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The expenditure approach isn't the only way to arrive at GDP - the income approach gets to the same number from the other side of the transaction, adding up every factor income businesses pay out: wages, profits, interest, and rent. It rests on a simple accounting identity - what the economy produces must equal what it pays to produce it - and, unlike the spending breakdown, it surfaces who actually captures the gains from growth.

Trump is "thinking about" pausing the 18.4-cent tax, but Congress is out until after the midterms.

Vinci (US) raised $250M at a $1.5B valuation, led by Advent, Temasek and Xora, for AI physics simulation software for chip and hardware design.

What actually happens between clicking 'buy' and owning a share? A short walkthrough of the five stages every stock order travels through - order creation, your broker's best-execution duty, routing across exchanges and market makers, the matching engine, and T+1 settlement at the clearinghouse - that demystifies the hidden machinery behind a 'one-click' trade.

RougeTx (Netherlands) launched with a $58M Series A to develop a therapy for hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), an inherited bleeding disorder.

Why do stock prices swing so wildly from one day to the next? A short breakdown of the four forces behind market volatility - the emotional engine of fear and greed, the order-book mechanics that translate sentiment into price moves, the amplifying role of algorithmic and high-frequency trading, and how the VIX measures the market's mood in real time.

Reactor (US) raised about $15M from NVentures and Sapphire for infrastructure that runs interactive generative-video and world-model systems in real time.

The practical toolkit every new investor needs before placing their first trade - market orders, limit orders, and stop-loss orders explained in plain English, plus how index funds and ETFs let you own a diversified slice of the entire market in a single product.

calliora (Germany) raised $6M, from Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments and redalpine, for an AI layer that catches hospital billing-code errors before invoices reach insurers.

A beginner-friendly walkthrough of how the stock market actually works - what stocks and shares are, the role of exchanges, brokers and regulators, how to open and fund your first brokerage account, and the foundational concepts of assets, liabilities, risk and return, inflation, interest rates, and compounding. Distilled from Pomegra's full 'The Absolute Basics' chapter to take complete newcomers from zero to confident.

The US wants a new round of talks by late October, but Putin says Russia will keep fighting while it talks.