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The Consumer Price Index rose 2.4% in the 12-month period that ended in September, while a gauge that strips out food and energy prices was 3.3%, the government said yesterday.

Stat: 7%. That’s how much employer health insurance premiums increased this year, after rising by the same margin last year. Family coverage this year costs roughly $25,500 for employers and employees. (the Wall Street Journal)

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Stocks up

• Celsius Holdings, makers of those disgusting energy drinks your 12-year-old cousin chugs, soared 14.42% after analysts from Stifel and Piper Sandler gave it a vote of confidence.
• Crowdstrike enjoyed a rare bump 5.56% higher today after RBC Capital analysts named the company one of the top software stocks of 2025. Speaking of, Delta Air Lines announced it took a $380 billion hit last quarter due to the Crowdstrike outage. Shares of the airline sank 1.16% after earnings.
• CVS Health rose 1.35% after an upgrade from Barclays analysts who think the company’s Medicare business should recover nicely.
• GXO Logistics, a supply-chain management company, popped 14.11% on a report from Bloomberg that the company is exploring a potential sale.

Stocks down

• 10X Genomics, which sounds like the bad guys that accidentally release a military-grade virus in a zombie movie, fell 24.70% after it announced preliminary results that disappointed shareholders.
• Toronto-Dominion Bank dropped 5.29% on the news that not only will the Canadian bank pay US regulators $3 billion in penalties, but its retail business growth will be limited in the US. All that for failing to stop drug cartels from laundering money.
• First Solar sank 9.29% after Jefferies analysts cut their price target on the solar power panel maker, citing production delays hurting the company’s bottom line. The report sent shares of competitors Enphase Energy and SolarEdge Technologies tumbling 5.82% and 4.32%, respectively.
• PayPal lost 3.27% thanks to a report from Bernstein analysts who downgraded the stock on fears that Venmo could lose market share to competitors.

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Here’s where the major benchmarks ended:

• The S&P 500^® index (SPX) lost 11.99 points (–0.21%) to 5,780.05; the Dow Jones Industrial Average^® ($DJI) fell 57.88 points (–0.14%) to 42,454.12; and the NASDAQ Composite^® ($COMP) dropped 9.56 points (–0.05%) to 18,282.05.
• The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) rose three basis points to 4.1%, the highest since July 31 and closing in on the 100-day moving average.
• The CBOE Volatility Index^® (VIX) was flat at 20.87.

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PepsiCo cut its full-year organic revenue guidance as consumers reduced their spending on drinks and snacks, and the company posted “its second straight quarter of weaker-than-expected sales,” CNBC reported.

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