👋Good morning! Saturday morning, late October. The leaves are doing their annual crunchy-carpet routine, Halloween costumes are lurking in shop windows, and somewhere a household is switching the heating on for the first time with a guilty little wince. It's the perfect weekend to slow down, which is precisely what the business world refused to do yesterday. Friday served up a very on-brand mix: politics wearing an economics costume, gadget fever no factory could keep up with, and eye-watering sums poured into the unglamorous plumbing of the digital age. With the midterms days away, everything had an edge to it. Deals felt timed, announcements felt strategic, and every price tag seemed to come with a backstory. So grab something warm, put your feet up, and let's walk through what happened while you were busy limping over the finish line of the working week.
