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Overview General Motors reported third quarter results on October 20 that beat across every core metric, with adjusted earnings of $3.70 per share up 32.2% year over year and adjusted earnings before interest and taxes of $4.106 billion up 21.6%, while the board approved a $20 billion multi-year share repurchase authorisation. The stock closed at $77.09, down 6.84%. That combination needs explaining on its own. Strong results, strong cash flow and a repurchase authorisation worth close to 30% of

Overview On SpaceX's third quarter earnings call on October 20, Elon Musk confirmed that both companies have formed special committees of independent directors to discuss a potential merger with Tesla. Per Axios, Musk stated plainly that he is a conflicted party and cannot be in the discussions, while also saying he thinks it would be a good idea. The nature of this needs establishing at the outset: these are exploratory discussions, not an agreed transaction. Per Fortune, the committees were fo

Qubic has restarted its Layer-1 blockchain after an exploit drained roughly $1.4 million worth of QU tokens from 1,404 accounts. The network had been halted while its validators worked on a recovery plan, and affected users can now submit claims for potentially recoverable funds.The incident was linked to a weakness in the way some Qubic wallets generated recovery seeds. While the blockchain itself was not reported to have suffered a consensus-level compromise, the wallet issue gave an attacker

World ID for Zoom became available through the Zoom Marketplace on October 18, 2026. The integration is designed to display a Human Badge after the system checks that the person appearing on camera matches the holder of an Orb-verified World ID.The product addresses a genuine security problem. Synthetic video and audio are becoming harder to distinguish from real people, while virtual meetings are routinely used to approve fund transfers, discuss confidential information, recruit employees, and

J.P. Morgan expanded JPM Coin to the Ethereum mainnet on October 19, 2026. The US dollar-denominated token, identified by the ticker JPMD, had previously operated on Base, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, since November 2025.The expansion allows eligible J.P. Morgan institutional clients to move funds across two public blockchains compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Its intended uses include transfers between institutional clients, programmable treasury operations, and the settlement of di

Bank Indonesia began its monthly Board of Governors Meeting on October 20, 2026, with the policy decision scheduled for the second day on October 21. The October decision had not been announced when this article was prepared. The starting position is a 5.75% BI-Rate, a 4.75% Deposit Facility rate, and a 6.50% Lending Facility rate.The meeting comes as the rupiah trades around Rp18,000 per US dollar. JISDOR was recorded at Rp18,050 on October 19, weaker than Rp17,855 when the September decision w

PT Bank Central Asia Tbk resumed repurchases of BBCA shares from October 19 to 21, 2026. The transactions fall under a buyback program approved by shareholders on March 12, 2026, with a maximum program value of IDR5 trillion.The timing coincided with severe pressure on Indonesian equities. BBCA fell 6.86% to IDR4,820 on October 19, while the IDX Composite closed 3.64% lower at 4,996.61. Foreign investors recorded net selling of approximately IDR2.28 trillion in the regular market that day, accor

I. Macro and Market Sentiment· Market data: BTC $82,948.00（+1.58%）｜ETH $2,454.49（+2.51%）｜SOL $106.67（+1.91%）· Market sentiment: Funding rate +0.0053%｜Fear & Greed Index 63（Greed）· Rate outlook: All 100 economists surveyed expect a rate hike in December, while the wording of the October 28 meeting will shape pricing for funding costs. Further readingII. Trading Signals / Trending Topics· [Today's Focus] BTC｜Diverging Spot ETF Flows, With Inflows Into BTC and Outflows From ETH, Ind

The Indonesia Stock Exchange plans to remove all stocks classified under the High Shareholding Concentration framework from the IDX Composite calculation. IDX President Director Jeffrey Hendrik said that 80 HSC stocks represented approximately 18% of the index when the plan was announced on October 19, 2026.The change will narrow the group of stocks represented by the IDX Composite. HSC shares will continue to trade on the exchange, but their price movements will no longer affect the index once

The Monetary Authority of Singapore, or MAS, opened a consultation on October 16, 2026 to expand membership of the Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre, known as FIDReC. The proposal covers all Major Payment Institution and Standard Payment Institution licensees, together with MAS-regulated stablecoin issuers after the relevant regulatory framework takes effect. The consultation closes on November 30, 2026. Source: MAS’s official consultation page.The proposal addresses a problem that o