Brief: Before the Ink

Super Brief: Fox Bought the Remote — Super Brief

Fox Bought the Remote. Fox is buying Roku for about $22 billion, $160 a share, ending up with 73% of the combined company. The headline reads like a media giant buying a streaming app. The real move is that Fox paid for the remote control, not the catalog. Roku owns the viewing surface: 100 million active accounts and an

Brief: Fox Bought the Remote

Fox's $22 billion acquisition of Roku reprices the streaming stack as the Bank of Japan lifts rates to 1.0% this morning, its highest since 1995, with Governor Ueda absent for the first time in BOJ history. Warsh's first FOMC convenes today with a hold locked in, while the Iran nuclear deal awaits i

Brief: Before the Ink

The Bank of Japan opens its two-day meeting today with a rate hike to 1.0% all but certain, setting up the densest central-bank week of 2026. The Iran deal that Trump and Pakistan's prime minister declared "complete" on Sunday remains unsigned, with Israeli strikes in Lebanon threatening the agreeme

Super Brief: Before the Ink — Super Brief

Before the Ink. A weekend dispatch from Egypt's $58 billion Chinese-built New Administrative Capital, engineered for millions and standing nearly empty, reads like a failure. It isn't. China runs a construction machine scaled for a property boom that already ended, financed by state firms paid to build, not to fill

Brief: Demand Eats Share

A Commerce Department directive shuts down Anthropic's most powerful models overnight. The Iran deal reaches the signing table, the densest central-bank week of 2026 begins, and the real lesson hides in an energy milestone everyone is reading backwards.