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Week brief · November 2 to 8, 2026

Finance news, week of November 2, 2026

In the week of November 2 to 8, 2026 the Finance desk recorded 11 news events on 2 days. Markets led with 5.

The most covered stories of the week

  1. Nov 2 Apollo opens European lending arm with $11.2 billion of capacity 2
  2. Nov 2 Apple profit rises 12% while memory chip costs climb 2
  3. Nov 2 Indian VCs explore evergreen funds for longer startup runway 2
  4. Nov 2 Egyptian fintech fund Nclude completes final close above $112 million 2
  5. Nov 2 CNBC: “Oracle files to sell $20 billion in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout” 2
  6. Nov 2 California billionaire tax proposal splits economists on revenue and wealth flight 2
  7. Nov 3 RBA lifts cash rate to 4.85% in fifth hike of 2026 2
  8. Nov 3 trend.az: “Apple’s Services net sales rise 9.8% to $31.6B in fiscal Q4” 2

Monday, November 2, 2026

6 events. The full rundown for November 2, 2026. The most covered:

  1. 06:30 UTC Apollo opens European lending arm with $11.2 billion of capacity 2
  2. 21:46 UTC Apple profit rises 12% while memory chip costs climb 2
  3. 00:29 UTC Indian VCs explore evergreen funds for longer startup runway 2

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

  1. 01

    RBA lifts cash rate to 4.85% in fifth hike of 2026

    2 outlets · first: www2.stockmarketwatch.com The Fed

    Machine summary Governor Michele Bullock was quoted saying higher rates were "required" to bring inflation back within the 2%–3% target band, with headline CPI reported at 4.3%. In the same session, the KOSPI fell by as much as 3.77%.

    1. Higher interest rates are "required" to return inflation to the 2%–3% target range, Governor Michele Bullock was quoted as saying.
    2. The UK Autumn Budget capped business rate increases for hospitality.
    3. A five-year supply deal was sealed by ADNOC Gas (ADNOCGAS) at ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi with TotalEnergies (TTE), covering LNG volumes of up to 1.6 million tonnes.

    Reported by www2.stockmarketwatch.com and The Guardian.

  2. 02

    Coverage recordtrend.az: “Apple’s Services net sales rise 9.8% to $31.6B in fiscal Q4”

    2 outlets · first: zerohedge.com Markets

    Reports ran between 13:24 and 19:36 UTC on Nov 3.

    The outlets that reported this event are listed with links to their reports; no summary of ours passed our automated checks for it, which says nothing about the event (how they work).

    Reported by zerohedge.com and trend.az.

  3. 03

    Dubai FinTech Summit day two spotlights transition finance and capital

    2 outlets · first: ZAWYA Markets Mostly press releases

    Machine summary Day two of the Dubai FinTech Summit, part of the DIFC-led Dubai Future Finance Week, combined private-capital and sustainability programming with a Digital Economy 2.0 report from DIFC and Asia House.

    1. DIFC Authority chief executive Arif Amiri told the summit plenary the centre hosts more than 2,000 AI, fintech and innovation firms, against 11 startups in its first accelerator in 2017 (The Fintech Times)
    2. An announced partnership is intended to give up to 6,000 Japanese startups access to the DIFC ecosystem; the report states neither the partner nor a launch date was named
    3. The same report projects growth in the fintech market from about USD 400 billion today to USD 1.5 trillion, with cybercrime already costing the world roughly USD 10 trillion a year, per Asia House chief executive Michael Lawrence
    4. Noel Quinn, chair of Julius Baer and formerly HSBC's group chief executive, described tokenisation as a natural evolution, not a revolution; in 2004 Julius Baer became the first financial firm to establish itself in DIFC.
    5. DIFC's own announcement states its '1 Million Learners' initiative surpassed 130,000 learners in 2026 and that the centre is developing a Total Impact Framework to measure outcomes

    Reported by ZAWYA and thefintechtimes.com.

    • HSBC
    • Asia House
    • Digital Economy 2.0
    • Dubai Future Finance Week
    • Dubai FinTech Summit
    • Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)

Summaries and key facts are machine summaries of the reports linked with them; outlets, times and counts come from those reports. How a rundown is built.

What kind of news was it?

  1. Markets 5
  2. Regulation 3
  3. Banking 1
  4. Earnings 1
  5. The Fed 1

Sources: the outlets' reports linked on this page; counts and times from GetYourBrief's record of those reports (methodology).