The Nasdaq led a tumble in US stocks on Thursday as Treasury yields rose and Meta (META) and Microsoft (MSFT) earnings sparked worries about prospects for Big Techs amid rising artificial intelligence costs.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) sank roughly 2%, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell about 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI), headed for a monthly loss, dropped roughly 0.6% on the heels of losses for the major gauges.

Optimism for a Big Tech boost to stocks took a knock as investors digested Meta's and Microsoft's quarterly reports. While the results beat Wall Street estimates, both companies flagged that they will step up already high spending on AI infrastructure.

Concerns that would put pressure on profitability helped send shares in both Meta and Microsoft lower.

The unsettled mood spread to Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL), which round off this week's "Magnificent Seven" earnings with reports after the close on Thursday. Shares in the tech megacaps stepped lower in early trading.

Bond yields surged on Thursday with the 10-year Treasury (^TNX) climbing to 4.33%. The US dollar index (DX-Y.NYB), which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies also rose. Overseas, UK bond selling intensified over worries of inflation amid fiscal stimulus and borrowing.

On Thursday morning, investors received the latest reading on the Personal Consumption Expenditures index, the last key inflation input for the Federal Reserve before its policy decision next week. Annual "core" PCE in September — which excludes food and energy prices — rose 2.7%, more than 2.6% expected by economists, and in line with a 2.7% rise in August.

 After months of waiting, we now have a Deadpool and Wolverine Disney Plus release date – and even The Merc with The Mouth would be pleased at the sneaky way Marvel announced the news.

If you play an episode of Agatha All Along on Disney Plus in some regions, you’ll seemingly be met by a sizzle reel of 2024 and 2025 Marvel Disney Plus releases.

That includes the reveal that Deadpool and Wolverine is coming to Disney Plus on November 12.

It’s unclear what – if any – bonus features will be bundled with the Disney Plus release of the Deadpool threequel. Previous MCU drops on the service indicate that we’ll just be getting the feature here – so no deleted scenes, featurettes, or director’s commentary. You’ll have to stick with the physical release for that.

Even so, the streaming release allows you to catch a glimpse at an entire Void's worth of Deadpool and Wolverine Easter eggs. Remarkably, some are still being found, including this brilliant deep cut nod to 2003's Master and Commander.

If you’re keeping count, that means almost every MCU movie is now on the streamer. The only current exception is Spider-Man: No Way Home – though we expect that to swing onto Disney Plus at some point in the near future given how the rest of Tom Holland’s Marvel adventures have made their way over in the past two years.

For more, check out our complete guide to Deadpool variants and Wolverine variants in the billion-dollar-grossing Marvel movie. Then head on back to the start of the MCU with our looks at the Marvel timeline and how to watch the Marvel movies in order.

 Accessibility is one of our top priorities in creating Diablo IV. We’ve integrated it into our development process from the very beginning and have worked with the disability community to discuss, iterate, and test features. With a more supportive and customizable gaming experience, these considerations have helped our games reach a legion of new players.

Diablo IV opened an infernal new chapter on October 8 with Vessel of Hatred. In bringing this adventure to life, our team developed new accessibility features designed to support players who have visual disabilities as they traverse the new region of Nahantu. With these updates, players will be better able to find—and fight—their way through the perilous jungle.

The features added to Diablo IV with Vessel of Hatred’s launch ensure that even more players can navigate the grim world of Sanctuary. We’ve rolled out:

Auto-Pin: A new feature that automatically drops a map pin on the destination of your selected quest or task from your in-game Journal. When a pin is dropped, your mini-map shows a route to follow to get to the chosen destination. A dropped pin becomes the default when selecting quests, and further enables additional navigation features.

Audio Navigation Assistance: With this feature enabled, the player receives spatial audio pings that direct the player towards their placed pin on the overworld map. This feature, in conjunction with auto-pin navigation, allows players to navigate quest content while tracking their destination through audio navigation. We recommend using headphones for best results of the immersive sound. Players can adjust both the volume and the interval of the ping to find a level that meets their needs.

Compass: The compass feature enables an on-screen HUD element that circles around the player and points towards their placed in-world pin. In combination with auto-pin, this provides even more guidance for the player. The color of the arrow can be changed to match their needs and ensure it is clearly visible while slaughtering the denizens of hell.

“As developers, we want as many players as possible coming into the game,” says Drew McCrory, lead accessibility designer for Diablo IV. “While we designed this set of features specifically with the blind and low vision community in mind, we’ve found that each release proves the power of accessibility to bring our games to more players. We’re serving people who may be experiencing disabilities alongside new players who might use these features as they learn to navigate the world of Sanctuary.”

Direct feedback from the disability community was essential to shaping these features and outfitting Vessel of Hatred with 3D spatial sound. From the Public Test Realm (PTR), our developers received input on the audio navigation, which led to add three unique audio pings and varying the patterns of the sound to provide multiple pieces of information through audio.

These are the latest to join Diablo IV’s existing suite of accessibility features. You can find more information in our pre-launch blog.

Accessibility work is never done, and the team is continuing the conversations as we forge plans for future seasons. Making a game more accessible also makes it more approachable, and we are eager to welcome more players into the Diablo universe to join the fated campaign against Mephisto

 Just six days until Nov. 5 and the day after President Biden called Trump supporters "garbage," Former President Donald Trump addressed several thousand supporters in Green Bay, Wisconsin, while wearing a garbage worker's high visibility vest.

Trump explained that his decision to arrive at the rally in a dump truck, dressed in a garbage vest, was made spur of the moment. He joked that the vest made him look thinner and quipped that the vest could become part of his everyday attire. 

"When they said I’d look thinner, I said in that case, I’ll wear it onstage," he joked. "I may never wear a blue jacket again."  

He criticized Biden, Democrats, and most especially his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, for "running a campaign of hate, vitriol and retribution."

TRUMP TRASHES BIDEN'S INSULT IN A GARBAGE TRUCK

Former President Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Resch Center, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

"This week Kamala has been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history and now speaking on a call for her campaign last night crooked Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters, he called them ‘garbage,'" he said.

"My response to Joe and Kamala is very simple: You can’t lead America if you don’t love Americans, it's true. You can’t be president if you hate the American people, which I believe they do, and Kamala Harris is not fit to be president of the United States," he said. 

Former President Trump talks to reporters as he sits in a garbage truck Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump went on to emphasize himself as a unity candidate, uniting people of every race, creed and economic status.

"Kamala and Joe call all of us, and them, even them, ‘garbage.’ I call you the heart and soul of America. You are the heart and soul, you built our country, you built it," he said. "And by the way I want to thank all our sanitation workers all across America because they work hard, they really do work hard and they do an incredible job, and they don’t get the credit they deserve."

Trump also made fun of Harris for mentioning him 24 times in her closing argument speech on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. He accused the Harris campaign of paying and bussing in supporters for the speech.  

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (AP Photo/Getty Images)

He also thanked former astronaut Buzz Aldrin for his recent endorsement, saying: "What we have built is the biggest, broadest, most incredible coalition and the greatest political movement in the history of our country."

 Former President Trump rolled up to the battleground state of Wisconsin in a garbage truck on Wednesday, an apparent reference to President Biden's remarks about supporters of the Republican nominee, which has caused a firestorm for Vice President Kamala Harris in the final days of a hotly contested election. 

Trump was pictured in Green Bay inside a white garbage truck wearing an orange reflective vest with "Trump Make America Great Again 2024" emblazoned on the vehicle. 

"How do you like my garbage truck?" Trump asked reporters. "This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden."

The stunt is an apparent dig at Biden, who has come under fire for calling Trump supporters garbage. 

During a virtual Harris campaign call with Voto Latino, Biden took a swipe at former Trump's weekend rally in Madison Square Garden, which made headlines after insult comedian Tony Hinchiffe made jokes mocking different ethnic groups, with one joke referring to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage."

"The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters," Biden said. "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it is un-American."

The comment quickly went viral and sparked swift condemnation from critics. 

BIDEN CALLS TRUMP SUPPORTERS 'GARBAGE' DURING HARRIS CAMPAIGN EVENT AS VP PROMISES UNITY AT ELLIPSE RALLY

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump climbs into a garbage truck Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, as he arrives in Green Bay, Wis.  (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson))

Biden's remarks were quickly compared to Hillary Clinton, who declared that Trump supporters were "deplorables" during the 2016 presidential race. 

 President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, who dressed as a giant panda, hosted trick-or-treaters on the White House South Lawn on Wednesday for the last time.

The first lady had participated in the National Zoo’s announcement earlier this year that pandas would be returning to Washington. They arrived in the nation’s capital in mid-October and Jill Biden donned the panda suit Wednesday as a “welcoming gesture,” the White House said.

Jill Biden added an educational theme to the event and named it “Hallo-Read” to help encourage reading. She has been a teacher for 40 years. Earlier Wednesday, she read a short story about spooky pumpkins to a group of costumed children gathered on the lawn.

She and the president later ventured outside at sunset and spent about an hour handing out treats. Biden, in a suit and tie, dropped boxes of White House Hershey’s Kisses chocolates in the kids’ tote bags while the first lady handed out copies of “10 Spooky Pumpkins.”

 The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions after winning a thrilling Game 5 at Yankee Stadium.

After falling behind 5-0 early, the Dodgers took advantage of a miscue-filled fifth inning by the New York Yankees to even the score before finally pulling ahead in the eighth inning.

We've got it all covered, from live updates and analysis during the game to takeaways after the final pitch and our lasting impression of L.A.'s Fall Classic triumph.

Los Angeles Dodgers 7, New York Yankees 6

Dodgers: There might have been more talented Dodgers teams in this era. There have definitely been healthier ones. This one, though, was the most perseverant. And so it was fitting, perhaps, that on the night they clinched, the Dodgers overcame a five-run deficit and used eight relievers -- one of them a starting pitcher by trade -- to secure 23 outs in a come-from-behind victory over the Yankees in Game 5. The last of those relievers was Walker Buehler, the Game 3 starter who had been dreadful as a reliever throughout his career and had been six years removed from his last stint out of the bullpen.

When Buehler took the mound in the ninth inning, the Dodgers had taken advantage of a litany of Yankees mistakes to score five runs against a dominant Gerrit Cole in the top of the fifth and used back-to-back eighth-inning sacrifice flies by Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts to take their first lead. In the next half-inning, a tiring Blake Treinen had confronted a two-on, one-out situation and gotten out of it unscathed. And then Buehler came in and retired the bottom of the Yankees' lineup in order, securing the Dodgers' first championship since 2020 -- and their first full-season championship since 1988.

The 2024 Dodgers saw a litany of starting pitchers suffer season-ending injuries. On the night they clinched a division title, Freddie Freeman sprained his ankle. On the night they took a 2-0 lead in this World Series, Shohei Ohtani slightly dislocated his shoulder. They needed to stage a bullpen game to save their season against the San Diego Padres in the National League Division Series and required a walk-off, Kirk-Gibson-style grand slam from Freeman to win the opening game of this World Series. Over and over again, they proved they were up for any challenge. -- Alden Gonzalez

Yankees: All year, right through the American League Championship Series, the Yankees masked a propensity for sloppiness with overwhelming talent. They were the worst baserunning team in the majors during the regular season. They regularly committed defensive miscues. They were not as fundamentally sound as one would expect for a team this good. But the Yankees boasted superstars. They banged home runs. They out-talented teams.

Until they couldn't.

Their shortcomings finally caught up with them in Game 5. A total meltdown of a fifth inning, one that will be remembered as one of the worst in World Series history, cost the Yankees their season. Aaron Judge flubbed a routine flyout for his first error of the entire year -- regular season or postseason. Anthony Volpe couldn't make an accurate throw to third base. Gerrit Cole didn't cover first base on what would've been an inning-ending groundout, opening the floodgates. From there, the Dodgers scored five runs to tie the game. The Yankees retook the lead even after all of this, but fumbled it away again in the eighth inning.

It was that fifth inning that really cost the Yankees a chance to hop on a flight to Los Angeles and continue their attempt to become the first team to overcome a 3-0 deficit to win the World Series. Their talent won out against the Kansas City Royals and Cleveland Guardians in October. The Dodgers were too good for that to happen again. -- Jorge Castillo

Lasting impression of this World Series: The 120th World Series ended with the Los Angeles Dodgers in a pile on the mound and the New York Yankees stunned by an all-time awful fifth inning that allowed the Dodgers to win their eighth championship. The two-error frame, compounded by one mental blunder, will live in infamy as one of the worst half-innings in Yankees history, turning a 5-0 lead into a 5-5 game. It also speaks to a series won on the margins.

The Dodgers scored 25 runs to the Yankees' 24. New York outhomered, outhit and outwalked Los Angeles. And yet the Dodgers won the Series in convincing fashion, over five games, because they were better in close contests. It took a walk-off grand slam in Game 1, 4-2 wins in Games 2 and 3 and a 7-6 nailbiter in Game 5, but the Dodgers didn't make any enormous mistakes, and the Yankees handed them gift after gift in the deciding game.

The battle of superteams and superstars went to the Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani. He won his first World Series, even as he barely contributed. Freddie Freeman tormented Yankees pitchers all series and is the clear MVP. Tommy Edman, acquired at the trade deadline, followed his NLCS MVP performance with another excellent showing. Teoscar Hernández was clutch, too.