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International Maritime Organization Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez tells Bloomberg This Weekend that the Strait of Hormuz remains unsafe for commercial shipping, with vessel traffic sharply below pre-conflict levels as attacks, mines and other hazards threaten ships and seafarers. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Lisa Mateo, Dominguez says the disruption is raising global fuel and shipping costs while forcing the industry to develop alternative routes and strengthen supply-chain resilience. (Source: Bloomberg)

Serbia’s student-led movement that’s poised to take power after last month’s election, is urging banks to step up scrutiny of capital flows from the country during the transition period to a new government.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed Muhsin Atci, head of the nation’s tax inspection board, as chief of Turkey’s market regulator to help deal with an investment fund crisis that rocked financial markets.

Rising healthcare costs are a major concern for older Americans, and it's affecting their finances and political priorities

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas tells Bloomberg This Weekend that Russia is escalating its war in Ukraine and is not serious about peace, criticizing Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s statements at the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Atlanta and warning against normalizing Moscow on the international stage. Speaking with host David Gura, Kallas also calls for a diplomatic solution to tensions with Iran and discusses efforts to deepen the EU’s relationship with Canada through greater cooperation on trade, energy and defense. (Source: Bloomberg)

They’ve helped turn this year’s midterms into “the most expensive election cycle on record.”

The looming departure of the European Central Bank’s president, Christine Lagarde, has set in motion a high-stakes search for her successor.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Brazilian counterpart agreed to meet in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter, after President Donald Trump’s decision to grant the nation’s defeated right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro refuge inflamed tensions.

Brazilian authorities summoned Argentina’s top envoy in the country on Friday to explain President Javier Milei’s role in helping Flávio Bolsonaro flee Brazil following his election defeat.

Ian Thomas, who heads the City of London Corporation, tops the Black Powerlist in its 21st year.

The carmaker is moving away from models that Chief Executive Jim Farley has deemed “boring.”

Meet Paddy, the 27-year-old Cisco’s president calls an “energizer bunny.” The Gen Z ex-founder has been given unlimited AI tokens and told to “go nuts.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his party have amplified claims that the country's election was “stolen” by Arab-led parties

The company said it was looking into hundreds of new accounts that had placed wagers in two markets related to the election on Tuesday.

Possible candidate to run World Economic Forum departs ECB nine months early, saying she wants to speak her mind about world affairs Christine Lagarde, the eurozone’s top central banker, has said she is stepping down nine months early to speak her mind about world affairs and confront the “misrepresentation of the truth”. Ending months of speculation about her future at the European Central Bank, Lagarde said she would quit her role as president next February rather than October next year because the rules of neutrality that governed her job prevented her from influencing debate about financial and economics affairs. Continue reading...

Clorox has hired Unilever executive Fabian Garcia as its next chief executive. Garcia will step into the role effective Jan. 5, succeeding Linda Rendle who announced in May that she was stepping down for health reasons.

CBS News editor-in-chief sidesteps viewership concerns and says flagship show doing ‘tremendously well’ CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, has spoken publicly for the first time about the ratings challenges the network has experienced under her year-long tenure, sidestepping concerns about diminished viewership at the Sunday show 60 Minutes by saying it was not her top priority. “I could never build anything if I were focused on the precise number of people that happen to tune in to the second feature on 60 Minutes on a given Sunday,” she said at an industry conference on Wednesday organized by the tech publication the Information. The news organization did not offer press credentials. Continue reading...

Fed chair Kevin Warsh said politics played no role in pause of interest rate hikes, despite inflation remaining above 3% The US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged on Wednesday during its last board meeting before the midterm elections, keeping rates at one of the highest pre-election levels seen in over 20 years. Two out of 12 board members voted against the pause, preferring to raise rates by a quarter point this meeting, the Fed board said in a statement. Continue reading...

British Treasury chief John Healey faces a fine balancing act when he delivers his first budget statement, with the economic backdrop made more difficult as a result of the turmoil caused by the Iran war

Officials believe there is plenty of time left to tackle inflation, allowing them to avoid making a move so close to an election.

Sen. Susan Collins, who’s in a tough re-election fight, said she secured from the Trump administration tariff exemptions on some agricultural and forestry items.