President Trump said if the situation with Iran deteriorates in any way, the U.S. will strike it hard.

Prime Minister Carney's push to build AI infrastructure is encountering local resistance that has delayed projects and complicated federal investment plans. Oakville, Ontario and Rocky View County, Alberta have imposed one-year pauses on data-center projects, and Manitoba premier Wab Kinew vetoed a Winnipeg-area proposal. Residents cite high power consumption, noise and upward pressure on electricity rates. Ottawa on Thursday published a framework requiring projects to deliver long-term local benefits, limit environmental impacts and avoid passing power costs to households; Amazon, Meta and Anthropic have signed the principles. Canada currently has five large operational data centers and 159 announced or under-construction projects; the government continues to market cool climate, abundant energy and available land as competitive advantages while trying to address community energy, environmental and benefit-sharing concerns.

CFTC weekly data for the week to Sept. 1 showed COMEX gold speculators trimmed net longs by 10,504 contracts to 140,811; silver net longs fell by 1,065 contracts to 12,170; copper net longs dropped by 3,445 contracts to 73,000.