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Major U.S. Stock Indexes About Flat; Banking, Tech Shares on Unsteady Footing

U.S. stocks were about flat despite a solid start to earnings season on Wall Street.

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Home Sales Rose in September for the First Time Since Spring

The 1.5% gain over the previous month reflected a plateau in mortgage rates over the summer, but sales activity overall remained subdued.

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Oil Prices Fall as Traders Weigh Middle East Risks, Russian Diesel Supplies

Oil prices pulled back after three consecutive sessions of gains, but further downside might be limited by escalating tensions in the Middle East, constraining flows from the Persian Gulf.

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Investors Are Split on AI Bubble Risks but Still Piling In to the Stocks

Global investors are long the AI trade, but growing nervous about its near-term prospects.

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OPEC Cuts Demand Growth Forecast Again as Gulf Supply Risks Mount

The group of oil-rich countries raised its forecast for next year's demand growth driven in part by the need to replenish oil inventories.

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Europe Heads Into Winter With Low Gas Reserves, Uncertain Gulf Supplies

European natural-gas prices climbed to their highest level in nearly four years as escalating attacks in the Middle East threatened supplies and unusually low storage levels raised fears of a global scramble for LNG.

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Treasury, Eurozone Yields Decline as Markets Look to U.S. Inflation Data

U.S. Treasury and eurozone government bond yields retreated, helped by a drop in Brent crude prices and a pullback in artificial intelligence stocks.

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IMF Warns of Global Economic Setbacks as Shocks Test Resilience

If borrowing costs and inflation go unchecked, a sharp slowdown looms for the global economy, the International Monetary Fund said.

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Gulf Hurricane Not Big Enough to Reset Insurance Market

Capital flowing into insurance might actually be weakening the sector.

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China's Weakening Economy Is Creating a Lost Generation

Young people are watching their bright futures disappear as the country's job losses pile up and the milestones of adulthood slip further away.

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Seeking Less Harmful Alternatives to Central Bank Rate Rises

"It's an extremely blunt instrument," and puts democracy at risk, says Isabella Weber, associate professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Frenzied Stock-Options Trading Shows Individual Investors Are Still Hungry for Risk

Trading in single-stock options contracts is near levels reached in 2021, when a new generation of amateur investors shook up Wall Street.

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

October 13, 2026 15:15 ET (19:15 GMT)