Economy

The operations floor of the FAA's Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, one of the agency's 22 en route centers, in 2006.

Air traffic control

A four-hour nationwide ground stop halts 10,000 US flights, and airlines cancel more than 2,000 more on Saturday

Overloaded switches and routers at the FAA's en route centers produced the longest nationwide halt in 25 years, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is now asking Congress for $50 billion

Redação RecortNews11/14/2026

Inflation
October consumer prices rise 0.4% and push the Fed toward a rate increase on December 9
COP31
COP31 moves into negotiation in Antalya with the money-versus-fossil-fuels deadlock unresolved
Trade
Philippines halts Brazilian pork imports for 60 days as Lula lands in Manila
Nvidia
Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia after 33 years, and the board hands the company to CFO Colette Kress

A supermarket on Rua Lima e Silva in Porto Alegre in 2024. Food and beverages was the group with the largest impact on October's IPCA.

Brazil's inflation slows to 0.14% in October as power bills fall, but the 12-month rate reaches 4.63%

A Honda Accord e:HEV, one of the hybrid models behind the demand Honda cites for its new Ohio plant, photographed in April 2026.

Automotive industry

Honda commits $3 billion to a hybrid plant in Ohio, its fourth in the state, with 2,000 jobs and 240,000 vehicles a year

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in her official USDA portrait, taken in Washington in February 2025.

Food assistance

USDA moves to cut 6.3 million people from SNAP by narrowing automatic eligibility to cash welfare households

The Banco Central del Paraguay building in Asunción, pictured in 2009.

Paraguay wraps up emergency payouts to ueno bank customers, with a guarantee covering 27% of deposits

The Strait of Hormuz, between Iran (to the north) and the Arabian Peninsula (to the south), in an image taken by NASA's Terra satellite on 2 December 2020.

With Hormuz shut for more than eight months, AD Ports' profit jumps 73% as cargo is diverted to Fujairah and Khor Fakkan

Petrobras headquarters in downtown Rio de Janeiro, in 2009.

Petrobras posts R$39.8 billion profit in the third quarter, up 21.5%, and approves R$15.3 billion in shareholder payouts

A crowd fills the Puerta del Sol in Madrid around the housing protest camp set up in September 2026, in a photograph taken on 12 October.

Spain halts in a general strike over housing and wages, the first backed by both big unions since 2012, as 234 flights are cancelled

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher J. Waller, who set a 0.3% core inflation reading as his threshold for considering a half-point rate increase in December, in an official portrait released in 2022.

October core inflation holds at 0.3%, the level Waller said would justify a half-point Fed hike in December

The Barú volcano, seen from the district of Volcán in Panama's Chiriquí province, in 2013. Geisha coffee is grown in its highlands.

Panama's geisha coffee sells for $18,004 a kilo, cementing Chiriquí beans in the ultra-luxury market

The container terminal at the Yangshan deep-water port in Shanghai, photographed in 2013.

China's trade surplus tops $1 trillion for a second straight year, with semiconductor exports up 137%

Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive of Nvidia, speaking at Stanford University in April 2026.

Nvidia's board opens an investigation into Jensen Huang after he admits an affair with a woman accused of spying for China

The coastline at Port Said, on Egypt's northeastern Mediterranean shore, in 2007. The new gas discovery lies in Egyptian Mediterranean waters.

Egypt announces Mediterranean gas discovery estimated at 200 billion cubic feet

The Eccles Building, home of the Federal Reserve Board, in Washington in 2011.

US payrolls rise 165,000 in October, more than double forecasts, and put a December rate hike back in play

Satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz, between Iran to the north and the Arabian Peninsula to the south, taken by the MODIS sensor on the Terra satellite in December 2020. The channel is about 34 km wide at its narrowest point.

Strait of Hormuz

Iran exempts Chinese, Indian, Iraqi and Qatari ships from Hormuz restrictions, where 10.23 million barrels a day transited

An ABB industrial robot in operation in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, northern France, in 2008.

China blocks SoftBank's purchase of ABB's robotics business in the country, stalling a $5.375 billion deal