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Morning Market Brief – 2026-08-20

Oil painting collage of central bankers debating interest rates alongside oil tankers navigating stormy geopolitical seas.

Good morning! Today begins with a confrontation between hawkish central bank sentiment and hard, slightly cooler economic data. On the one hand, the minutes from the Federal Reserve's July meeting, released yesterday evening, revealed clear cracks within the U.S. central…