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BlogAugust 17, 2026

From Short-Termism to the Midterms: Why Wind May Be the Cleanest Political Trade in Clean Energy

Ahead of the US midterms, wind looks like the cleanest political trade in clean energy — and last week gave the sector a reason to look up.

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BlogAugust 10, 2026

The Return of the Debasement Trade: Gold's Best Week in Six Months

Gold, copper, bitcoin and equities are all rising together. The common driver may be bigger than any one market.

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BlogAugust 3, 2026

Watching Trillion Dollar Swings from a Steady Ship

Hyperscaler earnings exposed how much is being spent on AI and how little is known about the return, while capital kept rotating toward the physical infrastructure that powers the build-out.

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Press releaseJuly 29, 2026

Winterflood and Curation Partner to Strengthen Retail Investor Engagement

LONDON — 29 July 2026 — Winterflood, a division of Marex and one of the UK's leading liquidity providers and retail-focused capital markets distributors, today announces a strategic partnership with Curation, the AI infrastructure for retail investor relations, to enhance retail investor engagement for listed companies raising capital through the Winterflood Retail Access Platform (WRAP).

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BlogJuly 27, 2026

Europe's Two New Rules of Defence

NATO's largest rearmament since the Cold War is being funded by a new €1.9tn defence bank — and the pricing power is already flowing to the manufacturers behind it.

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Press releaseJuly 23, 2026

VEON Takes Strategic Stake in Curation to Accelerate AI-Powered Retail Investor Engagement

The investment marks the beginning of a broader commercial partnership focused on redefining how listed companies engage millions of retail investors through artificial intelligence, video-first communications and scalable digital engagement.

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BlogJuly 20, 2026

Sell the rallies, buy the rotation

The semiconductor trade is cooling. Energy, China and the next tier of AI may be just getting started.

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BlogJuly 13, 2026

Sell the rallies and watch for the dips

Samsung delivered a record quarter, operating profit up roughly nineteenfold, yet the shares fell more than -10%. When best-ever numbers are met with selling, the good news is already in the price.

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BlogJuly 6, 2026

The Attention Divergence

Q2 was the quarter AI infrastructure took centre stage. Chips, compute and the physical build-out behind the data centre had the spotlight, the audience and the market's full attention.

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BlogJuly 6, 2026

Dow Hits Record Highs as Jobs Data Cools the Fed and Iran's Truce Holds

The Dow hit fresh records after a soft jobs report pushed back Fed rate hike expectations. Meanwhile Iran buried its Supreme Leader as a fragile Hormuz ceasefire holds and UK professional investors are watching both closely.

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BlogJune 29, 2026

Sun, sea and shrapnel in Crimea

While markets watched the Iran de-escalation and oil falling through the Strait of Hormuz, Ukraine was executing a different kind of strategy.

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BlogJune 24, 2026

All Eyes on the Prize: The Smart Glasses War and Why Investors Are Backing the Silicon, Not the Frames

Snap's standalone AR glasses just launched into an ecosystem war Meta, Google and Samsung are already winning. The Curation Collective explains why the cleaner risk/reward sits in the semiconductor wafers beneath every frame, plus China's consumer stall and Soitec as Stock of the Week.

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