Comma News30-year mortgage rate dips to 7.32%, first drop in 8 weeks
Freddie Mac's weekly survey shows the average 30-year fixed rate fell to 7.32% from 7.40%, ending a seven-week run of increases.
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All Business →US jobless claims fall to 194,000
Filings dropped 6,000 in the week to Oct. 17, near the 2026 low of 189,000.
Pentagon bars betting on nonpublic military info
An Oct. 20 memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth names Polymarket and Kalshi and covers classified and unclassified info.
Ireland fines Coinbase unit €3.25M
The regulator says the unit's customer-fund account ran short for long periods in 2020-25, which Coinbase admitted.
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All AI & Tech →Treasury proposes wider curbs on tech investing in China
The draft rule covers chips, AI, quantum, supercomputing, hypersonics and now biotech.
Global PC shipments fall 21% in Q3
Counterpoint counts 57M units, HP down 31%, Apple down 11%; Omdia also shows a 21% drop.
OpenAI opens its Decisions API to all developers
OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available on Thursday, a service that answers bounded questions (a yes/no probability, a pick from a fixed list, or a rubric score) instead of generating free text.
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All World →Russia fires 21 ballistic missiles at Kyiv hours after agreeing to resume talks
Ukraine said Russia launched 21 ballistic missiles at Kyiv in three waves overnight, a day after Vladimir Putin agreed in principle to new US-mediated talks expected in November.
Magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Tibet kills 16, collapses hundreds of homes
A magnitude 7.0 quake struck Baqen County in Tibet's Nagqu area late Thursday local time; officials say 16 people died and hundreds of homes collapsed.
Serbia's student movement holds final rally before Sunday's election
Large crowds backed the student-led Student List in Belgrade on Thursday, ahead of a Sunday parliamentary vote that challenges Aleksandar Vucic's governing party.
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