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📈 Northrop Grumman (NOC) rose about 5% after raising its 2026 adjusted EPS outlook to $29.35–$29.75 from $28.60–$29.10. It booked $16.4B in Q3 orders, lifting backlog to a record $109.6B on demand for Sentinel, F-35 and Virginia-class subs.
Reuters: finance.yahoo.com/news/north…
📈 Equifax (EFX) jumped about 11% after Q3 adjusted EPS of $2.26 topped the $2.20 estimate. Revenue rose 10% to $1.69B and U.S. mortgage revenue grew 15%, even as Equifax cut its full-year revenue guidance on a weaker mortgage market.
Equifax: investor.equifax.com/news-ev…
📉 GE Aerospace (GE) fell about 4.5% even after Q3 adjusted EPS of $2.25 beat the $2.00 estimate and orders jumped 49% to $19.0B. Investors focused on a 14% drop in free cash flow to $2.0B and an 80-basis-point slip in margin.
Investing: investing.com/news/stock-mar…
🤖 Salesforce (CRM) agreed to buy AI marketing platform Braze (BRZE) for $47.50 a share in cash, about $5.66B in enterprise value. Braze jumped about 50% premarket; Salesforce slipped about 3%. Close is expected in Salesforce's fiscal 2028.
Salesforce: salesforce.com/news/press-re…
💊 Merck KGaA agreed to buy Silence Therapeutics (SLN) in an all-cash deal valuing the siRNA biotech at about $1.3B equity ($20/ADS, a 130% premium to Friday's close). Close expected in Q1 2027.
Silence: businesswire.com/news/home/2…
💊 Lilly's Omvoh met its Phase 3 primary endpoint in pediatric ulcerative colitis: among Week 12 responders ages 6–17, 50% were in clinical remission at one year. Lilly (LLY) plans to seek a pediatric label expansion.
Lilly: investor.lilly.com/news-rele…
🤖🇺🇸 DHS ordered civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products, including third-party services built on the Chinese AI model, and barred new purchases, citing risks of data flowing to China and malware. Agencies can seek exceptions.
WSJ: wsj.com/tech/ai/dhs-orders-d…
🚨🇺🇸 The Supreme Court turned away appeals from alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants seeking to revive 2024 plea deals that would have spared them the death penalty. Their military trial is set for 2028.
AP: apnews.com/article/sept-11-g…
🤖 AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised $1.5B at a $6.2B valuation, more than double its last round. Trace Capital and Innovation X led; ARK, Fidelity and Morgan Stanley joined. CEO Jim Keller's company makes RISC-V AI chips and servers.
Tenstorrent: tenstorrent.com/en/newsroom/…
🇺🇸 The Supreme Court will hear Asian American parents' challenge to lottery admissions at four magnet middle schools in Montgomery County, Md. They say the race-neutral policy was meant to cut their kids' enrollment. A ruling is expected by June.
SCOTUS: supremecourt.gov/orders/cour…
🇺🇸 The Supreme Court won't hear ex-NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox's challenge to Trump firing her, leaving in place a ruling that the removal was valid. It follows the court's June ruling backing Trump's firing of FTC member Rebecca Slaughter.
CNBC: cnbc.com/2026/10/19/supreme-…
🇺🇸 The Supreme Court will decide whether the 1868 federal ban on home distilling is constitutional. The 5th Circuit struck it down as beyond Congress's taxing power; the 6th Circuit upheld it. A ruling is expected by early July.
SCOTUSblog: scotusblog.com/2026/10/supre…
🚨💊 FDA granted accelerated approval to GSK's Jemperli as the first immunotherapy for untreated stage II/III dMMR or MSI-H rectal cancer. In the trial, nearly three-fourths of patients hadn't needed surgery, radiation or chemo after 2+ years.
FDA: fda.gov/news-events/press-an…
🤖 Nvidia won CPU business from AI cloud startup Modal, which plans to use Nvidia's new Vera chip to host AI agents after tests showed double the throughput. Modal had run that work only on Intel and AMD chips and will keep them in a mixed fleet.
Reuters: investing.com/news/stock-mar…
🤖 Meta said the first phase of Prometheus, its gigawatt-scale AI supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, is complete and trained its Muse models. It now runs hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, and Meta is working to scale it to about 1 million.
Meta: engineering.fb.com/2026/10/1…
💊 Roche struck its second cancer-drug deal with China's Hansoh Pharma: $400M upfront, $110M after one year and potentially more than $15B in milestones for a portfolio of antibody-drug conjugates. Roche gets rights outside Greater China.
Hansoh: hspharm.com/news/news-detail…
🇺🇸 The Energy Department will put up to $42M in Defense Production Act funds toward Williams' (WMB) long-stalled Constitution Pipeline, a 125-mile natural gas line from Pennsylvania to New York, for permitting and pre-construction work.
Energy Dept: energy.gov/articles/energy-d…
📉 Steel Dynamics (STLD) slid about 7% after hours as Q3 EPS of $5.26 missed estimates of $5.48 and its own $5.34–5.38 guidance, despite record steel shipments of 3.8M tons. Revenue of $6.51B beat.
Investing: in.investing.com/news/earnin…
📈 3M (MMM) rose about 4% after hours on an expanded data center supply deal with Amazon. Amazon gets a warrant for up to 3.16M 3M shares at $164.89; 85% vests as its purchases of optical connectivity and other products reach $6B.
MarketWatch: marketwatch.com/story/3m-iss…