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On August 31 at New York close, spot gold fell 0.18% to $4,447.12 per ounce, with cumulative August gains of approximately 9.90%. Spot silver rose 0.22% to $66.5273 per ounce, posting August gains of 15.50%. The price peak for gold was reached on August 25 at $4,696.83 per ounce during Asia-Pacific trading.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the monthly oil supply report originally scheduled for release on August 31 has been delayed to September. The agency will disclose the report once data are finalized.

According to ChainCatcher, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) sent a letter to MSCI on Monday opposing a proposal to exclude non-operating companies from global investable market indices, calling the proposal "misleading and flawed." Strategy founders Michael Saylor and CEO Phong Le stated that MSCI's plan discriminates against digital asset enterprises and questioned the index provider's impartiality. Strategy holds 845,050 bitcoin, valued at approximately $65.8 billion at current prices, making

According to Financial Times citing Hong Kong Exchange filings, Chinese online fashion platform SHEIN is set to list on Hong Kong stock exchange on September 1, 2026. The company will raise approximately HK$13.1 billion (about $1.68 billion USD) by offering 280 million shares at HK$47.60 to HK$49.50 per share. The listing values SHEIN at HK$202-210 billion (approximately $26-27 billion USD), marking a 70% decline from its $100 billion private valuation in 2022. Despite the valuation drop, SHEIN'

According to Bloomberg, Hyperliquid Labs is in advanced talks with Kraken's parent company Payward to launch CFTC-regulated perpetual contracts for U.S. traders through the Bitnomial exchange. In May, Kraken announced a similar plan to roll out regulated perpetual contracts via Kraken Pro on Bitnomial, with clearing services provided by Kraken Derivatives US. Both parties have declined to comment, and regulatory approval is still pending.

According to the Israeli water authority and local media on August 31, five of six desalination plants on the Mediterranean coast suspended operations due to extreme weather causing seawater turbidity, affecting water supply across multiple regions in Israel.

According to Wall Street Journal, a Venezuelan oil company operated by businessman Betancourt plans to deploy more than 50 drilling rigs to Venezuela over the coming years.

According to Ireland's Department of Finance, the government unveiled plans for new tax-advantaged investment accounts on Monday, but crypto assets and derivatives will be excluded from the preferential structure. The department classified digital assets as "highly complex and risky" products, leaving them outside a framework intended to make investing easier and more tax-efficient for Irish residents. The accounts will be available to residents next year, with the tax rate and tax-free threshol

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) will list financial-type natural gas condensate, Americas physical crude, Americas crude, and U.S. crude oil futures and options contracts starting October 5, the exchange announced.

According to Oxford Economics, Canada's retaliatory tariffs on U.S. trade measures will raise production costs and weaken overall economic growth, economists Tony Stillo and Michael Davenport said. While the new tariffs may protect some domestic manufacturers, they will damage most industries and reduce competitiveness across the economy.

According to MSCI data, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index rose 3.2% in August, marking its largest monthly gain since 2004.

According to on-chain data from CryptoQuant analyst Woo Minkyu, large wallets holding more than 100 BTC accumulated an additional 60,000 BTC between August 1–30. During the same period, wallets holding between 1–100 BTC decreased by approximately 33,000 BTC, while those with less than 1 BTC decreased by around 14,000 BTC. As of August 30, there was no clear indication that whales had put the 60,000 BTC up for sale.

According to Polymarket, the CLARITY Act's implied probability of passing into law in 2026 fell to 13% from 82% in February, with contract trading volume around $11.5 million. The U.S. Senate will hold a procedural vote on the bill on September 15, with Kalshi predicting 91% odds of voting before October 1.

According to HyperliquidNews monitoring, all 12 HIP-3 markets on Tradexyz currently have trading volumes exceeding $10 billion each.

According to Kalshi's compliance department, on Aug. 28 the prediction market exchange permanently banned former Rep. George Santos and fined him $71,356 for manipulating a market tied to his attendance at the State of the Union address. The compliance notice found that Santos placed large trades between Feb. 2 and 25, then made false or misleading public statements to move prices, profiting $17,839.57. As someone capable of influencing whether he would attend the event, Santos was barred from t

According to The Block, Solana's seven-day average SOL fee generation hit a record nearly 9,200 SOL on Thursday, Aug. 27, over 80% higher than three months prior. Non-vote transactions also reached 191 million on a seven-day basis. Meanwhile, the SGP-0002 Double Disinflation proposal passed on Friday with 67% support, surpassing the 66.67% threshold required. The governance vote achieved a record 60.7% turnout across 1,326 validators. The proposal doubles the annual disinflation rate from 15% to

According to legal filings, on August 21, Apple discovered new evidence on a MacBook computer provided by OpenAI during the discovery phase of a trade secrets lawsuit. Apple alleges that defendants at OpenAI used the company's proprietary information to train AI agents and obtained power converter circuit schematics while employed at Apple. Apple is requesting that the U.S. federal court accelerate the evidence disclosure process in the case against OpenAI.

On Monday (August 31), U.S. stock indices declined, with the Dow falling 0.7%, the S&P 500 down 0.33%, and the Nasdaq losing 0.12%. Tesla rose 5.5%, while the Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index dropped 2.18% and Alibaba fell 4%.

According to Financial News, South Korean retail investors retreated from the domestic stock market on August 31 as KOSPI trading remained flat, with the benchmark's average daily trading volume hitting 322 million shares and trading value reaching 25.76 trillion won—both year lows. The listed stock turnover rate fell to 0.54% in August, the lowest this year, while investor deposit balances plummeted from 140 trillion won in early June to 96.71 trillion won. Amid sideways trading, the Bank of Ko

Huya Inc. announced that it will officially change its name to YYFORCE and its Nasdaq stock ticker symbol to YFOR, effective September 2.