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The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate at 3.75% to 4.00% on October 28, extending a pause for a second consecutive meeting, but the vote itself was the real story. Two policymakers dissented in favor of raising rates, the most hawkish split the Federal Open Market Committee has produced in roughly a decade, according to meeting coverage from Reuters and ...

The euro area economy expanded by 0.4% in the third quarter of 2026 compared with the previous quarter, Eurostat reported on October 30, with the wider European Union growing by 0.5% over the same period. The flash estimate confirmed that the currency bloc’s recovery remains intact even as its second-largest economy stalled, with French output contracting during the q...

Amazon, Alphabet and Intel released third-quarter results this week, and the reaction on Wall Street was the clearest sign yet that investors are losing patience with the scale of artificial-intelligence spending. Shares of all three companies fell sharply after reporting on October 28 and 29, dragging the Nasdaq Composite to its worst month in more than a year and pu...

The Brewers reached the World Series for the first time since 1982 by sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers, the two-time defending champion, in the National League Championship Series. The contrast in resources is stark: Milwaukee carries the league’s 19th-highest luxury-tax payroll at roughly $153.6 million, playing in baseball’s smallest media market, while the Dodgers’ 2026 pa...

American Express delivered one of its strongest quarters in years and used the moment to cut thousands of jobs, a sequencing that signals how corporate restructuring around artificial intelligence has detached itself from the business cycle.

The card issuer reported third-quarter net income of $3.71 billion, up 28 percent from a year earlier, on revenu...