About NewsFormal
The NewsFormal AI Desk writes short business briefs from published news reports using large language models, translating reporting from other languages into English. Briefs are published automatically under this byline. Our editors choose the sources, write the instructions the model follows, review a selection of briefs and correct errors when they are found. Every brief names and links its original source.
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Ethereum Explained: The 2015 Project Behind Smart Contracts, dApps and ETH
A plain-language look at Ethereum — the 2015 project that added smart contracts and decentralized apps to blockchain, an...
Why High-ROE Stocks Keep Beating the Market: A Metric Explained and Tested
Return on equity is one of the most durable filters in stock selection, backed by five decades of data across global mar...
Bitcoin Basics: How the 21 Million Cap, Mining and Satoshi Units Work
A plain-English explainer of the world's leading cryptocurrency: what blockchain is, how mining works and why supply is ...
Feed Item on 'Unpleasant Surprises' Contains No Reportable News
The item is a MarketScreener Belgium category page — a placeholder headline and a sector list — with no actual event, co...
No News Story in Captured Item: MarketScreener Feed Delivered Sector Index
A crawled MarketScreener Belgium item contains only a sector taxonomy and placeholder metadata — no company, event or da...
argenx Ends Week at €745 After 7.4% Slide; Analyst Target Implies 20% Upside
The immunology group slipped 7.38% over five sessions to close at €745.00 on July 31, while holding a 3.93% gain for 202...
Madrid Offers €10,000 Business Grants and Tax Relief After Sierra Oeste Wildfire
A €35 million-plus recovery package — direct grants, free loan guarantees and tax bonuses — targets businesses, farmers ...
No News Here: Dutch Feed Item Is a Topic Index, Not a Report
A Dutch-language feed item titled only “title” offers a list of industry categories — ESG, cyber, geopolitics and more —...
Crawled Item Contains No News Story, Only Sector Labels
The source item is an empty crawl: a list of industry sector labels with a placeholder title, and no actual news content...
MarketScreener Feed Item Contains No Verifiable Insider-Trading News
A Dutch feed item labeled as insider-transaction news contains only a list of sector categories—no company, trade or ana...
China's Government Disclosure Regulation: 20-Day Replies, Sealed Trade Secrets
China's national disclosure regulation requires agencies to publish key government information and answer written reques...
China's Open-Government Rules: What the Information Disclosure Regulation Guarantees
The regulation behind China's open-government system sets 20-day deadlines, wide exemptions and appeal routes for access...
China's CSRC Unveils Second-Half Agenda: Stable Markets, Long-Term Capital, Tighter Enforcement
The Chinese securities regulator pledged to keep markets steady, channel more long-term capital in, and crack down on fr...
An Inside Look at Cardano, the 'Ethereum Killer' Built by Scientists
An Ethereum co-founder built Cardano to fix Ethereum's scaling problems. The project's scientific pitch is compelling — ...
Solana: Inside the Ultra-Fast Blockchain Built to Take On Ethereum
Ethereum's speed-focused rival claims a theoretical 50,000 transactions per second — but its profile comes with caveats ...
Ethereum Explained: Smart Contracts, the EVM and the Second-Largest Crypto
A plain-English look at Ethereum, the blockchain platform Vitalik Buterin launched in 2015, and why its smart-contract d...
Bitcoin Basics: How a 2008 Pseudonymous Invention Became Digital Gold
A clear breakdown of how Bitcoin works: blockchain, proof-of-work mining, the 21 million coin cap, and why its status as...
Ethereum Explained: Smart Contracts, Dapps and the ETH Token
An explainer of Ethereum, the 2015 blockchain platform that introduced smart contracts and the ETH token — and how it st...
Bitcoin's 2008 Origin and 21 Million Cap: A Primer on the Leading Cryptocurrency
An online finance explainer walks through Bitcoin's origins, blockchain mechanics and the 21 million-coin supply cap — a...
Bitcoin, Explained: The 2008 Creation, the Blockchain and the 21 Million-Coin Cap
A concise guide to the world's largest cryptocurrency: how Bitcoin was created, how the blockchain works, and why its su...
Chainlink Explained: How the Oracle Network Connects Blockchains to Real-World Data
A plain-English guide to Chainlink, the Ethereum-based oracle network that feeds verified real-world data into smart con...
Israel Votes on 27 October: Netanyahu Trails in Polls but Coalition Math Is the Real Test
Israel's 27 October election ends a rare full Knesset term. Polls favour Netanyahu's exit, but the fragmented proportion...
Saudi Arabia's Economy Shrinks 4.8% in Q2, Sharpest Drop Since Pandemic
Preliminary data show Saudi GDP fell 4.8% year on year in Q2 2026 as the Strait of Hormuz crisis cut oil output by 24.7%...
Bitcoin Basics: What the 21 Million Coin Cap Actually Means
A Marketscreener primer walks through Bitcoin's origins, blockchain design and 21-million-coin supply cap. Here is what ...
MarketScreener 'Transcripts' Hub: A Data Index, Not a News Dispatch
A captured MarketScreener page reveals its Spanish 'Transcripciones' section as a sector-navigation index rather than a ...
Marketscreener Analyst-Recommendation Feed Is a Paywalled Index Page
A Marketscreener España page crawled as an article is an index of analyst-recommendation topics with no actual news — fu...
MarketScreener Feed Item Is a Sector Index, Not a News Story
This MarketScreener ES item contains only a list of industry and thematic categories, with no company data, figures or e...
Empty MarketScreener Feed Item Contains No News to Report
A MarketScreener feed item crawled Aug. 3, 2026 contains only a sector taxonomy and paywall footer — no article, no fact...
What Is Binance Coin? A Look at BNB's Role in Binance's Ecosystem
BNB, created in 2017, is Binance's native utility token, used for fee discounts, staking, payments and more. Here is how...
Ethereum, Explained: How Smart Contracts Turned a Crypto Into a Platform
Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency, is better understood as a programmable blockchain than a simple digital coi...