(These are the market notes on today’s action by Mike Santoli, CNBC’s Senior Markets Commentator. See today’s video update from Mike above.) -No news, no government services, no problem for the stock market. -The lack of scheduled economic data today and tomorrow keeps investors in the dark on the latest labor trends and factory orders,…
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photos: Courtesy of Tom Ford, Alessandro Lucioni/Courtesy of Dior, IK ALDAMA/Courtesy of Balmain Outside the enormous box-shaped structure in the Tuileries, the line of spectators stretched to the Place de la Concorde, where royals were guillotined during the French Revolution. It was many bodies deep, and more onlookers stood on a…
India and China are set to resume direct flights between selected cities after a gap of five years, with the external affairs ministry saying on Thursday that the move will contribute to the gradual normalisation of bilateral relations. India, China to resume air services this month The resumption of direct air services – suspended since…
Trump says US is in ‘armed conflict’ with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the Caribbean President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict,” according to a Trump administration memo obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday, following recent U.S. strikes on boats in…
00:00 Speaker A Tesla surprising Wall Street, reporting a record number of deliveries in the third quarter, coming in above 497,000 and more than 7% above the mark set during the same period last year. The end of the third quarter also coinciding with the expiration of EV tax credits. Were the Tesla numbers a…
We asked readers on social media and in our weekly newsletter to share their thoughts about nutrition. Here’s what they said. How do you incorporate healthy foods into your meals or snacks? “The way I incorporate healthy foods into my snacks is by following a rule I made for myself: No snack is complete without a healthy component,…
Cynics might wonder whether this generosity is entirely unrelated to the fact that the Heath elected Salisbury’s first Reform councillor in May. But we all know what they say about gift horses, and the funds are certainly very much needed. I do, however, have questions aplenty, to be answered by officialdom in due course. At…
An official from Hamas says the Palestinian group will respond “soon” to United States President Donald Trump’s proposal to end Israel’s nearly two-year war on Gaza. Hamas political bureau member Mohammed Nazzal told Al Jazeera Arabic on Thursday that the group was discussing Trump’s plan with the goal of stopping Israel’s war on Gaza and…
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 1, 2025. NYSE Stock futures were little changed after the market recorded new highs on Thursday, driven by strength in the artificial intelligence trade that appeared to overpower concerns about the 2-day-old U.S. government shutdown. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 11…
A couple of hours before Shein opened a pop‑up shop in Dijon this summer, the words “Shein kills” and “exploitation, forced labour, slavery, pollution” were found graffitied in French on the outside wall. Yet the fierce backlash to its series of temporary outlets in France in recent years, including in Toulouse, Montpellier and Marseille, has…