The Evening File — The Desk’s Report
Sunday Closes With More Than 1,600 Flights Cancelled and the Full Return Moved to Monday, the Gulf Closes Ranks Behind Bahrain While Washington Files No Word on the Radar, and the Petition to Bring Back Mr. Huang Passes 154,000 With No Answer From the Board
The evening file: a recovery day that ended smaller than Saturday and larger than promised, with its cause named to a town in Arkansas; a morning of drones in the Gulf answered in writing by five capitals and not answered by a sixth; a count that spent Sunday where Saturday left it; a spokesman’s two sentences repeated to the evening wires; a petition that grew by tens of thousands while its board said nothing; and a week ahead written entirely in dates.
The Evening in Brief: The Day Whole, and the First Considered Responses From Every Side
Sunday’s developments, whole, are a recovery that did not finish, a claim that gained responses without gaining confirmation, and a set of counts that moved everywhere except in Alaska. More than 1,600 flights were cancelled and nearly 3,600 delayed on Sunday in the wire account filed below, nearly 1,700 had been cancelled by 1350 in the tracker account filed below, and more than 17,000 flights have been scrubbed since Friday in the same account; the Secretary’s Sunday version of the promise, back to normal today and probably fully normal tomorrow, is the version the day bore out, and the cause file gained its place in the El Dorado account filed below. In the Gulf, the considered responses arrived: Manama’s statement stands in the ministry account filed below, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and Egypt condemned the attacks in the condemnations account filed below, Tehran’s spokesman defended the strikes as self-defence in the accounts filed below, and no American word on Sunday’s radar claim stands in any account the desk read by 1800. In Alaska no new count came on Sunday; the state’s Saturday report stands at 140,637 to 129,424, and the race stands uncalled. In Nvidia’s file the petition’s counter passed 154,000 and kept rising, and the board filed no public answer. The evening’s other files, Moscow’s two sentences, Shenzhen’s two confirmations and one silence, France’s two counts and Spain’s new tracking, stand below in their places.
The Airlines at Evening: More Than 1,600 Cancelled, a Router at El Dorado, and the Promise Settled on Tomorrow
The recovery’s final shape for Sunday is a system working and a schedule still short. More than 5,200 flights were affected on Sunday in the wire account above, which counts more than 1,600 cancelled and almost 3,600 delayed, against more than 6,400 cancelled and more than 8,000 delayed on Saturday; the tracker account above counts nearly 1,700 cancelled and 5,280 delayed by 1350, and a third account counts more than 5,000 delayed and a further 2,000 cancelled in the day. The desk prints the three counts apart in the Cocked Hat; they were taken at different hours by different counters, and they agree on the order of the day, a third day of disruption far below Saturday and far above a normal Sunday. The shares stand where midday left them: JetBlue cancelled 27 percent of its Sunday operation and American 13 percent, with Southwest, United and Delta at 3 to 5 percent, in the wire account. Monday’s cancellations stood at 33 by Sunday afternoon in the tracker account, against fewer than 30 in the morning; the smallness of that figure is the recovery’s best evidence.
The cause file gained a town, a pair of routers, and an open question. Secretary Duffy said on Sunday that a newly installed router at a remote Administration site in El Dorado, Arkansas, started flooding the network during work by the contractor L3Harris on a copper-to-fiber upgrade, in the El Dorado account above; both routers are now with the contractor, Administration staff are on site, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering support, and officials still do not know whether the fault lay with the equipment or with the contractor that installed it, in the same account. The Secretary’s earlier sentence stands beside it: the system did not meet the moment, the contractor did not meet the moment, or the equipment did not. Administrator Bedford’s Saturday promise, full schedule integrity by the close of business on Sunday, was not met in the form stated; the Secretary’s Sunday form, fully normal tomorrow, is now the standing promise, and Monday will be read against it. No sign of a cyberattack stands in any account in the file.
Bahrain at Evening: Five Capitals Answer in Writing, Tehran Answers Back, and Washington Does Not Answer
The first considered responses to Sunday’s morning are regional, written, and aligned. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry said the attacks constitute a violation of international law and the principles of good neighbourliness and stressed an immediate halt, in the condemnations account above; Qatar’s Foreign Ministry called the continuation of the attacks a dangerous escalation that will complicate efforts to contain the tension and undermine political and diplomatic endeavours, in the same account; Jordan and Egypt condemned the attacks and expressed solidarity with Bahrain, in the same account and in the second-attack account filed below. Manama’s own statement, in the ministry account above, holds Iran fully responsible, rejects the transformation of Bahraini territory into an arena for settling scores, cites Security Council Resolution 2817 and Bahrain’s right of self-defence under Article 51, in coordination with the Gulf Cooperation Council under its joint defence agreement, and calls on the Security Council, where Bahrain sits, to condemn the attacks and take decisive measures. The Defence Force’s account stands: its air defences intercepted and destroyed several Iranian aerial attacks before they reached their targets, in the Bahrain account filed below.
Tehran’s answer and Washington’s silence complete the evening file. The Guards say six drones of their Aerospace Force targeted the American air-defence radar at the Al-Riffa helicopter base, in a second phase of retaliation, in the Bahrain account above and in the drone account filed below; no damage and no casualties have been reported, and neither Washington nor Manama has confirmed a hit. Tehran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mr. Baghaei, defended the strikes at a news conference as justified in self-defence and said Iran would keep responding to military aggression by the United States or other states, in the second-attack account above; Article 51 is therefore claimed in the same file by Manama for its defence and by Tehran for its strikes, for opposite acts, and the desk prints both claims as claims. Central Command, which denied Friday’s claim in claim-and-fact form, had filed no word on Sunday’s claim in any account the desk read by 1800, and the desk records the silence as a fact of the file, not as an answer. The President’s Saturday condition, that he might hold off on attacking Iran if there were no new provocations, stands unapplied to Sunday’s claim in any statement in the file.
The Count at Evening: No Sunday Count, 157 Short of a Majority, and Three Dates Left in November
Alaska’s Senate count spent Sunday exactly where Saturday afternoon left it, and the desk prints it whole one more time. The state’s unofficial summary, timed 1515 on Saturday, gives Ms. Peltola 140,637 votes, 49.94 percent; Senator Sullivan 129,424, 45.96 percent; Mr. Heikes 6,002; Mr. Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. 4,652; and write-ins 872, on 281,587 votes in the race, with 283,618 ballots cast and all 401 precincts reported, in the state’s report filed below. The lead is 11,213; a majority of the reported vote is 140,794, and Ms. Peltola stands 157 votes short of it by the desk’s arithmetic. The Press estimates 97 percent counted and has not called the race, in the midday file; one tracker lists a winner, Ms. Peltola declared victory on Saturday, the President declared Senator Sullivan the winner on November 7, and Senator Sullivan has not conceded, in the ballot account and the lead account filed below, which record that the latest batch added 2,397 votes for Ms. Peltola and 1,596 for Senator Sullivan and that leaders held in all three statewide races. The next count is due Monday; overseas ballots may arrive through Wednesday, November 18, when the ranked-choice tabulation is scheduled if no candidate holds a majority; certification is targeted for November 25.
Dublin and Shenzhen at Evening: Two Sentences Repeated, and a Departure in the Morning
Europe’s file closed Sunday as it opened, with one spokesman’s two answers carried by the evening wires. Asked by the TASS agency whether Europe’s negotiators have attempted to contact Russia, spokesman Peskov answered, “No, not yet,” in the contact account filed below; in an interview with a Vesti correspondent he said that in the absence of a negotiated solution Russia will have to achieve its objectives by force, and that if the Union does not want peace there is no point in discussing a settlement or a European security framework, in the force account filed below. No European answer to either sentence stands in the evening file, and no date for a first contact stands in it. The standing American sentence, that the delegation at Abu Dhabi ensured Europe will be included in future talks, stands where the week left it.
Shenzhen gained no third confirmation on Sunday and gained a clock. The meeting of the three presidents on Thursday, November 19, stands confirmed by the White House on Friday and by the Kremlin on Saturday, and unconfirmed by its host, in the meeting account and the agenda account filed below; China’s Friday sentence, that it is in communication with relevant parties regarding a meeting between the three heads of state, stands unamended at 1800. The agenda split stands whole: nuclear arms and Iran in the American telling, with no agreement expected in the same telling; Ukraine off the trilateral agenda in the American telling and on it in the Kremlin aide’s. The President departs Monday for Manila and the ASEAN meetings and continues to Shenzhen, due there November 17 through 19, in the same accounts. Monday’s departure is the next fact in the file.
Nvidia at Evening: A Counter Past 154,000, a Board That Has Not Answered, and a Report of a War Room
The petition’s day is a rising counter and a standing silence. The counter read 154,678 names at 1001 Pacific on Sunday, up from 117,112 at 1403 Pacific on Saturday, in the petition account filed below, which breaks the total down as 7,459 self-described current employees, 1,406 former employees, 81,896 shareholders and 63,917 other supporters, and records in the same file that the affiliations are self-reported and not verified and that fake entries appeared among the names. A later account puts the counter at 156,850, with more than 7,500 current employees, in the comeback account filed below, which reports that Mr. Huang has discussed a return with confidants and that allies are assembling a lobbying effort on his behalf; a third account puts the total at 151,083, in the finance account filed below. The petition’s asks stand in all the accounts, in the campaign account filed below: reinstatement while an independent investigation establishes the facts, the investigation’s scope, independence and timetable made public, a substantive opportunity to respond, and, if the board insists he leave, a specific, evidence-backed explanation. The board had not publicly responded to the petition or to the Gerstner and Baker letter in any account the desk read by 1800; its succession file stands at choosing a search firm, with an approach to an outside candidate reported and no engagement made. No finding has been made by the board, by any committee or by any court on any allegation in this file. Earnings stand on Tuesday, November 17, after the close, with consensus revenue at $108.9 billion against the company’s outlook of $108.0 billion in the week’s file.
The Markets at Evening: A Sunday Read in One Open Market, and Futures at 1800
Sunday has no cash session, and the evening reading is Friday’s closes, the weekend’s one open market, and the hour now at hand. Friday’s closes stand: the S&P 500 at 7,561.67, down 0.40 percent; the Nasdaq Composite at 25,136.27, down 0.91; the Dow at 52,347.60, up 0.10; the ten-year yield at 5.15 percent; the dollar index at 103.41. Bitcoin traded at $64,502 at 1738 UTC on Sunday, 6.3 percent below its Friday close, after a low of $61,946 in the night, in the week-ahead account filed below; at $65,025 in an afternoon reading and at $65,570 at 0845 after a low of $62,006, the lowest since July, in the bitcoin account filed below; and above $65,000 in a late account that counts about $808 million of futures liquidations in the 24 hours to Sunday, in the accounts filed below. The Fear and Greed reading stood at 10 on Sunday against 20 on Friday, in the week-ahead account. Futures reopen at 1800 today, the hour of this collection; their first readings belong to the Midnight Watch. The week’s calendar is dated in every file: retail sales and Nvidia on Tuesday, the October meeting minutes on Wednesday, the Anthropic listing on Thursday in one account and its pricing on Wednesday in another, printed apart in the Cocked Hat.
France and Spain at Evening: A Bill Dated November 19 in Paris, and a New Tracking in Spain
France’s fifth Saturday gained its Senate date on Sunday. The Interior Ministry’s count stands at 106,000 nationwide, 24,000 in Paris, down from 146,000 the Saturday before, with 219 detained in the week’s file; the organisers’ count stands at about 200,000, almost 100,000 in the capital, in the demonstrations account filed below, which records a range of demands, from protecting children and increasing wages to more resources for education and protest against the police bill. That bill, giving officers a presumption of legitimate self-defence when they use firearms and called a licence to kill by its critics in the accounts, is scheduled to be examined by the Senate on November 19, in the same account and in the Senate account filed below. The unions’ Tuesday strike stands, called after the government’s 0.6 percent minimum-wage promise was rejected; Tuesday is also the eighth anniversary of the Yellow Vest movement, and a sixth Saturday is called for November 21.
Spain’s campaign gained a tracking and kept its divided polls. The first instalment of a new tracking, published Sunday, puts the Popular Party at 30.8 percent and 130 seats, the Socialists at 26.4 percent and 106 seats, and Vox at 18.2 percent and 65 seats, a combined 195 seats for the first and third parties against 176 needed for a majority, in the tracking account filed below. The mean of sixteen institutes stands at Popular Party 31.4, Socialists 26.9, Vox 19.1, Frente Amplio 6.3 and ERC 2.5, in the campaign account filed below; the state survey’s Socialist lead stands against both figures in the file where the week left it. Mr. Sánchez opened in Seville, Mr. Feijóo in Badalona, and Mr. Abascal and the Frente Amplio candidates in Madrid, in the same account; a head-to-head television debate is reported set for November 19, and polls may publish until November 23. Spain votes on November 29.
The Week Ahead: Every File in This Edition Is Dated
Monday carries the recovery’s verdict, the President’s departure, and Alaska’s next count. The airlines will be read against the Secretary’s fully-normal-tomorrow promise and Monday’s 33 cancellations counted on Sunday afternoon. Alaska’s count resumes Monday ahead of Wednesday’s tabulation. Tuesday carries retail sales, France’s strike, and Nvidia’s earnings after the close. Wednesday carries the October meeting minutes, the APEC leaders’ meeting in Shenzhen, and Alaska’s tabulation. Thursday carries the three presidents in Shenzhen and the Senate’s examination of the police bill in Paris. Spain votes November 29; Mr. Huang’s interview stands dated December 1; the Federal Reserve decides December 8 and 9. The Midnight Watch collects at 0000.
The Cocked Hat
Where the evening’s bearings do not meet, the desk prints the triangle. On Sunday’s cost: more than 1,600 cancelled and nearly 3,600 delayed in the wire count, nearly 1,700 cancelled and 5,280 delayed by 1350 in the tracker account, more than 5,000 delayed and a further 2,000 cancelled in a third account, and 1,606 cancelled at 1100 in the El Dorado account—readings taken at different hours, agreeing on the day’s order and on nothing finer. On the promise: full schedule integrity by the close of business Sunday in the Administrator’s Saturday words, fully normal tomorrow in the Secretary’s Sunday words, and a day that met neither in full and the second in prospect. On the failed thing: a router at El Dorado flooding the network in the Secretary’s Sunday account, with equipment failure and installer error both open. On Bahrain: intercepts and destruction in the Defence Force’s account, six drones on target in the Guards’, condemnations from four neighbouring capitals, Article 51 claimed by both sides, and no confirmation of a hit and no American word from any capital. On Alaska’s share: 49.94 percent on the state’s full denominator, 50.1 on the dashboard that excludes unresolved write-ins, a winner listed on one tracker, no call from the Press, a victory declared by one candidate and a winner declared by the President for the other. On Europe: not yet contacted in the spokesman’s answer, included in future talks in the White House’s November 13 sentence, and objectives by force absent a negotiated solution in the spokesman’s interview, with no European answer in the evening file. On Shenzhen: confirmed by Washington and Moscow, unconfirmed by its host, with Ukraine on the agenda in one capital’s telling and off it in another’s. On the petition: 151,083, 154,678 and 156,850 in three Sunday readings of one counter, its affiliations self-reported, its fake entries named in its own accounts, and no answer from its board. On bitcoin: $61,946, $62,006, $64,502, $65,025 and $65,714 in readings taken at five hours of a Sunday. On France: 106,000 in the Ministry’s count and about 200,000 in the organisers’. On Spain: 30.8 percent for the Popular Party in the new tracking, 31.4 in the sixteen-institute mean, and a Socialist lead in the state survey. Inside the triangle is where the evening honestly stands.