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Helium Shortage: Long-Term Contracts vs. Spot Price Spike

One source says spot helium tripled. Linde says helium prices are rising; Air Products' filing shows lower pricing. Linde and Air Products report Oct. 29 and Nov. 5.

Elena Vasquez

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Energy

Heating Oil Prices: EIA's $5.26 Implies Wholesale Down 22%

EIA's winter outlook says $5.26 a gallon, but the Oct. 12 price was $6.138. By TradeFlock's math, closing the gap implies wholesale down 22% if dealer spreads normalize.

Elena Vasquez

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Leadership

Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO Change: Son Eligible for Est. $2.7M

Nate Baxter replaced Jim Hagedorn as Scotts CEO June 26. His son Chris, the former chief strategy officer, is eligible for about $2.7M (TradeFlock estimate).

Marcus Chen

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Finance

Copart ACV Acquisition: Tender Tally Rose from 48% to 68%

ACV's tender tally rose from 47.78% to 68.43% before Copart's $10.50 cash deal closed October 16; holdouts got the same price through the merger.

Sophia Brennan

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Finance

Kimberly-Clark Stock: Earnings Beat Leaned on Tax Rate

Kimberly-Clark's adjusted EPS rose 17% as its tax rate fell to 19.5%, below its 23% plan, while sales fell 0.4%, its 8-K shows.

Priya Nair

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Markets

Gas Prices: Pump Price Slips as Crude Jumps 10.4%

AAA's national average fell about 6 cents in a week to $4.30 even as WTI crude rose 10.4% to $101.41 and gasoline futures slipped.

Elena Vasquez

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Tech

Workday Layoffs: 2 Cuts in Under 8 Months, $200M+ in Charges

Workday's Sept. 29 and Feb. 4 filings put charges at $200M to $215M, over half non-cash, and its GAAP margin guide now sits 20 to 21 points below non-GAAP.

James Whitaker

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Finance

Medicare Part B Premium 2027: Wound Care and the $9.10 Drop

Medicare's trustees now see a $209.50 Part B premium for 2027, down from a $218.60 forecast. They tie lower Part B spending mainly to a skin substitute pay overhaul.

Elena Vasquez

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Finance

Harvard Endowment Returns: Flat Payout Despite 27.1% Gain

Harvard's ledger books a $1.65B tax charge against $14.29B of return, and the fiscal 2027 payout to operations is held flat at about $2.6B.

Elena Vasquez

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Finance

Varonis Proofpoint Acquisition: Noteholders Can Claim $460M

Proofpoint's $49.75 Varonis deal lets holders of $460M of convertible notes demand par, about $123M more than conversion value, by TradeFlock calculation.

Sophia Brennan

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Leadership

Fox Factory CEO: Six Months of Interim Pay Is About $3.2M

Fox Factory CEO Mike Dennison steps down and the stock fell 13.3%. Interim CEO Doug Grimm's six months of pay is about $3.2M (TradeFlock estimate).

Marcus Chen

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Finance

Albertsons Earnings: Merger Fight Costs Doubled to $76.9M

Albertsons' merger-related costs doubled to $76.9M in 28 weeks while identical sales fell 0.8% and operating income fell 41%, its filing shows.

Priya Nair

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Markets

Mortgage Rates: Even with a Lower Fed Rate, Up 1.13 Points

The 30-year mortgage averaged 7.40% on Oct. 15 against 6.27% a year ago, though the Fed's target is a quarter point lower, Freddie Mac and FRED data show.

Elena Vasquez

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Tech

HubSpot Layoffs: Charge Tops Q2 Operating Income, $65M+

HubSpot's 8-K puts the cost of its layoffs at $65M to $75M, which by TradeFlock's calculation is 1.5 to 1.7 times June-quarter GAAP operating income.

James Whitaker

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Trending

Plaza Hotel Closing: Facade Filed 'Unsafe' Since 2022

Inspector filings list the facade as Unsafe since 2022. The $6,000 shed fine cap is for sheds four years or older, and DOB says nothing forces a closing.

Elena Vasquez

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Markets

Schwab Earnings: Sweep Cash Fell Excluding Short Credits

Schwab's sweep cash rose $7.1 billion in the third quarter, but by TradeFlock's estimate it fell about $12.5 billion excluding short credits.

Elena Vasquez

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Leadership

Jennifer Hamann: Union Pacific CFO Retiring in Early 2027

Union Pacific CFO Jennifer Hamann retires in early 2027. In TradeFlock's reading, she meets the age 55 equity rule but not age 62, so her exit date matters.

Marcus Chen

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Leadership

Yext CEO: Walrath Option Grant Has 14 Hurdles to $88.08

Yext gave CEO Michael Walrath options on 11M shares. None can be earned until the stock averages $21 for 180 days, about 3 times its recent price.

Marcus Chen

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Tech

Zero-Click Spyware Ads: What Discover-Tech's Bid Data Shows

Citizen Lab's bid data shows 3.77 billion bids and no recorded conversions, plus, by TradeFlock's calculation, about $0.25 per 1,000 wins if costs are in USD micros.

James Whitaker

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Finance

CCC's $7.75 GTCR Deal Pays Out $116M in SPAC Earnout

CCC's $7.75 sale to GTCR and Elliott pays out all 15.0M SPAC earnout shares, about $116M by TradeFlock calculation; Advent's funds hold up to 9.9M of them.

Sophia Brennan

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Finance

KFC Drops Pepsi for Coke in 2027 as U.S. Sales Slip 2%

KFC U.S. system sales fell 2% in the second quarter while Taco Bell, which keeps Pepsi, grew 9%, Yum's filings show.

Priya Nair

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Tech

Tesla Roadster Price: $250,000 Deposit, No Sticker Yet

Tesla named no price at Thursday's reveal, but its reservation terms pay no interest. TradeFlock estimates a 2017 Founders buyer has forgone about $65,800 in Treasury interest.

Elena Vasquez

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Tech

Character.AI Bankruptcy: What Disney's $20M Does Not Buy

Disney's $20M license excludes the app, user chats and finished models; TradeFlock calculates it at $1.67 per monthly user.

Elena Vasquez

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Finance

Netflix Layoffs 2026: What 1,000 Cuts Mean for Margins

Netflix's 10-K shows headcount up about 2,000 in 2025; TradeFlock calculates 1,000 cuts add under 1 point of margin even at $400,000 a role.

Elena Vasquez

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Finance

September Retail Sales: Gas Drove Most of the 0.8% Gain

Sales rose 0.8% to $745.0 billion, but gas stations drove about 71% of the dollar gain and sales ex gas rose only 0.2%. Categories against prices.

Priya Nair

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Tech

Bank of America Mythos Costs: Consultants Sit Off Headcount

Bank of America's 1,000 Mythos patching consultants sit outside the headcount the bank cites, and the call transcript shows where the cost lands.

James Whitaker

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Finance

Penske Automotive Take Private Needs Only $4B in New Money

Penske Automotive's $16.3B take-private needs up to $4.0B of equity and debt because Penske and Mitsui keep their 72.6%; the $212 price is below PAG's post-bid close.

Sophia Brennan

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Markets

Morgan Stanley Earnings: Half of Record Inflows Tied to IPOs

Morgan Stanley beat third quarter estimates, but just over half of its record $232 billion in wealth inflows came from IPO-related flows.

Elena Vasquez

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Tech

Fermi Stock News: Founder Files to Sell as AMD Deal Lands

A Neugebauer family trust filed to sell 2.75M Fermi shares the day AMD backed its first tenant, and AMD's support starts only after the build is finished.

James Whitaker

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Finance

Mazal Group Skincare Charges: Your Card Dispute Rights

NPR found mall skincare shoppers charged thousands they say they never agreed to. Here is what federal law covers on credit and debit cards.

Priya Nair

Tech

FAST Channels India: TRAI's Channel Fees Dwarf the App Fee

TRAI's Oct. 26 plan would charge an internet TV app ₹1.1 lakh once, but 50 internet-only channels about ₹5.05 crore over 10 years, by TradeFlock's calculation.

James Whitaker

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Tech

PHP2Shell: Amazon's WAF Rules Trailed Its Own Honeypot

Amazon later traced a PHP2Shell attempt to Oct. 17, but its first WAF rule aimed directly at CVE-2026-109618 is dated Oct. 22, and a third PHP bug remains unpatched.

James Whitaker

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Tech

Oct 20, 2026

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt: Hardware and License

Nvidia's model cards show Super VL fitting on one GB200 or DGX Spark in NVFP4 form, Bolt packed into 24GB, and a switch to the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW license.

James Whitaker

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Tech

Cosmos 2612 and ICEYE X36: Gap Widens After Oct. 18 Burn

CelesTrak's Oct. 19 elements put Cosmos 2612 about 290 km behind ICEYE-X36 and 2.5 km higher after a reported Oct. 18 maneuver, by TradeFlock's math.

James Whitaker

Tech

Workday Layoffs: 2 Cuts in Under 8 Months, $200M+ in Charges

Workday's Sept. 29 and Feb. 4 filings put charges at $200M to $215M, over half non-cash, and its GAAP margin guide now sits 20 to 21 points below non-GAAP.

James Whitaker

Tech

HubSpot Layoffs: Charge Tops Q2 Operating Income, $65M+

HubSpot's 8-K puts the cost of its layoffs at $65M to $75M, which by TradeFlock's calculation is 1.5 to 1.7 times June-quarter GAAP operating income.

James Whitaker

Tech

Zero-Click Spyware Ads: What Discover-Tech's Bid Data Shows

Citizen Lab's bid data shows 3.77 billion bids and no recorded conversions, plus, by TradeFlock's calculation, about $0.25 per 1,000 wins if costs are in USD micros.

James Whitaker

Tech

Tesla Roadster Price: $250,000 Deposit, No Sticker Yet

Tesla named no price at Thursday's reveal, but its reservation terms pay no interest. TradeFlock estimates a 2017 Founders buyer has forgone about $65,800 in Treasury interest.

Elena Vasquez

Tech

Character.AI Bankruptcy: What Disney's $20M Does Not Buy

Disney's $20M license excludes the app, user chats and finished models; TradeFlock calculates it at $1.67 per monthly user.

Elena Vasquez

Tech

Bank of America Mythos Costs: Consultants Sit Off Headcount

Bank of America's 1,000 Mythos patching consultants sit outside the headcount the bank cites, and the call transcript shows where the cost lands.

James Whitaker

Tech

Fermi Stock News: Founder Files to Sell as AMD Deal Lands

A Neugebauer family trust filed to sell 2.75M Fermi shares the day AMD backed its first tenant, and AMD's support starts only after the build is finished.

James Whitaker

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Tech

Microsoft Maia 300 AI Chip: What Multi-Gigawatt Means

Microsoft's 167-kilowatt, 96-chip Maia 300 rack implies about 575,000 accelerators per gigawatt, by TradeFlock's estimate, as Maia goes multi-gigawatt in 2027.

James Whitaker

Markets

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Markets

Wildwood Box Office: AMC, Cinemark Report Fathom Differently

Wildwood opened to $12.27 million through Fathom, which AMC and Cinemark co-own. Their latest filings show very different earnings from the venture.

Elena Vasquez

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Markets

Foreclosure Auctions: FHA Loans Drove Nearly All of 25% Rise

Completed foreclosure auctions rose 25% from a year earlier in the third quarter. Strip out FHA loans and the increase shrinks to about 3%, by TradeFlock's estimate.

Elena Vasquez

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Markets

Netflix Earnings: Shares Trail Q2 Buyback Price by 20%

Netflix paid about $88 a share on average for $4.7 billion of buybacks in Q2. The stock closed Friday at $70.53 ahead of Tuesday's Q3 report.

Elena Vasquez

Markets

Gas Prices: Pump Price Slips as Crude Jumps 10.4%

AAA's national average fell about 6 cents in a week to $4.30 even as WTI crude rose 10.4% to $101.41 and gasoline futures slipped.

Elena Vasquez

Markets

Mortgage Rates: Even with a Lower Fed Rate, Up 1.13 Points

The 30-year mortgage averaged 7.40% on Oct. 15 against 6.27% a year ago, though the Fed's target is a quarter point lower, Freddie Mac and FRED data show.

Elena Vasquez

Markets

Schwab Earnings: Sweep Cash Fell Excluding Short Credits

Schwab's sweep cash rose $7.1 billion in the third quarter, but by TradeFlock's estimate it fell about $12.5 billion excluding short credits.

Elena Vasquez

Markets

Morgan Stanley Earnings: Half of Record Inflows Tied to IPOs

Morgan Stanley beat third quarter estimates, but just over half of its record $232 billion in wealth inflows came from IPO-related flows.

Elena Vasquez

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Markets

Oct 13, 2026

Bumble Stock Jumps on $6.05 Buyout, but Holders Get No Vote

Bumble agreed to a $6.05 a share cash sale to Ithaca Holdings. Its controlling holders signed off the same day, so public shareholders will not vote.

Elena Vasquez

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Markets

Oct 13, 2026

Kroger Layoffs 2026: What 3,000 Corporate Job Cuts Cost

Kroger's 2025 filing priced its last corporate cut at about $47,000 a role, so 3,000 more could cost roughly $141 million, a week before a $9.3 billion trial.

Elena Vasquez

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Markets

Why Moderna Stock Jumped: NIH Cancer Vaccine Plan in Context

The NIH plan recommends $200 million over three years. Moderna spent $198 million, net of Merck, on one cancer vaccine in six months, its 10-Q shows.

Elena Vasquez

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Markets

CMG Stock Falls After Starbucks Denies Chipotle Takeover

Chipotle's rumor rally never reached the $34.35 average price the company paid for its own shares this year, filings show.

Elena Vasquez

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Markets

Oct 11, 2026

Bessent Warren Buyback Fight: Why $12B Cost Only $7.7B

Treasury's two latest long-end buybacks retired $12 billion of bonds at face value for about $7.7 billion in cash. The discount reflects low coupons, not a profit.

Elena Vasquez

Leadership

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Leadership

FedEx CFO Hire: Signing Pay and Make-Whole Total $7M

FedEx will pay incoming CFO Jamere Jackson a $2M signing bonus and a $5M make-whole RSU award, about 96% of one year of his AutoZone option grants.

Marcus Chen

Leadership

LKQ CEO Change: Abbate Sign-On Awards Total $15.3M

LKQ ousted Justin Jude and hired ex-Veritiv CEO Sal Abbate with $3.3M sign-on cash and $12M in time-vested RSUs, about 5.9x Jude's estimated cash severance.

Marcus Chen

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Leadership

Oct 20, 2026

Trade Desk CEO Option Repricing: Proxy Vote Split 65% to 35%

Stockholders approved a $12.26 reset on up to 15.6M existing options, 1.6M of them CEO Jeff Green's; the old price returns on most exits before April 19, 2027.

Marcus Chen

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Leadership

Expand Energy CEO: Brown's $15.7M Target Make-Whole Award

Expand Energy's new CEO, Danny Brown, has $11M in annual target pay and a $15.7M target make-whole award for pay forfeited at Chord Energy.

Marcus Chen

Leadership

Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO Change: Son Eligible for Est. $2.7M

Nate Baxter replaced Jim Hagedorn as Scotts CEO June 26. His son Chris, the former chief strategy officer, is eligible for about $2.7M (TradeFlock estimate).

Marcus Chen

Leadership

Fox Factory CEO: Six Months of Interim Pay Is About $3.2M

Fox Factory CEO Mike Dennison steps down and the stock fell 13.3%. Interim CEO Doug Grimm's six months of pay is about $3.2M (TradeFlock estimate).

Marcus Chen

Leadership

Jennifer Hamann: Union Pacific CFO Retiring in Early 2027

Union Pacific CFO Jennifer Hamann retires in early 2027. In TradeFlock's reading, she meets the age 55 equity rule but not age 62, so her exit date matters.

Marcus Chen

Leadership

Yext CEO: Walrath Option Grant Has 14 Hurdles to $88.08

Yext gave CEO Michael Walrath options on 11M shares. None can be earned until the stock averages $21 for 180 days, about 3 times its recent price.

Marcus Chen

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Leadership

Harmony Biosciences Names COO Peter Anastasiou Next CEO

Harmony Biosciences named COO Peter Anastasiou CEO 193 days after he became COO. Two CFOs left in that span, and his CEO pay has not been disclosed yet.

Marcus Chen

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Leadership

Oct 13, 2026

CSX COO Mike Cory Retires, and Angel Leaves the Job Open

CSX COO Mike Cory is retiring and the railroad named no successor. His 8-K pays salary to May 2027; he is the 5th of 7 proxy executives to leave.

Marcus Chen

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Leadership

Bausch + Lomb CEO Saunders Exit: What His Contract Says

Bausch + Lomb CEO Brent Saunders is out. His contract kept the August chair change from triggering severance; the proxy put a qualifying exit at $52.2M.

Marcus Chen

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Leadership

Oct 11, 2026

Avient New CEO Mike Frank Gets $18M in Hiring Awards

Avient's new CEO Mike Frank gets about $18M in one-time hiring awards, mostly multi-year equity at target, as the board splits the chair and CEO roles again.

Marcus Chen

Finance

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Finance

PCE Inflation: Why Thursday Brings Two Different Numbers

Thursday's BEA reports carry a 3.4% 12-month PCE inflation rate and a 5.0% annualized quarterly rate. Which one matches the Fed goal, and why saving matters.

Elena Vasquez

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Finance

Sadie Sink Prada Ad: Americas Organic Retail Sales Up 13%

Prada's Oct. 22 filing shows Americas retail up 13.2% organically versus 2.0% for the group, and a 0.5% dip in the third quarter.

Priya Nair

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Finance

Surgery Partners Acquisition: Buyer Waives Charity Defense

Bon Secours Mercy Health waived any nonprofit defense to being forced to close its $23.50-a-share Surgery Partners deal, and the buyer owes no break fee.

Sophia Brennan

Finance

GTA 6 Preorder Bonus: Free GTA+ Month Can Wait to 2027

Digital GTA 6 buyers on PlayStation can hold the free GTA+ month until March 31, 2027. Here is who qualifies and what the $7.99 renewals add up to.

Priya Nair

Finance

Deportation Numbers 2026: BLS Survey Shows Immigrant Jobs Up

Foreign-born employment rose 509,000 in the BLS survey as CIS counts 1.3 million fewer immigrant workers. How to reconcile the deportation numbers.

Elena Vasquez

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Finance

MarketAxess Acquisition: ICE Price Clears DCF Floor by $0.49

A supplemental proxy filed before Thursday's vote shows MarketAxess's own banker's base-case DCF starts at $166.51, and the board never sought rival bids.

Sophia Brennan

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Finance

Fed Rate Hike Odds: Traders Shift the Next Hike to December

Fed rate hike odds for October fell to 5.5% on Polymarket by Oct. 22 after a CPI spike to 48.5%. December hike bets stand at 68%, futures near 70%.

Elena Vasquez

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Finance

Prop 40: Billionaire Tax Foes Bet Big on Rival Measures

Prop 40 polls at 52%, but Polymarket gives it 22%. Rival Props 41 and 42 could void California's billionaire tax; Prop 42 alone has drawn $112.8M.

Elena Vasquez

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Finance

Tariff Refunds: Net Customs Fall as FY2026 Deficit Widens

Tariff refunds cut FY2026 net customs to $173.2B after $144.6B went back to importers, Treasury data show, versus CBO's $172B estimate and $194.9B in 2025.

Elena Vasquez

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Finance

Social Security Payment Dates: Law Shields Early COLA Check

Social Security payment dates: the first 3.6% COLA checks arrive Dec. 31, and the stopgap law's Sec. 111(b) covers them past the Dec. 11 deadline.

Elena Vasquez

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Finance

Import Prices: Foreign Sellers Reprice After Tariff Ruling

September import prices rose 1.1%. Ex fuel, pre-tariff prices are up 6.0% a year versus 0.3% before, as foreign sellers reprice after the tariff ruling.

Elena Vasquez

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Finance