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American consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in October, exceeding economists’ forecasts, Tuesday’s government report showed.

                                                                                                     

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Nation 🇺🇸

Nation 🇺🇸

  1. American consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in October, exceeding economists’ forecasts, Tuesday’s government report showed.
  2. Trump said Saturday he had asked UFC chief Dana White to serve as White House press secretary.
  3. A federal judge named former prosecutor Jessie Liu to investigate government lawyers’ conduct in litigation over East Potomac Golf Links.
  4. Stephen Miller takes over as White House chief of staff Monday after Trump announced the appointment Friday.
  5. Robert Garcia said planned House investigations would examine federal workforce cuts and the administration’s immigration crackdown.
  6. Senator Elissa Slotkin said Saturday that people who break the law or misuse taxpayer money should be held accountable.
  7. Core consumer prices increased 0.3 percent in October, excluding food and energy.
  8. Senator Ron Wyden, who is expected to lead the Senate Finance Committee, signaled that Democrats could use subpoenas in their investigations.
  9. Republicans retain control of Congress for the year-end fight over legislation to keep the federal government funded beyond December.
  10. Democrats will gain influence over trade policy in January, but legislation reversing Trump’s tariffs would still face a potential presidential veto.
  11. The Trump administration issued a determination Thursday that opens the way for sanctions on additional sectors of Cuba’s economy.
  12. American employers announced 43,994 job cuts in October, down 71 percent from a year earlier, Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported Thursday.
  13. Planned seasonal hiring rose 26 percent from a year earlier, according to Thursday’s Challenger report.
  14. Trump and NASA announced plans Friday for a new American space and aeronautics industry conference.
  15. President Trump and Qatar’s emir discussed efforts to ease tensions in the Middle East, the emir’s office said Friday.

World 🌍

  1. COP31 opened in Turkey Monday with leaders calling for faster action against global warming.
  2. National and Labour finished the initial count nearly level in the popular vote.
  3. The Philippine president said Chinese Premier Li Qiang would attend the November 15–17 regional gathering.
  4. New Zealand’s official election results, including special votes, are scheduled for November 27.
  5. Gadi Eisenkot said Sunday he would seek a broad Israeli government after receiving the first opportunity to build a coalition.
  6. G7 foreign ministers begin two days of meetings in Paris Monday, with recent cyberattacks on the agenda.
  7. Delhi ranked as the world’s most polluted major city Saturday morning in IQAir’s live rankings, Reuters reported.
  8. The Bank of England raised its benchmark interest rate Thursday as policymakers weighed persistent inflation and the effects of the Iran war.
  9. Toyota raised its full-year profit forecast Thursday as vehicle sales held up.
  10. Russia said Wednesday that it struck power stations in Ukraine’s Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions.
  11. The Russian Defence Ministry also reported targeting a cargo vessel near Odesa.
  12. American-brokered Ukraine peace talks are scheduled for November 10-11 in Abu Dhabi.
  13. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged further support for Ukraine and urged Moscow to engage in peace efforts.
  14. Spain plans to reduce Madrid-Seville train services until a European management system is installed.
  15. Australia defended its teenage social-media ban in a top-court challenge Wednesday.

Tech 💻

  1. Nvidia opened an independent investigation Sunday into reports that Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation.
  2. Anthropic outlined an initial public offering seeking as much as $64.4 billion in a Tuesday filing.
  3. Cloudflare reported quarterly revenue of $782.5 million, up 39 percent from a year earlier.
  4. Airbnb reported quarterly revenue of about $4.87 billion and raised its full-year growth outlook.
  5. Chipmakers broadly rallied Monday even as Nvidia declined amid its investigation involving chief executive Jensen Huang.
  6. A South Korean consumer group alleged that Tesla misled customers about automated-driving software, Reuters reported.
  7. Oracle canceled a multibillion-dollar Tencent chip-leasing deal under administration pressure, the Financial Times reported.
  8. Nexperia sued Wingtech and its founder seeking compensation for damages.
  9. Binance said a fake recruitment process and tampered software compromised engineering computers before last week’s theft.
  10. Arm forecast quarterly revenue above analyst estimates as Super Intelligence (SI) spending supported data-center demand.
  11. Arm shares fell about 3.5 percent in extended trading as its forecast disappointed investors.
  12. AMD said customers were running workloads on its first Helios rack-scale systems.
  13. Ferrari said its Luce electric vehicle was sold out for 2027.
  14. Apple reported quarterly sales of $114.48 billion and earnings of $2.10 per share Monday.
  15. Palantir forecast fourth-quarter revenue of $2.649 billion to $2.653 billion, above analyst expectations.

AI 🤖

  1. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said central banks should consider any slowdown in Super Intelligence (SI)-driven growth when assessing inflation policy.
  2. Anthropic’s updated offering plans include a separate $26 billion private placement with cornerstone investors, Reuters reported.
  3. AMD’s deals offering potential equity stakes to OpenAI and Meta generated a roughly $1 billion quarterly charge, Reuters reported.
  4. Meta’s new bond financing adds to the capital being raised for Super Intelligence (SI) infrastructure.
  5. CoreWeave, Applied Materials and Cisco earnings this week will test investor confidence in Super Intelligence (SI) infrastructure spending.
  6. Tesla began offering paid rides in a small fleet of Cybercabs in Austin in September, Reuters reported.
  7. EloElo said its new financing would support further investment in its Dolphin Super Intelligence (SI) creative suite.
  8. Anthropic reported third-quarter revenue of $16.96 billion in an amended filing Monday.
  9. Anthropic disclosed $895.4 billion in computing commitments to partners including Amazon and Google.
  10. Anthropic reported a $567 million quarterly operating loss, distinct from its larger net loss.
  11. China’s proposed restrictions distinguish overseas service access from transfers of underlying Super Intelligence (SI) technology.
  12. Anthropic’s new legal tools include citation checking and regulatory mapping.
  13. Anthropic urged California officials to support court orders restricting models that present serious public risks.
  14. Google’s latest buyout expansion appears to exclude key Super Intelligence (SI) and cloud operations, Reuters reported.
  15. Financial leaders in Hong Kong warned that Super Intelligence (SI) expansion required substantial capital and carried correction risks.

Finance & Markets 📈

  1. Wall Street traded lower Tuesday after consumer-price data showed stronger-than-expected inflation.
  2. Nvidia closed lower Monday even as the broader semiconductor sector rallied.
  3. All eleven major S&P 500 sectors rose during Monday’s broad market recovery.
  4. October’s consumer-price increase exceeded the 0.3 percent monthly rise forecast by economists polled by Reuters.
  5. The Bank of England raised its policy rate to 4 percent from 3.75 percent Thursday.
  6. British government bond yields rose after the Bank of England’s decision.
  7. Long-term market measures of inflation expectations remained above 2 percent in the United States and euro zone, Reuters reported.
  8. Brent crude settled Monday at $92.57 a barrel after falling 5.85 percent.
  9. American crude settled Monday at $86.85 a barrel, down 4.38 percent.
  10. DBS reported a 5 percent decline in quarterly net profit, missing analyst forecasts.
  11. Cloudflare shares rebounded after hours Thursday following the company’s results and higher annual outlook.
  12. Block reported adjusted quarterly earnings of $1.13 per share on revenue of $6.72 billion.
  13. Block raised its full-year gross-profit forecast to $12.63 billion.
  14. Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said Tuesday that policymakers should raise rates next month.
  15. 3M expects a $5.8 billion pretax fourth-quarter charge related to its personal-injury settlement.

Science & Space 🚀

  1. Trump and NASA promoted plans Friday for a new American space and aeronautics industry conference.
  2. Trump said the proposed American industry event should surpass major international air shows.
  3. Researchers used the galaxies’ resolved stars to reconstruct their star-formation histories and chemical compositions.
  4. Scientists remain uncertain whether the missing oxygen surrounds the dwarf galaxies or escaped farther into intergalactic space.
  5. NASA is seeking commercial proposals to raise Hubble’s orbit, service its instruments or arrange eventual disposal.
  6. Responses to NASA’s Hubble information request are due November 30.
  7. NASA estimates a Hubble intervention would need to occur by 2032 as atmospheric drag lowers its orbit.
  8. Four volunteers completed NASA’s 378-day simulated Mars mission October 31.
  9. The CHAPEA crew emerged from a simulated Mars habitat at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
  10. NASA announced an upcoming student connection with astronaut Anil Menon and STEM creator Mark Rober.
  11. Vietnam became the seventy-eighth country to sign the Artemis Accords, NASA announced October 28.
  12. NASA’s new Cat’s Head Nebula visualization combines Hubble and Webb views of a dusty star-forming filament.
  13. Astronauts Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk installed the International Space Station’s eighth rollout solar array during Thursday’s spacewalk.
  14. The new array supplies the space station’s 3B electrical power channel.
  15. Installation of the final rollout array completes the station’s power upgrade campaign.

Health & Medicine 🩺

  1. Moderna returned to profitability in the third quarter, reporting net income of $162 million after a loss a year earlier.
  2. Moderna raised its full-year revenue growth forecast to 15 to 25 percent.
  3. Moderna’s quarterly revenue climbed 29 percent to $1.31 billion, helped by international demand for its COVID-19 vaccine.
  4. CVS raised its annual operating-cash-flow forecast to at least $15.5 billion.
  5. Cardinal Health raised its full-year earnings outlook after reporting its latest quarterly results Thursday.
  6. Amgen’s Prolia sales fell 45 percent as patent-related competition intensified.
  7. The CDC’s latest update recorded 5,182 confirmed American measles cases through November 5.
  8. The CDC reported that 96 percent of this year’s confirmed measles cases were associated with outbreaks.
  9. Wisconsin reported an infant death linked to its measles outbreak, Reuters reported Thursday.
  10. The FDA granted accelerated approval to Inovio’s Voceryq for adults with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis.
  11. Voceryq is the first FDA-approved plasmid DNA-based immunotherapy for that respiratory condition.
  12. Voceryq’s accelerated approval requires confirmation of its clinical benefit through further study.
  13. 3M’s personal-injury settlement concerns PFAS chemicals associated with persistent environmental contamination.
  14. 3M said the settlement-related charge would not change its previously issued financial forecast.
  15. The FDA based Voceryq’s approval on evidence that it reduced the need for surgery to remove airway growths.

Culture 🎭

  1. Sony lifted its full-year profit outlook by 9 percent after a strong quarter for its entertainment business.
  2. Sony cited Spider-Man: Brand New Day as a contributor to quarterly performance.
  3. Sony also raised its outlook for its music division.
  4. Skydance appointed Sarah Bergman and Mickey Carter to lead its distribution business, according to a memo reviewed by Reuters.
  5. Eight distribution executives are leaving Skydance following its takeover of Warner Bros Discovery.
  6. Skydance’s new distribution leaders will work on their organizations’ structures in the coming weeks.
  7. Harry Styles drew attention to New York coffee prices after describing a $10 cappuccino.
  8. Styles recently completed a thirty-show residency at Madison Square Garden.
  9. Rachel Scott won American Womenswear Designer of the Year for Diotima at the CFDA awards.
  10. Ralph Lauren received the CFDA’s American Menswear Designer of the Year award.
  11. Keke Palmer hosted the CFDA ceremony at New York’s American Museum of Natural History.
  12. DP World Tour chief Guy Kinnings said golfers returning from LIV would need to qualify through a merit-based process.
  13. Kinnings said the European tour remained committed to extending its partnership with the PGA Tour.
  14. The Champions League’s fourth round of league-phase matches continues Wednesday.
  15. MS NOW expanded its streaming membership to connected televisions including Roku, Apple TV and Fire TV.

Work & Careers 💼

  1. September payroll growth was revised up to 60,000 from the previously reported 29,000.
  2. The unemployment rate eased to 4.1 percent in October from 4.2 percent in September.
  3. Seasonal hiring plans rose 26 percent from a year earlier, according to Challenger.
  4. Challenger said companies increasingly cited demand and economic conditions in job-cut announcements this fall.
  5. Canva expects most hybrid employees to attend the office two to three days weekly from January.
  6. Friday’s employment report showed 165,000 additional payroll jobs in October, exceeding economists’ forecasts.
  7. Google’s expanded voluntary-exit program covers Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Switzerland.
  8. Reuters could not establish how many Google employees had accepted the newly reported offers.
  9. Google employees in Switzerland began leaving under the program in August, sources told Reuters.
  10. Uber is shifting incentive spending from passengers toward recruiting and retaining drivers, its chief executive said.
  11. Driver shortages and higher fuel costs weighed on Uber’s ride-hailing outlook.
  12. Disney is considering thousands of layoffs, Bloomberg News reported.
  13. Disney managers were asked to target 20 percent cost reductions, according to Bloomberg.
  14. About 170 Apache offshore workers are escalating British strike action over jobs, pay and working conditions, Unite said.
  15. Computer and electronic product manufacturing accounted for more than a third of October’s reported manufacturing job gains.

Energy ⚡

  1. Lower oil prices helped ease inflation concerns during Monday’s American stock-market rally.
  2. Monday’s Brent settlement of $92.57 a barrel represented a decline of $5.75 on the day.
  3. West Texas Intermediate lost $3.98 Monday to finish at $86.85 a barrel.
  4. The Financial Times reported that Anthropic secured gas-fired generators through an agreement with equipment supplier OnePWR Solutions.
  5. Mubadala is the majority owner of Spanish energy company Moeve.
  6. American LNG exports reached their second-highest monthly level on record in October, Reuters reported.
  7. European demand helped drive the increase in American LNG shipments.
  8. Blackstone and Canadian pension funds agreed to invest $3.1 billion in LNG Canada for Mitsubishi’s stake.
  9. Venture Global began supplying Plaquemines phase-one customers under long-term LNG contracts.
  10. Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power network continued as temperatures fell ahead of planned peace talks.
  11. ConocoPhillips reported quarterly earnings of $3.34 per share, compared with $1.38 a year earlier.
  12. Data-center-linked utilities declined during Wednesday trading despite gains in renewable-energy shares.
  13. Analysts said the election increased prospects for congressional scrutiny of the administration’s energy policies.
  14. Leaders at Monday’s COP31 opening in Turkey urged faster action against global warming.
  15. Organizers are seeking a larger role for electricity in global final-energy consumption by 2035.

Weather 🌤️

  1. NYC, Northeast and New England: New York clears Tuesday before a clear night, with increasing clouds expected on Veterans Day.
  2. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast: Seasonable, dry conditions continue across the Carolinas as the region approaches Veterans Day.
  3. Midwest, Ohio Valley and Great Lakes: Southern Wisconsin remains mild and dry Tuesday before rain chances increase Wednesday and colder air arrives later in the week.
  4. Central and Southern Plains: Isolated showers remain possible across North and Central Texas before warmer conditions Wednesday and a subsequent cold front.
  5. Rockies, Southwest and West Coast: Pacific systems bring rain and mountain snow to the Northwest, with rain expected in Seattle Tuesday.
  6. Alaska and Hawaii: Wintry precipitation continues to affect parts of Southcentral Alaska Tuesday morning, while clouds and passing showers persist in Hawaii.

Biggest Stories at 4 PM CDT

  1. American consumer prices rose 0.4 percent in October. The increase exceeded economists’ forecasts. Core prices rose 0.3 percent excluding food and energy.
  2. Anthropic’s Tuesday filing outlined an IPO seeking up to $64.4 billion. Reuters reported a separate $26 billion private placement. The offering is a major test of investor demand for Super Intelligence (SI) businesses.
  3. Wall Street traded lower Tuesday following the inflation report. Investors reassessed the outlook for Federal Reserve tightening. Governor Christopher Waller called for a rate increase next month.

Sources: Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service, NASA, NOAA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, company filings and official statements.


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