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Toronto home sales rise for first time in three months in October

Greater Toronto Area home sales rose for the first time in three months in October as lower selling prices offset the recent increase in borrowing costs to support affordability, Toronto Regional Real Estate Board data showed on Wednesday.• Seasonally adjusted sales rose 1.2% last month from September to 5,274 units after two straight months of declines.• The board's home price index was up 0.1% month-over-month, after seasonal adjustment, to C$928,800 ($663,523.36).• The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) includes Canada's most populous city and four surrounding regional municipalities.• “

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Chinese chipmaker YMTC puts IPO on hold as weaker markets weigh, sources say

Chinese flash-memory chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies Co has put its Shanghai IPO on hold, according to a company memo and people with knowledge of the matter, as regulators tighten approval for share sales in a struggling stock market.CCSH Corporation, the parent of Chinese flash-memory chipmaker YMTC, filed for its initial public offering (IPO) in August on Shanghai's Nasdaq-style STAR market, aiming to raise 33 billion yuan ($4.9 billion).The company, one of China's chip champions that Beijing needs for technological self-reliance, was planning to kick off strategic share placement fo

Iran's Khamenei says US hostility will persist regardless of party in power

Global central banks hit pause in October after September hiking spree

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AI sales startup Nooks secures $500 million in funding for expansion

Nooks has secured a $500 million commitment from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund to finance the company's sales and marketing push, the sales automation startup said on Wednesday.Unlike traditional investors that buy a stake in a company, General Catalyst's commitment involves taking a share of the returns its capital helps generate, Nooks CEO Dan Lee said. He declined to give details on the terms of the deal.Nooks is betting that sales will be the next profession reshaped by AI, after coding, legal work and customer support, and the deal will help the company scale up and launch new p

AI data center stocks dip, renewables surge after Democrat sweep in US midterm elections

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Democrats win governor, senate race in Iowa

Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek will flip Iowa’s open Senate seat, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defeating GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson and renewing the state’s battleground status. The two were vying to replace retiring Republican Sen. Joni Ernst in a state that had been competitive until recently, but where the GOP had dominated since President Donald Trump’s emergence a decade ago. Turek’s win in part reflects the growing anxiety in farm country over rising diesel and fertilizer prices, tariff battles and more. Meanwhile, Iowa Democratic State Auditor Rob Sand will win the state�

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Democrats seize Congress in sweeping midterm repudiation of Trump

Democrats seized control of both the Senate and House of Representatives on Tuesday, scoring sweeping victories in Republican strongholds for the first time in generations as tens of millions of voters delivered a scathing rebuke to President Donald Trump.Voters in conservative bastions who had propelled the president to his second term in office just two years ago swung dramatically toward Democrats, fueled by deep frustration over the unpopular war with Iran, anxiety over the high cost of living and anger at Trump's stewardship of the country.In Texas, the biggest Republican state, Democrat

‘Epic’ blue wave helps Democrats take Congress in overwhelming rebuke to President Trump

Democrat Annie Andrews wins US Senate seat in South Carolina upset

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Republican Byron Donalds will win Florida’s governor race, CNN projects

Republican Rep. Byron Donalds will be Florida’s next governor, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, and will make history as the state’s first Black leader.Donalds defeated David Jolly, a former Republican congressman who became a Democrat last year and tried to appeal to voters as a pragmatic centrist. However, Donalds overwhelmed Jolly with a sizable spending advantage and proved that Florida remains a Republican stronghold.Donalds’ victory puts a close ally of Donald Trump in charge of the president’s adopted home state for the final two years of his presidency and beyond. Trump end

Stocks rally, dollar dips after Democrats' midterm sweep

Global stocks and the dollar recovered on Wednesday from lows hit overnight after Democrats won control of both the Senate and the House in the US midterm elections, which has fuelled fears that rapid AI sector growth could be hamstrung by regulatory scrutiny.In a major setback to President Donald Trump, Democrats scored sweeping victories in Republican strongholds for the first time in generations.The breadth of the party's success was underscored by gains in districts long considered safely conservative, highlighting a political shift that may have caught some investors off guard."Democrats

Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas will win New Hampshire’s open Senate seat

Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate race, will become first Muslim senator

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Here’s where Trump’s housing agenda stands before midterms

America’s housing market is paralyzed, with buyers pulling back and builders growing more pessimistic ahead of the midterms.Adding to the strain: Mortgage rates have surged back above 7% in recent weeks, hitting a three-year high of 7.4% last month. The average 30-year fixed rate eased slightly to 7.24% last week, according to Freddie Mac.America’s housing woes run deep. Homebuilding hasn’t kept pace with demand since the 2008 financial crash decimated the country’s housing industry. Elevated mortgage rates have also pushed up monthly payments for buyers, all while home prices keep cli

How Trump’s noncitizen voter lists could affect the midterms

As Americans head to the polls on Tuesday for midterm elections, lists the Trump administration has compiled of possible noncitizen voters could be used to contest the validity of the results.With US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party fighting to maintain control of Congress, here’s how the lists could affect the midterms.WHAT HAS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SAID ABOUT THE LISTS?The Trump administration has acknowledged sending letters to election officials in five states — California, Washington, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Nevada — as of October 30, saying it identified nonci

Middle East on edge as fears mount that Iran war could restart after the midterms

Trump says US is cutting off aid to Israel at year’s end because ‘they don’t need it’

G20 photo scrapped amid tensions over Russian foreign minister’s presence

The G20 foreign ministers meeting kicked off in Atlanta on Friday without a “family photo” after numerous representatives were expected to walk out rather than be pictured alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.Two Western officials told CNN more than a third of attending officials had threatened to walk out of a picture with the Russian foreign minister.According to three sources, the US had explored doing two family photos – one with Lavrov and one without. Ultimately, Secretary of State Marco Rubio decided to scrap the photo – which is a traditional element of most high-le

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Russian bombing of Ukrainian aid center is one of the war’s ‘deadliest attacks,’ Zelensky says

Dozens of people were killed when Russia dropped at least nine bombs on a school building in southeastern Ukraine where they had taken shelter, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, describing it as “one of the deadliest attacks of this war.”At least 37 people have been confirmed dead and more than 50 are still unaccounted for after the attack on the building in Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region, which local governor Mykhailo Semikin said was being used as a shelter and a humanitarian aid distribution center.Semikin said the victims were in a newly-built, EU-funded reinforced ba

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Abdul El-Sayed becomes first Muslim elected to US Senate

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan’s open US Senate seat on Tuesday, according to media projections, becoming the first Muslim elected to the chamber while

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Democrat Flanagan holds Minnesota Senate seat

Democrat Peggy Flanagan won Minnesota's US Senate race on Tuesday, US media outlets projected.

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Democrat Josh Turek flips Republican-held US Senate seat in Iowa

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Keisha Lance Bottoms projected to be first Black female governor. Here are other firsts

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Democrat Sherrod Brown wins back US Senate seat in Ohio

Democrat Sherrod Brown won Ohio’s special US Senate election on Tuesday, according to US media projections, ousting Republican incumbent Jon Husted and boosting his party's chances

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Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms will win Georgia governor race, CNN projects

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Democrat James Talarico will win Texas Senate race, CNN projects

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Democrat Rob Sand wins Iowa governor race, projections show

Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand defeated Republican businessman Zach Lahn to become the first Democratic governor elected in the state since 2006, according to US media

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Democrat Chris Pappas will win New Hampshire Senate race, CNN projects

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls