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WORLD · Sep 26
Nepal received 143 times more via personal remittances than via FDI; among the 49 of 54 World Bank lower-middle-income economies with data for both series, 76 percent ran the same imbalance
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SPORTS · Sep 26
Across the 33 completed 2026 NFL games the ESPN endpoint returned, net yards per pass play tracked the winner more often than rushing yards did — and Week 2 showed how often the run-game box score sat on the losing side.
WORLD · Sep 24
The world's aggregate share of clean electricity rose nearly 5 percentage points. In 38.5 percent of the economies already above 50 percent, the share fell more than a point.
SPORTS · Sep 24
Anaheim landed 32 hits, outshot Los Angeles 25 to 19, and lost. Dallas gave the puck away 27 times and won. Across all 4 games, the winning goalie stopped shots at a higher rate than the losing goalie — no exceptions.
US · Sep 23
Household cash funds grew $1.7 trillion since before the first hike, accounting for more than M2's entire gain since January 2022 — and expanded another 21 percent from September 2024 through August 2026.
US · Sep 23
Blocking exports strands barrels at home and cuts the U.S. price off from the world price traders normally chase — that can lower diesel in the short run. A ban adds no crude and no refining, so the idea that it lowers the overall fuel bill is a separate, weaker claim. We read the EIA data behind both.
SPORTS · Sep 23
A full read of the 7 games the ESPN endpoint listed as Final for September 19-20 shows the winning keeper outperforming the losing one in 6. Three winning keepers stopped every shot they faced.
US · Sep 22
In July JOLTS data, manufacturing was the only one — among the eight private-sector groups examined — that added job openings without also adding hires; its openings rate rose 1.1 points year-over-year while its hiring rate stayed flat.
SPORTS · Sep 22
Colorado put 32 shots on net and scored once — 3 home teams won despite being outshot. The power play managed 5 goals on 47 chances, none at all in 5 of the 8 games.
US · Sep 21
The Federal Reserve's quarterly debt service data, across all 85 readings since 2005, show the two components moved in opposite directions for six straight quarters
SPORTS · Sep 18
The second quarter produced 35% of the 4,310 points scored in regulation. In the 80 games ESPN's scoreboard listed, the halftime leader won 95% of the blowouts but under half of the one-score games.
US · Sep 17
In the 12 months through Q2 2026, the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Cost Index shows employer benefit costs up 3.82% against 3.19% for wages. None of the six prior annual comparisons, from Q2 2019 through Q2 2025, showed that reversal.
US · Sep 16
Production workers held more real ground — up 5 percent in real terms since pre-COVID — but have run negative year-over-year since April.
SPORTS · Sep 16
In blowouts the yardage leader won 95% of the time. In close games it won less than half.
SPORTS · Sep 15
Buffalo converted one red zone trip to a touchdown. Houston converted four. Buffalo won.
WORLD · Sep 14
WHO data across 195 economies: raised blood pressure rose in 16 of 29 Western Pacific economies and fell in all 47 African ones — and the United States is in the wrong column.
US · Sep 14
Reading all five Federal Reserve delinquency and charge-off series: unsecured consumer credit absorbed the shock; the mortgage ledger barely registered it
US · Sep 12
The personal saving rate fell to 2.6% in June 2026 — reversing 90% of the post-pandemic recovery — before edging back to 3.0% in July
SPORTS · Sep 12
Houston reached base 10 times and scored once. Tampa Bay reached base 6 times and scored 3. Three teams generated more hits — and fewer results.
US · Sep 11
Gasoline up 27.4% and fuel oil up 52% over the year; medical care ran at 1.6%, below both core and the headline; core goods barely moved
WORLD · Sep 11
WHO estimates for 185 economies: the steepest percentage declines were in small former-Soviet states that began far above the world average, while the world's largest populations saw more modest drops.