Writing the summary…
Treasury yields are broadly flat as investors anticipate FOMC minutes
Source: CNBC
Original reporting
CNBC: read the full reportRelated stories
The Guardian
Euro dips further as French central bank chief warns the country risks being ‘strangled by interest rates’ – business live
Euro extends last week’s 1.2% drop amid French debt fears and political uncertainty in Europe Oil prices have continued to fall, dropping below $100 a barrel. Brent crude, the global benchmark, fell as low as $99.38 a barrel, and is now at $99.54 a barrel, down 0.8%. US light crude dropped more, 1.2% to $88.34 a barrel. Continue reading...
CNBC
Trump allows cheaper, dyed diesel on highways to blunt historic fuel-cost spike ahead of midterms
The U.S. national average price of diesel topped $6 a gallon in September for the first time ever, as fuel supply disruptions pushed up transportation costs in the country.
BBC Business2 outlets
Lego fraudster among last year's most high-profile insurance scammers
The person was sentenced to 28 months in prison after an investigation found the claims were made up, the insurance trade body, the ABI said.
BBC Business
We're saving £100 a month for our kids but they won't get it until they're 57
A growing number of parents are opening retirement funds for their children.
CNBC
How quant funds beat the market by being 'early, contrarian and right'
Quantitative hedge funds have captured big trends in bonds and oil to outperform the stock market this year.
The Guardian
‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms
Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings In a bar below Waterloo Bridge, a cell of a fast-growing anti-AI protest movement met last week to plot their latest move: disrupting a tech industry dinner being addressed by a senior executive from the chip maker Nvidia. Emma, a 28-year-old bartender, had never before taken direct action and was the most nervous of the four plotters from Pull The Plug, one of a growing number of AI-focused campaign groups around the world. Continue reading...