Christine Lagarde to step down as ECB president after rate hold
Analysis: Europe — 30 October 2026 Healey’s first Budget soothes gilt markets as Burnham defers fiscal rupture Chancellor John Healey’s first Budget was a holding operation, not the “circuit breaker” Prime Minister Andy Burnham had advertised. The largest household item is another energy-bill subsidy, assessed by council-tax band, plus about £100 for some 20 million … Read more
UC Davis mathematicians find Friedmann spacetimes unstable challenging dark energy
Analysis: Science & Technology — 30 October 2026 UC Davis mathematicians find Friedmann spacetimes unstable, challenging dark energy A UC Davis team reports in Proceedings of the Royal Society A that Friedmann spacetimes, the backbone of the Lambda-CDM expansion model, are unstable to radial perturbations at both small and large scales. Blake Temple and colleagues … Read more
WTI holds above $100 as US absorbs $160 billion Hormuz oil shock
Analysis: Global — 29 October 2026 Americans take $160 billion of Hormuz oil shock as WTI holds above $100 WTI crude settled at $102.78 a barrel on 28 October after a $2.88 rebound, as traders priced in a possible U.S. strike on Iran after the 3 November midterms and a Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia’s … Read more
Healey first UK Budget claims 15bn headroom as OBR cuts 2027 growth
Analysis: Europe — 29 October 2026 Healey delivers first UK Budget with £15bn headroom as OBR cuts 2027 growth to 1% UK Chancellor John Healey delivered his first Budget on 28 October, the first of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government. The Office for Budget Responsibility cut its 2027 GDP forecast to 1.0 percent from 1.6 … Read more
Rubin Observatory finds dwarf planet candidate 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto
Analysis: Science & Technology — 29 October 2026 Rubin Observatory finds dwarf planet candidate 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto Matthew Holman of the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics spotted 2026 ED138 in early 2026 data from the Simonyi Survey Telescope at the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. Mario Jurić of the University of … Read more
CREA says US households bear $160 billion Iran war fuel shock
Analysis: Global — 28 October 2026 US households take $160 billion of Iran-war fuel shock, CREA says Americans account for $160 billion of an estimated $468 billion in global fuel-price inflation from the Middle East war, according to Finland’s Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, as reported on 28 October. CREA put the … Read more
Vučić concedes as Student List wins Serbian parliamentary majority
Analysis: Europe — 28 October 2026 Student List wins Serbian majority as Vučić concedes Aleksandar Vučić conceded Serbia’s parliamentary election after independent pollster CRTA put the Student List (SL) on 52.45 percent and his United Serbia list on 39.2 percent. Turnout was just under 70 percent, the highest in decades. The result stands out because … Read more
Rubin Observatory finds dwarf planet candidate 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto
Analysis: Science & Technology — 28 October 2026 Rubin Observatory finds dwarf planet candidate 2026 ED138 beyond Pluto Astronomers announced on 27 October 2026 that the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has produced its first dwarf-planet candidate, provisionally designated 2026 ED138. Matthew Holman of the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found the trans-Neptunian object … Read more
Lula da Silva defeats Flavio Bolsonaro in Brazil presidential runoff
Analysis: Global — 27 October 2026 Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials meet Iran in Tehran as US-Israel war stalls On 26 October, Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir, Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin met Iranian leaders in Tehran. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei hosted the … Read more
Vučić concedes Serbia election as Student List wins 52 percent
Analysis: Europe — 27 October 2026 French consumer confidence falls to 80, lowest since 2013 French household confidence fell to 80 in October, against 85 expected and a revised 85 previously, InvestingLive reported. That is the weakest reading since 2013 and well below the long-term average of 100, last seen in December 2021. Households reported … Read more