Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: We will continue to face geopolitical shocks; in this environment, we need to be prepared for continued volatility. Geopolitical risks add to uncertainty; monetary policy can influence demand to ease inflationary pressures, but supply is more difficult to predict.

Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: Higher long-term bond yields are no substitute for the work we need to do, which is to bring inflation back to target. We see that monetary policy is effectively rebalancing supply and demand, but inflation is still too high.

Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: The Bank of Canada does not expect an economic recession in Canada. When the Bank of Canada holds its next meeting, it will focus on whether to continue to maintain an interest rate of 5%, or whether more action is needed to restore price stability.

Source: Israel shelled an army observation post in Dehra, southern Lebanon.

The three major U.S. stock indexes narrowed their gains after October consumer confidence data, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.6% and the S&P 500 Index rising 0.3%.

The Israeli military said rocket sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and surrounding cities.

U.S. natural gas futures fell 3.00% during the day and are currently at $3.243/million British thermal units.

According to DownDetector, some users reported that social media platform X (formerly Twitter) was out of order.

The U.S. five-to-ten-year inflation rate in October is expected to be 3%, compared with the expected 2.8% and the previous value of 2.80%.

BlackRock CEO: The decline in oil ETFs is a sign that the market is "reducing risk", not "disinvesting" in Israel.

Russian President Vladimir Putin: We will make decisions based on the situation in the foreign exchange market.

Russian President Vladimir Putin: The ruble-dollar exchange rate has nothing to do with economic issues, the problem lies in foreign exchange regulation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin: We need a slightly better ruble exchange rate to deal with budget problems.

Fed Harker: Wage pressures are rising but easing.

ECB Governing Council Member Cassax: There are still risks to wages, profits and geopolitics, and changes to the emergency anti-epidemic bond purchase program should not trigger volatility.

ECB Governing Council Member Casacos: The ECB’s bond purchase program model may be applicable to changes in the emergency anti-epidemic bond purchase program.

The Israeli military said accusations that it was using white phosphorus in Gaza were "unquestionably false".

Russian President Vladimir Putin: The idea that Russia was involved in sabotaging the Baltic gas pipeline is nonsense. I have never heard of that pipeline before.