Thursday, 8 October 2026
Thu 8 Oct · At a glance
Thursday, 8 October 2026
Russia's missiles kill 24 in Ukraine, and US borrowing costs reach their highest since 2002
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- Backers stopping the moneyHigh ↑ · 3 beats
- Borrowing getting dearerHigh ↑ · 2 beats
- Paying for AI's computer chipsHigh ↑ · 3 beats
- Diesel still scarceHigh → · 4 beats
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Backers stopping the money
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Sports
Saudi Arabia's wealth fund stopped paying for LIV Golf, a breakaway golf tour, and it went bust. A US court is letting LIV cancel the big contracts that money paid for.
The Sports stories →Biotech
Caribou Biosciences could not raise money for a final trial that the FDA, the US medicines regulator, had already agreed. Cadrenal, which reached a similar agreement in August, is now looking for a buyer instead.
The Biotech stories →Gaming
Gravity Well, a games studio started by people who used to work at Respawn, let more than 40 people go after its funding ended. The head of Undead Labs, another studio, says investors are holding back and waiting for sure hits.
The Gaming stories →Borrowing getting dearer
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Finance
Most officials at the US central bank expect to raise rates again by December. What the US government pays to borrow for ten years touched its highest since 2002, and France's rate jumped 0.18 points in one morning.
The Finance stories →Money
The average 30-year US home loan rate reached 7.49%, its highest since November 2023. In Britain the average five-year fixed mortgage reached 6%, and applications for a mortgage to buy a home fell 18.2% in a year.
The Money stories →Paying for AI's computer chips
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Tech
Samsung, the world's biggest maker of memory chips, expects a record $80bn profit in three months, because AI data centres cannot get enough memory. Dearer memory is expected to cut Europe's laptop sales by a fifth from October to December.
The Tech stories →Finance
Amazon cut jobs while planning a record $220bn of spending on data centres and chips.
The Finance stories →Space
SpaceX, the rocket company, is in talks to borrow $40 billion to buy AI chips from Nvidia.
The Space stories →Diesel still scarce
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Climate
France and Germany said the diesel Europe promised President Trump last week is diesel it had already promised in March. Heating oil, nearly the same fuel, is forecast to cost 34% more this US winter.
The Climate stories →World
France will sell 10 million barrels of diesel from its emergency stocks to bring pump prices down.
The World stories →Food
US diesel averaged $6.20 a gallon on 5 October, nearly $2.50 more than a year before. In a survey of British farmers, 87% said rising costs had cut their profits sharply.
The Food stories →Money
A litre of fuel in South Africa passed 30 rand for the first time. US homes heated with oil expect to spend 21% more this winter.
The Money stories →The day, beat by beat
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World · 58 stories
Russian missiles kill at least 24 across Ukraine, 18 of them in one block of flats in Pryluky
- Houthi strikes kill three at Saudi airports
- Houthis besiege Taiz
- Syria weighs sending help to Saudi Arabia
Finance · 39 stories
Minutes show most US central bank officials expect another rate rise by year end, as 10-year US borrowing costs touch their highest since 2002
- IMF head says growth will not shrink debts
- Samsung expects an $80bn quarterly profit
- France says it needs no help from the ECB
Tech · 66 stories
Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra runs on Nvidia's first PC chip instead of Intel's, and Windows' Copilot will be able to open and use files on the PC
- Samsung expects an $80bn quarter
- Four US states sue TP-Link
- SpaceX seeks $40bn to buy Nvidia chips
Mind & body · 24 stories
Canada will keep people whose only illness is a mental illness out of assisted dying, with no end date
- A gene therapy gave blind people some light sense
- First UK testicular tissue transplant
- Sugar rations in infancy, seventy years on
Climate · 50 stories
Tropical Storm Isaias heads for the US Gulf Coast, on course to be the latest first Atlantic hurricane on record
- Europe's diesel for Trump was already promised
- Heating oil bills jump in the US Northeast
- World's biggest penguin colony shrinks by almost two-thirds
Space · 17 stories
The US regulator lets SpaceX fly 15,000 Starlink satellites that connect straight to ordinary phones, and sets a 29 October vote on more airwaves for them
- Musk blames India's biggest phone firms
- SpaceX seeks $40bn to buy AI chips
- SpaceX asks to scrap the launch radio referee
Biotech · 21 stories
Caribou Biosciences, an early CRISPR company co-founded by Nobel winner Jennifer Doudna, stops all drug work because investors would not pay for its final trial
- Light-sensing gene therapy restores some sight
- Court blocks Merck's Keytruda shot in Europe
- A new kind of Parkinson's pill passes its final trial
Money · 22 stories
Kemi Badenoch says a Conservative government would end inheritance tax on family homes and let couples leave another 1m pounds tax-free
- Britain heads for its worst run on living standards
- US home loan rates hit a three-year high
- UK house prices stand still
Sports · 41 stories
Jon Rahm tells LIV Golf's bankruptcy court he will not join LIV 2.0, and other players are expected to follow
- South Korea to cut athletes' army exemption
- Man City could still play in Europe
- A first challenger to FIFA's president
Gaming · 34 stories
Google opens Playground, a free site where people in the US make games by typing, and Unity builds its Spark tool for it
- An AI game site reaches 10 million users
- Skydance merges Warner's game studios into its own
- EA's older lenders ask for more
Food · 41 stories
US regulators open an inquiry into how farm machinery is sold and repaired, a day after the USDA widens a probe into seed prices
- Japan raids its biggest brewers
- WWF counts a 73% fall in wildlife since 1970
- France's wine harvest falls again
Cyber · 29 stories
The owner of MonsterCloud, a firm that promised ransomware victims their files back without paying the gangs, is charged with paying them in secret and charging up to 18 times more
- 400,000 power customers' details taken
- $10m reward for a Chinese hacking suspect
- Ransomware suspect sent from Japan to Germany
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