September 2, 2026 · AM edition

NFL Week 1, MLB crunch time, and markets doing market things on a Wednesday

Greg Abel says the yields are fine, the computer says Cincinnati wins, and Dell is apparently a lifestyle brand now. Wednesday.

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Full recap

Good morning. It is September 2nd, 2026, and the machinery is humming. Markets are doing their usual premarket shuffle, with Vertiv, Sirius, Dell, and MongoDB all jostling for attention before the opening bell. Dell also showed up in after-hours last night, because apparently one dramatic appearance per day is not enough for enterprise hardware in an AI hype cycle. Greg Abel, the man who inherited the impossible job of being Warren Buffett's successor at Berkshire Hathaway, surfaced on Squawk Box to reassure everyone that Japanese bond yields are not a problem for their trading house positions. Totally normal thing to have to say out loud. Nothing to see here. The fact that it needed saying is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Over in Nepal, the Himalayas are flooding, and the adventure tourism industry is staring down a serious warning ahead of peak season. There is a cruel irony in the fact that the people who pay to risk their lives climbing Everest are now being kept away by a disaster that did not require their consent. The mountain, as always, is indifferent. On the sports front, college football is officially back. Week 1 of the 2026 season is here, and the computers are backing Auburn and Cincinnati while LSU and Clemson prepare to remind everyone that the SEC and ACC are still the only conferences that matter in September. The spreadsheet says Cincinnati. The vibes say chaos. Both are probably right. The NFL is also kicking off Week 1, and SportsLine's Eric Cohen has exact score predictions for every game. Every game. That kind of confidence is either genius or a very elaborate content strategy. Probably both. Meanwhile, the Rookie of the Year race is already heating up, with Jeremiyah Love and Rueben Bain Jr. as frontrunners. A Browns receiver is lurking. A Cowboys pass rusher is lurking harder. MLB is entering its final month of the regular season, and the playoff picture is starting to solidify. Wild Card Series opens September 29th, with a possible World Series Game 7 landing on Halloween. A potential championship decided on October 31st is either poetry or a curse. Given baseball's recent history, probably both. The connection nobody asked for but everyone deserves: Dell keeps showing up in both premarket and after-hours movers the same way a journeyman receiver keeps appearing on the Rookie of the Year dark horse list. Technically present, statistically notable, and yet somehow still not the main character. Respect the consistency. Bottom line for your Wednesday: markets are noisy, football is loud, baseball is getting serious, and Greg Abel is calmly explaining that everything is fine. That last part should probably be the one you watch most closely.

Highlights

  • Dell appeared in both premarket AND after-hours movers on the same day, which is either momentum or a cry for help.
  • Greg Abel went on national television to say Japanese bond yields are not a problem, which is exactly what someone says right before Japanese bond yields become a problem.
  • MLB's potential World Series Game 7 is scheduled for Halloween, and honestly a walk-off home run at midnight on October 31st is the most American thing imaginable.
  • The computers backing Cincinnati in Week 1 college football is the SportsLine model's most chaotic take since it discovered the MAC conference exists.

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