U.S. credit card balances rose from $1.21 trillion in Q2 2025 to $1.26 trillion in 2026, and the highest average state balances (LendingTree, Q1 2026) were $9,733 in New Jersey, $9,645 in Connecticut, and $9,511 in Washington, D.C.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
U.S.-listed spot XRP ETFs pulled in $170 million of investor capital over 11 consecutive trading days, bringing cumulative net inflows since their November 2025 launch to $1.68 billion.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NYC will impose a 1-year moratorium banning students from using AI in classrooms until high school, starting with the 2026–2027 school year for about 600,000 public school students in 2-K through eighth grade.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
The Verge
Strategy CEO Phong Le says Strategy sold nearly 7,000 Bitcoin (at $60,000–$65,000) and later rebought at about $80,000 as part of a “two-way strategy” to fund Stretch dividends, reduce net debt from $7B to zero, and build a $7B cash reserve.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Attackers used a legacy Lenovo ID login integration to compromise about 5,000 Dropbox accounts from August 4–21, with access to fewer than a third of affected users’ files.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
The Register
Baron Global Opportunity Fund said CrowdStrike (CRWD) contributed 2.23% to the fund’s Q2 2026 performance, with CrowdStrike’s stock up 95.6% as the market increasingly recognized it as a beneficiary of enterprise AI adoption.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Tado is launching its Smart Thermostat X (2nd gen) in Europe starting today, priced at £159.99/€179.99 (wired) and £169.99/€199.99 (wireless).
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Verge
Nu Holdings (NYSE:NU) dragged on Baron Global Opportunity Fund’s Q2 2026 performance after its shares fell 7.1% following a weaker-than-expected 1Q26 earnings release, with provisions up 37% and a 7% earnings miss.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
EUR/USD traders are watching the 1.16 level as a key barrier while the euro attempts a recovery into the US session, with the US dollar still favored versus the euro.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OPEC+ is likely to keep its oil output policy unchanged for October at a Sunday meeting as the group completes a rollback of a 1.65 million-barrel-per-day supply cut agreed in 2023 and shifts toward 2027 quota talks.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Adobe acquired India-based marketing intelligence startup Rilo via a deal that involved licensing and hiring Rilo’s six-member team, while neither side disclosed deal terms.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Baron Global Opportunity Fund exited Wix.com (NASDAQ:WIX) during Q2 2026 after Wix shares fell 51.0% in the quarter, with Wix’s core business growth decelerating even as its AI-driven Base 44 offering continued to grow.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ignyte Insurance acquired travel insurance marketplace InsureMyTrip, which will keep its branding and continue serving customers through its existing carrier network.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
PACS Group shares rose 3.3% in premarket trading as the company agreed to acquire 32 skilled nursing facilities in Florida with 4,049 licensed beds, with the deal expected to close in the fourth quarter.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said rising long-term bond yields are being driven by a strong U.S. economy and outlook, not by inflation fears, and he characterized the causality as the economy affecting financial conditions rather than financial conditions driving the economy.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The 10-year Treasury (^TNX) touched its highest level since November 2023 as oil hovered near $95 per barrel, raising inflation and potential rate-hike concerns.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Sandisk (SNDK) is down 35.1% from its $2,354.39 52-week high on June 22 and fell 11% over the past three months versus the Nasdaq Composite’s 3.6% drop, but it is up sharply over 52 weeks and has returned 21.7% less than its own long-term gains, not the Nasdaq’s.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
IBM Granite time series foundation models and Confluent Cloud integration put real-time forecasting and anomaly detection on streaming data directly in Apache Flink, with access opening on Confluent Cloud on AWS and Confluent Platform next.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Two independently maintained FreeBSD 15–based NAS OS forks—FreeCORE-15.0-U1 (first update appeared August 27) and BSDnas (status page dated August 19, 2026)—aim to carry forward TrueNAS CORE 13.3 on FreeBSD after iXsystems cancelled its FreeBSD TrueNAS Core in 2024.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
New York Fed President John Williams said the recent surge in Treasury yields reflects a strong U.S. economy and outlook—driven by “big investments in AI and data centers and technology”—rather than market dysfunction.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
CNBC
