Fewer people are flying as airfare soars. Here's why airlines aren't worried
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What moved markets
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Oil Prices Rise Despite Middle East Export Recovery
Reports about recovering oil flows in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea have dominated headlines over the past couple of weeks. Yet oil prices have only moved higher, suggesting barrel numbers alone are not enough to…
02Neutral
Asia Is Building the World’s Next $15 Trillion Energy Market
The global energy transition is increasingly becoming an Asian story, and Asia is unlikely to follow the path envisioned in Washington or Brussels. The region’s governments will have enormous influence over the future…
03Neutral
xStocks tokenized stocks hit $1B in onchain market cap, up 802.5% in a year
The rapid growth of tokenized stocks highlights a shift towards decentralized finance, potentially reshaping global investment access and regulation.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with about $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week losing streak, even as two straight days of outflows kept October in the red.
05Neutral
Fewer people are flying as airfare soars. Here's why airlines aren't worried
Airlines are reporting fewer people flew in the third quarter as airfare surged on fuel costs, but executives say travelers are mostly swallowing higher fares.
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Oil Prices Rise Despite Middle East Export Recovery
Oil Prices Rise Despite Middle East Export Recovery. Reports about recovering oil flows in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea have dominated headlines over the past couple of weeks.
NeutralOilPrice.com
Asia Is Building the World’s Next $15 Trillion Energy Market
The global energy transition is increasingly becoming an Asian story, and Asia is unlikely to follow the path envisioned in Washington or Brussels. The region’s governments will have enormous influence over the future…
NeutralCrypto Briefing
xStocks tokenized stocks hit $1B in onchain market cap, up 802.5% in a year
The rapid growth of tokenized stocks highlights a shift towards decentralized finance, potentially reshaping global investment access and regulation.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs finished the week with about $301 million in net inflows, ending a two-week losing streak, even as two straight days of outflows kept October in the red.
Fewer people are flying as airfare soars. Here's why airlines aren't worried
Airlines are reporting fewer people flew in the third quarter as airfare surged on fuel costs, but executives say travelers are mostly swallowing higher fares.
Macro & Markets: 10 selected of 26
NeutralCrypto Briefing
SpaceX closes $40 billion in debt financing to buy GPUs
SpaceX closes $40 billion in debt financing to buy GPUs. SpaceX's financing highlights the growing challenges for AI infrastructure funding, potentially leading to market consolidation among smaller firms.
NeutralOilPrice.com
World Is on Track for Up to 2.8 Degrees of Warming Despite Clean Energy Boom
The United Nations says that it is now an inevitability that the world will fail to meet the legally binding goals set forth by the Paris climate accord as a result of “decades of insufficient climate action”. The Paris…
NeutralCNBC
Audi defends plans for a $4 billion Georgia plant amid VW restructuring, tariffs
Audi's CEO defended the company's plans for a $4 billion plant in Georgia, calling it a business decision to grow sales and reduce exposure to U.S. tariffs.
NeutralThe Block
Keystone customers say breach exposed data the hardware wallet maker promised to delete
Keystone has said it deletes customer information 180 days after their orders in most cases, though X users have cast doubt on that claim.
NeutralCointelegraph
ECB official sees digital euro as key to protecting EU ‘sovereignty’
Piero Cipollone said the bloc is on track to test real transactions in 2027 and roll out a digital euro as early as 2029, pending legislation this year.
COP31 Host Urges NATO Nations to Spend More on Climate Than Defense
The host of the United Nations’ COP31 climate summit, Turkey, is encouraging wealthy countries participating in the conference to spend more on climate support than on defence. This follows Turkey’s announcement in…
NeutralCNBC
Saudi Arabia says it intercepted missiles and drones from Iran-backed Houthis
Saudi Arabia says it intercepted Houthi missiles and drones, while the Houthis claimed attacks on airports and energy sites amid rising regional supply risks.
NeutralThe Guardian
Interest rates unlikely to reach 4.75% by next summer, say City economists
Experts say Bank of England unlikely to increase rates by full percentage point – and could lower them by end of 2027. Financial markets are wrong to predict the Bank of England will raise UK interest rates by a full…
NeutralCNBC
What next for France as riots rattle markets? Three questions facing investors ahead of more protests
French unrest pushed bond yields to a 24-year high as investors weigh budget, growth and sectors risks ahead of more protests.
NeutralBBC News
Rosebank: Life on the oil field at the centre of a political storm
Scotland editor James Cook finds out what life is like on board a ship in an untapped oil field awaiting its fate.
NeutralCNBC
Blanche defends Trump-ordered lawsuit over Alaska Senate election certification
Blanche defends Trump-ordered lawsuit over Alaska Senate election certification. Democrats have maintained they have no connection to Daniel J. Sullivan.
NeutralThe Guardian
Volkswagen to build $4bn Audi SUV factory in US despite job cuts at home
VW investment, creating 4,500 jobs in Georgia, comes amid Trump’s damaging tariffs, intense Chinese competition and costly shift towards EVs. Audi has said it will spend $4bn (£3bn) to build its first factory in the US…
NeutralCNBC
Marc Lore’s Wonder bets on Texas, automation and user-built restaurants as it mulls IPO
Wonder is leaning into automation and user-built restaurants as founder Marc Lore prepares the startup for a potential IPO.
NeutralThe Guardian
Nationwide to slash 275 jobs in latest round of cuts since takeover of Virgin Money
Exclusive : Bosses tell staff cuts part of effort to ‘simplify’ operations and ‘remove duplication’ across wider workforce. Nationwide building society is slashing another 275 jobs in the latest round of cuts since bank…
NeutralDecrypt
Google Quietly Updates Privacy Policy to Let Gmail and Photos Data Feed Ads
A policy change effective Oct. 16 carves out an exception to Google’s long-standing pledge—letting connected Gmail, Drive, and Photos data personalize ads through its Personal Intelligence AI features.
NeutralU.S. SEC
SEC Announces Fiscal Year 2027 Examination Priorities
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the Division of Examinations’ Fiscal Year 2027 examination priorities. The annual report identifies key areas of focus as the Division carries out its mission to…
NeutralCointelegraph
AI agents help rescue ETH’s Glamsterdam fork, ‘Steal My Bitcoin’ site: Hodler’s Digest
AI agents help rescue ETH’s Glamsterdam fork, ‘Steal My Bitcoin’ site: Hodler’s Digest. Similar to the Hugging Face hack, Ethereum researchers have set up an AI Agent message board to help rescue the Glamsterdam fork.
More pain may be coming for the AI trade. Why I’m not giving up on it
In his Sunday column for Investing Club subscribers, Jim Cramer explains why the AI trade has cracked and what he's doing about it.
NeutralinvestingLive (ForexLive)
Weekend - China warns of countermeasures as US Treasury widens tech investment curbs to biotech
The proposal adds to already tense US-China relations and keeps headline risk elevated for Chinese technology and biotech stocks, including US-listed ADRs and the Hang Seng Tech index. Biotech is the sector most…
NeutralOilPrice.com
Britain's Renewable Energy Boom Is Hitting a Grid Bottleneck
The United Kingdom has invested heavily in expanding its renewable energy capacity in recent years to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels and support a green transition. However, one major problem stands in the way of…
NeutralDecrypt
Wells Fargo, Cisco, Intuit Among 6 More Companies Objecting to Tokenized Stocks
Twenty-two companies have now objected to having their shares traded on the planned OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, after Wells Fargo, Cisco, Marvell, Arm, Moderna. and Intuit joined the list.
NeutralCointelegraph
Netanyahu floats use of blockchain as solution to potential financial sanctions
Ahead of elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel could turn to blockchain and crypto to skirt potential international sanctions, to the dismay of opponents and the country’s central banker.
NeutralBBC News
Budget to include £1bn for social and affordable housing
The move will take funding for the 10-year programme to more than £40bn.
NeutralThe Guardian
Retail leads the way on paternity leave as government urged to improve offer
M&S and Tesco are among employers offering six weeks, highlighting gap with construction and agriculture. “Being able to take six weeks’ paid paternity leave, flexibly, made a huge difference to me and my family, giving…
NeutralCNBC
Retail investors are not more sophisticated than 30 years ago, says former hedge fund manager
Retail investors trying to beat the market by buying individual stocks and complex exchange-traded funds may be better off with broad market index funds.
United States President Donald Trump has repeatedly targeted offshore wind since coming into office last year, as he strives to expand the country’s fossil fuel sector and shift the focus away from renewable energy.…
Analysts & Research: 10 selected of 26
NeutralFXStreet
Debt black hole: Car loan payments hit record level
Debt black hole: Car loan payments hit record level. American auto loan payments just hit an all-time high of $787 per month.
NeutralCrypto Briefing
Muneeb Ali says Bitcoin has about two years to start its post-quantum upgrade
Bitcoin's post-quantum upgrade could reshape transaction dynamics, pushing more activity off-chain and impacting fee structures significantly.
Ethereum Price Prediction: Big Drop to $2,000 Possible as ETH Retests Key Support
Ethereum (ETH) risks a sharp drop toward $2,000 if it breaks below its critical 200-day EMA support, weighed down by $1.2 billion in October ETF outflows and $170 million in long liquidations.
NeutralFXStreet
CFTC Report: WTI rally runs ahead of positioning
The week in one sentence: WTI prices surged while speculative longs were cut in the week to October 20, creating the clearest price/positioning divergence. Sterling and the Canadian Dollar led the constructive currency…
NeutralFXEmpire
Natural Gas News: Natural Gas Futures Slide as Warm Weather Cuts Demand
Natural gas futures tumbled as warm U.S. weather forecasts cut heating-demand expectations and pressure both winter and summer contracts.
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