Xi's BRICS expansion

Upcoming Week:

• Tuesday: The U.S. housing market comes into focus with the release of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) report on Existing Home Sales for July
  

• Thursday: The BRICS summit starts in Johannesburg, South Africa
  

• Friday: Fed Chair Jerome Powell will speak at the Jackson Hole Symposium, where investors will look for clues on the central bank’s stance on interest rates for the remainder of the year

Earnings Calendar:

• Monday: Zoom Video Communications (ZM)
  

• Tuesday: Lowe’s Companies (LOW), Baidu (BIDU), Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS), BJ’s Wholesale Club (BJ), Toll Brothers (TOL), Macy’s (M), Urban Outfitters (URBN), La-Z-Boy Inc. (LZB)
  

• Wednesday: Nvidia (NVDA), Snowflake Inc. (SNOW), Bath & Body Works (BBWI), Williams-Sonoma (WSM), Advance Auto Parts (AAP), Kohl’s (KSS), Peloton (PTON), Foot Locker (FL), Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF)
  

• Thursday: Intuit (INTU), Royal Bank of Canada (RY), Toronto Dominion Bank (TD), Marvell Technology (MRVL), Dollar Tree (DLTR), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), Burlington Stores (BURL), The Gap (GPS), Nordstrom (JWN)

• Instacart eyes September IPO: Instacart is aiming to list for an IPO in early September 2023, according to reports. The company will not go public via a SPAC as it was previously believed, choosing to list on Nasdaq instead (Bloomberg)
  

• BRICS expansion: As Xi Jinping travels to the BRICS summit today, he is expected to attempt to push the Brics bloc of emerging markets to become a full-scale rival to the G7 (AP)
  

• Gamblin’ with Robux: In a new class action lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California last week, two parents accuse Roblox (RBLX) of illegally facilitating child gambling (TechCrunch)
  

• WeWork isn’t giving up: WeWork Inc. (WE) the troubled co-working company on the brink of collapse, is moving forward with a 1-for-40 reverse stock split in a bid to save its listing on the NYSE (Bloomberg)
  

• Ether futures incoming: The SEC is poised to allow the first exchange-traded funds based on Ether (ETH) futures, a major win for several firms that long have sought to offer the products (Bloomberg)
  

• Indian spinoff debuts: Shares of Jio Financial Services (JFS), $20 billion spinoff from Reliance Industries Ltd., made a weak start in a widely watched trading debut this morning (TechCrunch)
  

• DuPont deal: Materials & chemicals maker DuPont De Nemours (DD) is in advanced talks to sell its Delrin resins unit to PE firm The Jordan Company for about $1.8 billion (Yahoo Finance)

• The under-$20,000 new car is history (Axios)

• How to save money on streaming services (Consumer Reports)

• To afford rent in America’s most expensive college towns, students would need to earn about $72,000 a year (In My Area)

• How tourists are ruining the world’s greatest destinations (The Guardian)

• Kraft Heinz sees a $25 billion opportunity—in schools (WSJ)

• ‘Forever Chemicals’ are everywhere. What are they doing to us? (NYT)

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