The Midday File — The Desk’s Report
Wall Street Buys the Morning, the Autopsies Begin in Kraków, and the Mediator Goes In at Noon
The news at midday: the morning’s file corrected itself in three places before noon, and the corrections are the lead. Kraków’s wounded now stand in a governor’s hospital count, not in a weekend tally. Alaska’s next count stands on Tuesday, not Monday. Asia’s rebound closed smaller than its morning print, and Seoul closed down. Against the corrections, the day’s two scheduled acts ran on time: Mr. Miller took the chief of staff’s office in Washington, and the G7 ministers sat in Paris. At noon exactly, the mediator went into the Oval Office. What he carries out is not yet in any file. Wall Street, handed the same record, bought it: the Dow up 540 points at the open and oil down five percent.
The Midday in Brief
Midday corrected the morning in Kraków, in the count, and in the markets, and it confirmed the day’s schedule everywhere else. In Kraków, Governor Krzysztof Klęczar told reporters that fifteen people injured in the attack remain in hospitals, fourteen of them in stable condition and one, a police officer who took part in the arrest, in serious condition, in Reuters’ Monday file filed below; the overnight edition’s figure was seventeen injured in the prosecutors’ morning count, and both are printed in the Cocked Hat. The suspect died at about 4:30 a.m., the governor said, after at least three operations; prosecutors said autopsies of all nine victims began Monday and would take about two days, and Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said the investigation continues, to establish whether the man acted alone or was inspired by a group. In Washington, Mr. Miller’s first day as chief of staff opened with one departure reported beneath him, deputy chief of staff Richard Walters leaving the administration, in the departure account filed below. At noon the president’s meeting with Qatar’s prime minister began behind closed doors; no readout had been issued at collection time. In Paris the G7 foreign ministers opened two days of talks, moved at short notice from Marseille, with Secretary Rubio attending both days on his first trip abroad since the midterms. In New York the Dow rose 540.52 points at the open and Brent crude fell about five percent to $93.38 a barrel, in Reuters’ market file and the morning market account filed below. The desk files the day in that order.
The Corrections at Noon: Three Morning Figures, Restated
The first correction is a hospital count. The weekend’s Kraków wounded ran fifteen, sixteen and seventeen in successive files, the seventeen a prosecutors’ count carried in Monday’s morning accounts. The midday figure is of a different kind: fifteen people remain in hospitals, the governor of the province said at a Monday press conference, fourteen stable and one officer serious. A count of the injured and a count of those still in hospital are not the same instrument, and the desk prints the governor’s figure as the midday state of the hospitals without striking the earlier tallies, which counted the wounded at other hours. On the two officers the accounts still divide: one in a coma in one Monday account, one in serious condition in the governor’s words, the second officer’s state given as regained consciousness in Sunday’s file and not restated at midday.
The second correction is a date. The overnight edition carried Alaska’s next count as due Monday or Tuesday. The count guide checked Monday morning against the Division of Elections puts the next scheduled count on Tuesday, November 10, carrying early votes cast October 30 to November 2 and questioned ballots, in the count guide filed below. Nothing moves in Alaska today. The ranked-choice tabulation stands on November 18.
The third correction is a close. Tokyo’s morning print, up 3.44 percent at 59,411 in the overnight file, closed at 58,775.50, up 2.33 percent, in the Asia close account filed below. Seoul’s morning gain, up between 1.4 and 1.8 percent in the overnight accounts, closed down 0.81 percent at 5,018.85. The morning’s rebound was real at the morning hour and smaller at the close; both prints stand, each under its hour.
Kraków at Noon: The Autopsies Begin, and the Case Narrows to the Evidence
Poland’s file acquired its official Monday shape before noon, in statements from the governor, the prosecutors and the justice minister. The suspect died at about 4:30 a.m. on Monday, Governor Klęczar told a morning press conference, after at least three operations; he was a member of a sport shooting club, in the accounts filed below. Prosecutor Eryk Stasielak of the National Prosecutor’s Office said proceedings directly concerning the deceased suspect would be discontinued, and that the inquiry proceeds on forensic examinations, witness testimony and the material recovered in searches, in the prosecutors’ account filed below. Autopsies of all nine victims were scheduled to begin Monday and could take approximately two days. Justice Minister Żurek said on Monday that despite the death of the shooter the investigation will continue, aiming to establish whether he acted alone or was inspired by any group, in the Reuters file above. The political dispute over motive stands where the weekend left it: the government’s reading of far-right inspiration, stated without particulars, and the opposition’s demand for its basis, unanswered. In Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, school sessions with psychologists began Monday. Kraków marks November 11, Independence Day, without a parade, the governor said. National mourning ends Monday night; the city’s runs to November 11.
Washington at Noon: A Chief of Staff In, a Deputy Out, and the Mediator Behind a Closed Door
The handover ran on its announced date, and its first personnel fact is a departure. Stephen Miller, 41, took the chief of staff’s office Monday as the White House’s 33rd holder of the post, succeeding Susie Wiles, who moves to the Trump Political Operation; the president’s Friday announcement is the record of the change, in the handover account and the record of his stated positions filed below. Deputy chief of staff Richard Walters is leaving the administration, reported Sunday as the first major departure expected in the shakeup; Mr. Miller called him an invaluable member of the White House and said he will keep helping the administration from outside the building, in the departure account above. No statement from the new chief of staff describing his plans for the office was in the file at noon.
At noon the day’s central meeting began, and at noon it is a beginning and nothing more. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, went into the Oval Office at 1200 Eastern in a session the White House schedule marks closed press, having visited Tehran last week and with a separate meeting with Vice President Vance on the day’s schedule, in Reuters’ Monday file filed below. What he carries is restated in the midday accounts in its fuller form: an end to the American blockade of Iran’s ports, the lifting of some sanctions and a halt to bombing, in return for Tehran stopping its own closure of the Strait of Hormuz, with talks on the nuclear programme and other sanctions to follow. Tehran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, defended the plan on Monday, saying talks could resume within two days if its conditions were met, in the live file filed below. Against it stand the American sentences of the weekend, unwithdrawn at noon: the president’s, that fresh attacks are highly unlikely if talks produce a strong agreement, and Secretary Rubio’s, in the fuller form he gave it on his way to Paris, that there had been no progress and that Iranian demands were in part, in his words, unacceptable, outrageous and not realistic. Senior American and Gulf officials cast doubt on an imminent deal, Reuters reported. The White House has released no readout. The desk files the schedule, the proposal as both sides state it, and the absence of a readout, and nothing beyond them.
Paris at Noon: The Ministers Sit, and the Subject Is Another Table
The G7 foreign ministers opened in Paris on Monday morning, and the meeting’s business is the week’s other rooms. The gathering, among the last major events of France’s G7 presidency, was moved at short notice from Marseille to Paris, for scheduling reasons in one account and for security reasons after weeks of protests in another; both accounts are filed below, in the Paris account and the diplomats’ account. Secretary Rubio attends both days, his first appearance before the allies since the midterms, and ministers from Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, South Korea and Brazil attend alongside the seven. The stated agenda runs to continued support for Ukraine in military capability, finance and energy, the Middle East, and the securing of energy supplies; four G7 diplomats told reporters the meeting is the allies’ first chance to gauge whether the president’s midterm defeat alters the administration’s approach. On the sidelines, the French finance ministry hosts a donor conference Monday for the repair of the Chernobyl shelter dome, damaged in a strike last year. France has indicated the meeting is not expected to produce a joint communiqué, in the Brussels account filed below. The Abu Dhabi table itself sits Tuesday and Wednesday; Paris is its antechamber, and at noon the antechamber is in session and the table is not.
The Markets’ Reading at Noon: Oil Down Five Percent, Wall Street Up, One Chipmaker Down
New York’s reading of the weekend is the opposite of Friday’s, and it is priced in oil first. Brent crude fell about five percent to $93.38 a barrel in the morning trade, and West Texas Intermediate fell 4.36 percent to $86.87, in the morning market account above; the accounts attribute the fall to hopes of progress in the Iran file on the day the mediator sits in Washington, against Secretary Rubio’s stated doubts, which are in the same accounts. At the opening bell the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 540.52 points, or 1.05 percent, to 51,826.25, the S&P 500 rose 0.81 percent to 7,436.76, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.82 percent to 24,780.15, in the Reuters market file above; by 9:40 a.m. the S&P stood up 1.3 percent at 7,472.38, the Nasdaq up 1.6 percent at 24,972.46, and the Dow up 1.25 percent at 51,925.59, the ten-year Treasury yield eased to 4.833 percent, and the volatility index fell more than nine percent. Inside the rise, one name fell: Nvidia, down close to five percent before the open and more than six percent in its Frankfurt line, on the inquiry concerning its chief executive that the weekend’s accounts carry; the other chipmakers rose, AMD leading them in the morning accounts. Asia’s closes are filed in the corrections above: Taiwan’s Taiex up 4.94 percent to 41,661.70, ending a seven-session losing streak as a stabilization fund announced it would enter the market; Tokyo up 2.33 percent; Seoul down 0.81 percent after foreign investors sold 658 billion won of shares; Hong Kong down 0.13 percent. Europe’s morning ran higher, the DAX up 0.6 percent, the CAC 40 up 0.4 percent and the FTSE 100 up 0.4 percent in the Associated Press figures filed below. The calendar’s next test is stated in every market account: the October inflation report, Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. The New York Fed’s inflation expectations survey was due at 11:00 a.m.; its figures were not in the file at collection time.
Jerusalem at Noon: The Meeting Is the File
The mandate’s second working day carries one scheduled act, and at noon it has not reported an outcome. Mr. Eisenkot is scheduled to meet Mr. Liberman on Monday to discuss the parliamentary leadership of their bloc in the Knesset that convenes Tuesday and the composition of a government, in the meeting account filed below; the accounts expect Mr. Eisenkot himself to head the bloc in the Knesset. The positions stand as the weekend printed them: 48 seats in the bloc, 61 required, 67 recommendations given, Mr. Liberman ruling out a minority government resting on the Arab-led parties’ support and prepared to compromise on conscription to build 61 with the ultra-Orthodox parties, and Mr. Eisenkot’s four conditions standing. No seat has moved, no condition has been withdrawn, and no agreement has been announced. Mr. Netanyahu remains prime minister while the 28 days run.
Hormuz and Khor Mor at Noon: A Count of Crossings, and an Assessment Without a Figure
The strait acquired a traffic count at midday, and the count is the day’s first measurement of it that does not rest on a claim. Two ships visible to the tracking services had crossed the strait on Monday in the tracker’s midday count, both inbound, one of them a tanker, the most recent the crude carrier Felicity, inbound at 05:26 UTC; five crossed on Sunday; the seven-day average stands at 7.0 crossings a day against 84.8 before the crisis, about eight percent of normal, and the tracker’s status for the strait is severely restricted, in the traffic account filed below. The weekend’s claimed tanker fires stand unconfirmed at noon by any party that did not claim them, as the overnight edition printed them. Iraq’s understanding with the United States on a lane near Oman stands as a statement; no sailing under it is in the midday file.
At Khor Mor the operator’s assessment is under way and has produced no damage figure and no restart date by noon. Dana Gas’s Monday statement stands as the file’s firmest document: production halted Sunday after a suspected drone attack, the fire doused, the damage being assessed, no injuries to staff, in the operator’s account filed below. The loss stands at about 2,800 megawatts in the electricity ministry’s figure, with hydroelectric stations called on for hospitals and water stations in the regional accounts. No group has claimed the attack. Baghdad’s joint investigative committee is ordered and has not reported.
The Count at Noon: Nothing Moves Today, and Mississippi Counts Its Envelopes
Neither Senate race was called by noon, and no new vote figure was published for either, for the third day running, and the midday file’s news is the shape of what remains. Mississippi stands at Scott Colom 467,930 to Cindy Hyde-Smith 465,356, a margin of 2,574. Secretary of State Michael Watson’s accounting, carried in the count guide above, puts 75 of 82 counties’ unofficial results uploaded, 12,767 affidavit ballots processed with about 77 percent accepted, and just over 2,800 absentee mail ballots still out; the estimates of the whole remainder still run from about 3,139 to the tracker’s roughly 30,498, each with its owner. Alaska stands at Mary Peltola ahead of Dan Sullivan by 637 first-choice votes, 102,962 to 102,325 in the guide’s figures, with tens of thousands of early and absentee ballots uncounted and the next count on Tuesday. Mail ballots postmarked by Election Day are due in Mississippi by 5 p.m. Tuesday, counties certify by November 13, and Democrats hold at least 54 Senate seats whatever the two races decide. Colorado’s 4th District stands uncalled with them.
The Standing Files at Noon: Al-Ayyat, Asunción, Shizuoka
Egypt’s railway file moved one fact at midday: the driver of the Giza-to-Fayoum train is reported among the dead. The railway journal’s Monday account names the driver of Train No. 134 as one of the seven dead, reports crews clearing the wreckage to restore the Cairo-to-Upper Egypt line, and gives no time for the restoration, in the journal account filed below. The injured stand at 125 in the chief prosecutor’s late count; no cause has been stated by any authority, and the investigations ordered Sunday own the question. Paraguay’s file did not move: former President Peña’s pretrial detention stands, 27 charged, the repayments counted at $160 million and $153.5 million on the same savers, no ruling on any charge, and Mr. Peña presumed innocent. Central Japan’s file did not move: the injured at 22 in the prefectures’ division, the meteorological agency’s further investigation of Sunday’s earthquake set for a Monday meeting whose outcome was not in the file at noon.
The Cocked Hat
Three bearings never give a point; they give a small triangle, and this paper prints the triangle. On Kraków’s wounded, the weekend’s tallies run 15, 16 and 17 injured, and the governor’s midday figure, 15 still in hospital with 14 stable and one officer serious, is a hospital count and not a recount of the wounded; on the second officer, regained consciousness in Sunday’s file and not restated at midday. On the G7’s move from Marseille, scheduling reasons in one account and security reasons in another. On Hormuz, the Guards count three tankers and the Navy a fourth, none confirmed, and the tracker counts two crossings on Monday against a normal of about 85 a day. On oil, $98.35 in one overnight print and $93.38 in the midday trade, a fall and not a contradiction, the hours being different. On Asia, Tokyo up 3.44 percent in the morning and 2.33 at the close, Seoul up in the morning and down at the close. Against the triangle, the midday’s single-valued facts are these: the Kraków suspect died at about 4:30 a.m. and the autopsies of his nine victims began Monday; Mr. Miller holds the chief of staff’s office and a deputy’s departure is reported; the Qatari prime minister went into the Oval Office at noon and no readout exists; the G7 sits in Paris and the Abu Dhabi table sits Tuesday; Wall Street opened higher and Brent fell about five percent; no Senate race was called, no figure moved, and Alaska’s next count is Tuesday. The log proceeds to the afternoon.