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(Reuters) -More automakers signed up to access Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)'s electric-vehicle charging infrastructure across the United States, taking the Elon Musk-led company's superchargers closer to becoming the industry standard.

Oil prices rose more than 2% on Wednesday ahead of the keenly watched meeting of the U.S. central bank for clues on interest rate policy, while the conflict in the Middle East remains in focus. Brent January crude futures were up about 2.5%, or $2.08, to $87.10 a barrel by 1316 GMT.

By Natalie Grover

GEORGETOWN, Guyana—New supermarkets here are stocked with prime Texas rib-eyes. A recently opened waterfront hotel offers executive suites for $750 per night. The national cricket team, the Amazon Warriors, is getting a new stadium that begins construction next spring.

U.S. regulators have sued SolarWinds and its top security executive for fraud for allegedly concealing poor cybersecurity practices ahead of the Texas-based technology company's stunning hack by Russian spies

Oil prices edged up in early Asian trade on Wednesday ahead of key global central bank meetings this week including the U.S. Federal Reserve, as the market also closely watches the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Brent January crude futures rose 36 cents, or 0.4%, to $85.38 a barrel by 0040 GMT, after falling $1.33 on Tuesday.

Lauryn Hill has postponed her Fort Worth show as part of the 25th-anniversary tour for her 1998 album, «The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.» The reason for the delay is ongoing vocal issues. Hill had previously delayed a show in Philadelphia due to the same problem. She explained in a tweet that doctors have advised her to rest her voice. Hill mentioned her struggle with vocal strain and injury over the past week and how she had continued to perform by using medication to mask the injury. She acknowledged the unsustainability and risk of this approach. Hill woke up on the day of the Fort Worth show with severely impaired vocal abilities, which led her to the decision to postpone the event. The artist expressed her desire to heal and rest her voice so that she can continue the tour in the future. She thanked her fans for their support and indicated her anticipation of returning to Texas. As per the latest information available, there has been no announcement regarding a rescheduled date for the Fort Worth performance. The Miseducation tour, including occasional reunion performances by the Fugees, started in early September in Minneapolis. Hill had previously postponed a show in Philadelphia to avoid further strain or damage to her vocal cords. However, she managed to perform in Chicago, where Chance the Rapper, one of her notable fans, was present with his mother. The next planned tour date is scheduled for November 2 at the Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado.

Taylor Swift Halloween costumes experienced a remarkable shift. It initially hovered at minimal levels around the time of the first U.S.

Investing.com — Crude prices fell hard for a second day in a row and looked poised to end October with double-digit losses as oil bulls who rushed to hedge against the Israel-Hamas war discovered to their disappointment that the rest of the market wasn’t prepared to assign a war risk premium to a trade simply unaffected by the conflict.

Investing.com — US crude stockpiles possibly rose as much as 1.3 million barrels last week, resulting in another build as well at the storage hub tied to the delivery of oil contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange, petroleum trade group API said Tuesday. 

By Arathy Somasekhar

Real impact, not just proximity: That’s the takeaway for oil bulls who expected the Israel-Hamas war to guarantee pricing at $100 per barrel or more, only to realize that even the worst fighting the Middle East has seen in decades cannot give them a free ride unless the crude traffic itself takes a hit.

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Investing.com — Crude prices tumbled almost 4% on Monday as the market looked beyond the war in the Middle East to focus on what the Federal Reserve might do or say at its interest rate decision on Wednesday.

Oil prices rose in early Asian trade on Tuesday ahead of global central bank meetings and as tensions in the Middle East remained high. Brent crude futures rose 46 cents, or 0.53%, to $87.91 a barrel by 0001 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude climbed 33 cents, or 0.4%, to $83.64 a barrel. Oil fell more than 3% on Monday as Israel's attacks on Gaza escalated although fears eased that the Israel-Hamas war would disrupt supply from the region. Israeli troops and tanks attacked Gaza's main northern city from the east and west on Monday, three days after it began ground operations in the Palestinian enclave. Traders were also keeping a close eye on global monetary policy, with rate-setting meetings of major central banks scheduled for this week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will be the first with its meeting on Tuesday where it is likely to revise up its inflation forecasts and discuss further tweaks to its bond yield curve control (YCC). Speculation grew on Monday that the BOJ would act after Nikkei, citing sources close to the matter, reported that policymakers may further tweak YCC to allow the 10-year Japanese government bond yield to rise above 1%. The U.S.

Tentative pacts were made with Stellantis and Ford.

Britney Johnson is among the thousands of Ford Motor Co. workers who went on strike to force the automaker to improve pay for all

Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb’s nonprofit Navigation Fund is helping to tackle the AI chip shortage by offering leasable capacity large machine learning models. A new cloud was officially launched on Oct. 29 that will be accessible on an hourly, monthly or long-term basis.

By Sabrina Valle

MLB Series has been drawn 1-1, the game slated for Monday, October 30 has become extremely important. It will be MLB Game 3 between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Texas Rangers. The Diamondbacks will pit right-hander Brandon Pfaadt against the Texas Rangers. Earlier, Pfaddt gave up five runs in just 3.1 innings in a 7-2 home loss to the Boston Red Sox, and his ERA ballooned to 8.37.

Houston, a man, later identified as Alex Rosen, was forcibly removed after he bombarded Hillary Clinton with inquiries about her husband's visits to Jeffrey Epstein's private island. The incident occurred as Clinton was campaigning for Democrat Mayoral candidate Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in Texas. Rosen, 23, questioned, «Hey, Hillary.