Southwest Airlines shares jumped 4.7% last week, after board member Rakesh Gangwal made over $100 million in investments in the company between Sept 30th and Oct 1st. This is a rare occasion where Southwest has seen such positive news since the pandemic in 2020.
On Oct. 25, Hurricane Otis struck the city of Acapulco on the Pacific coast of Mexico, leaving the country with landslides, flooding, and devastation, becoming the second-strongest storm in Mexico's history.
On Friday October 4, 2024, the European Union (EU) finished voting on the proposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). While countries like Hungary and Germany vocally disagreed to this proposition, a majority of EU countries had already voted in favor of the tariffs. The tariffs are only the beginning of a potential long-lasting economic cold war between China and the West.
