The average HELOC rate is 7.16% and the average fixed-rate home equity loan rate is 7.35%, a 19-basis-point spread, per Curinos’ national data (for applicants with 780+ minimum credit score and under 70% CLTV).
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Olight’s ArkPro Ultra flashlight combines floodlight, spotlight, UV light and a laser pointer in one compact device, reaching up to 1,700 lumens and rating IPX7 waterproof, with Olight claiming 1.73x-harder “O-aluminum” and charging that takes about 1.5 hours.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
CNET
Williams-Sonoma will distribute part of its roughly $200 million tariff-refund proceeds—using $47.5 million to reimburse vendor partners and $10 million for a one-time contribution to some employees’ 401(k) accounts.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Global lithium demand rose 45% year over year through May, largely driven by strong battery storage demand that outpaced supply and is boosting lithium miners’ profits.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani says investors should buy Bitcoin as a hedge against U.S. currency debasement and projects Bitcoin could reach $1 million per token by 2033.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Türkiye’s capital markets regulator set hedge-fund holding limits of 2% to 8% of an issuer’s publicly tradable shares based on its free-float ratio, and also capped related/management-affiliated issuers at 20% of a fund’s assets.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Huawei’s first-half net profit fell 36% to 23.81 billion yuan ($3.54 billion) as rising input costs and higher R&D spending outweighed revenue growth, with revenue up 9.6% to 467.82 billion yuan.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Tim Cook’s first product launch as Apple CEO in 2011 featured him taking the stage for the iPhone 4S launch and reflecting on his 14-year journey with Apple.
Aug 31, 2026 ·CNET
Withings ScanWatch 2 is $299 at Amazon (originally $370), about $71 off, and CNET calls it its favorite sleep-tracking watch that doesn’t require a subscription.
Aug 31, 2026 ·CNET
Asian refiners including China, Japan, and South Korea have started buying additional crude cargoes from Argentina—including Medanito—after Iran war-related disruptions made Middle East supply and routes via the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea less reliable.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Markets are assigning a 57% probability of a September U.S. rate increase, up from 35% after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s remarks at Jackson Hole.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
An Oxford County Court judge awarded Lyle Hopkins £1,087.88 (including expenses and interest) after finding SSE pursued debt tied to a disconnected electricity meter at a non-existent Unit 8B address, despite Hopkins being told he was not liable, with further pursuit described as potentially amounting to harassment.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
The Register
VMware’s endgame is set between November 22, 2026 and October 11, 2027, with key customer-deadline dates tied to expiring subscriptions, VMware Cloud Service Provider contract changes, and the Oct 11, 2027 end of support for VMware Cloud Foundation version 8.
Aug 31, 2026 ·The Register
Goldman Sachs now expects U.S. diesel refining margins to average $63 a barrel in 2027, up from its earlier $27 forecast, as refinery outages and diesel scarcity push margins higher.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Oil prices jumped about 3% after U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz, with Brent up 2.9% to $90.62 per barrel and U.S. benchmark crude up 2.7% to $85.62.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A junior network engineer identified as the “Cisco expert” was sent to swap in a new switch for a customer running Nortel equipment, and after connecting it more than 4,000 AS/400 sessions dropped until the customer’s IT team killed them manually one by one.
Aug 31, 2026 ·The Register
Financial Stability Board Chair Andrew Bailey said AI-driven cyber risk is the most immediate concern for global financial stability because AI could change the speed, scale and economics of attacks.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
European central bankers left the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium concerned that recent U.S. Treasury actions—without customary coordination—signal potential breaks with global cooperation norms and more turmoil ahead in U.S.-Europe central bank relations.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Xi Jinping will travel from Kyrgyzstan to Egypt and then to India for the BRICS summit, following his appearance at the SCO summit in Bishkek on Sept. 1–2 and ahead of an expected late-September trip to the U.S.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
CNBC
Vanguard’s first publicly available S&P 500 index mutual fund launched 50 years ago, and index funds now hold almost 54% of all US fund assets, with $21.9 trillion in index funds versus $18.8 trillion in actively managed funds, according to the ICI.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
