Gold is up 15% and silver is up 19% in August, adding nearly $5 trillion in combined market value this month, despite both remaining below earlier-in-the-year record highs.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
The article explains that Roth conversions can be costly because converting a $900,000 401(k) to a Roth IRA by converting $90,000 per year would trigger up-front ordinary income taxes, trading immediate tax payments for later elimination of retirement taxes and RMDs.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Downsizing can wipe out much of the expected savings because selling and buying costs can add up to 10%–15% of a home’s final selling price, plus as much as $10,000 for long-distance moves, and capital gains taxes may apply if gains exceed the IRS’s $500,000 married-couple exemption.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The U.S. dollar hovered near multi-month lows as traders reacted to the U.S. Treasury’s plan to double long-end bond buybacks to $4 billion per operation after 30-year yields hit almost two-decade highs.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
I can’t summarize this article yet because the text you provided doesn’t include the actual “8GB laptops/RAM crisis” explanation—only site boilerplate and author bio content.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
CNET
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is set to outline threatened sanctions on Iran at a press conference Monday, with oil futures down more than 1% ahead of the announcement and investors also watching risks around the Strait of Hormuz.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Software Should Work 2026 is a “bingeable” streamed software-reliability conference with 13 videos you can watch in a day, aiming to cover reliability beyond code that merely “runs.”
Aug 24, 2026 ·
The Register
Bitcoin’s weekly RSI divergence plus an almost identical weekly rebound and a reclaimed $74,000 0.236 Fibonacci level support a potential rally toward a ~$100,300 target (0.618 Fib) in 2026.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Exxon is among the bidders for Shell’s U.S. chemicals business, which could fetch about $8 billion, with non-binding offers submitted by several groups including LyondellBasell, Apollo Global Management, and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
China’s Manned Space Agency cancelled the planned Monday launch of Chang'e 7 after the mission headquarters said it failed to meet unspecified “launch requirements” and could not be carried out within this year’s scheduled launch window for the South Pole region.
Aug 24, 2026 ·The Register
Equinor signed a 15-year natural gas deal with Uniper to supply Germany with about 2.8 billion cubic meters per year (over 30 terawatt-hours annually) through December 31, 2041, with deliveries starting January 1, 2027.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A batch file that ran `DEL *.*` from `C:\WINNT\System32` deleted most of the System32 files, leaving the Windows NT 4 Exchange server so broken that it required a full rebuild and restore over the weekend.
Aug 24, 2026 ·The Register
Iran’s rial fell to 2.02 million per U.S. dollar on informal markets, a record low as the U.S. prepared new sanctions and blockade pressure.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Alibaba priced an 80 billion Hong Kong dollar ($10.20 billion) share placement—issuing 710 million new shares at HK$112.70 each—sparking shares to fall as much as 10% in Hong Kong Monday as the company plans to invest all net proceeds in its full-stack AI capabilities.
Aug 24, 2026 ·
CNBC
JPMorgan lowered its Walmart (WMT) stock price target to $125 from $137 while keeping an “Overweight” rating after Walmart’s quarterly results.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Gold is up about 14% since July 31 to roughly $4,380 per troy ounce as of the Aug. 21 close, while silver is up nearly 20% to $69.50 an ounce, after both suffered steep declines from their 2025 peaks.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Gilead’s fiscal Q2 2026 quarterly loss was driven by more than $11 billion in acquired research and development expenses rather than weaker product demand.
Aug 24, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
ZTE says its AI-driven intelligent energy management system can drive a full-stack dual-liquid-cooled battery energy storage system with overall efficiency of over 90%, in some scenarios fully replacing diesel generators as telecom and datacenter energy demand rises.
Aug 24, 2026 ·The Register
AstraZeneca’s H1 2026 core operating profit rose 11% and total revenue rose 6%, while Q2 core EPS was $2.63 versus $2.48 expected, supported by double-digit oncology and rare disease growth.
Aug 23, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Xinuos’s claim against IBM and Red Hat is not valid and that the time to re-litigate has expired, meaning the case is effectively dead while Xinuos seeks a rare full-bench rehearing.
Aug 23, 2026 ·The Register
