Saudi Arabia pumped 10.563 million barrels a day in October, OPEC said, as the U.S. average gas price fell to $3.94, its first time under $4 in months.
Congo’s Ebola outbreak has passed 11,000 cases and 5,387 deaths, its health ministry said Nov. 11, as Kenya began a 42-day countdown to Ebola-free status.
Spain held its first general strike in 14 years on Nov. 11 over housing costs. Masked groups clashed with police in Barcelona as 120,000 marched in Madrid.
Cost of living by country for mid-2026: the most expensive and cheapest nations, the biggest changes over the year and official inflation, with charts.
Russia hit six major power substations overnight, Kyiv said, a second night of strikes that left outages in eight regions and darkened city streetlights.
Russia and Ukraine agreed to a large prisoner exchange as Abu Dhabi talks ended Wednesday with no breakthrough. Envoys go to Moscow and Dublin Thursday.
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Business report October 31, 2026: Binance covers 90% of its $6.3 billion hack, OpenAI trims its raise to $20 billion and gas prices near an Election Day record.
Nvidia Nscale guarantee talks: the chipmaker may back debt for a 460 MW West Virginia data center Anthropic will rent for up to $44.6 billion. The numbers.
A shared AI training opt-out in robots.txt will be honored by Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic. What the IETF draft says and each company's start date.
OpenAI funding round shrinks: the ChatGPT maker now seeks about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, down from $30 billion, the FT reports. Key numbers.
Oil earnings soared in Q3 2026: Exxon profit doubled to $15.4 billion and Chevron's hit $9.9 billion as refineries ran flat out amid a global diesel crunch.
Qubic Labs, the Quincy fintech nonprofit that ran Boston Blockchain Week, is closing after seven years and 70-plus portfolio companies as state grant money ran out.
Regulators approved Nov. 1 gas rates: National Grid bills flat, Eversource EGMA down 5%, NSTAR Gas up 7%, as a $342 million National Grid rate case looms.
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center broke ground on a 49,000 sq. ft. Dorchester building to serve 14,000 patients a year. How the project is financed.
Terrestrial Bio Allston headquarters and patch factory open at 250 Western Ave. with $2.27M in new state grants. The numbers, the GLP-1 patch and what's next.
The PBOC overnight reverse repo will run every working day from Nov. 2 at 1.25%, a step toward a new policy anchor as China's GDP growth holds at 4.5%.
Geopolitics and business report, Oct. 30, 2026: Hormuz tanker attacks double and freight soars, BP cuts debt, Ukraine's energy war and markets eye the midterms.
A $5.8B Chicago Bears stadium concept for Bridgeport's Rate Field site surfaced this week. The Bears say they declined it and remain focused on Hammond.
Business report October 30, 2026: Intel sinks 29%, the Nasdaq ends its worst month since March 2025, oil giants hit records and Fed officials urge rate hikes.
Intel stock fell about 29% Oct. 30 after a Q4 revenue forecast of $15-16 billion missed estimates on PC weakness and an Israel fab blast. The data and fallout.
Amazon earnings for Q3 2026: AWS sales jumped 39% to $46 billion, but $77 billion of AI capex sent free cash flow to -$42.4 billion. Charts and analyst views.
Samsung's Q3 2026 operating profit hit a record 107.4 trillion won, nearly nine times a year earlier, as HBM4 sales tripled and 2027 AI memory supply sold out.
GM will pay $220 million to 36 states, including $5.7 million to Massachusetts, over claims it sold OnStar Smart Driver data to brokers that passed it to insurers.
The DoorDash Instacart acquisition values Instacart at $65 a share, about $17 billion, with closing expected by mid-2028. Terms, timeline and antitrust questions.
Will the UK rejoin the EU? Burnham reopens the debate as polls show 52% back rejoining and studies put the Brexit hit to GDP at 4% to 8%.
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