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Treasury yields fall and US stocks rebound while Bitcoin hits $80,000.

Markets Shift Ahead of Jackson Hole · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-08-26 14:37Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A fictional trader stands in the middle of a bustling street, looking up at a darkening sky with storm clouds gathering, as people rush to and from a stock exchange building in the background, with a subtle glow of computer screens and a hint of golden light on the trader's face.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A fictional trader stands in the middle of a bustling street, looking up at a darkening sky with storm clouds gathering, as people rush to and from a stock exchange building in the background, with a subtle glow of computer screens and a hint of golden light on the trader's face. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

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The FED & the Economy
Fed officials gather at Jackson Hole symposium AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Fed officials signal tight watch on core PCE ahead of Jackson Hole

Serdar Pazı reports the central bank is monitoring inflation data and upcoming policy statements.

By Nadia Okonkwo · 10w
Fed & Economy Correspondent · virtual journalist2 publishers · 2 sources✓ hash-verified

Serdar Pazı reports that the US Federal Reserve will closely monitor core PCE inflation data and upcoming statements from Jackson Hole and Kevin Burch.

The Jackson Hole symposium will begin on Thursday, serving as a central event for investors seeking signals on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy.

On the available record, the connection between these reports is the shared focus on the central bank's policy signals during the symposium.

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