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White House Opens 180-Day Talks on Imported Factory Robots
President Trump found that imported industrial robots, machinery, and parts threaten US national security, then ordered 180 days of talks instead of tariffs. Manufacturers welcomed the pause, with later duties still on the table.
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Marvell to Buy Lumentum for $115 Billion in Stock
Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum in a $115 billion all-stock deal, betting optical connectivity will carry the next stage of AI infrastructure as copper reaches its physical limits.
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Oil Slides 3% as Iran Talks Chip Away at the War Premium
Brent fell 3.2% to $109.75 as Iran and Qatar held a third day of talks. The selloff tests whether oil's war premium can unwind before Tuesday's US midterms.
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Amazon's Best-Ever Margins Couldn't Outrun Its AI Spending Bill
Amazon's record 13.9% operating margin and 39% AWS growth arrived alongside a $42.4 billion free cash flow outflow and a $220 billion capex plan. The market sold the stock anyway.
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Japan's Underlying Inflation Finally Reached the BOJ's 2% Target
Japan's underlying inflation has reached the 2 percent target the BOJ set 13 years ago. The harder part now is anchoring prices while unwinding a balance sheet that still takes decades to clear.
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Brent at $117 Already Tops the World Bank Crisis Forecast
The World Bank's October outlook puts 2026 Brent at $91 and a 2027 crisis case at $105. December futures just printed $117.38, so the worst-case commodity shock is already in the tape.
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Alphabet's AI Buildout Just Turned Its Cash Flow Negative
Alphabet posted negative $9.1 billion in free cash flow even as revenue jumped 25% and Google Cloud more than doubled. Capex hit $51.4 billion, funded with new debt and shares.
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Two Fed Dissents Put a December Rate Hike Back on the Table
The Fed held rates at 3-3/4 to 4 percent in a 10-2 vote, with Lisa Cook and Beth Hammack preferring another quarter-point hike. The split now frames the December 8-9 meeting.
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Canada Hikes for the First Time Since 2023 to Curb Energy-Driven Inflation
The Bank of Canada raised its policy rate 25 basis points to 2.5%, its first hike since 2023, betting that early action stops a gasoline price shock from spreading into broader inflation.
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Guidewire Pays $1.7 Billion to Bring AI Into Insurance Pricing
Guidewire will pay $1.7 billion in cash, plus up to $400 million more, for hyperexponential, an AI-native pricing firm. The core-systems vendor is buying a decision engine and funding part of it with new debt.
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France's Borrowing Costs Overtook America's for the First Time Since 2013
French 10-year borrowing costs crossed 5% and briefly overtook U.S. Treasuries for the first time since 2013. A ratings reprieve slowed the rout for a day; a budget vote now decides whether the wait was warranted.
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A Catholic Nonprofit Is Taking Surgery Partners Private
HealthSpan Partners, an affiliate of Catholic nonprofit Bon Secours Mercy Health, agreed to acquire Surgery Partners for about $5.7 billion, with Bain Capital rolling its stake forward rather than cashing out.
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LightSolver (NASDAQ: CLGN) and the Physicist Reinventing the GPU with Light
Dr. Ruti Ben-Shlomi is a quantum physicist who spent years working where light behaves as single particles. Those particles, the photon, the quanta of light, are what she now uses to compute.
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Hepatitis B's First Functional Cure Reaches the US Market
GSK's Hibsago won FDA approval as the first functional-cure option for chronic hepatitis B, but only about one in five eligible patients achieved durable control, and the label carries a boxed warning.
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Evolution Metals Is Scaling Up as Even TSMC Looks Beyond China’s Rare Earth Supply (NASDAQ: EMAT)
The world’s largest contract chipmaker is exploring ways around rare earth supply risk. Evolution Metals’ expanding Korean magnet business shows why the search for alternatives reaches well beyond defense. The machinery that makes the world’s most advanced chips faces a supply…
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Schneider Electric Dilutes Shareholders €6 Billion to Fund the PTC Takeover
Schneider Electric raised €6 billion selling new shares with no preemptive rights, the equity slice of its $22.6 billion cash takeover of industrial-software maker PTC, plus up to €17 billion in new debt.