10 things you need to know today (spy, spx, qqq, dia, tsla, aapl, orcl)

Here is what you need to know.
It's the eighth anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed 500 points that day, and Business Insider's Henry Blodget summed it up by saying, "On the whole, given that one major brokerage firm went bankrupt and another rushed to sell itself to avoid collapse, a 500-point fall (-4.4%) isn't that bad."
The Bank of England kept policy on hold. The BOE held its key interest rate at a record low 0.25%, as expected. Additi