Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:         

• Trump Heaps More Tariffs on China, Still No Deal in Sight.

• Pressure Grows on Asia’s Factories as Tariff Escalation Bites.

• Hong Kong Property, Casino Stocks Slump After Violent Protests.

• India’s Shock GDP Slump Prompts Growth, Rate-Cut Revisions.

• Stocks Slip as Latest Tariffs Kick In; Yuan Lower: Markets Wrap.

• U.S.-China Trade Risk Keeps Emerging-Market Investors on Edge.

• U.S. Stock Index Futures Drop After Trump China Tariffs Kick In.  

• Five Things You Need to Know to Start Your Day.

• Recession-Risk Signals, Tariffs Kick In, Capital Clamps: Eco Day.

• Oil Extends Losses as Deepening Trade War Stokes Growth Concerns.  

• What to Dread and Love in Stocks as ‘Bad News’ September Arrives.

Wall Street Journal:

• U.S. Goes Ahead With New Tariffs on Chinese Products.

• A Famine of Fact at U.N. Climate Panel.

• Venture-Capital Stalwart Fights Crypto Crackdown.

• Truck Makers Apply the Brakes.

• Hong Kong Students Go Back to School, but Protests Won’t Cool. 
  

• German Anti-Immigration Party Appears Headed for Gains in Elections.

MarketWatch.com:

•   Home-improvement stocks mixed as hurricane expected to both help and hurt.

•   Brexit foes may seek another extension as U.K. Parliament gears up for fight.

Fox News: 

• Monster Cat. 5 hurricane slams Bahamas, triggering dangerous flooding, severely damaging homes.

CNBC:

• China’s factory activity unexpectedly expands in August, a private survey shows.

• A ‘fear bubble’ is creating a huge buying opportunity, long-time market bull Jim Paulsen says.

• ‘Catastrophic’ Hurricane Dorian becomes strongest on record for northwestern Bahamas.

• President Trump ordered US firms to ditch China, but many already have and more are on the way.

Zero Hedge:

• Gold Spikes, Yuan & Futures Plunge As Asia Opens After Trade War Tit-For-Tat.

• Watch As Cat-5 Dorian Devastates Bahamas In Historic Landfall.

• US Slaps New Tariffs On China; One Minute Later China Retaliates.

• Is China Backing Away From Xi's "Made In China, 2025" Plan?

• "Demand For EV Cars Now A Problem:" Global Lithium Bust Underway As Prices Collapse.

• Why The 100-Year Bond Is Unethical.

• Argentina Imposes Currency Controls.

• "Burn With Us" - Protesters Clash With Riot Police At Hong Kong Airport Amid Surge Of Violence.

• "Scariest Thing You'll Read All Day": Report Sounds Alarm Over Brain-Reading Technology & Neurocapitalism.

• Walmart's Creepy Robots Are Here.

• Dershowitz: The Dangerous Stalinism Of The "Woke" Hard-Left.