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Mode Mobile recently received their ticker reservation with Nasdaq ($MODE), indicating an intent to IPO in the next 24 months. An intent to IPO is no guarantee that an actual IPO will occur.
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Skew & Signal #17
Finance · Economy · Fintech
Friday, August 14, 2026
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Today's read: Cooling inflation and blockbuster AI-cloud earnings pushed the S&P 500 to a fresh record above 7,800, Workday posted its biggest intraday jump since 2012, and the market's mood has swung firmly back to bullish. Three straight weekly gains suggest investors are choosing to look past the Hormuz standoff for now.
A five-minute briefing built from developments reported August 12–13.
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INFLATION
August 12, 2026
Inflation Eases for a Second Straight Month, Landing Right on Forecast
Consumer prices rose 3.4% year-over-year in July, down from 3.5% in June and exactly in line with economist expectations, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.5% on the news and Treasury yields eased slightly.
Why it matters:
A second consecutive month of in-line, cooling inflation gives the Fed genuine room to consider cuts rather than hikes, directly undercutting the more hawkish rhetoric some officials floated just days earlier and helping reset rate expectations back toward easing.
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AI & CLOUD EARNINGS
August 12, 2026
CoreWeave and Nebius Post Blowout Results as AI Cloud Demand Accelerates
CoreWeave's second-quarter revenue doubled to $2.58 billion with a record $104 billion order backlog, while Nebius reported surging AI cloud revenue and reaffirmed its full-year 2026 guidance, raising its year-end contracted power targets; both stocks jumped as tech led Wednesday's rally.
Why it matters:
A $104 billion backlog at a single AI cloud provider is exactly the kind of concrete, forward-looking demand signal bulls have been asking for, and it's helping offset the credit-market unease that's built up around hyperscaler debt over the past week.
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MARKETS
August 13, 2026
S&P 500 Hits a Fresh Record, Extending a Third Straight Weekly Gain
The S&P 500 touched an intraday all-time high of 7,816.70 Thursday and closed at a record as tech and communication services stocks each rose roughly 1%, putting the index and the Nasdaq on pace for a third consecutive weekly advance even as the Dow lagged, down 0.4% for the week.
Why it matters:
"The market is appropriately bullish right now," as Partners Group's Anastasia Amoroso put it, and three straight weeks of gains built on real earnings strength suggest this rally has firmer footing than the brief August 3 record run that unraveled within days.
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MARKETS
August 13, 2026
Workday Posts Its Biggest Intraday Jump Since 2012
Workday shares surged Thursday in their largest intraday move since 2012 following a report that private equity firm Silver Lake is exploring a potential deal for the enterprise software company, while Applied Materials also drew attention for strong AI-chip demand tied to its semiconductor equipment business.
Why it matters:
A buyout report producing this scale of single-day move shows private equity still sees deep value in established enterprise software names even as investor attention has been almost entirely fixated on AI infrastructure plays for months.
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FINTECH & PAYMENTS
August 13, 2026
Bank of England to Trial Stablecoin and Digital Pound in Trade Finance
The Bank of England announced plans to trial a stablecoin alongside a digital pound in trade-finance settlement, part of a busy day for fintech news that also saw Xero launch a U.S. payroll integration powered by Gusto, Klarna partner with Housecall Pro on home-services payments, and payments platform Yuno raise $45 million in a Series B round.
Why it matters:
A central bank testing stablecoins and a digital pound side by side for real trade-finance use cases signals regulators are moving past purely theoretical CBDC pilots toward practical infrastructure decisions, which could shape how stablecoins get treated in wholesale payments globally.
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Editorial issue for August 14, 2026 · News window: August 12–13, 2026
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