Chinese stocks advanced on expectations of renewed liquidity support after reports that regulators met with banks and brokerages to discuss market measures.
The CSI 300 Index rose 0.8%, rebounding f… [+138 chars]

Chinese stocks advanced on expectations of renewed liquidity support after reports that regulators met with banks and brokerages to discuss market measures.

Bloomberg

China Stocks Rise on Report of Regulator Market Support Meeting - Bloomberg

The Yomiuri ShimbunA Matsuya Ginza employee, left, explains upcoming changes to duty-free procedures to a customer at a service counter at the department store in Chuo Ward, Tokyo, on Tuesday.
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<p>Japan implemented a major overhaul of its tax-free shopping system on Nov. 1, shifting to a model that requires foreign visitors to pay consumption tax upfront and claim refunds upon departure.</p>

Yomiuri.co.jp

Japan Switches from Tax-Free Shopping to Refund-Based System for Nonresidents - The Japan News

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets from Binance to TraderTraitor, a North Korea-aligned elite hacking group a… [+4618 chars]

The FBI attributes a $6 billion-plus crypto theft to North Korea-linked TraderTraitor as investigators track laundering through Ethereum.

Internet

FBI Links North Korea's TraderTraitor to Record $6.43 Billion Binance Crypto Heist - The Hacker News

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that President Donald Trump prefers not to use military force and would like to resolve the Iranian war "diplomatically."
Trump "hasn't made a decision...wha… [+1409 chars]

Oil fell Monday, amid news that both the U.S. and Iran are pursuing diplomacy amid ongoing Mideast tensions

CNBC

Oil prices fall amid reports that the U.S. and Iran are both seeking diplomacy - CNBC

Kioxia Holdings Corp.s shares fell by their most in three months after the Japanese memory makers cautious outlook inflamed concerns that the explosive growth driven by artificial intelligence may be… [+316 chars]

Kioxia Holdings Corp.’s shares fell by their most in three months after the Japanese memory maker’s cautious outlook inflamed concerns that the explosive growth driven by artificial intelligence may be leveling off.

Kioxia Shares Sink After Outlook Shows Demand Leveling Off - Bloomberg

On the top of a mountain in the Chilean desert, an $800 million U.S.-taxpayer-funded telescope just opened its eye. 
The brand-new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is supposed to complete a groundbreaking … [+369 chars]

Astronomers warn that megaconstellations of satellites will obstruct our view of the cosmos

The Wall Street Journal

Could Orbital Data Centers Ruin the Night Sky? - WSJ

China EV sales in October: BYD 483,125, Geely 214,996, Leapmotor 106,127, Xpeng 50,237
Global sales and delivery figures for major car manufacturers in October 2026 are out. BYD took the solid first… [+2047 chars]

October sales figures for China’s new energy vehicle makers are out.

Carnewschina.com

China EV sales in October: BYD 483,125, Geely 214,996, Leapmotor 106,127, Xpeng 50,237 - CarNewsChina.com

TheStreet

Tesla-SpaceX merger math just shifted in Tesla’s favor - TheStreet

China has gotten a lot of bargaining power out of its near-monopoly over rare earths. Now its looking to repeat the trick in a more mundane industry and perhaps squeeze a key Asian rival. 
Beijings … [+298 chars]

China has gotten a lot of bargaining power out of its near-monopoly over rare earths. Now it’s looking to repeat the trick in a more mundane industry – and perhaps squeeze a key Asian rival.

China’s 5,000-Ton Digging Machines Are a Trade War Risk to India - Bloomberg

GDPx is a benchmark that covers the most valuable domains for frontier intelligence. It aims to be the worlds best benchmark for measuring general agentic capabilities.
We believe the first trillion… [+90565 chars]

A frontier benchmark spanning RSI, hardware design, cyber, bio, finance, legal, quant trading, chip design, software engineering, materials science, and alignment

Semianalysis.com

GDPx: Measuring Frontier Model Capabilities Across the Most Valuable Domains - SemiAnalysis

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Yen bulls loaded up ahead of Friday's BOJ meeting, and perhaps their conviction was justified by the central bank's subsequent inflation upgrades. While the BOJ held rates steady, it… [+453 chars]

Yen bulls loaded up ahead of Friday's BOJ meeting, and perhaps their conviction was justified by the central bank's subsequent inflation upgrades. While the BOJ held rates steady, its hawkish outlook leaves the door open for further tightening. Meanwhile, eur…

Forex Factory

Yen Bulls Loaded Up into BOJ as Euro Shorts Hit 11-Year Extreme| COT report - Forex Factory

0027 GMT Gold rises in early Asian trade but remains below the key $4,000 level. Expectations of tighter monetary policy continue to weigh on the nonyielding asset, says Bas Kooijman of DHF Capital S… [+517 chars]

Gold Rises, But Expectations of Tighter U.S. Monetary Policy Weigh - WSJ

Companies Have a Solution for the Skilled Trade Shortage: More Women - WSJ

A California classic, In-N-Out Burger, may be expanding to other states in the future.
In an interview with actor Terry Crews, Lynsi Snyder, the company's president and granddaughter of In-N-Out's c… [+311 chars]

A California classic, In-N-Out Burger, may be expanding to other states in the future.

KABC-TV

In-N-Out may be expanding to more states, Lynsi Snyder says - ABC7 Los Angeles

Here are four things to consider if you find your account is closed or your borrowing limit has been massively reduced, from Sara Williams, a former volunteer debt adviser at Citizens Advice who post… [+36 chars]

New affordability checks mean you could be blocked from using Buy Now Pay Later but here are ways to avoid it.

BBC News

Don't get caught out by new Buy Now Pay Later rules - BBC

Stock futures edged higher Sunday evening as Wall Street opened a week packed with Apple earnings, the midterm elections and $100 oil.
S&amp;P 500 futures (ES=F), Nasdaq 100 futures (NQ=F), and Dow … [+2279 chars]

Stock futures open a week of Apple earnings, the midterms and $100 oil after a $5 trillion AI selloff.

Yahoo Entertainment

Stock futures open a monster week after a $5 trillion AI wipeout - Yahoo Finance

Trying to pin down Kevin Warsh as a hawk or a dove has been tricky with his statements and actions puzzling Wall Street. As President Donald Trumps hand-picked Federal Reserve chairman, Warsh was exp… [+4581 chars]

"We’re not in hawkish or dovish land. What’s happening is yield curve management, which itself is a function of how precarious the U.S. debt picture is."

Fortune

Kevin Warsh is managing US debt costs not inflation as interest rates risk topping GDP growth soon - Fortune

When 31-year-old software engineer Bowen Wan decided to quietly slash the dose of the epilepsy drug keeping her seizures in check, she didn't turn to her neurologist for guidance—she turned to ChatGP… [+1422 chars]

Parents sue OpenAI, alleging chatbot encouraged fatal tapering off of daughter's epilepsy drugs

Newser

Suit: ChatGPT Killed Our Daughter With Bad Meds Advice - Newser

President Donald Trump stopped short of fully backing Nvidia co-founder and chief executive Jensen Huang, an influential adviser on technology, after a report that U.S. intelligence officials suspect… [+47 chars]

Asked about Jensen Huang’s relationship with a suspected Chinese operative, the president called the situation “very complex.”

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