South Korea’s manufacturing PMI slows to 8-month low in October

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Mistral AI Hits $24B Valuation in Europe’s Largest Private Tech Funding Mistral AI’s Record-Breaking Funding Round and Its Implications By Inti Landauro and Elizabeth Howcroft Overview of the Funding Round PARIS, Sept 8 (Reuters) – France’s Mistral has raised €3 billion at a valuation of around €21 billion ($24 billion), in what the three-year-old AI…

Key insight: The proposal would raise the credit limit imposed on insiders for the first time since 1979 and would establish an indexing system to ensure the threshold keeps pace with broader economic growth. Expert quote: “Community banks often face challenges recruiting experienced business leaders to serve as members of bank boards and as bank…

Major industry players are revealing their approaches to challenges they face in scaling operations and pursuing efficiencies.  Processing Content American Pacific Mortgage President Steve Majerus, who sits at the helm of one of the largest retail shops in the country, said he is frustrated with “single solution” vendors that fail to think bigger.  American Pacific…

Stylist Aaron Hom has styled rooms for Restoration Hardware and Design Within Reach, but some of his most personal work has happened at home—and, usually in very small spaces. His latest project, a 1922 bungalow in the Maxwell Park neighborhood in Oakland, CA, is now on the market for $750,000. In 2009, House Beautiful photographed…

Homeowners are taking out equity release to help their family, despite being worried about their own retirement plans, according to 63% of brokers surveyed by a building society. Furthermore, 47% of intermediaries said unlocking cash from homes to give away to loved ones is the most common reason for taking out a mortgage later…