Market News for October 23, 2026
Every story Market Flux published on October 23, 2026.
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Globe Life Sinks 8% After Q3 Earnings Disappoint and Piper Sandler Cuts to Neutral
Globe Life reported third-quarter 2026 net income of $361 million, or $4.62 per share, a 2% decline from $4.73 per share a year earlier. Net operating income came in at $379 million, or…
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American Express Raises Full-Year Profit Forecast and Cuts 5% of Workforce to Prepare for AI
American Express posted record third-quarter 2026 revenue of $20.1 billion, up 9% year over year, and raised its full-year earnings outlook, but the results were overshadowed by an…
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Deckers Outdoor Cuts Full-Year Revenue Outlook as HOKA and UGG Demand Slows, Stock Drops 15%
Deckers Outdoor reported mixed second-quarter fiscal 2027 results on October 22, posting record revenue of $1.48 billion, up 3.5% year over year, but falling short of analyst expectations…
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Dollar Tree and Dollar General Stocks Drop 6% as Rising Costs Squeeze Core Shoppers on 40th Anniversary Milestone Day
Shares of Dollar Tree and Dollar General each fell roughly 6% on October 23, 2026, as analysts flagged that rising living costs are eroding the spending power of both chains' core…
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SpaceX Cell Site Push Sends AT&T and Telecom Stocks Down 6% While Tower Owners Surge
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile shares fell sharply Friday after Bloomberg reported that SpaceX is in talks with cellular infrastructure companies to secure access to at least 80,000 US cell…
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Comfort Systems USA Beats Q3 Estimates But Shares Slide on CFO Retirement and Absent Guidance
Comfort Systems USA reported blockbuster third-quarter 2026 results late Thursday, posting net income of $489.0 million, or $13.91 per diluted share, up from $8.25 a year earlier and $1.20…
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T-Mobile Falls 8% to 52-Week Low as SpaceX Targets 80,000 Cell Sites for Rival Carrier
T-Mobile US shares tumbled 8% on Friday and hit a 52-week intraday low of $147.89, leading a broad selloff across the telecom sector after Bloomberg reported that SpaceX is in talks to…
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Hershey CEO Bets on Holiday Innovation as Analysts Debate Stock Value Versus Consumer Staples Rally
Hershey CEO Kirk Tanner, who joined the chocolate maker in August 2025, is pushing a strategy centered on product innovation to expand the company's dominance beyond Halloween and into a…
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Instacart Explores Sale at $12 Billion Valuation with Uber and DoorDash Among Potential Buyers
Instacart is exploring a sale and has held preliminary discussions with both Uber and DoorDash, according to The Information. The grocery delivery company, valued at around $12 billion, is…
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Newmont Posts Record Q3 Profit and $1.9B Free Cash Flow but Stock Falls on Red Chris Cost Surprise
Newmont Corporation reported record third-quarter 2026 profit, beating consensus estimates on both earnings per share and revenue, driven by higher gold prices and a recovery at its Cadia…
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Bloom Energy Falls 11% After Q3 Beat as Negative Cash Flow Overshadows Record Revenue and Third Guidance Raise
Bloom Energy reported record third-quarter 2026 revenue of $1.235 billion, a 138% year-over-year surge, while adjusted earnings per share came in at $0.94 against analyst estimates of $0.68…
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SpaceX Talks to Lease 80,000 US Cell Sites Send Crown Castle Surging 13% and Rattles AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile
Crown Castle shares surged as much as 13.4% on Friday, topping the S&P 500, after Bloomberg reported that SpaceX is in talks to access at least 80,000 US cell sites to build a full…
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Palo Alto Networks Surges 7% as Evercore Survey and AI Threat Warnings Fuel Cybersecurity Rally
Palo Alto Networks shares climbed as much as 7% on October 23, leading a broad cybersecurity sector rally that also lifted CrowdStrike by roughly 6.8%, Cloudflare by 7%, Okta by nearly 6%…
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US Total Rig Count Holds at 603 for Second Straight Week as Oil Rigs Edge Up to 460
Baker Hughes reported on October 23 that the US total rotary rig count remained unchanged at 603 for the second consecutive week, as a one-rig gain in oil drilling offset a one-rig decline…
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CrowdStrike Surges 8% After CEO Warning on PHP Breaches and Evercore Demand Survey
CrowdStrike shares climbed roughly 8% on Friday, October 23, outperforming the broader market and adding to gains already recorded earlier in the week, as two catalysts converged to lift…
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SLB Beats Q3 Estimates With $9.45B Revenue and Announces $4.1B Kelvion Acquisition
SLB N.V. reported third-quarter 2026 results that topped Wall Street expectations across all major metrics, posting revenue of $9.45 billion against analyst estimates of $9.3 billion, a 2%…
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Markets Brace for Massive Week of Fed Decision, Megacap Earnings and UK Autumn Budget
Wall Street heads into what analysts are calling the biggest week of the year under pressure, after the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 652.82 points, or 1.23%, on Friday October 23 to…
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Argentina Drops Criminal Probe Against President Milei and Sister Over LIBRA Memecoin Collapse
Argentina has dropped its criminal investigation into President Javier Milei and his sister over the LIBRA memecoin scandal, closing the most significant legal threat to face his…
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Dow Drops 650 Points as Defensive Stocks Drag US Equities Lower to Close a Volatile Week
US stocks ended Friday sharply lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling 650 points as defensive sectors led the selloff and broad market sentiment soured into the close. The…
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Western Digital Posts 55% Revenue Jump and Strong Q2 Outlook but Shares Slide on Capex Fears
Western Digital reported fiscal first-quarter 2027 revenue of $4.38 billion, up 55% year over year, with non-GAAP earnings per share of $4.64 beating the analyst consensus of $4.11. Cloud…
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Wall Street Rethinks the AI Trade as CoreWeave Debt Stress, Cyber Risks and Valuation Fears Collide
A cluster of pressures is forcing investors to reassess the durability of the AI investment boom. CoreWeave, the neocloud company at the center of AI infrastructure buildout, has seen its…
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OpenAI Moves Frontier Model Training Offline After DNS Misconfiguration Breach
OpenAI has announced it will train its most advanced frontier models in a closed, air-gapped environment with no internet access, a direct response to a DNS misconfiguration incident that…
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Iranian President Pezeshkian to Travel to Moscow Next Week for Talks with Putin
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will visit Russia next week to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, according to Iran's Foreign Minister and confirmed by the Iranian…
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Central Banks Are Stockpiling Gold at Four Times Normal Rates and Moving It Out of the US
Goldman Sachs data shows central banks globally purchased 79 tonnes of gold in August 2026, more than four times the pre-2022 average of 17 tonnes per month, with purchases running at 85…
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DOJ Charges Two Former FBI Officials With Lying to Congress About Hunter Biden Laptop Probe
The Justice Department charged two former senior FBI officials on Friday with making false statements to Congress about their roles in the bureau's investigation into Hunter Biden and his…
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Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $636 Million in Single Day as Oil Spike and Geopolitical Fears Derail Rally
Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $635.6 million in net outflows on Thursday, October 22, their largest single-day withdrawal since June 25 and enough to reverse nearly 60% of the inflows from the…
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Bitcoin Core Scraps Long Security Embargoes for Bugs AI Can Find With a Single Prompt
Bitcoin Core has updated its security disclosure policy to fast-track fixes and public advisories for vulnerabilities that large language models can easily rediscover, ending the…
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Sigma Lithium Pushes Back $100 Million Debt Maturity to June 2027 as Mine Restart Hits 7,090 Tonnes
Sigma Lithium has agreed with lender Synergy Capital to extend the maturity of its US$100 million senior secured debt facility by six months, moving the due date from December 2026 to June…
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Netanyahu Orders Crypto and Blockchain Plan to Shield Israel from Financial Sanctions
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested a formal plan to use cryptocurrency and blockchain technology as a means of bypassing potential banking and financial sanctions…
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TikTok US Operations Seek Four Gigawatts of Computing Capacity by Early 2030s
TikTok's U.S. entity, officially TikTok USDS Joint Venture, is hunting for multiple gigawatts of computing capacity, CNBC reported on October 23, citing two people familiar with the…
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DOJ Sues to Block Alaska Senate Certification If GOP Incumbent Dan Sullivan Loses
The Trump administration's Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on October 23 seeking to preemptively block Alaska from certifying the results of its U.S. Senate race if Republican…
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Zelenskiy Confirms Starlink Speed Limits Still Active on Ukrainian Front Lines, Contradicting Trump Claims
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed on Friday that speed limits on Starlink and Starshield satellite services remain in effect along the front lines, directly contradicting…
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SEC Sets FY 2027 Examination Priorities With New Focus on Tokenization and Super Intelligence
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced its Division of Examinations' Fiscal Year 2027 priorities on October 23, 2026, identifying tokenization and super intelligence among its…
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SpaceX Seeks 80,000 US Cell Sites to Launch Nationwide Mobile Carrier, Rattling AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile
SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure company, including Crown Castle, to secure a minimum of 80,000 cell sites across the United States, a move that would…
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Deckers Outdoor Slashes Full-Year Revenue Outlook After Q2 Sales Miss, Shares Sink Up to 15%
Deckers Outdoor posted mixed fiscal second-quarter 2027 results on October 22, sending shares down as much as 15% in Friday pre-market trading before recovering to a loss of roughly 6%-8%…
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Brent Crude Hits Five-Month High Above $115 as Iran Warns of War and Middle East Exports Plunge
Oil prices surged to multi-month highs on October 23, with Brent crude touching $116 a barrel, its highest level in nearly six months, and U.S. West Texas Intermediate climbing above $101 a…
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US Taps Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Aid Phillips 66 Lake Charles Refinery After Supply Disruption
The U.S. Department of Energy authorized an emergency exchange of up to 400,000 barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve on October 23 to address a crude oil supply…
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US October PMI Shows Manufacturing at 53-Month High as Inflation Pressures Mount and Consumer Sentiment Stays Near Record Lows
S&P Global's October flash PMI readings released October 23 showed the US economy expanding at a robust pace, with manufacturing leading the way. The manufacturing PMI rose to 56.0, beating…
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Melania Trump Brokers Localized Ceasefire for Oleshky Starting October 29
First Lady Melania Trump has secured a localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine confined to the city of Oleshky, a front-line settlement in southern Ukraine on the eastern bank of the…
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Oracle Commits $1 Billion Over Four Years to Expand AI Partner Ecosystem
Oracle announced a $1 billion investment to be deployed over four years into its partner ecosystem, with the funds directed at partner incentives, AI resources, and support for AI-driven…
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Nicola Mining Completes Red Eye Resources Stockpile Processing at Merritt Mill Awaiting Assay Results
Nicola Mining Inc. (NASDAQ: NICM, TSXV: NIM) reported on October 23, 2026 that it has finished processing mineralized material sourced from Red Eye Resources Ltd. stockpiles at its Merritt…
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Eni, Rithm Capital, Rogers and Selective Insurance report Q3 2026 results with beats and raised outlooks
Italian energy giant Eni posted the strongest quarterly surprise of the group, reporting Q3 2026 adjusted net profit of 2.8 billion euros, well above an analyst consensus of 2.48 billion…
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Canada Retail Sales Jump 1.2% in August with September Gains Also in Sight
Canadian retail sales rebounded sharply in August, rising 1.2% month-on-month and 5.4% year-on-year, beating the 1.3% consensus forecast only narrowly but reversing a revised 0.8% decline…
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Deckers Outdoor Shares Slide 15% After Revenue Miss and Lowered Full-Year Sales Outlook
Deckers Outdoor posted mixed second-quarter fiscal 2027 results on October 22, sending shares down roughly 15% in Friday pre-market trading. Revenue rose 3.5% year over year to a record…
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American Express Beats Q3 Earnings and Raises Full-Year Outlook but Cuts 3500 Jobs to Prepare for AI
American Express reported record third-quarter 2026 revenue of $20.1 billion, up 9% year over year and roughly in line with the $20.12 billion analyst estimate, while adjusted earnings per…
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ESMO 2026 Delivers Wave of Oncology Trial Data Including Strong Results in Pancreatic and Lung Cancer
Multiple cancer drug developers presented significant clinical trial data at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2026 in Madrid, with the most closely watched results coming…
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American Express Beats Q3 Earnings but Announces 3500 Job Cuts as Stock Slides
American Express posted stronger-than-expected third-quarter 2026 results and raised its full-year profit forecast, but overshadowed those gains by announcing a workforce reduction of…
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Zymeworks Licenses Lung Cancer Drug ZW209 to Roche in Deal Worth Up to $813 Million
Zymeworks has signed a global license and collaboration agreement with Roche granting Roche exclusive worldwide rights to develop and commercialize ZW209, its experimental trispecific…
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French Bond Yields Hit 24-Year Highs as Crisis Deepens, German Debt Rallies to Two-Month Lows
A deepening selloff in French government bonds pushed the country's 10-year yield to 4.95-5.01%, its highest level since 2002, as mounting fiscal pressures, social unrest and political…
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Citigroup Wins Chinese Regulatory Approval for Wholly Owned Securities Business After Nearly Five Years
Citigroup has received approval from Chinese regulators to establish a wholly owned securities company in mainland China, capping a nearly five-year effort that began with the bank's…
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ECB September Survey Shows Eurozone Consumers Lifted Near-Term Inflation Expectations to 3.1%
Eurozone consumers nudged their near-term inflation expectations higher in September, according to the European Central Bank's monthly Consumer Expectations Survey released on October 23…
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Tanker With 40,000 Tons of Russian Diesel Bound for New York Under Trump-Putin Deal
A tanker carrying 40,000 metric tons of Russian diesel is en route to New York following a deal struck between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to…
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Ethereum Postpones Glamsterdam Hoodi Testnet Upgrade After Security Firm Flags Smart Contract Risks
Ethereum core developers have postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi testnet, originally scheduled for October 26, 2026, after blockchain security firm ChainSecurity identified…
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US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Shed $635 Million in Single Day as Bitcoin Slides Below $82,000
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $635.49 million in net outflows on October 22, snapping three consecutive sessions of positive flows and marking one of the sharper single-day reversals in…
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India October Flash PMIs Show Broad Acceleration Led by Services Sector
India's economy showed stronger private-sector activity in October, with the HSBC flash composite PMI rising to 56.7 from 55.9 in September, beating the forecast of 56.1. The reading marks…
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Trump announces Bombardier will invest $270 million in the US across three states, dropping sales ban threat
President Donald Trump announced that Canadian aerospace company Bombardier will invest $270 million in the United States, creating jobs across three states. The announcement came after…
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Britain's Energy Grid Operators Declare Adequate Winter Supply Despite Rising Import Dependence
Britain's gas and electricity grid operators have issued their winter outlook, concluding that supply will be sufficient to meet demand despite growing reliance on imports and global market…
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Brent Crude Surges to $113 as Houthi Attacks on Saudi Arabia Slash US Export Flows to Asia
Oil markets absorbed a sharp escalation in Middle East conflict this week, with Brent crude surging 4% to $113.17 a barrel and WTI gaining 2.4% to $99.47 after Iran-backed Houthi militants…
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Japan Core Inflation Surpasses BOJ 2% Target for First Time in Nine Months, Cementing December Rate Hike Bets
Japan's core consumer price index rose 2.1% year-on-year in September, matching forecasts but marking the first time the measure has exceeded the Bank of Japan's 2% target in nine months…
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Trump Confirmed He Called Musk to Restore Ukraine Starlink Access After Speed Caps Were Imposed
President Donald Trump confirmed he personally spoke to Elon Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on SpaceX's Starlink satellite service in Ukraine, telling reporters Thursday that "he…
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Circle Shareholder Sues Trump, World Liberty Financial and Witkoff Over $2 Billion UAE Crypto Deals
A shareholder in Circle Internet Group, J. Benjamin Greenberg, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia accusing President Donald Trump, his…