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[Overnight global news you need to know on Friday: Fed Governor Waller's "dovish" stance, traders reduce bets on Fed rate hikes; Israeli Prime Minister says he can overthrow the Iranian regime]
1. The three major U.S. stock indexes collectively closed higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 1.18%, the Nasdaq Composite Index rising 1.4%, and the S&P 500 Index rising 1.06%. Cryptocurrency concept stocks and gold mining stocks strengthened; Tesla rose by more than 5%, and SpaceX rose by more than 6%.
2. Fed Governor Waller said that it is expected that CPI and PPI will be "at reasonable levels" next month; the current interest rate setting can bring the United States back to the 2% inflation level; to give inflation a chance to fall back, you can wait for an interest rate meeting before making a decision.
3. Traders lowered their bets on the Fed to raise interest rates, from 63% to 60% previously, after Fed Governor Waller’s “dovish” stance.
4. When attending an event at the Israeli military headquarters, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that he believed in Israel's ability to "completely eliminate the threat and overthrow the Iranian regime."
5. Ukrainian President Zelensky said that the United States has confirmed that it will hold talks in Moscow and Kiev respectively, and Ukraine expects that the talks in Kiev will be held in the near future.
6. International oil prices were mixed. WTI crude oil futures closed at US$91.30 per barrel, an increase of 0.32%; Brent crude oil futures closed at US$95.52 per barrel, a decrease of 0.12%.
7. International precious metals rose. Spot gold rose by 2.07% to US$4,472.28 per ounce; spot silver rose by 2.56% to US$66.98 per ounce.
8. The major European stock indexes closed collectively higher, with the British FTSE 100 index rising by 0.70%, the French CAC40 index rising by 0.02%, and the German DAX30 index rising by 0.65%.
9. The U.S. dollar index fell on the 3rd. The U.S. dollar index, which measures the U.S. dollar against six major currencies, fell 0.69% that day and closed at 98.910 at the end of the foreign exchange market.
10. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on September 3, local time, aimed at preventing federal aid from universities that “boycott Israel.”
11. Canadian Prime Minister Carney said that the U.S.-Canada trade agreement must maintain the competitiveness of Canada’s automobile and steel industries.
12. U.S. mortgage interest rates climbed to 6.71%, the highest level since July 2025.
13. According to data from the American Association of Investment Companies, the size of U.S. money market funds hit a record high of $7.98 trillion.
14. The average diesel price in the United States hit a new record, reaching $5.820 per gallon.
15. U.S. Pentagon officials stated that Anthropic is still listed as a supply chain risk.
16. NVIDIA announced that the NVIDIA Rtx Spark Windows PC will be available in October 2026.
17. Volkswagen said that a survey as the basis for its 2030 strategic plan showed that the company will adjust its employee size within the group, involving the reduction of approximately 50,000 positions.
18. Volkswagen plans to sell some or all of its shares in about 750 companies and consider listing Europcar.
19. Quantinuum, a quantum computing company, signed a memorandum with Saudi Aramco to jointly explore practical application scenarios of quantum computing in the energy field.
20. OpenAI President Greg Brockman is expected to announce expanded access to critical infrastructure areas for his company’s tools.
21. OpenAI released the GPT-6 Astra model and added a network security protection mechanism.
22. Crusoe and Jane Street signed a cloud computing agreement worth approximately US$13 billion.
23. Court documents show that BASF sued Apple for allegedly infringing its patents related to facial recognition technology.
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