Market Open: Stocks Flat, Meta Settles Child Safety Claims, Inflation Heats Up • 8/26/26

CNBC business news update market open major averages little changed and a little bit mixed on sticky inflation for July. The Dow up six points. The S&P 500 index was lower.Now it's up three points. The Nasdaq ticking down eight points. Meta has settled the social media addiction/child safety trial with California's attorney general and 48 other states for billions of dollars.But it's not as much money as they could have paid. The states claim that Instagram and Facebook harmed children and the platforms wer ...