Market News for October 19, 2026
Every story Market Flux published on October 19, 2026.
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Pete Hegseth Makes Unannounced Visit to Israel to Meet Netanyahu Eight Days Before Election
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an unannounced visit to Israel on Monday, according to two sources with knowledge of the trip…
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OpenAI Races to Close $30 Billion Round at $1.4 Trillion Valuation Before Anthropic Goes Public
OpenAI is accelerating efforts to lock in investor commitments for a roughly $30 billion private funding round that would value the company at more than $1.4 trillion, according to sources…
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Nasdaq Rebounds 1.1% on AI Dip-Buying as Asian Markets Sink and Earnings Tests Loom
US stocks staged a broad recovery Monday after last week's worst sell-off since June, with the Nasdaq Composite gaining 1.14% to close at 26,438 and the S&P 500 rising 0.42% to 7,691, while…
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FDA Approves GSK Rectal Cancer Drug While Veradermics Hair Loss Pill Shows Strong Phase III Results
GSK's Jemperli (dostarlimab-gxly) received FDA approval as the first and only immunotherapy cleared for adults with mismatch repair deficient and microsatellite instability-high locally…
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Zions Bancorporation Beats Q3 2026 Earnings Estimates While ServisFirst Posts Slight Miss
Zions Bancorporation reported third-quarter 2026 net earnings of $262 million, or $1.78 per diluted share, topping the Wall Street consensus estimate of $1.64 per share surveyed by Zacks…
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Eric Schmidt Owns 1% of Anthropic Worth Up to $20 Billion Ahead of IPO
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt holds approximately 1% of Anthropic PBC, a stake acquired through an early investment in the company's Series A fundraising round, according to people…
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Trump Praises Musk for Pledging SpaceX Stock to Every American Child Through Trump Accounts
President Trump publicly thanked Elon Musk on Truth Social for pledging to give a share of SpaceX stock to every child in America, calling the initiative an act of incredible generosity and…
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Trump Says Zelensky Should Find Someone Else to Negotiate Ukraine Peace Deal
President Trump publicly broke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on October 19, declaring it is time for someone else to negotiate on Ukraine's behalf after Zelensky said Trump is…
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Trump Open to Trilateral Summit With Putin and Xi Focused on Denuclearization, Dismisses Zelenskyy as Ukraine Negotiator
President Donald Trump said on October 19 that he would be willing to meet jointly with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, with denuclearization as the…
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Merck KGaA to Acquire Silence Therapeutics for $1.3 Billion at 130% Premium to Recent Close
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany agreed on October 19 to acquire London-based Silence Therapeutics plc in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $1.3 billion in equity and $1.1 billion in…
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EyePoint Pharmaceuticals Shares Crater 84% as Second DURAVYU Phase 3 Trial Fails in Wet AMD, Triggering 53% Workforce Cut
EyePoint Pharmaceuticals reported that its LUCIA trial, the second pivotal Phase 3 study of DURAVYU in wet age-related macular degeneration, failed to achieve its primary endpoint, dealing…
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Cleveland-Cliffs Posts Strongest Quarter in Three Years and Forecasts 2027 Adjusted EBITDA Above $4 Billion
Cleveland-Cliffs delivered its best quarterly performance in three years, reporting Q3 2026 adjusted EBITDA of $612 million, ahead of both its own $575 million guidance and the Wall Street…
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Axion Minerals Launches Phase 1 Exploration at Cranberry Creek Rare Earth Property in British Columbia
Axion Minerals Corp. (CSE: AXN) has commenced Phase 1 exploration at its Cranberry Creek rare earth element property in British Columbia, the Vancouver-based junior miner announced on…
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BofA Double-Downgrades Ameriprise Financial to Underperform, Cuts Price Target to $445 from $570
Bank of America Securities issued a double downgrade of Ameriprise Financial (NYSE: AMP) on Monday, cutting its rating to Underperform from Buy and slashing its price target to $445 from…
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Western Digital Stock Rises 6% as Sector Rebounds Ahead of After-the-Close Earnings Report
Western Digital shares rose 6.09% on Monday, October 19, outperforming broader competitors on a strong trading day as the storage sector bounced back from a sharp recent selloff. Sandisk…
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SanDisk Surges 7% as Memory Stocks Rebound From Last Week's AI-Driven Selloff
SanDisk shares climbed roughly 7% on Monday, October 19, clawing back a portion of the 18% loss suffered last week and the broader 27.5% decline recorded over the prior four weeks. The…
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Tesla Heads Into Wednesday Earnings Weighed Down by Slowing Growth as SpaceX Merger Speculation and Musk's $10.7 Billion Share Giveaway Dominate the Week
Tesla enters its third-quarter earnings report on Wednesday after the close facing a consensus revenue estimate of roughly $28.1 billion, essentially flat from a year ago, with earnings per…
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Amazon Surges 5% as Morgan Stanley Raises Target to $350 and AWS, Nuclear and Chip Moves Add Fuel
Amazon shares jumped roughly 5% on Monday, their best single-session gain since the July earnings report, adding approximately $135 billion in market capitalization after Morgan Stanley…
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Steel Dynamics Q3 2026 Earnings Beat on Revenue but Miss on EPS and EBITDA as Profits Surge Year Over Year
Steel Dynamics posted third-quarter 2026 revenue of $6.51 billion, topping the $6.43 billion consensus estimate, but fell short on the bottom line. EPS came in at $5.26, missing the $5.41…
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W R Berkley Tops Earnings Estimates in Q3 as Underwriting Income Climbs 11 Percent
W. R. Berkley Corporation posted third-quarter 2026 adjusted EPS of $1.17, a penny above the $1.15 consensus estimate and 6 percent higher than a year ago, though net income fell to $446.0…
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Strategy Buys 267 Bitcoin for $22 Million While Repurchasing $193 Million of STRC Preferred Stock
Strategy, the Nasdaq-listed firm formerly known as MicroStrategy, made a relatively modest Bitcoin purchase this week, acquiring just 267 BTC for approximately $22 million, funded almost…
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Mastercard Launches Stablecoin Security Tool at Money20/20 to Screen Payments Before Settlement
Mastercard unveiled Stablecoin Security at Money20/20 USA, a risk intelligence service that lets banks and payment providers screen stablecoin transactions for fraud, scams, sanctions…
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XRP On-Chain Volume Surges to $49.66 Billion While Price Tests $1.26 Support
XRP faced a turbulent week heading into October 19, with its market value dropping $6.52 billion between October 12 and October 19. Bitcoin and Ether also fell over the same period…
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Trump Approval Rating Hits Record Low of 31% as November Midterms Approach
A Reuters/Ipsos poll closed Monday found President Trump's approval rating fell to 31%, down one point from two weeks earlier and the lowest recorded across either of his presidential…
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Trump Renews Call for New Mexico to Rename Itself New America
President Trump posted a new demand on Truth Social calling for New Mexico to immediately change its name to "New America," arguing the new name would boost home values, incomes and the…
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XRP Gets Official Social Media Account as On-Chain Volume Hits $49.66 Billion in a Single Day
XRP received a significant institutional visibility boost on October 19 when Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation jointly launched an official X account for the token, a move that generated…
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US Treasury Corporate Tax Revenue Falls 16% in FY2026 as Bond Yields Resume Rise
The U.S. Treasury collected $382 billion in corporate taxes in fiscal year 2026, a 16% decline from the prior year, as deductions expanded under the One Big Beautiful Bill allowed companies…
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Anthropic Nears $45 Billion Cloud Deal With Nscale for West Virginia Data Center Capacity
Anthropic is in advanced talks with Nscale, a UK-based AI infrastructure company, for a roughly $45 billion cloud computing agreement that could close within days, according to Bloomberg…
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Trump Says He Would Hold Trilateral Meeting With Xi and Putin Contingent on Denuclearization
President Trump said he would be open to a trilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, conditioning any such summit on the issue of…
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NVIDIA Sets 104-Qubit Fault-Tolerant Quantum Simulation Record on JUPITER Supercomputer at Jülich
NVIDIA and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre have set a new record by simulating a 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computer on the JUPITER supercomputer, the first exascale-class machine in…
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Houthis Launch Broad Strike Wave on Saudi Energy Sites and Airports, Lifting Oil Prices
Yemen's Houthi forces launched a wide wave of missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia on October 19, targeting critical energy infrastructure and military installations across the…
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Cognizant and Google Cloud Form Dedicated AI Engineering Group of 18,000 to Drive Agentic Enterprise Transformation
Cognizant and Google Cloud have expanded their strategic alliance, establishing a dedicated AI engineering group staffed by 18,000 Cognizant engineers to accelerate the deployment of…
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SkyAI Sells All Solana Holdings and Launches $201 Million Share Buyback at $3 Per Share
SkyAI, formerly Sharps Technology Inc. and once the fifth-largest publicly traded Solana treasury company, has sold its entire SOL reserve and now holds approximately $223.8 million in cash…
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Bank of Canada Surveys Show Worsening Business Outlook and Sharply Higher Inflation Expectations After Trade Talks Collapse
The Bank of Canada's quarterly Business Outlook Survey and Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations, released Monday, showed inflation expectations rising noticeably and business sentiment…
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Trump Signs Executive Order Creating NIH Women's Health Division and White House Task Force
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday, October 19, creating a Women's Health Division at the National Institutes of Health and a White House Women's Health Task Force…
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Fifth Third Bancorp Q3 Adjusted EPS of $1.13 Beats Estimates as Comerica Integration Lifts Revenue 42%
Fifth Third Bancorp posted third-quarter 2026 adjusted earnings of $1.13 per share, topping the consensus estimate of $1.09 by $0.04, as the full-quarter contribution from its Comerica…
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Qatar Launches Lebanon Power Lifeline and Holds Energy Talks With Iran
Qatar is pursuing a sweeping energy expansion across the Middle East, unveiling a draft electricity plan for Lebanon and holding a ministerial meeting with Iran's acting oil minister in…
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Disc Medicine Surges 60% After Bitopertin Hits All Phase 3 APOLLO Endpoints in Rare Sun-Sensitivity Disease
Disc Medicine shares rocketed as much as 60% on October 19 after the company announced that its investigational drug bitopertin met all primary and secondary endpoints in the pivotal Phase…
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Former OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Recording Device Had Saudi Government Backing, Court Filing Reveals
A former OpenAI employee accused of secretly planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the company appears to have received "considerable support" from the Saudi…
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US Homebuilder Confidence Drops to Lowest Since June 2012 as Mortgage Rates Top 7%
US homebuilder sentiment fell sharply in October, hitting its lowest level since June 2012, as rising mortgage rates and weak demand hammered confidence in the new-home market. The…
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Cleveland-Cliffs Posts Strongest Quarter in Three Years, Guides to Higher Q4 EBITDA
Cleveland-Cliffs reported third-quarter 2026 adjusted earnings per share of $0.28, topping the Wall Street consensus of $0.22 to $0.24, while revenue came in at $5.6 billion, just below…
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Anthropic Developing AI Model With Enhanced Ability to Interpret User Intentions
Anthropic is preparing to release a new AI model designed to read and interpret users' intentions more accurately, according to a report from The Information published on October 19. The…
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Trump Administration Orders DeepSeek Removed From All Civilian Federal Agency IT Systems
The Trump administration has directed civilian government agencies to remove the Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek from their IT systems and has barred those agencies from…
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Cleveland-Cliffs Posts Strongest Quarter in Three Years and Forecasts 2027 Adjusted EBITDA Above $4 Billion
Cleveland-Cliffs reported third-quarter 2026 adjusted EBITDA of $612 million, beating its own $575 million guidance and the Wall Street consensus of roughly $593 million to $601 million…
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Pentagon's Emil Michael Threatens Export Controls Against AI Labs That Refuse Government Cooperation
Emil Michael, the Pentagon's defense undersecretary who serves as vice chair of the White House's AI task force, has threatened to impose export controls on artificial intelligence…
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NYSE American Options Launches Extended Trading Hours with Sessions Before and After Core Market
The New York Stock Exchange, part of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), on October 19, 2026 launched Extended Trading Hours for NYSE American Options, giving market participants broader…
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French Bond Yields Surge 16bps to 4.94% as Protests Deepen Fiscal Fears, While BofA Holds October Fed Hike Call
French 10-year government bond yields jumped 16 basis points on Monday to 4.94%, their largest single-day rise since March 2025, as violent nationwide protests over the cost of living…
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Canada September CPI Rises to 3.1% as Gasoline Prices Surge but Core Measures Hit Six-Year Lows
Canada's annual inflation rate edged up to 3.1% in September, beating the previous month's 3.0% reading but coming in below the 3.2% forecast, according to Statistics Canada data released…
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Cosa Resources Reports First Drill Results from Partner-Funded Aurora Uranium Project in Athabasca Basin
Cosa Resources Corp. (TSXV: COSA) released drilling results from its Aurora uranium project on October 19, 2026, marking the completion of the inaugural drill program at the property…
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Merck KGaA to Acquire Silence Therapeutics for $1.3 Billion in All-Cash Deal at 130% Premium
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany announced on October 19 that it has agreed to acquire Silence Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: SLN) in an all-cash transaction carrying an enterprise value of $1.1…
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Goldman Sachs Upgrades CoreWeave to Buy After 43% Plunge, Sees 73% Upside to $106 Target
Goldman Sachs analyst Gabriela Borges upgraded CoreWeave (CRWV) from Neutral to Buy on Monday, October 19, setting a $106 price target and arguing that investors are overestimating the…
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Disc Medicine Surges 60% on Phase 3 Win for Rare Sunlight Disorder Drug Developed With Roche
Disc Medicine's shares rocketed as much as 60 percent after the company reported positive Phase 3 results for its lead asset developed in collaboration with Roche, targeting erythropoietic…
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Silgan and American Industrial Partners to Acquire Trivium Packaging in $3.4 Billion Deal
Silgan Holdings (NYSE: SLGN) and private equity firm American Industrial Partners agreed to acquire Trivium Packaging from Ardagh Group and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in a deal valued…
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Tech Futures Rebound on Black Monday Anniversary as Mega-Cap Earnings Week Begins
US equity futures staged a partial recovery on Monday, October 19, with Nasdaq 100 futures gaining 1.19% or roughly 336 points and S&P 500 futures advancing 0.55%, even as the Dow edged up…
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Disc Medicine Surges 60% After Phase 3 APOLLO Trial of Bitopertin Meets All Endpoints in Rare Sun-Sensitivity Disease
Disc Medicine, trading on Nasdaq under the ticker IRON, surged roughly 60% on October 19 after reporting that its pivotal Phase 3 APOLLO trial of bitopertin met all primary and secondary…
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Disc Medicine Surges 60% on Phase 3 Win for Rare Sunlight Disorder Drug Developed With Roche
Disc Medicine's shares rocketed as much as 60 percent after the company reported positive Phase 3 results for its lead asset developed in collaboration with Roche, targeting erythropoietic…
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MARA Holdings Moves 1,000 BTC Worth $82.8 Million to Binance and Gate, Raising Sale Speculation
MARA Holdings, the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner, transferred 1,000 Bitcoin valued at approximately $82.8 million to the Binance and Gate exchanges over five days, according to…
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AI and Chip Stocks Stage Monday Rebound After Worst Week Since June as Earnings Season Begins
Technology and AI-linked stocks bounced back sharply on Monday, October 19, pulling the Nasdaq 100 up 1.2% and the S&P 500 up 0.4% after both indexes posted their worst weekly performance…
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Trump Russia Sanctions Waiver Sends Oil Down More Than 2% from Five-Month High
Oil prices fell sharply on Monday after President Donald Trump waived newly imposed sanctions and tariffs on Russia, a move traders interpreted as clearing the path for higher Russian fuel…
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China Expands Export Controls to Cover New Drones, Tunnel Boring Machines and Dredger Components
China's Ministry of Commerce announced a new round of export controls on Monday covering additional categories of drones, drone parts and technologies, components of dredgers including mud…
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Ladder Capital Posts Strong Q3 With $44.7 Million in Distributable Earnings and 50%-Plus Loan Growth
Ladder Capital Corp (NYSE: LADR) reported third-quarter 2026 distributable earnings of $44.7 million, or $0.35 per share, a result boosted by a $31 million gain on the sale of its…
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French Riots Send Bond Yields Near 24-Year Highs as Government Weighs State of Emergency
Violent nationwide protests in France over rising living costs and deteriorating public services sent French financial assets into a sharp selloff on Monday, with the country's 10-year…
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Global Food Inflation Set to Deepen as War, Weather and Shipping Shocks Converge
A Reuters analysis published October 19 warns that global food inflation is poised to accelerate as multiple supply shocks collide. Wheat prices have risen more than 30% in 2026, while rice…
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European Natural Gas Prices Hit Highest Since December 2022 as LNG Attack Fears and Low Storage Alarm Markets
European natural gas prices surged to their highest level since December 2022 on October 19, with benchmark Dutch TTF futures rising as much as 2% in early trading as a combination of…
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Bitcoin Rebounds Above $82,000 as Corporate Buyers Step In and Black Monday Fears Fade
Bitcoin climbed back above $83,000 early Monday, October 19, before slipping to the $82,000-$83,000 range, posting a roughly 2.25% intraday gain as oil prices retreated from five-month…
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JPMorgan Expands JPM Coin Deposit Token to Ethereum for Institutional Clients
JPMorgan is bringing its JPM Coin deposit token, known as JPMD, to the Ethereum mainnet, extending the bank's blockchain payment infrastructure beyond its earlier deployment on Base in…
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Primary Health Properties Forms £700 Million Hospital Joint Venture With Singapore's GIC
Primary Health Properties, the FTSE 250 healthcare property investor, has agreed to form a 50:50 joint venture with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, seeding the partnership with 27…
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GSK Lung Cancer Drug Risvutatug Rezetecan Posts 61% Response Rate in Global Phase 1b Trial
GSK's experimental antibody-drug conjugate risvutatug rezetecan, known as Ris-Rez, achieved a 61% confirmed response rate in a phase 1b global trial of patients with relapsed…
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Allegiance Resources Names University of Nevada Metallurgy Professor Dr. Ehsan Vahidi to Advisory Board for Tungsten Processing
Allegiance Resources Corp. (CSE: ALLG) has appointed Dr. Ehsan Vahidi, department chair and extractive metallurgy professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, to its advisory board to guide…
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India Finance Minister Pins Equity Slump on Excess Liquidity as Foreign Investors Pull Record Outflows
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attributed her country's equity market underperformance to excess liquidity enabling easy investor exits, speaking in an exclusive CNBC interview…
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Tsodilo Resources Reports Progress Across Three Research Alliances for Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Exploration in Botswana
Tsodilo Resources Ltd. (TSXV: TSD) has announced an update on three separate strategic research collaborations supporting its critical minerals and rare earth element exploration at its…
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China Q3 GDP Grows 4.5% Year on Year, Beating Forecasts on Strong Retail Sales and Industrial Output
China's economy expanded 4.5% year on year in the third quarter of 2026, topping the consensus forecast of 4.4% and accelerating from the 4.3% growth recorded in the prior quarter. On a…
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China Q3 GDP Grows 4.5% Year on Year, Beating Forecasts on Strong Retail Sales and Industrial Output
China's economy expanded 4.5% year on year in the third quarter of 2026, topping the consensus forecast of 4.4% and accelerating from the 4.3% growth recorded in the prior quarter. On a…
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BOJ Governor Ueda Says Underlying Inflation Is Close to 2% Target as Wage-Price Cycle Strengthens
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on October 19 that Japan's underlying inflation is now "quite close" to the central bank's 2% price target, citing a positive cycle of rising wages…