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Markets today 2026-08-31: US Treasury yields rise as dollar strengthen
US Treasury yields climb across longer maturities while the US dollar advances against major currencies. Crypto prices remain mostly flat on 31 August 2026.
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US2Y4.34%+0bpUS10Y4.75%+2bpUS30Y5.25%+3bpBTC$78,477▲0.16%ETH$2,466▲0.00%EUR/USD1.1596▼0.40%GBP/USD1.3539▼0.32%USD/JPY159.73▲0.03%EUR/GBP0.8565▼0.08%USD/CHF0.8086▲0.53%AUD/USD0.7162▼0.45%USD/CAD1.3886▲0.23%NZD/USD0.5917▼0.47%EUR/JPY185.22▼0.38%GBP/JPY216.26▼0.29%EUR/CHF0.9376▲0.13%USD/ZAR16.116▲0.72%USD/SGD1.2727▲0.11%EUR/PLN4.3280▼0.20%
US Treasury · CoinGecko · ECBThe latest
- CFTC press releasesCFTC Further Extends Compliance Date for Amendments to Form PF31 Aug · cftc.gov
- SEC press releasesSEC and FDA Announce MOU to Bolster Cooperation and Ensure Market Integrity31 Aug · sec.gov
- ECB pressIsabel Schnabel: Central banks on-chain28 Aug · ecb.europa.eu
- Federal Reserve pressFederal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Banco Popular de Puerto Rico27 Aug · federalreserve.gov
- Bank of England newsDelay to the November 2026 RTGS standards release27 Aug · bankofengland.co.uk
Markets & News
All newsFrom the regulators
SEC press releases
SEC Proposes Amendments to Exchange Act Rule 3a12-8 to Add European Union Debt Obligations
The Securities and Exchange Commission today proposed amendments to Rule 3a12-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to add the debt obligations of the European Union (EU) to the list of foreign government debt obligations designated as "exempted…
28 Aug · sec.gov
ECB press
Meeting of 22-23 July 2026
27 Aug · ecb.europa.eu
FCA news
Young investors trust AI more than TV or celebrities
Four in 5 less experienced investors have used AI for help with investing – and around two-thirds report doing so occasionally or regularly. New research focused on 18- to 40-year-olds who own or are considering investments showed that 56% trust AI tools, more than TV and radio (47%), press (46%) or social media influencers (29%).And people are getting more comfortable, with two-thirds expecting…
27 Aug · fca.org.uk
Federal Reserve press
Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on July 20 and July 29, 2026
Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on July 20 and July 29, 2026
25 Aug · federalreserve.gov
Elsewhere
- THIRTY WINS OVER +30%: A new list of AI picks for September is coming TOMORROWInvesting.cominvesting.com ↗
- Amazon’s stock slips as the FTC alleges billions of dollars in hidden ad feesMarketWatchmarketwatch.com ↗
- Can cut-price Shein shine in its long-awaited stock market debut?BBC Businessbbc.co.uk ↗
- Markets see Warsh endorsing a rate hike in September. Not everyone is convincedCNBC Financecnbc.com ↗
- Boeing, engineers union to resume contract negotiations on Sept 8, union saysInvesting.cominvesting.com ↗
- ‘I’m leaving money on the table’: I’m 64 and my husband is 70. Should I take spousal benefits or wait for my own?MarketWatchmarketwatch.com ↗
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What is leverage in trading?
Leverage explained mechanically: what borrowing to trade does to gains, losses and margin — with the arithmetic shown.
Broker fee structures explained
Spreads, commissions, swaps, inactivity fees — how each works mechanically and where costs hide. No comparisons of named brokers.
Copy trading: what's actually regulated
How copy/social trading works mechanically, which parts of the chain a licence typically covers, and why the trader you copy is usually not regulated at al
Broker Watch
Broker indexOur research desk checks the licences brokers claim against the regulators’ own registers, daily. Every figure links to the register entry it came from.
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- @NexatradexGold1 (new)
- @markets_fb41245 (new)
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- @DanielRobe4uoo (new)
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NVIDIA Q2 FY2027 Earnings: $96.2B Revenue per SEC Filing
NVIDIA's Q2 FY2027 10-Q shows $96.2B revenue, up 105.9% YoY, with net income of $59.7B and diluted EPS of $2.46.
What is dollar-cost averaging?
How investing a fixed amount on a fixed schedule works, why the same money buys more units when prices fall, and what the method does not claim to deliver.
What is diversification?
How spreading money across holdings limits what one failure can cost, why it cannot stop a whole market falling, and where funds fit in.
What is an emergency fund?
How a cash buffer absorbs income shocks, why it is conventionally sized in months of essential expenses, and what keeping it accessible costs in return.
Tools
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Key Terms
All terms- SlippageThe difference between the price expected when an order is placed and the price at which it actually executes.
- Stop-loss orderAn instruction that becomes a market order once the price touches a chosen trigger, intended to cap a loss at roughly that level.
- VolatilityA measure of how widely an asset's price swings over time, describing the size of movements rather than their direction.
- Yield curveThe line traced by a government's borrowing rates across maturities from shortest to longest, whose shape is closely watched and whose meaning is contested.
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