The stock market was more treat than trick in October
CNN
October may be notorious for big market crashes. But this month was more of a Rocktober than Shocktober for stocks.
Despite some notable drops in big techs Friday following disappointing sales from Apple and Amazon, the broader market is still on track to finish October with healthy gains.
The Dow was up about 60 points, or 0.2%, in midday trading Friday. The index has surged nearly 6% in October, its best monthly gain since March. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were up 0.1%, and both have gained around 7% for the month — the most for each index since November 2020.
The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.