The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at around 1.25% on Friday and said underlying inflation is now generally consistent with its 2% target, the first time it has made that assessment since adopting the goal in 2013, according to Kyodo News, NHK and CNBC.
South Korea's KOSPI fell 3.48% to 5,730.74 on Friday and Taiwan's Taiex dropped 2.49% to 45,211.83, as chip stocks slid after a tech sell-off on Wall Street, according to Yonhap, Edaily and Focus Taiwan.
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Israel's Central Elections Committee published final results early Friday showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc with 53 of the Knesset's 120 seats, the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot with 48 and Arab-led parties with 19, leaving no side with the 61 needed to govern, according to The Times of Israel, AP and Ynet.
At least 14 people were killed and at least 14 wounded on Thursday when a Russian jet-powered drone hit a crowded platform at the main railway station in Dnipro, Ukrainian officials said, according to the BBC, DW and CBS News.
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The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 7.24% this week from 7.32%, its second straight weekly decline and its lowest level this month, Freddie Mac said Thursday.
First-time claims for state unemployment benefits fell by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 194,000 in the week ended Oct. 24, the Labor Department said Thursday.
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Investment led the gain, while September PCE inflation rose to 3.6% year over year, with core at 3.1%.
Operating income hit $28.1B, a record 13.9% margin, but EPS of $1.89 missed the $1.96 LSEG estimate.
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U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a preliminary injunction requiring immigration agents in the Central District of California to have individualized reasonable suspicion before stopping people, ruling they may not rely solely on someone appearing to be Latino and low-income or working class.
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston ruled Thursday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services unlawfully narrowed the "medically frail" exemption from Medicaid's new work requirements, siding in part with 25 states and the District of Columbia.
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U.S. District Judge David O. Carter on Wednesday denied the Justice Department's emergency request to make California segregate the ballots of roughly 20,000 people the administration says are likely noncitizens, writing that it would "wreak havoc" on an election already underway.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Thursday he has directed the state Department of Public Safety to investigate whether an effort to recruit a Senate candidate sharing incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan's name broke state law, after a New York Times report tied the effort to Democrat Mary Peltola's campaign.
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Universal Music Group said Thursday its third-quarter revenue rose 12.3% from a year earlier to €3.394 billion, helped by its acquisition of Downtown Music and faster growth in subscription streaming.
People Inc., the publisher of People, Entertainment Weekly and other brands, is laying off 195 employees, about 6% of its workforce, CEO Neil Vogel said in a staff memo Thursday, according to Variety, Adweek and TheWrap.
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Eli Lilly said its experimental drug retatrutide lowered A1C by an average of 2.2% at 80 weeks in adults with type 2 diabetes, compared with 1.8% for Novo Nordisk's Ozempic 2 mg, in the TRANSCEND-T2D-2 trial.
Africa CDC and the World Health Organization convened African health ministers on Wednesday as the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak reached 10,172 confirmed cases and more than 4,932 deaths, according to Xinhua and Kenya News Agency.
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Frontier Airlines said third-quarter revenue rose 53% to a record $1.4B, while fare revenue per passenger climbed to $67.82 from $39.74 a year earlier, according to the company and CNBC.
Alaska Airlines said it plans to fly daily between Anchorage and Tokyo Narita from May 13 to September 7, 2027, subject to government approval, according to the airline and Aviation Week.
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In its first dollar disclosure, Microsoft said Azure grew 48% from a year earlier in the July-September quarter, about 36% of total revenue of $92.3B.
Google says the model improves coding, agentic tasks and cybersecurity.
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