U.S. needs to keep coal plants open to meet growing electricity demand, energy secretary says

Investors are exiting August with greater confidence the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates next month.

The news comes about a month after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was mistakenly added to a separate Signal chat with national security leaders.

U.S. equity futures were little changed in early Asian hours, as Wall Street awaited a key consumer inflation gauge for August due out Thursday stateside.