Updated 15 October 2026. Brent crude traded near $104.4 a barrel on Thursday 15 October, down about $1.63, or 1.5 percent, from Wednesday’s settlement of $106.06 (Trading Economics; OilPrice.com quoted $104.39). The trigger was a Reuters report that Washington is weighing easing sanctions on some “shadow fleet” tankers to bring down record freight rates. Verdict:
Updated 15 October 2026. TSMC reported third-quarter diluted EPS of NT$29.43, or US$4.60 per ADR, on Thursday 15 October, with net income up 68.7 percent year on year to NT$763.06 billion, above the LSEG SmartEstimate of NT$746.3 billion. It guided fourth-quarter revenue to US$52.3-54.3 billion, up 12-16 percent on the quarter. TSM ADRs closed at
Updated 14 October 2026. Bitcoin traded at $82,651 at 9:08 a.m. ET (CoinGecko), down 0.6 percent on the day, after the US September consumer price index came in hotter than expected. Headline CPI rose to 3.7 percent a year (3.6 percent expected, 3.4 percent in August) and core CPI rose 0.3 percent on the month
Updated 14 October 2026. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) traded at $50.23 at 9:32 a.m. ET, down 6.9 percent from Tuesday’s $53.96 close (Yahoo Finance), after reporting third-quarter earnings of $0.91 a share on revenue of $29.96 billion (company filing). A $1.2 billion regulatory settlement cut EPS by about 17 cents; even on an adjusted
The myth is that Tuesday’s Micron drop is the dividend. It is not. Micron Technology closed Tuesday 13 October 2026 at $953.19, down $35.85, or 3.62 percent, from Monday’s $989.04, on Nasdaq’s official series. The quarterly dividend that goes ex-dividend on Wednesday is $0.15, or 0.42 percent of that decline. A base from the last
The obvious reading of Hock Tan’s Monday line is that Broadcom told the market the AI trade is a casino, so the stock should have stayed down. It did not. Nasdaq’s official Tuesday close, 13 October 2026, was $357.31, up $2.58, or 0.73 percent, from Monday’s $354.73. The session opened at $349.595, under that Monday
The record is a close, not a cheaper Azure bill. Microsoft’s official Tuesday close was $543.45, up $2.30, or 0.43 percent, from Monday’s $541.15, clearing the prior closing high of $542.07 on 28 October 2025 by $1.38. Tuesday’s high was $551.15. The Nasdaq file still shows an intraday high of $553.72 on that 2025 session.
Key Points Elev8 broker lines up 14-week RSI, a three-year overextension score and CFTC Commitments of Traders positioning across major currencies and commodities. The highest 14-week RSI readings sit in USDMXN, sugar, European coal, TTF and UK NBP, which the note ties to the Iran war’s energy shock and El Niño. The lowest 14-week RSI
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Updated 14 October 2026. Brent crude futures rose 63 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $106.32 a barrel by 03:45 GMT on Wednesday 14 October (Reuters via Business Recorder), recovering most of Tuesday’s fall. Overnight, a Houthi missile hit an Aramco administrative building in Dhahran and UKMTO reported two more ships struck in the Strait of