The 30-year Treasury yield jumped about 10 basis points (0.1 percentage point) from its Friday low during Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, putting it near 5.27% and pressing back toward the late-July level that rattled markets.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Investors traded nearly 2,700 out-of-the-money Edwards Lifesciences (EW) put contracts at the $77.50 strike for puts expiring Nov. 20—about 14.6% below the stock’s ~$90.78 price—implying bullish sentiment over the next three months.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nintendo says its Switch eShop, Nintendo Switch Online and other Switch services will continue “for the foreseeable future,” with Nintendo stopping supply of original Switch hardware to European retailers in mid-February 2027 rather than announcing a single end-of-life date for existing consoles.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Engadget
Windows 11 September preview update (KB5120998), released August 27, is reverting or wiping mouse cursor personalization settings, causing cursors to appear too large/too small or not show up at all after installation.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Soybeans were up 2–3 cents at midday, with the cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price up 20 1/2 cents to $12.53 3/4.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Corn futures posted fractional-to-2-cent gains by Aug. 31, lifting the CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price by 1.5 cents to $4.92 1/2.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Cotton futures were up 170–190 points across most contracts, with Oct 26 at 91.66 (up 174 points), Dec 26 at 93.19 (up 181 points), and Mar 27 at 95.2 (up 186 points).
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A market screen from Investor’s Business Daily targets stocks hitting new highs in relative performance, with three stocks trading near buy points as oil-linked shipping strength builds.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP) is structured as a C-corporation, so it pays corporate tax at the fund level before distributions reach investors—creating a “tax drag” that can erode returns even as underlying MLPs appreciate.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Carter's closed 29 stores in the first two quarters of fiscal 2026 in the United States, while comparable U.S. sales rose 5.1% in the second quarter of 2026.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bolt is raising a bridge round of up to $27 million via a convertible note with a pay-to-play provision, with Ryan Breslow personally committing $5 million.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
LG’s 65-inch Gallery LX7B Series QNED TV is $900 at Amazon, a new all-time low and 50% off versus LG’s $1,800 price.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
CNET
Raindrops charged by slide electrification can punch through insulating protective coatings via electrical breakdown: after about 3,000 charged impacts, a 60-nanometer Teflon film failed in nanometer-deep pits that reached the underlying copper, while drops that did not slide (and thus arrived uncharged) left the surface pristine.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Smart ignition delivered the highest overall satisfaction in JD Power’s survey, at just 2.4 problems per 100 vehicles after 90 days of ownership of new 2026 model-year vehicles.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
The Verge
Goldman Sachs expects Big Tech AI supply and demand to not balance until the first half of 2028, implying “more capex” and ongoing supply-chain constraints through then.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Perplexity’s agentic “Personal Computer” feature, now available for Windows 11 and Windows 10, completed five multi-step tasks including summarizing PDFs from a local Downloads folder, summarizing OneDrive Word documents into a new Word file, drafting replies for six unanswered emails over the past six months, setting up a recurring daily (9 a.m. ET) Doctor Who news check, and converting legacy .doc/.xls files with minor permission/workaround hurdles.
Aug 31, 2026 ·ZDNet
Phil Schiller is stepping down as Apple’s head of the App Store and Apple events while keeping his Apple Fellow title and continuing to work on unspecified initiatives.
Aug 31, 2026 ·The Verge
Gold futures for December delivery were hovering near $4,481 per troy ounce on Monday and were still set for their best month since February despite investor concerns about potential Fed rate hikes.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Many Labor Day tech and home deals are discounted at least 19% (with items like Sony XM-style headphones at 50% off and an Apple AirTag 2nd Gen value pack at the lowest-ever $80 price), with additional picks across Best Buy, Walmart, Costco, Amazon, and more.
Aug 31, 2026 ·ZDNet
Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach has an 8.5% stake in GoPro, making him the company’s single largest shareholder.
Aug 31, 2026 ·The Verge
