What actually happened today.

Day 3 of this signal

• Tech

  Intel's cheapest new laptop chips are sold out, as it moves some capacity to data-centre chips. Some circuit-board orders now take 30 months, because AI buyers pay more.

• Climate

  AEP raised its five-year building plan to $100 billion, with $20 billion for gas plants. Its big signed-up power customers rose 22% in three months, to 84 gigawatts.

• Space

  SpaceX is keeping its rockets for Starlink and its AI satellites, and told the makers of NASA's Moon cargo landers it will not launch them. Anthropic, an AI company, paid 34.5% of SpaceX's quarterly revenue, Bloomberg reported.

• Finance

  Amazon spent $42.4 billion more cash than it took in over a year, and Microsoft is borrowing $25 billion for data centres. Alphabet lost about $500 billion in one day, its worst since 2004.

Day 10 of this signal

• World

  Iran said four tankers caught fire after hitting mines near the Strait of Hormuz, which usually carries about a fifth of the world's oil and gas. Iran has a letter from US Vice-President JD Vance offering talks, but has not replied.

• Climate

  An Iranian strike knocked out about 17% of Qatar's gas export capacity. Qatar told buyers in Italy, Pakistan and Bangladesh it cannot deliver until the end of the year.

• Money

  France will sell 10 million barrels of diesel at cost, to cut pump prices by 12 to 18 cents a litre. Pakistan's diesel passed 400 rupees a litre, against 281 before the war began on 28 February.

• Food

  US Halloween candy sales fell 6.7% in the month to 17 October. Hershey, which makes Reese's, warned that dearer fuel may make shoppers buy less.

• Biotech

  Ebola has reached Kenya and Nigeria from an outbreak that began in Congo, and only 3 of 31 African countries checked were judged ready. More than $2 billion of the $3 billion governments pledged has not been paid.

• Food

  New World screwworm reached Arizona, a third US state, in a dog near the Mexican border. October had 19 US cases by the 28th, against 3 in all of September.

Day 2 of this signal

• Finance

  The European Central Bank held its rate at 2.5%, with prices in the euro countries rising 3.8%, nearly double its goal. Traders put the chance of a US rate rise in December at 83.6%.

• Money

  The average 30-year US home-loan rate was 7.24%, up from 6.17% a year earlier. US home prices fell 0.1%, their first yearly fall in over three years, as the typical monthly payment reached $2,786.