1. Wall Street opened sharply lower on Monday with the Dow Jones industrial average losing more than a 1,000 points following a more-than 8 percent drop in Chinese shares and a selloff in oil and other commodities. The Dow has never lost more than 800 points in a day.
2. U.S stocks plunged Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeting more than 1,000 points following a global stock sell-off across European and Asian markets as fears escalated about China’s slowing economy. All three major indexes are on course for one of their worst opens since the financial crisis of 2008.
3. Gold prices rose to a fresh seven-week high on Monday, as heavy losses in global equity markets and the U.S. dollar boosted demand for the yellow metal.
4. As China's stock-market plunge spread to the United States, presidential candidates on Monday laid on blame and pushed their policy ideas from the sidelines, with Republican Donald Trump saying he had warned about U.S. exposure to China.
"I've been talking about China for years. Because China's going bad it's going to bring us down, too, because we're so heavily coupled with China," said real-estate mogul Trump on Fox News. "I'm the one that says you better start un-coupling from China because China's got problems."
5. Apple Inc's (O:AAPL) China business experienced "strong growth" in July and August, Chief Executive Tim Cook told CNBC on Monday. Cook said, in an emailed response to questions about the company's business in China, iPhone activations in China had accelerated over the past few weeks and the App Store in China had the best performance of year for over the past two weeks.
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