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U.S. and Chinese officials held phone consultations ahead of the APEC summit. The U.S. urged China to fulfill its commitments under the Busan agreement to open up rare-earth exports and purchase U.S. agricultural products. Trump and Xi Jinping are expected to meet in Shenzhen on the 18th and 19th.
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Progress in implementing the U.S.-China trade agreement is under scrutiny. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent and Trade Representative Greer urged Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng to fulfill the commitments in the 2025 trade agreement fully and immediately, with rare-earth exports and compliance at the center of tensions between the two sides.
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Stronger-than-expected U.S. employment data boosted the dollar and Wall Street technology stocks rebounded. The Dow Jones edged lower, while the S&P 500 and 那斯達克指數 rose; 費城半導體指數 posted the strongest performance.
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Companies mentioned：中央社、道瓊工業指數、標準普爾500指數、那斯達克指數、費城半導體指數
With markets weighing signs that the Iran war may be moving toward de-escalation, crude oil futures fluctuated today and edged up slightly. New York WTI crude futures for December delivery settled at $90.83 a barrel, while London Brent crude futures for January delivery settled at $98.32 a barrel.
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Companies mentioned：中央社
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller will take over as chief of staff on the 9th, replacing Susie Wiles, who is leaving after the Republican Party lost the midterm elections. This is the first major personnel change since the election, with more senior officials expected to be reshuffled in the coming days.
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Gold surged 5.2% this week, its best weekly performance since August, but edged lower Friday under pressure from strong nonfarm payrolls data and expectations of an interest rate hike. The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, and the odds of a Fed rate hike in December rose to 81%, lifting the dollar and yields and increasing the opportunity cost of holding gold.
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Companies mentioned：聯準會(Fed)、芝商所(CME)
After the midterm election setback, Trump appointed Deputy Chief of Staff Miller to replace White House Chief of Staff Wiles, who resigned, signaling that the administration will continue its hard-line policy course.
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San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly said on October 6 that the Fed may still need to raise interest rates further to combat inflation, despite the painful repricing of technology stocks. She stressed that although employment data are strong, wages are lagging behind prices and household financial pressures remain. 聯準會 will adjust policy cautiously and gradually.
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Companies mentioned：聯準會、CNBC、惠譽、Raymond James、Edward Jones
波音's 737 MAX deliveries in October are estimated at just 32, a near one-year low, reflecting a setback in cash generation. Production issues and reduced targets have delayed 波音's output, while its shares have fallen by about one-fifth, in contrast with strong deliveries by rival 空中巴士.
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Companies mentioned：波音、BA-US、Cirium、Jefferies、空中巴士、Airbus SE
Amid expectations that the U.S.-Iran conflict will cool following the U.S. midterm election results, along with recovering Middle East supply and weak demand, Brent and WTI crude both fell about 13% this week. Although attacks on tankers provided some support, oil prices still posted their steepest weekly decline of the year.
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Companies mentioned：路透社、華爾街日報、EnergyNow、Price Futures Group、Rystad Energy、Kpler、英國海事貿易行動辦公室 (UKMTO)
U.S. stocks rebounded Friday as investors bought chip stocks on dips, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rising more than 4.2%. But the Dow fell amid regulatory concerns triggered by Democratic victories and stronger-than-expected jobs data that boosted rate-hike expectations. All major indexes ended the week lower.
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Companies mentioned：AMD、美光、聯準會、Meta、蘋果、Alphabet、微軟、亞馬遜、博通、輝達、應用材料、高通、威騰電子、SanDisk、希捷、SK 海力士、台積電、日月光、聯電、中華電信、英特爾、Coherent、Lumentum、科林研發、IonQ、莫德納、特斯拉、Quilter、StoneX Trading、Forex.com、MAI Capital Management、eToro、高盛
Metadata for the September FY Reiwa 8 Workers’ Compensation Insurance Program Monthly Report released by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. It includes the statistical title, dataset ID, number of included files (23 PDFs and 23 XLS files), and a list of 16 or more table items.
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Dataset information on the 2026 Monthly Labour Survey (national survey, summer bonuses) released by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
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Metadata for the August 2026 Hospital Report (monthly provisional figures) released by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
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Public information on the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ 2025 Survey of Service Industry Trends (monthly, annual report and annual data).
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An introduction to a series featuring watches that combine a clean look, durability and great value for busy doctors.
Content about the second-year resident hurdle is exclusively available to physician members of m3.com. On Docpedia LIFESTYLE, experienced experts and physicians answer questions about careers and lifestyles.
Companies mentioned：m3.com、Docpedia LIFESTYLE
An introduction to a manga about the arrival of year-end tax adjustment season. It describes preparations at Director Suzuki’s clinic and depicts the daily life of a clinic owner.
The viral video claiming “count 3, mark 2” during the 2024 presidential election is an old rumor. It actually shows a ballot-marking error by a vote counter at polling station 418 in Changhua County, which was corrected on the spot after a member of the public pointed it out. Election staff were not bribed.
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The fact-checking report said the threshold for a referendum to pass depends on the number of valid votes, and that choosing not to collect a referendum ballot does not raise the threshold; online claims misinterpret the regulations and distort 中選會 chairperson’s hypothetical remarks about the time needed to count votes.
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Companies mentioned：中選會
Original日本銀行総裁植田和男による、IMF・Michel Camdessus Central Banking Lectureにおける講演の邦訳（2026年11月7日）。
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Companies mentioned：日本銀行、IMF
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5 subtype) was detected in the carcass of a dead whooper swan collected in Otofuke, Hokkaido, marking the second confirmed positive case among wild birds in Japan. In response, the Ministry of the Environment raised the wild bird surveillance response level to “Response Level 3.”
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Companies mentioned：国立環境研究所