2026-10-09
14 分钟Mortgage rates approach nearly 7.5%, but it's not all bad news for people looking to buy.
Plus, Russia targets Ukraine's cities, with more than 50 people dying in the past two days.
I think Ukraine's population is braced for a terrible winter.
It expects pain and suffering.
And we get into the journal's exclusive reporting on how Kimberly Guilfoyle
asked a MAGA donor to pay her $100,000 American Express bill.
She sends him a PDF that's labeled American Express instructions.
And she says, you could just send it here.
It won't show up anywhere.
If you wire money to American Express, that's all it will show.
It's Thursday, October 8th.
I'm Alex Osola for The Wall Street Journal.
This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
There's a new estimate of the U.S.
Deficit out today from the Congressional Budget Office, almost $2 trillion for the last fiscal year.
That's up 12% from the year before and its highest level since 2021. Headed into next month's midterm elections,
neither party has emphasized ways to reduce the deficit.
And in fact, both sides have floated ideas that could increase deficits.
In markets today, international oil prices rose about 4% after a tanker attack in the Persian Gulf rattled oil markets.
However, oil prices fell back a bit from their peak today after President Trump posted on social media that the U.S.