ECB executive board member cipellone said the risk of economic stagnation and a sharp rise in inf is quite low.

OpenRouter data show global AI model calls for Aug. 17-23 totaled 93.3 trillion tokens, up 23.9% week-on-week. Chinese models accounted for 40.48 trillion tokens, up 9.88% WoW, while U.S. models logged 9.66 trillion tokens, down 5.85% WoW; Chinese model calls have exceeded U.S. volumes for 17 consecutive weeks and occupy four of the global top five slots. DeepSeek-V4-Flash (official release) remained No.1 for a third week at 11.6 trillion tokens, up 4% WoW. An anonymous model codenamed Ox Alpha launched on Aug. 20 and reached No.2 in four days with 11.6 trillion tokens; it offers an ~1.048 million-token context window, a 131,000-token max output, supports text/image/video inputs and was free during preview.

資本市場專家阿加伯扎爾基（Aghabozorgi）表示，自伊朗歷1404年年初（對應公曆2025年3月21日 至 2026年3月20日）以來，德黑蘭證券交易所綜合指數漲幅已超過110%。與其他競爭性市場相比，股市目前具有更高的投資價值，綜合指數在年底前達到700萬點並非遙不可及。 市場專家尼瑪·米爾扎伊表示，股市仍處於長期上漲趨勢，近期的拋售可以視爲對600萬點心理關口的抵抗，以及部分資金轉向黃金和美元。市場在短暫休整後可以繼續上漲。