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👋Good morning. Saturday mornings have a particular rhythm — slower coffee, longer scroll, the week finally exhaling. But scroll through yesterday's business news and it doesn't feel like anyone's relaxing. Economic data landed stronger than almost anyone predicted, which should have been simple good news, except nothing in this economy stays simple for long. Politicians are leaning on institutions that are supposed to be above politics. Machines are quietly doing things nobody programmed them to do. And somewhere in the middle of it all, the people actually running businesses are left squinting at the headlines trying to work out what's signal and what's noise. That's the mood today: genuinely encouraging numbers, wrapped in genuine unease. Settle in — here's what actually happened while you were living your life.
