US 4-week moving average of initial jobless claims for the week to Aug 22 was 205.5k; prior reading revised from 204.0k to 204.25k.

BANK OF KOREA will continue to implement monetary policy to stabilize consumer price inflation at the target.

Aug 26 — Qualcomm EVP said HBC (high‑bandwidth compute) near‑memory architecture can deliver higher effective bandwidth and lower power than HBM, providing an alternative route to ease the AI-era memory‑wall bottleneck. He described HBC as a flexible stacked solution that can be paired with other compute units to optimize system performance. Qualcomm said hyperscalers have expressed strong interest and it is working with major DRAM manufacturers to advance the DRAM stacking technology HBC requires.