Bessent's yen bet, cold Argentine data centers set, and the summer box office net

This week’s indicators: Is The U.S. Treasury Department futzing with financial markets?; Is Patagonia’s pretty picturesque setting … for data centers?; Was the summer box office actually swell?

Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.

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