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  • Trump-Xi meeting nears with high stakes and hopes, but few details

    Trump-Xi meeting nears with high stakes and hopes, but few details

    Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump

    Sergey Bobylev | Kent Nishimura | Reuters

    A high-stakes meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping could yield a breakthrough in the quarrelsome trade…

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  • M&A Poised to Gain Momentum – Morgan Stanley

    M&A Poised to Gain Momentum – Morgan Stanley

    1. M&A Poised to Gain Momentum  Morgan Stanley
    2. The Coming Debt Deluge?  Seeking Alpha
    3. Funding for AI is evolving, Goldman report finds  Yahoo Finance
    4. Debt financing in AI is a signal that the bull market in tech is ‘getting weaker,’ Morgan Stanley CIO says  Fortune
    5. Morgan Stanley signals growth in private credit M&A and AI infrastructure  Traders Union

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  • expert reaction to 23 year follow up data from The European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer

    A study and related editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine looks at follow up data from the…

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  • NVIDIA Sets Conference Call for Third-Quarter Financial Results

    NVIDIA Sets Conference Call for Third-Quarter Financial Results

    CFO Commentary to Be Provided in Writing Ahead of Call

    SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NVIDIA will host a conference call on Wednesday, November 19, at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET) to discuss its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026, which ended October 26, 2025.

    The call will be webcast live (in listen-only mode) on investor.nvidia.com. The company’s prepared remarks will be followed by a Q&A session, which will be limited to questions from financial analysts and institutional investors.

    Ahead of the call, NVIDIA will provide written commentary on its third-quarter results from Colette Kress, the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer. This material will be posted to investor.nvidia.com immediately after the company’s results are publicly announced at approximately 1:20 p.m. PT.

    The webcast will be recorded and available for replay until the company’s conference call to discuss financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2026.

    About NVIDIA
    NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world leader in accelerated computing.

    © 2025 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA and the NVIDIA logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.

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  • Nasdaq clinches record, Dow, S&P 500 dip as Fed cuts rates, Powell downplays December cut

    Nasdaq clinches record, Dow, S&P 500 dip as Fed cuts rates, Powell downplays December cut

    Inflation may be stuck around 3%, but Fed Chair Jerome Powell says the story underneath the surface is more nuanced — and in some ways, closer to the central bank’s target than it appears.

    At the post-decision press conference, Powell broke down the September CPI report and the factors driving prices higher, emphasizing that tariffs, rather than broad-based price pressures, are the primary culprit behind sticky goods prices.

    “The September CPI report …was a little softer than expected,” Powell said. “Basically, you’ve seen goods prices increasing, and that’s really due to tariffs. And that’s compared to a longer-run trend of very, very mild deflation in goods. So that’s moving inflation up.”

    He added that housing inflation, which had long been a thorn in the Fed’s side, is finally showing sustained improvement.

    “The housing services inflation has been coming down and is expected to continue to come down,” he said. “That leaves the biggest category … services other than housing services. And that’s kind of been moving sideways over the last few months.”

    Powell suggested that once you strip out the impact of tariffs, underlying inflation is running much closer to the Fed’s 2% target, likely around 2.3% to 2.4%, or just a few tenths of a percentage point above the goal.

    “We’re absolutely committed to returning inflation to 2%,” he said. “If you look at longer-term surveys or market pricing, you will see that that’s a credible commitment. And there should be no question that that’s where we’re going.”

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  • UN chief condemns Gaza killings, urges full respect for ceasefire – UN News

    1. UN chief condemns Gaza killings, urges full respect for ceasefire  UN News
    2. Why did Israel launch air strikes on Gaza, then ‘resume’ truce?  Al Jazeera
    3. Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 104, health ministry says, after Hamas accused of killing…

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  • Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean | Oceans

    Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean | Oceans

    A carnivorous “death ball” sponge is among 30 previously unknown deep-sea species found by scientists in one of the most remote parts of the planet.

    Researchers sampled the depths of the Southern Ocean, including volcanic calderas, the South…

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  • Venus loses its last active spacecraft, as Japan declares Akatsuki orbiter dead

    Venus loses its last active spacecraft, as Japan declares Akatsuki orbiter dead

    Humanity’s last active mission at Venus is no more.

    The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a year after the Venus climate probe failed to respond to calls from…

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  • Xbox Console Sales Sink 29% in Quarter Between 2 Price Hikes

    Xbox Console Sales Sink 29% in Quarter Between 2 Price Hikes

    The good news: the Xbox handhelds are here! The bad news: Xbox console sales are experiencing a significant slide.

    Microsoft reports Xbox console sales were down 29 percent (in revenue) in the summer quarter, which was sandwiched between…

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  • Jen Atkin Misses the Awkward Hair Phase

    Jen Atkin Misses the Awkward Hair Phase

    Photo: Courtesy of Bellami

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