Yet neither the Jackson Hole symposium nor the payrolls data have brought real clarity, with a hike still very much a coin-toss heading into Friday’s CPI print. The Fed’s announcement will be just one of a slew of critical central bank decisions this month, all landing against the backdrop of an increasingly nervous bond market, where sovereign yields keep hitting multi-decade highs and investors’ patience for policymakers who miss their inflation targets year after year is wearing thin.

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This week, the United States and Venezuela signed an oil agreement in Caracas that could mark the beginning of a new chapter for the country’s oil industry.

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On August 26, 2026, the Department of State announced that all immigrant visa interviews at U.S. consular posts and embassies abroad are cancelled due to a temporary pause imposed by the Department of State.  The purpose of the pause, as reported by the press, is to provide officer training on public charge assessments.  The new public charge rules will be introduced to all applications for U.S. permanent resident applicants applying for adjustment of status in the United States or overseas through consular processing as of September 18, 2026.

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Ireland is positioning itself among the world’s leading jurisdictions with an increase to 35% in the R&D tax credit. The change comes from the Finance Bill 2025, which implements the measure announced in Budget 2026. This represents a structural liquidity improvement designed for companies in the early stages of development, as well as an administrative simplification that reduces the cost of managing claims.

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The House of Representatives is back from August recess today as the homestretch before Election Day begins. The Senate won’t return until September 14th.

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The EU’s new Digital Omnibus on AI is reshaping the regulatory framework for robotics and Physical AI. Rather than creating parallel compliance regimes, the EU is moving towards a more sector-specific approach under which AI requirements for industrial robotics will increasingly be integrated into existing product legislation, particularly the Machinery Regulation.

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The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) confirmed on July 21 the foreign direct investment position in the United States. The value reached $5.86 trillion at the end of 2025, marking an all-time high. Growth was clearly led by Europe.

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On August 24, 2026, USCIS announced that it would introduce an additional filing fee of $103,265.00 to be added to H-1B cap-subject filings for consular notification or change of status applications which would become effective once USCIS regulations clear the formal rulemaking process. H-1B cap subject filings would affect all U.S. employers, apart from post-secondary institutions, including universities, hospitals and institutions of research. All other privately held businesses would be subject to the H-1B additional filing fee and the rule would not go into effect until after the rule is published in the Federal Register on August 25, 2026, public comments are reviewed and the agency finalizes its proposal into a final rule. Interestingly, this increased fee proposal was not included by USCIS’s regulatory agenda, which was released to the public in July 2026.

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On August 11, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued a final rule, effective August 14, 2026, that ends the requirement that U.S. companies and U.S. persons report beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”).

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