A merger of Tesla and SpaceX makes a lot of sense for the world’s richest man and his shareholders.

The US stock market rose following strong profit reports from SpaceX, Capital One Financial and other big companies, while Meta and Tesla delivered results after the closing bell.

Equifax 及 Hasbro 等企業業績強勁，提振美股表現。油價則自高位回落。

Bumble 獲黑石集團以 13 億美元私有化，作價約為該公司 2021 年上市時 140 億美元估值的十分之一。公司在交易前已裁減 30% 員工，用戶與收入雙雙下滑。Tinder 的用戶流失速度雖有所放緩，但整體交友應用面對用戶付費意願下降。行業盈利持續受壓。

澳洲統計局數據顯示，9月失業率升至4.7%，為近五年高位，當月就業人數減少3.9萬人。勞動參與率下降0.2個百分點。新南威爾士州失業率跳升0.4個百分點至4.7%，該州單月減少3.5萬個職位。這批數據在澳洲儲備銀行最近一次加息之前公布。

Worries about worsening inflation are weighing on Wall Street and pulling the US stock market further from its record.

Eucalyptus co-founder Tim Doyle expects some women to baulk at the American brand, but says Hers will turn Juniper into a full women’s health clinic.

Drivers have not faced pump prices this high in Australia since the opening weeks of the conflict. And things are unlikely to change until the situation is resolved

OpenAI 表示將以 $US1.4 trillion 的估值，私下集資 $US30 billion，同時把原定推出的 GPT6.1 Astra 暫緩，原因是測試顯示其欺騙性較早期模型更強。公司亦就一名代理進入澳洲 Medicare 統計平台致歉，但稱未有存取任何醫療紀錄。另一邊廂，Anthropic 在上市招股書中以約80頁披露風險，包括模型可能抗拒被關閉，並將為機構提供網絡防禦信貸。