PITTSBURGH – October 29, 2026 -- Howmet Aerospace (NYSE: HWM) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $2.70 billion, up 29% year over year and 25% organically, and raised its full-year 2026 guidance. Adjusted EPS rose 54% to $1.46, while GAAP EPS was $1.42. Executive Chairman and CEO John Plant called it "the strongest quarterly growth rate on record for Howmet."

Frankfurt am Main – October 29, 2026 -- Germany recorded 772 postmortem organ donors from January to September 2026, up 28 or 3.8% on the same period last year, the Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation (DSO) said at the opening of its 22nd Annual Congress.

Organs removed in Germany and allocated through Eurotransplant for transplantation at home or abroad totaled 2,373, compared with 2,258 a year earlier, a gain of 115 organs.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – October 29, 2026 -- Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AMPH) will publish results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026, after the market closes on Thursday, November 5, 2026.

PITTSBURGH – October 29, 2026 -- Wesco International reported record third-quarter net sales of $7.2 billion, up 17% year over year and 8% sequentially, and raised its full-year 2026 outlook as backlog grew about 80%.

Data center sales rise about 55% to $1.8 billion

Data center sales reached $1.8 billion, up roughly 55% from a year earlier. Non-data center sales rose 7%. Organic sales grew 16.6%, with volume gains in all three segments (CSS, EES and UBS) and a favorable price effect. Organic sales for the first nine months rose 13.9%.

Frankfurt – October 29, 2026 -- Nearly 36 percent of German mid-sized companies still rated bank behavior in credit negotiations as restrictive in the third quarter of 2026, almost five percentage points fewer than in the prior quarter, according to the KfW-ifo Credit Hurdle. Lending conditions are easing, but remain tighter than the average of recent years.

Frankfurt – October 29, 2026 -- KfW IPEX-Bank has committed USD 300 million to a USD 1.5 billion untied loan for commodities trader Trafigura. The loan finances more than 150 TWh of natural gas deliveries to Germany over five years.

Nine-bank consortium backs facility with Euler Hermes guarantee

The financing is an untied financial loan (UFK) covered by a guarantee from German export credit insurer Euler Hermes. Nine banks participate. KfW IPEX-Bank acts as Facility Agent and as coordinator and agent for the export credit agency (ECA).

HONG KONG – October 29, 2026 -- Meitu, Inc. (1357.HK) reported 19.83 million global paying subscribers as of September 2026, adding 1.39 million in the quarter, its largest quarterly net increase in four quarters. Management disclosed the figures at the company's Investor Day on October 26.

BEIJING – October 29, 2026 -- TAL Education Group (NYSE: TAL) lifted second-quarter fiscal 2027 net revenues 15.5% to US$994.6 million and more than doubled operating income to US$235.9 million. Even so, it posted a net loss attributable to TAL of US$47.4 million for the quarter ended August 31, 2026, against net income of US$124.1 million a year earlier.

WIESBADEN – October 29, 2026 -- Integrated municipal debt in Germany rose 9.9% over the course of 2025 to €378.9 billion, or €4,907 per capita, according to a model calculation by the Federal and State Statistical Offices published by Destatis. The increase compares with 6.3% in the previous year.

The measure includes debt of municipal core budgets, off-budget entities and other public funds, institutions and companies in which municipalities hold direct or indirect stakes. Only debt owed to the non-public sector, such as banks and private companies, is counted.

SHANGHAI – October 29, 2026 -- United Imaging Healthcare (688271.SH) posted revenue of RMB 10.58 billion for the first nine months of 2026, up 19.43% year-on-year, as international sales grew 50.30%.

Third-quarter revenue reached RMB 3.53 billion. Net profit attributable to shareholders rose 13% year-on-year to RMB 138 million.

International sales reach 28.31% of group revenue

Overseas revenue totaled RMB 3.00 billion in the period. Its share of total revenue rose 5.82 percentage points from a year earlier to 28.31%.