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Rubio said the group was not close to universally accepted solutions, then hosted his Australian, Indian and Japanese counterparts, who called for free navigation in Hormuz and the Red Sea.
The metal slid 3.6% in its worst session in weeks, breaking the $3,886 floor, while analysts pointed to central bank buying as the main support.
Candidates in Ohio, Texas, South Carolina and New Hampshire are campaigning on data-center moratoriums, while towns from Massachusetts to Michigan pass bans and pauses of their own.
Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council said disruption in the two straits threatens global economic interests, as the Saudi-led coalition reported intercepting a Houthi drone near Mecca.
Regulators and lawmakers turned to oversight after the $6.3 billion theft, while analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, TD Cowen and Compass Point called the sell-off in crypto stocks a buying chance.
The two governments asked a federal court for a temporary restraining order before construction begins, possibly as soon as this coming week.
Bondholders are gaining the upper hand in financing the AI build-out, with CoreWeave’s 2031 high-yield bond yielding 14.26% even as the biggest tech companies keep borrowing at record pace.
Treasuries headed for a monthly gain as tech giants stumbled, even as markets priced high odds that the Fed, the ECB and the Bank of Japan all raise rates in December.
The contract includes options for three more vessels and extends the Korea-U.S. shipbuilding cooperation project into US Navy vessel construction.
The agency warned that France’s debt ratio could reach 124% by 2028, a week after Moody’s left its own rating unchanged.
The bank’s regional agents see little sign of the energy shock feeding into wages, as markets look for its first rate move of the year on Thursday.
The trilateral foreign ministers’ meeting also stressed peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and pledged closer economic ties.
Blackstone’s view on Anthropic’s debt comes as the company prepares to go public during the week of 16 November amid an AI selloff.
The federal price was almost seven times what the private prison operator had asked the Minnesota Department of Corrections.
With 99% of votes counted, the right-wing bloc leads but cannot form a government alone, and the opposition fears an attempt to block certification.
The reported reduction of $10 billion in the raise and $150 billion in the valuation follows weeks of selling in AI-related shares.
Four days before the 3 November midterms, the administration’s election challenges are meeting a run of courtroom losses.
Iran’s supreme leader met all his top commanders for the first publicly disclosed time since the war began, while mediation moves to Doha on Saturday.
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Every Saturday the free newsletter scores eleven popular lazy portfolios, Three-Fund, Coffeehouse, All Seasons and the rest, and works out how much of each should sit in cash. When a portfolio’s volatility rises past 10%, part of it moves to cash.
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All eleven lazy portfolios were fully invested.
As of October 30, 2026, they range from 6.5% to 8.9% volatility. Raise cash once volatility exceeds 10%.
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Cash is king during downturns. Knowing when to raise cash reduced the typical portfolio’s worst drawdown by 31 percent.
Portfolio
Worst drawdown since 2005
Drawdown %
some cash · all in
Volatility
now
Cash
now
Armstrong Ideal Index
IVV 7 · IUSV 9 · MSML 6 · ISCV 9 · IXUS 31 · USRT 8 · ISTB 30
−27.9 · −44.1
7.5%
None
Swensen
ITOT 30 · IDEV 15 · IEMG 10 · USRT 15 · GOVT 15 · TIP 15
−26.0 · −42.6
7.8%
None
Burns Margarita
ITOT 34 · IXUS 33 · TIP 33
−28.9 · −42.0
8.3%
None
Larimore Three-Fund
ITOT 34 · IXUS 33 · AGG 33
−27.8 · −40.5
8.6%
None
Schultheis Coffeehouse
Six stock funds, 10 each · AGG 40
−24.4 · −38.2
7.1%
None
Ferri Core Four
ITOT 30 · IXUS 24 · AGG 40 · USRT 6
−25.3 · −36.7
7.5%
None
Bernstein Coward’s
Eight stock funds, 60 in all · ISTB 40
−23.0 · −36.4
6.5%
None
Ferri Two-Fund
VT 60 · AGG 40
−25.1 · −35.9
7.8%
None
Ferri Three-Fund
ITOT 40 · IXUS 20 · AGG 40
−25.0 · −35.5
7.8%
None
Robbins/Dalio All Seasons
ITOT 30 · TLT 40 · IEF 15 · GLD 7.5 · BCI 7.5
−21.1 · −24.3
6.9%
None
Browne Permanent
ITOT · GLD · SHY · TLT, 25 each
−18.6 · −19.0
8.9%
None
Since September 8, 2005 (Robbins/Dalio All Seasons since August 4, 2006). MSML is the iShares MSCI USA Small-Cap ETF, renamed from ISCB on October 5, 2026 (SEC filing). Volatility is the size of a portfolio’s ups and downs, measured over a year. When a portfolio’s volatility rises past 10%, part of it moves to cash to a maximum of 50%. Full details in every issue of AiM Weekly. General information, not investment advice.
In 2018 I concluded that the bond bull market, which began in 1981, was ending, and not for the usual reasons.
By Thursday, March 5, 2009, the S&P 500 had already fallen 56% from its 2007 peak.
