August 18, 2026

Wall Street slipped as the 30-year yield hit a 19-year high, Hormuz diplomacy unraveled and Bitcoin treated the chaos as a feature. Monday did not deliver a crash. It delivered something more interesting: a disagreement. The S&P 500 fell 0.52%, the Dow lost 0.51%, the Nasdaq slipped 0.32% and the Russell 2000 declined 0.35%. The […]