Coca-Cola puts pressure on Starbucks, PepsiCo with major acquisition

Yahoo Finance’s Dan Howley, Rick Newman, Julia La Roche, Melody Hahm and Jared Blikre discuss today’s big stories.

Today’s topics include:

• Coca-Cola buying coffee chain Costa for $5.1B

• Microsoft requiring vendors to provide paid-family leave

• Nasdaq, S&P 500 wrapping up August in record territory

• Equities remarkable rise in August

• Trump threatens to exit WTO

• U.S., Canada racing to finish new trade deal

• Trump to reportedly back $200B worth of Chinese tariffs

• Gas prices to slide up to 25 cents this fall: AAA

• Women at Wells Fargo allege gender bias: WSJ

• BlackRock voted to replace Musk as chairman of Tesla

• Starbucks reworks frappuccino to reduce calories and sugar

• Warren Buffett: Apple iPhone ‘enormously underpriced‘

• Walmart going after Toys R Us customers with ‘America’s Best Toy Shop’

• NYC bar turns to crowdfunding for investors