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TOP STORIES

GLOBAL

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/

Gaza humanitarian catastrophe looms, Blinken condemns Hamas depravity

JERUSALEM/GAZA/TEL AVIV, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Gaza moved closer to a humanitarian catastrophe on Thursday as the death toll rose and vital supplies ran low, while Israel massed tanks on the enclave's border ahead of an anticipated ground invasion amid international calls for restraint.

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FRANCE

France uses teargas on banned pro-Palestinian rally as Macron calls for calm

PARIS, Oct 12 (Reuters) - French police used teargas and water cannon to break up a banned rally in support of the Palestinian people in Paris on Thursday, as President Emmanuel Macron urged the French to remain united and refrain from bringing the Israel-Hamas conflict home.

U.S.

USA-CONGRESS/SPEAKER

Republican dissension in US House threatens Scalise speaker bid

WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives spent hours in closed-door talks on Thursday but appeared no closer to resolving divisions that have prevented them from installing Steve Scalise as speaker of the chamber, which has been leaderless for nine days.

USA-POLITICS/MENENDEZ

US Senator Bob Menendez charged with acting as unregistered agent of Egypt

Prosecutors pursuing a corruption case against Bob Menendez on Thursday brought a new charge against the Democratic U.S. senator, accusing him of engaging in a conspiracy to act as a foreign agent for the Egyptian government.

BUSINESS

AUTOS-LABOR/UAW

Ford says it is 'at the limit' with UAW contract offer

DETROIT/WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A senior Ford executive said Thursday the automaker is "at the limit" of what it can spend on higher wages and benefits for the United Auto Workers, and warned the union's strike at the company's most profitable factory could harm workers and slash profits.

DOMINOS PIZZA-RESULTS/

Domino's Pizza banks on promotions, loyalty program to revive demand

Domino's Pizza on Thursday bet on a revival in U.S. demand on the back of its spruced-up loyalty program and promotional offers to help offset ebbing benefits from higher menu prices.

LIFESTLYE & ENTERTAINMENT

SCIENCE-BRAIN/

Ambitious research yields new atlas of human brain cells

WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Examining the human brain at the cellular level in more detail than ever before, scientists have identified an enormous array of cell types - more than 3,300 - populating our most complex organ, creating an atlas that may help pinpoint the cellular basis of neurological diseases and facilitate new therapeutics.

SPORTS

SOCCER-EURO-ESP-SCO/REPORT

Spain's 2-0 victory leaves champagne on ice for Scotland

SEVILLA, Spain, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Alvaro Morata and Oihan Sancet scored second-half goals as Spain ensured their would be no Scottish party with a 2-0 victory in their Euro 2024 Group A encounter on Thursday, leaving a frustrated Scotland waiting to book a finals place.

OLYMPICS-IOC/

Russian Olympic Committee handed immediate ban says IOC

MUMBAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The Russian Olympic Committee was banned with immediate effect on Thursday for recognising regional organisations from four territories annexed from Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee said.

UPCOMING

BUSINESS / ECONOMICS

SINGAPORE-CENBANK/

Singapore central bank delivers monetary policy decision

Singapore reviews its monetary policy on Friday. The Monetary Authority of Singapore left policy settings unchanged in its last review in April, after tightening five times in a row.

13 Oct 20:00 ET / 00:00 GMT

BLACKROCK-RESULTS

BlackRock third-quarter results

BlackRock on Friday is expected to post a fall in its third-quarter earnings, as market volatility due to rising interest rates and fears of recession to pressure world's largest asset manager's fee income. Investors will examine assets under management, total inflows at the company and will parse executive commentary on the health of the economy.

13 Oct 02:00 ET / 06:00 GMT

PNC FINANCIAL-RESULTS/

PNC Financial Services Group

PNC Financial Services Group's third-quarter profit is expected to fall as the lender set aside more rainy-day funds to cover potential losses from soured loans.

13 Oct 02:30 ET / 06:30 GMT

IMF-WORLDBANK/BOE-BAILEY

Bank of England Governor Bailey speaks at IIF meeting

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey is due to appear in conversation at the 2023 Institute of International Finance Annual Membership Meeting.

13 Oct 04:00 ET / 08:00 GMT

USA-ENERGY/HYDROGEN-HUBS

White House announces winners of $7bln hydrogen hub grants

The Biden administration will announce the winners of up to $7bln in federal grants aimed at creating regional hubs of clean hydrogen infrastruction, a key part of its climate change strategy.

13 Oct 05:00 ET / 09:00 GMT

MARKETS-FLOWS/BAML

Bank of America weekly "Flow Show"

A weekly look at global investor flows from Bank of America Global Research.

13 Oct 05:30 ET / 09:30 GMT

JP MORGAN-RESULTS/

Q3 2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co Earnings Release

JPMorgan Chase is expected to report a rise in third-quarter profit on Friday with analysts expecting the largest U.S. bank by assets to outperform broader weakness in the sector. Executive commentary on the strength of U.S. consumers, health of the economy and lingering impact of the crisis that hit the sector earlier this year is in focus.

13 Oct 07:00 ET / 11:00 GMT

WELLS FARGO-RESULTS/

3 2023 Wells Fargo & Co Earnings Release

Wells Fargo is expected to report third-quarter results on Friday with investors and analysts focused on the outlook for loan growth, consumer spending resiliance and signs of further stress in the commerical real estate sector potentially hitting the lender.

13 Oct 08:00 ET / 12:00 GMT

CITIGROUP-RESULTS/

Q3 2023 Citigroup Inc Earnings Release

Citigroup is expected to report a drop in third-quarter profit on Friday with investors and analysts focused on the third-largest U.S. bank detailing its reorganisation plan.

13 Oct 08:00 ET / 12:00 GMT

UNITEDHLTH GRP-RESULTS/

Q3 2023 UnitedHealth Group Inc Earnings Release

United Health Group will kickstart third-quarter earnings season for health insurers, before markets open on Friday. Investors will look out for any updates or comments on the company's 2024 forecasts, quarterly medical costs, and membership for its federal government and state government backed insurance plans. Comments on demand trends for new weight-loss and diabetes drugs and biosimilars in its pharmacy benefit management business will also be closely watched.

13 Oct 08:30 ET / 12:30 GMT

USA-FED/HARKER

Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Harker speaks on economic outlook

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker speaks virtually on the economic outlook before the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce 2023 Economic Outlook event.

13 Oct 09:00 ET / 13:00 GMT

USA-SEC/

US SEC votes on new securities lending, short selling regulations

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission votes on whether to adopt a rule requiring more transparency in the securities loan market as well as rules requiring greater transparency in short selling.

13 Oct 09:30 ET / 13:30 GMT

AUTOS-LABOR/UAW

UAW president makes announcement as strike enters fifth week

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain makes an announcement on the ongoing strike, now entering its fifth week, and after the UAW ratcheted up the stakes by striking against Ford's highly lucrative Kentucky plant that produces trucks.

13 Oct 10:00 ET / 14:00 GMT

CANADA-CENBANK/

Bank of Canada Governor speaks to reporters from IMF meeting in Morocco

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem will speak to reporters from the sidelines of the IMF meting in Marrakech, Morocco.

13 Oct 10:15 ET / 14:15 GMT

IMF-WORLDBANK/BOE -SAPORTA

Bank of England regulator Saporta due to give talk

Bank of England regulator Victoria Saporta is due to appear in a panel discussion at the 2023 Institute of International Finance Annual Membership Meeting.

13 Oct 10:50 ET / 14:50 GMT

POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

MALI-POLITICS/

POSTPONED: Influential Muslim leader calls on Malians to march for civilian transition

A movement led by Imam Mahmoud Dicko, an influential Malian Muslim leader, has called on followers to march on Friday to demand a civilian transition after the military seized power in two coups. Dicko and opposition political leaders led regular protests in 2020 that culminated in the coup that ousted former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August that year.

13 Oct

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/DEMONSTRATIONS

New York and other U.S. ramp up for pro-Palestinian demos

New York and other U.S. are gearing up for a day of demonstrations after a former Hamas leader called for protests across the Muslim world in support of the Palestinian people.

13 Oct

GERMANY-MIGRATION/

German Chancellor Scholz holds migration talks with state premiers, opposition

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz holds talks at his chancellery with the state premiers of Hesse and Lower Saxony, as well as opposition CDU Friedrich Merz, on migration policy.

13 Oct

ARGENTINA-ELECTION/

Argentina set for wild election ride with radical Milei in the driving seat

Argentina is set for a wild and uncertain run-in to its Oct. 22 presidential election with radical libertarian Javier Milei in the driving seat, though mainstream rivals Patricia Bullrich and Sergio Massa are snapping at his heels.

13 Oct

TURKEY-QUAKE/RECONSTRUCTION (PIX) (GRAPHIC)

INSIGHT-Why Turkey could miss Erdogan's earthquake reconstruction goal

Ismet Kaplan has received no answer on whether he is eligible to leave a shipping container he has lived in since the earthquake and move into one of the homes President Tayyip Erdogan vows will be built across the devastated region. Nearly eight months on from modern Turkey's deadliest tremor, Erdogan's rebuilding deadlines are likely to be missed, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials, builders and engineers who said rising construction costs and economic uncertainty had deterred companies for bidding for government reconstruction contracts.

13 Oct

USA-BIDEN/ (PIX) (TV)

Biden travels to Philadelphia to tout economic agenda

U.S. President Joe Biden travel to Philadelphia to discuss his economic agenda, infrastructure, energy and climate change.

13 Oct

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/GAZA-RESCUE (PIX) (TV)

Gaza rescue workers scared and exhausted under Israeli air strikes

Palestinian rescue worker Ibrahim Hamdan has been on duty since Saturday, driving from one bomb site to another as his team tries to pull survivors from houses destroyed by the Israeli air strikes constantly pounding the tiny enclave.

13 Oct

ECUADOR-ELECTION/PREVIEW (TV)

Ecuadoreans weigh return to leftist policies against promises for youth in presidential vote

Ecuadoreans will go to the polls on Sunday to choose between one presidential candidate running on promises to improve the outlook for young people and another pledging a return to leftist social programs. Banana heir Daniel Noboa, 35, has led recent polling, though at least two surveys put voting intention for him and leftist Luisa Gonzalez, a protégé of former President Rafael Correa, within the margin of error.

13 Oct

USA-CONGRESS/SPEAKER

Republicans struggle to resolve divisions in US House over Scalise speaker bid

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives continue to try to resolve divisions that have prevented them from installing Steve Scalise as speaker of the chamber, which has been leaderless for ten days.

13 Oct

USA-ELECTION/DONORS

Republican donors meet in Texas to discuss Haley, DeSantis as 2024 Trump rivals

Members of a major Republican donor network gather in Dallas, Texas with representatives of presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis to assess who to back as they seek to defeat former president Donald Trump in the Republican party.

13 Oct

IMF-WORLDBANK/ASIA

IMF Asia-Pacific department news conference on Asia's economic outlook and risks

13 Oct 05:00 ET / 09:00 GMT

USA-TRUMP/SUBVERSION

Trump puts courts in bind with criticism of judges, legal system

Donald Trump's attacks on the credibility of the U.S. justice system face a fresh test next week when the federal prosecutor trying the former U.S. president for attempting to overturn his 2020 election loss asks a judge to rein in "inflammatory" comments.

13 Oct 06:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

USA-IMMIGRATION/MEXICO-BORDER (PIX) (TV)

More migrants are dying on desert trek into Texas and New Mexico

Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has logged 60 migrant deaths due to heat in the El Paso Sector this year, three times as many as the year before, part of a record number of migrant fatalities at the border. Migrant advocates for years have warned that the hostile desert climate is perilous for migrants, and now fear rising temperatures are making the difficult trek even deadlier.

13 Oct 09:00 ET / 13:00 GMT

COLOMBIA-LAND/

Director of Colombia land agency on gov't plans to gift land to poor farmers

Gerardo Vega, the director of Colombia's national land agency, will speak about government plans to hand over land to poor farmers and the policy's cost, as well as the impact it could have on exports and poverty.

13 Oct 10:30 ET / 14:30 GMT

SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY

SOLAR-ECLIPSE/NASA-PREVIEW

NASA ready for annular eclipse

NASA expert explains what to expect from annular eclipse that will darken skies over parts of the western U.S.

13 Oct

SPACE-EXPLORATION/ASTEROID (PIX) (TV)

NASA launches spacecraft on mission to explore metal-rich asteroid

NASA launches a spacecraft on a journey to an asteroid called Psyche, the ancient, metal-rich remnant core of a protoplanet and the largest known metallic object in the solar system, seeking new insights into Earth's formation.

13 Oct 10:19 ET / 14:19 GMT

CRIME / LAW / JUSTICE

CANADA-ENVIRONMENT/COURT

Canada's Supreme Court rules on constitutionality of Impact Assessment Act

Canada's Supreme Court will rule on Friday whether a federal law assessing the environmental impact of major infrastructure projects like oil pipelines is consitutional, following a legal challenge from the Alberta government.

13 Oct 09:45 ET / 13:45 GMT