Ropa, dlh USA, inflácia a sankcie Iránu

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WORLD

• Trump announced a deal for majority US control over Venezuelan oil fields. This comes as US Strategic Petroleum Reserve hits its lowest since November 1982 and gas prices rise, though financial details remain unknown. ExxonMobil labeled the country uninvestable in January.
• US debt exceeded $40 trillion, Treasury will double bond buybacks. The Treasury announced doubling long-term bond buybacks in response, which Nomura called a band-aid that won’t stop market forces.
• Meta settled with 51 attorneys general in a child protection dispute on Instagram and Facebook. Meta will pay states approximately $12.7 billion USD over ten years, with an additional $5.3 billion contingent on TikTok and YouTube actions.
• Iran admitted a 25 to 35 percent trade decline, US tightens sanctions on Tehran. Iranian President Pezeshkian said the country’s foreign trade fell 25 to 35 percent, with imports declining more than exports, as the US launched a new sanctions campaign and proposed disconnecting a branch of Egypt’s Banque Misr in the UAE from correspondent banking.
• Warsh: inflation hasn’t improved enough, labeled AI a potential new production factor. New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh warned of persistent inflation in Jackson Hole and included artificial intelligence among monitored economic variables, driving up short-term bond yields and depressing stock indexes.
• Trump’s net worth increased; crypto ventures were his biggest income source, per financial disclosures. Forbes investigation revealed Trump leveraged the presidency for his businesses, while US debt reached $40 trillion and the administration reignited a trade war with Canada.
• Treasury proposed cutting Banque Misr branches in UAE from correspondent banking. The US Treasury proposed a rule that would strip five branches of Banque Misr in the UAE of access to correspondent banking in US financial institutions, and sanctioned a Bank Melli manager and a Hong Kong firm.

EUROPE

• Volkswagen and Lower Saxony seek compromise on layoffs before September 4th. VW CEO Oliver Blume pushes to double planned cuts to 50,000 jobs, but unions and Lower Saxony with a blocking minority share oppose his plan, with the supervisory board discussing the restructuring plan on September 4th.
• German import prices accelerated to 6.8 percent, unemployment above three million again. German import prices rose 6.8 percent year-on-year in July 2026, the most since December 2022, driven by soaring energy prices amid the Middle East conflict, while the number of unemployed remained above three million.
• Warsh warned of inflation, DAX still hit a record. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh called US inflation concerning, strengthening expectations of tighter monetary policy and hammering semiconductor stocks, but the DAX still reached a new all-time high.

SLOVAKIA

• Fico: public administration spending may fall by around one percent, still rejects balanced budget. The Prime Minister hinted at around a one percent cut across public administration as compensation for the loss of the transaction tax, but also outlined ways to avoid sanctions under the law on fiscal responsibility.
• Survey: four in ten Slovaks enter autumn with no reserve or only a limited financial cushion. An AKO agency survey showed that 21.5 percent of Slovaks had no financial reserve before summer and 41.1 percent cannot save more than 50 euros per month, while 34.7 percent have a reserve over 1500 euros.

Translated from the Slovak original and checked automatically: every figure must match the source, or this version is not published.