Spot gold rose 0.7% to $4,636.34 an ounce, its highest level since May 15, after gaining more than 5% last week. Goldman Sachs said gold could rise beyond its $4,900 year-end forecast. Poland’s central bank reported its gold holdings increased to 20.6 million troy ounces in July.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is advancing a long-term bond buyback plan, saying each operation will repurchase at least an additional $2 billion of long-dated Treasuries through Nov. 4. Markets read the move as a signal aimed at containing funding costs and stabilizing the bond market. After the announcement, gold extended gains, rising 2.4% on Friday and 5.9% in total. Silver and platinum also jumped, up 8.6% and 9.3%, respectively.

Jonjua Overseas has set September 4, 2026 as the record date for its 79,55,966-share bonus issue, which shareholders unanimously approved at the annual general meeting on August 21. The company also reported net profit of ₹123.70 lakh for the quarter ended June 30, down 78.4% from ₹572.48 lakh in the previous quarter. Gross sales fell to ₹435.23 lakh from ₹1,635.72 lakh over the same period.

Stanmore Resources reported 1H FY26 coal sales revenue up 13% year on year to US$978 million, with saleable production steady at 6.5 million tonnes. Underlying EBITDA rose to US$174 million, up US$27 million from the prior year, while net loss after tax narrowed to US$44 million from US$51 million. Cash flow from operations turned positive at US$176 million and the company kept its full-year production guidance unchanged, with no interim dividend declared.

Cerebras Systems has launched its next-generation CS-4 AI accelerator, saying it can support models exceeding 50 trillion parameters and cut wafer-to-wafer latency to as little as two microseconds. The company reported second-quarter revenue of $180.1 million and a market capitalization of about $49.1 billion. CBRS began trading on May 14, 2026 after pricing its IPO at $185, and the stock closed its first session at $311.07, up 68.2% from the offering price.

All three major U.S. stock indexes finished higher, with the S&P 500 up 0.4%, the Dow rising 517 points and the Nasdaq gaining 0.4%. The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield climbed to its highest level since 2007, helping lift gold to a session high above $4,690 an ounce. Concerns over the rapid growth of U.S. government debt also pushed yields higher. The Australian dollar strengthened to US71.64¢.

Metallicus said it has received FedNow service certification, covering send, receive, liquidity management and Request for Payment (RFP) capabilities. The company said this infrastructure runs alongside the Metallicus blockchain ecosystem, including XPR Network, WebAuth Wallet, digital identity, stablecoins, DeFi and institutional digital-asset infrastructure. The move connects XPR Network to the Federal Reserve’s FedNow instant payments network through Metallicus, creating a compliant pathway for integrating crypto payments with traditional financial infrastructure.

NVIDIA will pay $6 billion to license AI startup Poolside’s technology and hire most of its engineers, and will invest another $1 billion for an equity stake at a $12 billion valuation. The company also plans to raise prices for its Grace Blackwell GPUs and Vera Rubin systems by about 15% early next year, with a single Vera Rubin NVL 72 rack potentially priced at around $8 million. The move could push the total cost of a 1GW data center in the US to nearly $60 billion.