U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): week ended Aug 18, 2026 — JPY net short 52,893 contracts; GBP net short 54,573 contracts; EUR net short 59,088 contracts; CHF net short 27,278 contracts.

A report says China's compute capacity is expanding rapidly: hardware is shifting to higher energy efficiency, compute carriers are undergoing a green transition, compute–power coordination is moving from concept to practice, and new models—compute networks, tokenized compute economies and overseas compute deployment—are emerging as growth poles. The report notes compute hardware is accelerating upgrades toward higher energy efficiency; as of end-June 2026 China's intelligent compute capacity reached 2,185 EFLOPS. Liquid cooling, high‑speed optical interconnects and new storage architectures have become prerequisites for high‑density intelligent compute centers, supporting coordinated growth in industry scale, performance and energy efficiency.

South African government says Johannesburg has fully repaid 5.25 bln rand of overdue power debt to ESKOM.