1 This Seattle-based online retail and cloud computing giant closed above a $3 trillion market value for the first time in mid-August, joining the tiny club of companies at that scale. Name the company.
Answer: AMAZON (6 letters)
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Guess Macro — Sunday, August 23, 2026
The five questions from Sunday, August 23, 2026, with their answers. This puzzle is no longer playable; today's game is on the home page, and the last seven days can still be played in the practice archive.
2 Oil fell more than 2% this week, with the North Sea-linked global benchmark futures contract settling near $87 a barrel while US West Texas Intermediate ended around $81. Name that international benchmark grade.
Answer: BRENT (5 letters)
3 The Hollywood superagent and Endeavor co-founder whose new vehicle, Mari, agreed on Aug 15 to buy Broadway and West End theatre operator ATG Entertainment for about $6 billion from Providence Equity. Give his surname.
Answer: EMANUEL (7 letters)
4 In accounting, this basis of measurement records revenue when it is earned and expenses when they are incurred, regardless of when cash actually changes hands, and it underpins both IFRS and US GAAP reporting. What is it called?
Answer: ACCRUAL (7 letters)
Recognising revenue when earned and expenses when incurred, regardless of when cash moves.
5 Each late August the Kansas City Fed gathers central bankers, academics and finance officials at Jackson Hole for a three-day policy meeting whose formal title is not a conference or a summit but this scholarly-sounding word. What is it?
Answer: SYMPOSIUM (9 letters)