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🇺🇸 Markets shrug off hawkish Fed minutes as housing cracks beneath sentiment surveys
📰 Daily Macro Roundup: 2026-08-21
🇨🇳 China holds rates for a 15th month while foreign capital keeps heading for the door
🌏 India's central bank builds a war chest as its factories stall
🇬🇧 UK retail sales slump even as services PMI hits a six-month high
🇪🇺 Eurozone inflation hits 2.9%, and the ECB's rate-cut story is running out of road
🇺🇸 Three Fed hawks just made hiking talk plausible again
📈 The Strategy: 2026-08-21
📑 The Watchlist: 2026-08-21
📚 What housing starts actually measures, and why single-family and multifamily tell different stories
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