-Jae King Liu, President of the National Academy of Engineering and Former Dean of UC Berkeley's College of Engineering, joined the program to discuss her influential role in the semiconductor industry. Having served on the board of Intel and contributed to the design…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Diane Swonk, KPMG Chief Economist, discusses expectations for the upcoming Federal Reserve speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. The speech is traditionally technical and focused on internal task forces, but markets are seeking clearer guidance on inflation and monetary…”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “TikTok Inc. and Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. agreed to pay $400 million to resolve a a Biden-era lawsuit by the Justice Department accusing the popular social media app of collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy law.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Elon Musk’s SpaceX is hiring a trader to build and lead a natural gas trading team to support the space flight company’s growing fuel and power needs.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The Mexican governor accused by the US of conspiring with a major criminal cartel to traffic drugs is ending his leave of absence, pledging to finish out his term through next year in a move that could inflame tensions with Washington.”

Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Vingroup JSC is among over 100 Vietnamese companies added to FTSE Russell’s Global Equity Indexes late Friday, marking a key step in the country’s long-awaited transition from frontier to secondary emerging market status.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Visualize your year in travel using your Google Location History (Timeline) data”

Excerpt from GitHub: “利用 AI 大模型和自动化工作流，根据主题或关键词一键生成高清短视频。Generate HD short videos from a topic or keyword with an automated AI workflow.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “⚡️A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “🦔 PostHog is the leading platform for building self-driving products. Our developer tools – AI observability, analytics, session replay, flags, experiments, error tracking, logs, and more – capture all the context agents need to diagnose problems, uncover opportunities, and…”

Excerpt from GitHub: “TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Open-source AI job search: scan job portals, evaluate listings with a structured A-F rubric into a 1.0-5.0 score, tailor your CV, track applications — runs locally in your AI coding CLI (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Antigravity…)”

Excerpt from GitHub: “Cursor plugin specification and official plugins”

Excerpt from GitHub: “The Modular Platform (includes MAX & Mojo)”