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S&P 500 Index Today, August 24, 2026: The Committee That Keeps SpaceX Out

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- Most of the money in American retirement accounts is invested according to a list that a committee decides. Not an algorithm, not a market-capitalisation cutoff applied automatica... Read More


S&P 500 Futures Today, August 24, 2026: The Premium Is Pricing 4.7% Money

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- On Monday afternoon the September S&P 500 futures contract traded at 7,672.00 while the index it settles against stood at 7,653.82. The 18-point difference looks like a rounding e... Read More


Nasdaq Futures Today, August 24, 2026: Most of the Move Happens Before the Bell

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- An investor who sets an alarm for the opening bell in New York has, on a typical day, already missed about half of what the Nasdaq is going to do. The other half happened while th... Read More


Nasdaq Composite Today, August 24, 2026: 3,000 Companies, 100 That Matter

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- Tell someone to watch the Nasdaq and they will pull up the Composite, because that is the number the evening bulletins read out. They will believe they are watching close to 3,000... Read More


Nasdaq 100 Today, August 24, 2026: The Index Is Down 5%, Its Median Member 18%

NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- Someone who owns the Nasdaq 100 through a fund is 5.5 per cent below the high water mark. Someone who picked one of the hundred companies inside it is, on the median outcome, 17.6... Read More


PLTR Stock Today, August 24, 2026: Palantir Has Written Off 98.6% of Its Tax Assets

DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Palantir Technologies paid $15.4 million of income tax in the three months to June 30. It earned $1.08 billion before tax over the same period. The rate works out at 1.4 per cent, a... Read More


MSFT Stock Today, August 24, 2026: Microsoft's Answer to the Capex Question Is $678 Billion

REDMOND, Aug. 25 -- The question every hyperscaler has been asked this year is what the capital spending returns. Microsoft has an unusually specific answer: $678 billion of contracted revenue it has ... Read More


Germany's Foreign Minister Says Europe Does Not Have the Money for Ukraine's Weapons

BERLIN, Aug. 25 -- Johann Wadephul spent Saturday to Monday in Ukraine, went to Kharkiv, and came away saying the quiet part. Asked by Tagesschau what European governments could still do for Ukraine's... Read More


CENTCOM Says 71 Ships Redirected Under Iran Blockade, but Only Three Disabled

MANAMA, Aug. 25 -- The number that CENTCOM publishes every few days is going up by about one a day. On Monday it stood at 71 commercial vessels redirected since the United States reimposed its naval b... Read More


Trump Is Phoning World Leaders One by One to Cut Them Off From Iran

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The instrument of American policy toward Iran this week is not a carrier group. It is a telephone. Scott Bessent told reporters on Monday that President Donald Trump is working ... Read More