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The Decoy Chronicle
A running log of stale, contradictory or mistaken figures published as current by the financial press — each with its true value, the date it actually belongs to, and how this desk caught it.
3 withdrawn · 2 pending assessment · 31 displayed dates · 7 failure categories. Earlier lifetime records are outside this package.
Evidence and date notes
- The supplied entries name comparison sources, but the original package contains no direct source links. Publication does not independently verify the underlying market claims. A supplied source link is not itself a verification guarantee.
- Entry dates are retained as source display labels and may refer to an issue, session or observation. Entries 124–129 display 21 SEP while describing observations on Tuesday 22 September. No precise observation timestamps have been inferred.
- The supplied lifetime tally includes earlier records not included in this package and is not independently verified. Withdrawn entries remain visible but are excluded from the active count. Pending assessments are identified separately.
- Forecast outcomes and scoring notes are preserved as supplied, including the latest group’s Friday-night scoring reference. Open and unresolved forecasts have not been rescored or assigned inferred outcomes.
The following method and historical notes reproduce the supplied desk record. The evidence limitations above apply throughout.
Correction to this register
The count was published as 94 on 15 September. It is 92. The revised edition of that evening's recap re-counted two entries already logged in its first edition. Tracing the increments: 68 at the start, 79 after the Midday of 14 September, 85 after the Closing Edge, 89 and then 90 across the two editions of the 15 September Brief, 92 after the Recap, 96 after the first Errata. A register that logs other people's arithmetic has to survive its own.
16 September. Entry 94 is withdrawn: a headline giving the day's high beside a table giving the current level is not a contradiction, and Tuesday's intraday peak was 5.04 percent on three feeds, not the 5.02 this desk swore in. The count falls to 95, rises to 96 with entry 97, to 97 with entry 98 at midday, to 98 with entry 99 after the Fed Day piece's fact-check, and to 99 with entry 100 in the Closing Edge. The withdrawn entry stays on the page, numbered and marked, and is not counted.
16 September, evening. The Errata, No. 1, said the Summary of Economic Projections publishes nineteen individual projections. It publishes eighteen: there are nineteen participants and Chair Warsh does not submit one, as he said in June. The forecast built on that count (item 8 of No. 1) is scored on its other two forms. Corrected at full size at the top of No. 2. The count rises from 99 to 104 with entries 101 to 105.
18 September, midday. The Whisper, No. 2, was written against a count of 111, read from this page before the day's later entries were posted, and its sources section carries that figure. The page is right and the issue is behind it: the count stood at 115 when No. 2 went out and rises to 116 with entry 117 below. The issue was corrected before delivery; the discrepancy is recorded here because the register is the authority on its own arithmetic.
17 September. The Whisper, No. 1, said this register stood at 104. It stood at 106: the morning's Brief had logged entries 106 and 107 before The Whisper was written, and the desk carried a stale count into print. Corrected at full size at the top of the Closing Edge, which was built after Thursday's close and published on Friday, after the Friday Brief had added entries 108 to 112; its four entries are therefore numbered 113 to 116 and the count rises from 111 to 115.
22 September, morning. The Errata, No. 3, is Monday's issue and was delivered Tuesday morning: the scheduled Monday-evening run stalled after reading the runbook and resumed at 9:21 a.m. Tuesday, so its observations are stamped Tuesday between 9:21 and 9:57 a.m. It was drafted against a count of 120; the Tuesday Brief logged entries 122 and 123 while it was being built, and its first entry is the same page as entry 122, so it adds six, not seven. The page is right: the count stood at 122 when No. 3 went to press and rises to 128 with entries 124 to 129. No Errata ran on Thursday 17 or Friday 18 September; No. 2's forecast is scored in No. 3, four days late.
22 September, evening. The Errata, No. 3, said Tuesday's two-year auction was $78 billion. It was $69 billion, the same size as every two-year auction this year, per investingLive, Newsquawk and Helious. The figure sat in the forecast register (item 3 of No. 3) and in entry 128; both are corrected in place and the correction runs at full size at the top of No. 4. Separately, No. 3 printed November WTI's Monday settlement at $92.47 from Reuters; Tuesday's changes on Yahoo Finance and Avalon Capital both imply $92.37, and the ten cents is left unresolved until the exchange settlement can be read. No. 4 was delivered late: its run stalled between reads, and its observations are stamped to windows between 7:22 and 9:05 p.m. rather than to minutes. The count rises from 128 to 133 with entries 130 to 134.
23 September, morning. The Brief logged entries 135 and 136 and the count rises from 133 to 135. The Brief also notes that the flash PMI figures printed as consensus in No. 4's forecast (manufacturing 53.9, composite 56) are the August priors on Trading Economics; Investing.com's consensus is 53.6 for manufacturing and 55.8 for services, with none for the composite. Recorded here for tonight's scoring.
24 September, morning. The Brief logged entries 137 to 139 and the count rises from 135 to 138. The Brief was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target; its observations are stamped between 8:58 and 9:05 a.m. rather than to the earlier window. A second edition, fact-checked between 9:10 and 9:20 a.m., corrects three of the desk's own errors at full size: August new home sales and the Kansas City Fed survey were printed with their Trading Economics priors (607,000 and 10) as consensus, the same failure logged against The Errata, No. 4; Muse was said to have been unveiled at Meta's Connect conference with no fee disclosed, when it was announced on 8 September and carries $20 and $100 monthly tiers, the transaction fee being what is undisclosed; and McDonald's fall was attributed to remarks on traffic without the $8.5 billion franchisee plan the market was pricing. The count is unchanged at 138.
24 September, evening. The Errata, No. 5, scores No. 4 a day late: no Errata ran on Wednesday 23 September. No. 4’s forecast item 3 carried the August flash PMI readings (53.9, 56) as consensus, as the Wednesday Brief recorded above; corrected at full size at the top of No. 5. No. 5 was delivered after its 8:15 p.m. target, with observations stamped between 8:21 and 8:25 p.m. The count rises from 138 to 143 with entries 140 to 144. A fact-check after delivery found that No. 5 had read a Yahoo Finance update's UTC page stamp as Eastern and printed 2:27 p.m. for 10:27 a.m.; corrected in entries 143 and 144, in the issue's second edition, its figure and its thread. The finding is unchanged.
25 September, morning. The Brief logged entries 145 to 147 and the count rises from 143 to 146. The Brief was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target: the run stalled between reads, its observations are stamped between 7:20 and 7:40 a.m., and the 8:30 durable goods release is previewed in it, not reported.
25 September, midday. The Whisper, No. 8, adds entry 148 and the count rises from 146 to 147. The issue was delivered after its 12:30 p.m. slot, with observations stamped between 11:10 a.m. and 12:20 p.m. Its entry is a headline that restates its own body as a different quantity, which is the failure mode of entries 108 and 143 in a new setting: a forecast threshold published as a forecast.
October 6 editorial update. The historical observation and desk-issue dates below are not this public web register’s publication dates. The artifact conflicts on when entries 185–199 first appeared on its page (about 9:45 p.m. October 5 versus 8:59 a.m. October 6); that page-publication time remains unresolved. The earlier evidence note’s Friday-night reference described Errata No. 5 in the prior revision; Errata No. 9 is now the latest group and its eight outcomes remain open. Linked source pages identify evidence, not independent verification of every historical claim.
28 September, morning. The Brief logged entries 149 to 151 and the count rises from 147 to 150. It was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target, following a full fact-check and rewrite of a first draft that was not delivered; its reads are stamped to windows, 7:16 to 8:44 a.m. and 9:02 to 9:12 a.m. for the fact-check, rather than to minutes, and where a feed stamps its own page that stamp is given. The undelivered draft would have logged the Zacks preview’s ten-year figure of 5.23 percent as a close; the preview says the yield “briefly touched” it, which is right, and entry 150 is confined to its two-year. Brent was quoted on two bases this morning: about $107 for the November contract on three feeds, and about $98 on Investing.com and in the Associated Press’s Friday close story, neither of which names a contract month. The gap is left as a difference and is not logged. The Errata, No. 5’s eight items remain open below.
28 September, midday. The Whisper, No. 9, adds entry 152 and the count rises from 150 to 151. The issue was built between 11:10 a.m. and 12:20 p.m. and its observations are stamped to those minutes. Its entry is a headline pointing in the opposite direction from its own body, on the very claim that issue reconstructs, with a range’s ceiling taken into the same headline as the figure: the failure modes of entries 108 and 148 on one page. No rumor was added to The Whisper Register today.
29 September, morning. The Brief logged entry 153 and the count rises from 151 to 152. Its reads are stamped to minutes between 7:16 and 7:33 a.m. The ten-year was left unsworn: five feeds carried five values between 5.20 and 5.25 percent and the Treasury’s Monday par curve had not posted. An FX Leaders headline dated 28 September, “NVDA Stock Closes Under $130,” against a close of $228.86, was seen and not logged because the page could not be opened; left for the evening’s Errata.
29 September, second edition. The Brief was fact-checked after the open, between 9:40 and 10:05 a.m., and republished with five of the desk’s own errors corrected at full size: WTI $96.31 and Brent $108.50 were printed as Monday’s settlements from TheStreet’s feed and were intraday readings near the highs, the November contracts having settled at $92.60 and $105.28 (DTN; Investrade; Trading Economics’ Tuesday change); the Treasury’s Monday par curve, said not to have posted at 7:26, had posted, and the ten-year’s close is sworn at 5.24 on the Treasury, Yahoo Finance and Investrade, the two-year at 4.92; the Fed speaker times taken from Investing.com were each an hour early against the Board’s own calendar and Newsquawk (Bowman 11:00, Barr 12:40, Goolsbee 1:00, Cook 1:25, Musalem 1:30, Williams 2:00, Waller 3:00), and Governor Cook’s appearance was missing; MongoDB, Boeing and Cleveland-Cliffs were printed from intraday readings (20, 6.2 and 8.3 percent) where the closes were 18.46, 6.91 and 7.88 on stockanalysis.com; and a Motley Fool piece published at 4:23 p.m. with 11:26 a.m. figures was described as written before noon. Trading Economics’ consumer confidence row carries 89.4, August’s own reading, in its consensus column beside a blank previous; whether that is the page’s error or the desk’s reader’s is left open and it is not logged. The count is unchanged at 152.
29 September, late morning. The Errata, No. 6, Monday’s issue, is delivered Tuesday morning: its run stalled after reading the runbook, resumed at 8:19 p.m., built and sent its files between 8:22 and 8:46 p.m., and stalled again before this page could be republished. It was drafted against a count of 151; the Tuesday Brief logged entry 153 while it waited, and No. 6’s first entry is the same page and the same pairing as entry 153, read at 8:25 p.m. rather than 7:23 a.m., so it adds two, not three. The page is right: the count stood at 152 when No. 6 went out and rises to 154 with entries 154 and 155. No Errata ran on Friday 25 September; No. 5’s forecast is scored in No. 6, three days late. Two discrepancies read Monday evening were classified as differences and are not logged: Kiplinger’s Friday ten-year (5.156, down 0.6 basis points, implying a Thursday base of 5.162 that no feed carried, where its levels are quotes taken after the Treasury’s afternoon close its changes track) and gold’s four Monday changes on four boards, one measured from Monday’s own settlement. The FX Leaders headline noted above could not be opened by this run either and is left unresolved.
29 September, afternoon. The desk artifact adopted direct source links for each new entry from #153 onward. The public web register already links #149–151; this update also links #152 and #153–200. Older #79–148 remain for source-link backfill where independently recoverable. A link identifies a page, not necessarily the historical version observed at the stated minute.
30 September, morning. The Brief logged entries 156 to 158 and the count rises from 154 to 157. Its reads are stamped between 7:17 and 7:50 a.m.; the run stalled after the files were built, the Brief was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target, and the 8:30 releases are previewed in it, not reported. Entry 157 rests on two reports of OpenAI’s run rate and the desk’s multiplication; Bloomberg’s original report could not be opened, and if it carries the lower figure in the form the two rewrites gave it, the entry will be corrected here. The ten-year was left unsworn: the Treasury’s par curve page returned no rows after 22 September to the desk’s reader, which on yesterday’s evidence is more likely the reader’s failure than the page’s, and two feeds gave Tuesday’s close as 5.251 and 5.282. A 24/7 Wall St. page showing the Russell 2000 at 2,821.38, up 0.19 percent, against a sworn close of 2,807.92, down 0.35, carries no time and is not logged. Trading Economics’ calendar is read with its first figure as the previous and its second as consensus, confirmed on one row against FXStreet; its personal spending row could not be reconciled and was not printed. The Errata, No. 6’s eight items remain open below.
30 September, evening. The Errata, No. 7, was delivered late: its run fired at 7:15 p.m., stalled for two hours after reading the runbook, and made every observation between 9:21 and 9:50 p.m.; the issue went out after its 8:30 p.m. publication time. No Errata ran on Tuesday 29 September; No. 6’s forecast is scored in No. 7, a day late. One correction to No. 6 runs at full size at the top of No. 7: the forecast’s item 3 named seven Federal Reserve speakers for Tuesday, Governor Cook among them, and the Tuesday Brief’s second edition had placed her at 1:25 p.m. The Board’s calendar for 29 September lists Bowman, Barr and Waller, and Newsquawk’s primer adds Goolsbee, Musalem and Williams: six. The desk’s two readings of Cook’s schedule disagree with each other (a speech page dated Monday 28 September; a calendar entry for Wednesday 30 September at 3:25 p.m.) and that is left unresolved; neither puts her on Tuesday. No. 6’s item 1 carried a Conference Board consensus of 90.1 that appeared nowhere else; outlets printed 89.0, 89.2 and 90. The ten-year’s Tuesday close, left unsworn by Wednesday morning’s Brief between 5.251 and 5.282, is sworn at 5.26 on the Treasury’s par curve, one copy of the Associated Press’s close story and Yahoo Finance’s board; Wednesday’s close is 5.29 on the AP and 5.297 on Investrade and is not sworn, the Treasury’s row not having posted at 9:40 p.m. Seen and not logged: the AP’s Tuesday line that the ten-year touched “its highest level since 2002,” where Investrade’s marks put that record on Wednesday (the series the AP used could not be established); the AP’s two copies of one story, 5.25 and 5.26, under one 4:28 p.m. stamp; Investrade’s index tables, a point or two from the AP’s closes on three days, read as early tables; Investing.com’s December Brent at $97.88 for Wednesday against $98.03 on three feeds; and Schwab’s PCE consensus, a second survey. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations on which tonight’s entries turn were read twice, except Schwab’s headline, read once. Entry 165 covers two outlets and one roll and is counted once. The count rises from 157 to 167 with entries 159 to 168.
1 October, morning. The Brief logged entry 170 and the count rises from 167 to 168. It was delivered late, after the open: the run fired at 7:15 a.m. and its clock was not read again until 9:39; the pages read in between (Wednesday’s closes, Micron’s release and the overnight notes) carry no recorded minute, and the rest are stamped to windows between 9:37 and 9:52 a.m. and, for a section on October and the fourth quarter added during the build, between 10:18 and 10:26. The issue is labelled a late edition; the 8:30, 9:45 and 10:00 releases had printed before it went out and are previewed in it, not reported. Entry 169 is withdrawn. This run first published the page between 9:57 and 10:14 a.m. with two entries, and with a paragraph here that gave its early reads minutes the desk had not recorded (“by 7:20”); both are corrected in this version. Entry 169 was the data provider’s United States index page, still pairing Wednesday’s changes with Thursday’s levels between 9:37 and 9:39 a.m.: the same page and the same pairing as entry 162, read twelve hours later, and by the rule applied on 29 September it is counted once. It stays on the page, numbered and marked, and is not counted; The Errata, No. 7’s item 6 is left open below for tonight’s scoring. Wednesday’s ten-year close, left unsworn by No. 7 between 5.29 and 5.297, is sworn at 5.29 on the Treasury’s par curve and Benzinga, with TheStreet at 5.289. Seen and not logged: Investing.com’s account of Micron’s close, $1,066.10 beside an after-hours quote of $1,056.75, down 0.78 percent, where stockanalysis.com carries $1,065.11 and 0.78 percent is the distance from that figure (read once); Trading Economics’ commodities table, gold and natural gas each with a positive change beside a negative percentage (read once, through the reader); ZeroHedge’s WTI near $92 and Brent above $100 as of about 8:00 against $90.53 and $98.31 on Trading Economics between 9:37 and 9:39, no contract named on either; Fortune’s web address for its 23 September piece on midterm-year Octobers, which carries 78.9, November’s share of winning years, where the headline now reads 73.7; and two accounts of the range from which Alphabet raised its 2026 capital spending guidance, $180 to $190 billion (Data Center Dynamics, 22 July) and $175 to $185 billion (MLQ, 2 August), not checked against the company’s own document. Micron’s remaining performance obligations of about $150 billion and its agreements at more than 35 percent of revenue through 2030 could not be reconciled by the Brief and are left open there; they are one company’s two statements, not a decoy.
1 October, evening. The Errata, No. 8, was delivered late: its run fired at 7:15 p.m., read every page between 7:17 and 7:49 p.m. and had built its files by 7:55, then stalled before they could be sent or this page republished; both happened at about 10:47 p.m., after the issue’s 8:30 p.m. publication time. Nothing was read or changed in the issue after 7:55. The desk’s clock was read at 7:17, 7:29, 7:37, 7:48 and 7:49, and pages are stamped to the window between two readings rather than to minutes. No. 7’s forecast is scored in it. Two consensus figures printed in that forecast, 54.8 for the ISM index and 201,000 for claims, appeared in no outlet read on Thursday, where 55.0 and 200,000 did; and No. 7’s November Brent expiry of $103.53 is $103.50 on The Rio Times, a difference between feeds. The ten-year’s Thursday high is sworn at 5.34 (Yahoo Finance; Kiplinger at 5.344; BigGo Finance) and its close at 5.23 on Kiplinger (5.234) and Eurasia Business News (5.233), with Trading Economics’ evening table and Yahoo’s 2:53 p.m. board at 5.24, both printed; the Treasury’s par curve returned no row after 7 July to the desk’s reader, which is the reader’s failure, and Thursday’s row is unread. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ bond narrative, “retreating slightly to 5.27%,” above a table at 5.24, read as an older sentence over a later quote; Eurasia Business News’ Brent near $101.58 beside WTI near $90.79, with no time or contract, where BigGo Finance has $102.31 beside $92.87 for the day and TheStreet at 7:07 a.m. had $100.60 beside $92.28; TheStreet’s 9:53 a.m. item headlined “Despite Cooler PCE Data,” which measures the core rate against forecasts; Zacks’ “highest level since June 2007” for Wednesday’s touch of 5.3 percent against Investrade’s “May 2002,” the series not established; and four payroll consensus figures (84,000, 89,000, 93,000, and 90,000 in a Bloomberg headline seen in search), which are different surveys. Entry 177 covers two outlets and one event and is counted once. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 171 to 174 and 176 were read twice, those in 175, 177 and 178 once, and the two FXStreet pieces in entry 178 are dated by their addresses and were not opened. The standing Championship line, which says trading “begins October 1,” ran unchanged in No. 8 on the day trading began. The count rises from 168 to 176 with entries 171 to 178.
2 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 179 to 182 and the count rises from 176 to 180. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 8:28, and pages were read between 8:28 and 8:55 a.m. and, on a second pass, between 9:19 and 10:12 a.m. The Brief was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target; the 8:30 employment report is previewed in it, not reported, and no post-release level is used. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 179 and 180 were read four times and those in 181 and 182 twice. One of four reads of the Japan table in entry 180 returned a row (69,315, up 358) that the other three did not; the entry rests on the narrative and on the three matching reads. Entry 181’s base, November Brent’s final settlement of $103.53, is the figure in entry 165 and in The Errata, No. 7. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ United States index page, carrying Thursday’s changes (+14.91, +20.51) beside Friday’s contract levels, the pairing of entry 171 read again and counted once (The Errata, No. 8’s item 6 is left open below for tonight’s scoring); TheStreet’s live blog, with Nike down 10.40 percent in its lead and 7.26 in its 8:23 a.m. update, two times on one page; Investing.com’s “$400 million” for Toshiba’s ¥60 billion, where the same outlet had $380 million the evening before, a rounding; Yahoo Finance’s Friday live blog, whose text has S&P 500 futures up 0.3 percent above a board at 0.49, two times; STL.News’ Thursday table (S&P 500 7,668.82, Dow 50,935.89), an early table; and Benzinga’s post-release line at 8:43 a.m., “S&P 500 up 0.41% at 7,737.78,” where 7,737.78 is 0.93 percent above Thursday’s close, left for tonight’s Errata. The Brief turns on Anthropic and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. The standing Championship line now reads “Trading began October 1.”
5 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 183 and 184 and the count rises from 180 to 182. It was delivered late, after the open: the run fired at 7:15 a.m., its clock was not read again until 9:43, and every page was read between 9:43 and 9:58 a.m.; the files were built by 10:04 and, after a second stall, sent at about 10:20. The issue is labelled a late edition; the 9:45 and 10:00 releases are previewed in it, not reported, and no level read after 10:00 is used. No Errata is recorded on this page for Friday 2 October, and The Errata, No. 8’s nine items remain open below. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 183 and 184 were read twice. The first of two reads of 24/7 Wall St.’s card returned index figures (an S&P 500 at 7,729.20, a Nasdaq at 10,030.83) that the second did not (7,722.57), and entry 183 rests on the Treasury rows, which both reads returned identically. Seen and not logged: that card’s Russell 2000 at 2,836.24, up 0.78 percent, against 2,832.89 or 2,832.90, up 0.94, an early table; Trading Economics’ bond narrative, “eased to around 5.25%,” above a table at 5.31; Investrade’s Brent at $103.00, up 0.75, beside WTI at $90.85, down 0.26, where two other feeds had Brent below its settlement, a different time; a Yahoo Finance piece stamped 10:32 a.m. Friday with Seagate “down 11%” beside a close of $848.99, down $96.58, which is 10.2 percent (read once); and Stocktwits’ $10 billion for the OpenAI–Cerebras agreement, which it dates to January. The Brief’s figures for Cerebras’s backlog schedule rest on The Motley Fool’s account of the quarterly filing, which the desk did not open.
5 October, evening. The Errata, No. 9, Monday’s issue, is delivered Tuesday morning: its run fired at 7:15 p.m., its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 8:25, and every page was read between 8:26 and 9:36 p.m. The files were built by about 9:45 p.m.; the run then stalled before they could be sent, and they went out at about 8:40 a.m. on Tuesday 6 October, after the issue’s 8:30 p.m. publication time and ten minutes after the trade report its forecast names. The desk artifact gives conflicting times for when the updated page first displayed these entries; that page-publication time is unresolved. Nothing was read or changed in the issue after 9:45 p.m. Monday, and the eight items below stand as made. No Errata ran on Friday 2 October; No. 8’s forecast is scored in No. 9, three days late, and six of tonight’s fifteen entries are Friday’s and carry Friday’s date. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text, and tonight they were read by five parallel readers working from one brief; the quotation on which each entry turns was read at least twice, the “April 2002” item in entry 187 and FXStreet’s sentence in the reconciliation once each. Friday’s S&P 500 close is 7,722.72 on Schwab’s table, Zacks, Investing.com and Yahoo Finance’s quote page; the 7,722.57 in this morning’s paragraph above is the figure one read of 24/7 Wall St.’s card returned. Monday’s closes are sworn at 7,773.95, 51,267.90 and 27,477.31 on the Associated Press and TheStreet. The ten-year’s Monday high is sworn at 5.35 (Trading Economics; FXStreet) and its close at 5.31 (Associated Press; Yahoo Finance; Kiplinger at 5.309); the Treasury’s par curve had no row for Monday when read between 8:42 and 8:52 p.m., and the morning is left unsworn between Benzinga’s 5.25 at 8:43 a.m. and Schwab’s 5.28 at 9:11. Seen and not logged: TheStreet’s 4:07 p.m. Russell 2000 at 2,853.27, up 20.38, against 2,847.14, up 14.24, on the Associated Press, investingLive and Investrade, an early table; Investrade’s “rises 7 bps to 5.347%” for the ten-year in a closing review, read as an earlier snapshot; the Dow’s point change at 90.94, 91.01, 91.41 and 91.65 on four feeds; four consensus figures for the ISM services index (55.0, 55.1, 55.2 and 55.7, the last in FXStreet’s preview box above a body that says 55); FXStreet’s and Investing.com’s calendar pages showing no actual for the index eleven hours after release, which may be the reader’s failure; the Associated Press’s two intraday versions of its close story still standing on two newspaper sites; a paid release on Yahoo Finance giving Monday-morning readings of the VIX, gold and WTI as Friday’s closes; TipRanks’ Brent “fell 2.2% to $99” with no companion time; Seeking Alpha’s Dow at +0.1 and S&P 500 at +0.6 percent, truncated; The Motley Fool’s ten-year that “rose 0.03%,” a unit; Investrade’s “Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) up 15%”; TheStreet’s Thursday post with the ten-year up four basis points “to 5.3338% on Thursday,” the reading’s time not given; and, in Friday’s coverage, the Associated Press’s “up just 3% last year from a year earlier” in an early version later changed, Deseret News’s unemployment rate up “0.1%,” and Yahoo Finance’s two consensus figures on one page. Unresolved: the Treasury’s row for Monday, which settles whether 5.31 is the highest close since 2002; Futu’s weekly list on Accenture, which could not be read; and whether Kansas City’s President Schmid speaks on Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. (Econoday; Goldman Sachs’s list) or only on Friday (Kiplinger). The count rises from 182 to 197 with entries 185 to 199.
6 October, morning. The Brief logged entry 200 and the count rises from 197 to 198. This run read the page shortly after 7:16 a.m., when it stood at 182 with entry 184 the last; the version carrying The Errata, No. 9’s fifteen entries was described here as published at 8:59 a.m., while the Brief was being built; this conflicts with the artifact’s Monday-night publication note and is not independently settled. The Brief’s entry was first numbered 185 against the older page and is 200; the page is right, and the issue was renumbered before delivery. The Brief was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target: the run fired at 7:15 a.m., its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 8:32, and every page was read between 8:32 and 8:58 a.m. The 8:30 trade report had printed before the Brief went out; it is previewed there with its consensus and prior, not reported, and its result is used nowhere in the issue. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the Quartz quotations in entry 200 were read twice and Nvidia’s release once. Two reads of TheStreet’s 4:07 p.m. Monday wrap returned the S&P 500 at 7,773.99, up 51.27, to this run, where No. 9 read 7,773.95 on the same page; the Brief prints both figures and swears neither. Monday’s ten-year close is printed at 5.31 on Yahoo Finance’s board and in The Motley Fool’s wrap, as No. 9 swore it, with Investrade’s 5.347 beside it; the Treasury’s October par curve returned only rows from 1990 to the desk’s reader, which is the reader’s failure, and Monday’s row is still unread. The Fed speakers’ times in the Brief (Williams 9:05 a.m., Bowman 10:45, Schmid 1:15 p.m., Logan 7:00) are Trading Economics’, converted from a display the desk read as UTC; Bowman’s agrees with the Board’s calendar as No. 9 read it, and Schmid’s Tuesday appearance, left unresolved above, is also in Reuters’ day-ahead note. Seen and not logged: PTC’s Monday gain at 33 percent in TheStreet’s wrap and 42.3 in Investrade’s review, not reconciled; Investrade’s two-year, up 2.2 basis points at 4.85, beside TheStreet’s statement that the two-year edged lower; and a HuggingNews headline, “Google and Constellation Sign $4.3B Nuclear Deal for 890 MW,” where $4.3 billion is Constellation’s own investment and the agreement’s price is undisclosed (read once). One account of the Google release, TradersAgency’s, has all 890 megawatts due before the end of 2032; the release as read on two sites gives only “by 2028” for the first uprate, and the Brief prints the later date as one account.
6 October, second edition. The Brief was read again against second sources between 10:20 and 11:20 a.m. and reissued. Entry 200 is withdrawn. The Quartz piece gives Nvidia’s first-quarter revenue and second-quarter guidance as history, the sentence between the two quoted here beginning “At the time”; both figures are right for the quarter they describe, and leaving out the quarter that followed is an omission, not a figure published as current. The desk had quoted two sentences without the one between them. The entry stays on the page, numbered and marked, and is not counted. Entry 201 is added: Investrade’s morning preview, with the Nikkei up “737 points to 70,883” where the close was 70,683.98. The count falls to 197 and rises to 198 with entry 201, and the reissued Brief states it as 197 to 198. Monday’s S&P 500 close is sworn at 7,773.95 on the Associated Press, S&P Dow Jones Indices’ series, Investing.com and Yahoo Finance, as No. 9 had it; four more reads of TheStreet’s 4:07 p.m. wrap returned 7,773.99 each time, a lone early print, and the sentence above that says the Brief swears neither figure describes the first edition only. The ten-year’s close is 5.31 on Yahoo Finance, The Motley Fool and the AP’s 8:02 a.m. update, with Kiplinger at 5.309, Investing.com at 5.304 and two sites that cite the Treasury at 5.31; the Treasury’s own page was again unreadable. The thirty-year closed at 5.66 (Yahoo Finance; Kiplinger at 5.664). The Fed schedule is settled: Newsquawk’s primer has five officials, with President Musalem at 10:40 a.m. beside the four above, and Schmid’s 1:15 p.m., left unresolved by No. 9, is on Forex Factory and in the primer. Two items in the paragraph above are closed. PTC’s two figures are a closing gain of 33.49 percent and an offer premium of 42.3 percent, which is what Investrade’s own sentence says; and Investrade’s 4.85 is its “shorter end of curve,” not named as the two-year, which closed at 4.821 on Kiplinger and 4.823 on TheStreet. Seen and not logged in the second reading: Investrade’s closing review with the ten-year at 5.347, “rises 7 bps,” four-tenths of a basis point under the day’s high of 5.351 on Investing.com, which No. 9 read as an earlier snapshot and left; Benzinga’s 6:53 a.m. line that “Bloomberg reported on Tuesday” a report that its own text and Reuters’ relay place on Monday evening, a date and not a figure; Trading Economics’ Japan page, with one item finishing the Nikkei at 70,684 and another at 70,729 (the second item’s date not established); Trading Economics’ SK hynix at minus 3.53 percent against minus 3.69 on Yonhap; Yahoo Finance’s blog, whose text under a 6:00 a.m. stamp has futures up 0.1 percent above a strip at 0.25 to 0.42, two times; a 6 p.m. listing for President Logan’s San Antonio event on two calendars, where the Dallas Fed gives 6 p.m. without a zone and Newsquawk 7:00 Eastern; and investingLive’s Friday trade consensus of $95.2 billion beside its own Tuesday note at $102.0 billion, a consensus that moved. The NRC’s expected-applications page was read row by row twice; both readings gave twelve Constellation entries, and its yearly summary and its rows did not reconcile by one row as the reader relayed them, so the Brief prints “a dozen.”
7 October, morning. The Brief logged entry 202 and the count rises from 198 to 199. It was delivered late, after the open: the run fired at 7:15 a.m., its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 8:32, and every page was read between 8:33 and 9:20 a.m., by two parallel readers working from one brief and by the desk; the files were built by 9:52. No release was scheduled for 8:30, the later releases are previewed in the Brief with consensus and prior, and no market level read after 9:20 is used in it. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotation in entry 202 was read twice, and the pound and the FTSE 100 on Trading Economics, used only in that entry’s arithmetic, were read at 9:48. Tuesday’s closes are sworn at 7,818.93, 51,521.28 and 27,599.79 on the Associated Press and TheStreet, the S&P 500 also on Yahoo Finance’s history; the Russell 2000 is 2,830.30 on the AP and Trading Economics and 2,830.97 on TheStreet’s 4:03 p.m. table, both printed. The ten-year’s close is 5.27 on Yahoo Finance’s board and on the Treasury’s par curve as stockmarketwatch.com relays it, with TheStreet at 5.275 and the AP at 5.28; the Treasury’s own page could not be opened. Seen and not logged: Newsquawk’s European opening note, published at 06:04 UTC on Wednesday, with “SPX +0.72% at 7,830” and “DJI +0.49% at 51,526” as Tuesday’s closes, where the level and the percentage agree with each other and the basis of the reading was not established (read twice); Trading Economics’ United States index page, carrying Tuesday’s changes (+44.97, +253.38) beside Wednesday’s contract levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171 read again and counted once; the same provider’s Japan row, 69,603 beside the cash close’s change of 648.27, and its euro-area table, Tuesday’s closes under Wednesday’s date (each read once); Yahoo Finance’s Tuesday blog, whose text has the S&P 500 up 0.7 percent at the close where its own quote has 0.58; the Investing.com page carrying Reuters’ futures story, with a dollar index of 102.235 beside a change of +0.630 that belongs to a level near 102.46; TheStreet’s Tuesday page, with WTI at $87.77 beside Brent at $98.67 near its close table, where Investing.com’s history has WTI settling at $89.44, a different time; two closes for Nvidia, $240.43 on Investing.com’s history and $239.24 on 24/7 Wall St., not reconciled; and a Whalesbook headline of 5 October, “Samsung Electronics Forecasts Record $80 Billion Q3 Profit,” three days before the company’s preliminary figures, where two readings of the body disagreed on whether it attributes the forecast to analysts. The Brief’s account of SpaceX’s financing rests on Reuters’ and Bloomberg’s relays of the Financial Times, which the desk did not open, and its SpaceX second-quarter figures on SiliconANGLE and 24/7 Wall St., not on the company’s release. The Treasury auction sizes in the Brief ($39 billion and $75 billion) are ZeroHedge’s alone. No Errata is recorded on this page for Tuesday 6 October, and The Errata, No. 9’s eight items remain open below.
7 October, late morning. The Errata, No. 10, Tuesday’s issue, is delivered Wednesday morning. Its run fired at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday; its clock was read at 7:16, 7:23, 7:33 and 7:34 p.m., every page was read inside those windows, and pages are stamped to the window between two readings rather than to minutes. The files were built by about 7:45 p.m.; the run then stalled at the republishing of this page and resumed at 10:49 a.m. on Wednesday 7 October, after the issue’s 8:30 p.m. publication time and after Wednesday’s open, though before the Fed minutes its forecast names. It was drafted against a count of 198 with its entries numbered 202 to 207; the Wednesday Brief logged entry 202 while it waited, so they are numbered 203 to 208. The page is right: the count stood at 199 when No. 10 went out and rises to 205, and the issue, its first figure and its thread were renumbered before delivery. Nothing else was read or changed in the issue after 7:34 p.m. Tuesday; No. 9’s forecast is scored as of Tuesday evening and the eight items below stand as made. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotation on which each of the six entries turns was read twice. The S&P 500’s Tuesday high is 7,835.09 in Investrade’s review and 7,844.52 on Yahoo Finance’s history table and is not sworn; Benzinga’s 7,840 at 1:11 p.m. sits between them. No. 10 left the ten-year’s Tuesday close unsworn between “around 5.27” (Investrade), 5.275 (TheStreet at 3:33 p.m.) and 5.281 (Anadolu), the Treasury’s par curve having returned no row after 2 July to the desk’s reader; the Wednesday Brief’s 5.27, above, is the later and fuller reading. No. 10 prints crude from two boards, $89.44 beside $100.58 on Investrade’s 4:07 p.m. table and $89.91 beside $101.08 on Investing.com’s tables as they stood between 7:23 and 7:33 p.m.; the Brief later read Investing.com’s history at $89.44 for WTI. Seen on Tuesday evening and not logged: Investopedia’s running piece, headlined “Treasury Yields, Oil Prices Fall” over crude “about $88” and $98.30, which says “in recent trading”; TheStreet’s 4:03 p.m. lead on “easing oil prices” on a day crude finished higher on both boards, a characterisation and not a figure; Yahoo Finance’s blog with the S&P 500 up 0.7 percent at the close, which one of this run’s two reads returned and the Brief also saw; the Russell 2000’s close at 2,832.45 on 24/7 Wall St. beside the figures above; Investrade’s review with the S&P 500 up 45.09 and the Dow up 253.32, an early table; Yahoo Finance’s quote page for the index, still showing Monday’s close under Monday’s own stamp three and a half hours after Tuesday’s bell; 24/7 Wall St.’s homepage strip (S&P 500 7,811.60, up 0.31 percent; Russell 2000 2,861.17, up 0.26), with no time and read once; Trading Economics’ bond table at 5.29 under a narrative at 5.26; three consensus figures for the trade deficit ($102.0, $95.2 and $89.8 billion), the last still in Yahoo Finance’s morning post; two sizes of beat for Constellation Brands’ $3.74 (13 cents on StreetInsider, 19 on MarketBeat), two surveys; and MarketBeat’s “updated its FY 2027 guidance” for a comparable range the company’s release, read once, reaffirmed. Unresolved: whether 24/7 Wall St. published a Treasury card on Tuesday (No. 9’s item 7; none was found); and the date of Vice Chair Bowman’s speech on the Board’s calendar, which the reader relayed twice on Tuesday evening as 8 October at 10:45 a.m. where No. 9 and entry 193 read 6 October. The St. Louis Fed’s notice puts her keynote on the first morning of its 6–7 October conference; the reader’s dates for that page are relied on only for the minutes and the G.19, which Kiplinger and investingLive confirm. For tonight’s scoring of No. 10’s item 7: the Brief, above, read Tuesday’s changes beside Wednesday’s contract levels on Trading Economics’ index page this morning. The count rises from 199 to 205 with entries 203 to 208.
9 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 209 to 211 and the count rises from 205 to 208. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16, 7:23, 7:25, 7:37 and 7:43, and pages are stamped to the window between two readings. No United States release was scheduled for 8:30; the 10:00 Michigan survey is previewed in the Brief with consensus and prior. Entry 157 is annotated. On 30 September the Brief logged two outlets’ $40 billion for OpenAI’s run rate and set against it, as the true value, Axios’s “almost $70 billion.” The Financial Times reported on Thursday 8 October, as Investing.com relayed it at 1:05 p.m., that the company’s annualized revenue “stands at approximately $50bn as of September,” and Bloomberg that night that it was “roughly $50 billion at the end of September.” The higher figure is described as investors’ adjustment of OpenAI’s revenue to Anthropic’s method, and the same relay says earlier adjustments “resulted in reports that the company’s annualized revenue reached $40bn” in August. The figure this desk printed as true was not the company’s count, and the multiplication on which the entry turned, 40 times 1.7, set one adjusted figure against another. The correction runs at the top of this morning’s Brief. The entry stays numbered and counted for now: whether the $40 billion was wrong when printed cannot be settled without the Financial Times’s original and Bloomberg’s of 29 September, neither of which this run could open, and whether to withdraw it is left to the next reading. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ United States index page, carrying Thursday’s changes (−36.41, +51.77) beside Friday’s contract levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171 read again; two relays that disagree on which OpenAI figure compares with Anthropic’s, the $70 billion in the Financial Times’s account as Investing.com has it and the $50 billion in CNBC’s as Digital Today has it, neither original opened; Trading Economics’ stocks table, with a Japan row of 68,233, down 2.57 percent, dated 8 October, where the Nikkei 225 closed Friday at 69,030.92, down 11.19 points, on the Associated Press and TradingKey (read once; the row may be a contract); two sizes for Firmus’s shelved listing, roughly $5 billion on Investing.com and a $44 billion valuation on Startup Fortune; and Applied Optoelectronics’ Thursday fall at 13.58 percent on TradingKey and 14.1 on 24/7 Wall St.’s 4:11 p.m. table, both printed in the Brief. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 209 to 211 were read twice. The Brief turns in part on Anthropic’s method of counting revenue and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. No Errata is recorded on this page for Wednesday 7 or Thursday 8 October, and The Errata, No. 10’s eight items remain open below.
9 October, evening. The Errata, No. 11, was read against this page at 7:16 p.m., when the count stood at 208 with entry 211 the last; the page and the issue agree. The desk’s clock was read at 7:16, 7:22, 7:36, 7:42 and 7:49 p.m., and pages are stamped to the window between two readings. The issue was delivered late: its files were built by 7:54 p.m. on Friday, the run then stalled before they could be sent, and they went out, and this page was republished, at about noon on Sunday 11 October, after the issue’s 8:30 p.m. Friday publication time and before Monday’s session, which its forecast names. Nothing was read or changed in the issue after 7:54 p.m. Friday, and the nine items below stand as made. No. 10’s forecast, made on Tuesday for Wednesday, is scored in No. 11 two days late, against Wednesday’s coverage as two parallel readers found it on Friday evening; three of the four items scored “did not occur” rest on a handful of pages, and Kiplinger’s calendar, Yahoo Finance’s Wednesday post and Investing.com’s preview were not reached. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 213, 214 and 216 were read twice and the two cards (212, 215) once each. Friday’s closes are sworn at 7,811.54 and 51,654.95 on Yahoo Finance and Trading Economics, with TheStreet’s 4:00 p.m. post at 7,811.51 and 51,655.01, and the Nasdaq Composite at 27,366.17 on three feeds; the Russell 2000 is 2,806.98 on Yahoo Finance and 2,808.57 on TheStreet, both printed. The ten-year’s close is sworn at 5.24 on Yahoo Finance’s board and Trading Economics’ table, with Kiplinger at 5.244; Investrade’s table has 5.27. Seen and not logged: TheStreet’s “quarter basis point decline” for an energy sector down a quarter of a percent, a unit; its link titled “Oct. 8, 2025” for a 2026 page, a date; its deck, “Oil prices rose,” above a lead in which oil eased, and Yahoo Finance’s closing lead to the same effect over settlements of $91.85 beside $104.72, each up about 0.4 percent on Investrade, characterisations; three consensus figures for the Michigan index (47.6, 47.8, 48) and three for Delta’s earnings ($1.76, $1.82, $1.89), different surveys; Trading Economics’ bond note at 5.26 over a table at 5.24, an older sentence over a later quote; Investrade’s Wednesday preview, with the ten-year at 5.32 in its text and 5.399 in its table, read once by a parallel reader; and Benzinga’s Wednesday line that 5.32 was the yield’s “highest since 2002,” two days after 5.35, the series not established. Unresolved: the Nasdaq’s week, printed as up 0.64 percent (Investrade, the same figure as its Friday change), up 0.19 (TheStreet) and down 0.1 (Trading Economics, index not named); Tuesday’s S&P 500 high, now 7,844.52 on three pages against Investrade’s earlier 7,835.09; the Associated Press’s Friday table and the Board’s calendar, neither of which could be opened; and entry 157, left as the morning left it. The count rises from 208 to 213 with entries 212 to 216.
12 October, morning. The Brief logged entry 217 and the count rises from 213 to 214. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16, 7:22, 7:29, 7:40, 7:41, 7:45 and 7:49, and pages are stamped to the window between two readings or to a clock of their own. It is Columbus Day: stocks trade, the cash Treasury market is shut, no United States release was scheduled for 8:30, and the week’s releases are previewed in the Brief with consensus and prior. Entry 217 is a page published on Thursday 8 October and read on Monday; it carries its publication date, the day is already among the twenty covered, and the days tile is unchanged. Its quotations were read twice. Friday’s closes were read again on the Associated Press’s table as La Nación carries it (7,811.54, 51,654.95, 27,366.17, 2,806.98), which No. 11 could not open on Friday, and agree with what No. 11 swore; that table’s week is 88.82 points for the S&P 500 and 477.99 for the Dow, as entry 216 has it. Crude was left unsworn: Trading Economics had 90.575 beside 103.328 with no minute, and Yahoo Finance’s strip had November WTI at 91.42 at 4:19 a.m. and 92.99 at 7:22 by the page’s own countdown, with no Brent. Seen and not logged: Invezz’s 7:08 a.m. piece, in which the ten-year “currently trades at 5.24%” on a morning the cash market is shut, and Yahoo Finance’s strip with the ten-year at 5.24, “+0.01,” on Monday’s page, both left for tonight’s scoring of The Errata, No. 11’s first item; Trading Economics’ bond note at 5.26 for Friday over a table at 5.24, read on Friday too; its euro-area table with Friday’s changes beside rows dated 12 October, and its United States table with Friday’s 46.19 and 423.30 beside Monday’s contract levels (7,812.38; 51,692.54), the pairing of entries 162 and 171 and the last clause of No. 11’s ninth item; its commodities table, with positive changes beside negative percentages, as the reader relayed it; its Hong Kong page, 24,271 in the closing note and 24,216 in the quote box, two times; Newsquawk’s S&P 500 at 7,810, up 0.58 percent, a rounding; a Reuters item of 10 June on Yahoo Finance headlined “top $500 billion” over a body with “nearly $570 billion,” four months old; and Benzinga’s Intel quote page, showing $116.19 under a stamp of 5 October. Unresolved: two relays of the Wall Street Journal’s report on the OpenAI financing, one with a close expected by year-end (Benzinga) and one with no deal expected before then (Crypto Briefing), the original not opened; how the $42 billion of convertible notes in Quartz’s account relates to the $42 billion senior class; Intel’s Friday close, on one feed; and CNBC’s piece on the Singapore remarks, which could not be opened. The Brief turns in part on a financing to which Anthropic is a party and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. The Brief was delivered late: its files were built and this page republished by about 7:52 a.m., the run then stalled before the files could be sent, and they went out at 9:02 a.m., after the 8:15 target and the 8:30 publication time and before the open. Nothing was read or changed in the issue after 7:50, and no level later than 7:49 is used in it. The Errata, No. 11’s nine items remain open below.
12 October, second edition. The Brief was read again against second sources by four parallel readers between 9:18 and 9:36 a.m. and reissued; the count is unchanged at 214. The first edition carried these errors of the desk’s own, each now changed in the issue, its figures and its thread. Shanghai was printed down 0.36 percent from a Trading Economics row with no time; the close was 3,797.24, down 0.43, on Armenpress, 24/7 Wall St. and ad-hoc-news, and Hong Kong’s close was up 0.25 percent at 24,271.2, not 0.3. The first edition added the Wall Street Journal’s “more than $50 billion” for the OpenAI financing to the $60 billion package and printed “more than $110 billion”; Bloomberg on 9 October put the OpenAI figure at around $30 billion, and the sum is a range, $90 billion to $110 billion, with both reports printed. It said Blackstone led the $60 billion package, where Bloomberg has it leading the $18 billion junior class, and gave “backed by Broadcom’s A-minus credit rating” as the Financial Times’s description, where the phrase is Investing.com’s and a second summary of the FT has “Broadcom-supported” loans “guaranteed by Broadcom.” It opened on an order of bottlenecks (chips, electricity, memory) that was the desk’s and read as Mr. Tan’s; his list, in The Standard, is wafers, memory, power, land. It printed the capital remark as a flat statement in its lede and headline where CNBC’s quotation is “might be,” printed one sentence of Lip-Bu Tan’s as two, and carried a 2029-to-2030 horizon that The Standard’s account does not support. It attributed 4.69 percent for the ten-year on 20 August to the Associated Press; that is Yahoo Finance’s figure and the AP’s is 4.70. It printed a second prior of 1.1 percent for August retail sales that no calendar read on the second pass carried; the Census Bureau’s figure is 1.2. Settled on the second reading: the timing of the OpenAI financing, where investingLive, Data Center Dynamics, StockTwits, Investing.com, Oninvest and Benzinga have a close before or by year-end and Crypto Briefing’s “no deal is expected before the end of the year” stands alone, a statement and not a figure, and not logged; Intel’s Friday close, $104.70 on stockanalysis.com and MarketChameleon; the venue of Intel’s chief executive, the same panel, per DBS’s agenda; and the source of the $42 billion of convertible notes, a Reuters report of 1 October from Anthropic’s filing. CNBC’s piece was read on two reposts, the original still not opening. Seen on the second reading and not logged: two closes for the DAX on Friday, 25,102.34 on finanzen.net, ms-aktuell and Newsquawk and 25,087.27 on Armenpress and in finanzen.net’s own index box; TheStreet’s Friday table, a few cents from the Associated Press’s on two indexes; and the Kospi at 6,384.25 on TradingKey against 6,384.24 on five Korean and relay pages. Still open: the relation between the notes and the senior loans, the terms of Broadcom’s support, and the loan’s pricing, none of which any page read has printed.
13 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 218 and 219 and the count rises from 214 to 216; both carry days not yet covered, Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 October, and the days tile rises from 20 to 22. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 8:36, and every page was read between 8:36 and 8:54 a.m., stamped to the window between two readings (8:36, 8:45, 8:53, 8:54) or to a clock of its own. The Brief’s files were sent shortly after 9:00 a.m., after its 8:15 a.m. target and its 8:30 publication time and before the open; the run then stalled before this page could be republished, which happened at about 12:15 p.m., and nothing was read or changed in the two entries after 9:00. No United States release was scheduled for 8:30, Wednesday’s consumer price index is previewed in it with consensus and prior, and no level read after 8:54 is used. No Errata is recorded on this page for Monday 12 October; entry 219 is the form named in The Errata, No. 11’s first item, and that item and the other eight are left open below for the Errata to score. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 218 and 219 were read twice. Monday’s closes are sworn at 51,850.55, 7,807.24 and 27,245.90 on TheStreet’s 4:00 p.m. table and TradingKey’s recap, with The Motley Fool’s rounded figures agreeing; Investrade’s changes (+195.36, −4.34) imply 51,850.31 and 7,807.20 on Friday’s closes, and the Associated Press’s table could not be opened. The Kospi’s close is 6,035.35 on the AP and Aju Press, and Monday’s crude settlements $93.74 beside $106.65 on Investrade and TradingKey. Seen and not logged: Aju Press’s closes for Samsung Electronics (233,500 won, down 6.79 percent) and SK Hynix (1,453,000, down 9.47) against 232,000 and 1,443,000 on SBS and the Korea JoongAng Daily, the session not established; Trading Economics’ Korea note with Samsung down 7.19 percent against 7.39 on three pages, read once; CXMT’s share of the DRAM market at 7 percent (TradingKey, Monday) and about 10 (TradingKey, Tuesday; Invezz), under one citation, the measure not stated; an Investing.com headline with the Nikkei down 1.68 percent against 1.82 on the AP and Investrade, not opened; gold on Monday at $4,167.56, $4,190.60 and $4,195.9 on three pages, spot and futures; Investing.com’s CXMT quote page, stamped 24 September; and Yahoo Finance’s Tuesday strip with the ten-year at 5.24, Friday’s close, where Investrade at 6:54 a.m. and Trading Economics had 5.19. Unresolved: the Associated Press’s Monday table; the series to which Investrade’s 942 belongs; and the Fed speakers’ times in the Brief, which rest on Trading Economics’ calendar alone, its display read as UTC. The desk did not open CXMT’s statement, Bloomberg’s report of it or the Wall Street Journal’s.
14 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 220 and 221 and the count rises from 216 to 218; the days tile rises from 22 to 23. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16, 7:17, 7:26, 7:29, 7:34, 7:36 and 7:38, and every page was read between 7:17 and 7:29 a.m., stamped to the window between two readings or to a clock of its own. The files were sent at about 7:40, before the 8:15 target; the run then stalled before this page could be republished, which happened at about 8:38 a.m., and nothing was read or changed in the two entries after 7:40. The 8:30 consumer price index is previewed in the Brief with consensus and prior, not reported, and no level read after 7:29 is used. No Errata is recorded on this page for Tuesday 13 October, and The Errata, No. 11’s nine items remain open below. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 220 and 221 were read once. Tuesday’s closes are sworn at 7,805.45, 51,670.10 and 27,204.38 on TheStreet’s 4:02 p.m. table and the Associated Press’s table on the Mankato Free Press; the Russell 2000 is 2,786.13 on TheStreet and 2,783.37 on the AP, both printed. The ten-year’s close is 5.21 on the Treasury’s par curve as stockmarketwatch.com relays it and on Trading Economics, with Investing.com at 5.217 and Saxo at 5.215; the two-year 4.79. Brent’s Tuesday settlement, $105.69, is one feed (Reuters on Oklahoma Energy Today); WTI’s $94.14 is sworn against Yahoo Finance’s November base. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ United States index page with Tuesday’s changes (−1.79, −180.45) beside Wednesday’s contract levels (7,818.44, 51,845.04), the pairing of entries 162 and 171 read again and counted once; its Japan page with one item closing the Nikkei at 67,744, another at 67,874, up 97, and a third with the index up 0.4 percent above 68,000, the later items’ hours not established; NordFX’s untimed pulse with the Kospi up one to two percent and the Nikkei up 0.4 percent, read as morning levels against closes of −0.44 and −0.05 percent; Yahoo Finance’s Wednesday blog with futures up 0.1 percent in its text under a strip at 0.22 and 0.31; Investing.com’s ten-year at 5.209 in one table and 5.201 in a sidebar; two surveys for Bank of America’s estimate ($1.10 Newsquawk, $1.11 24/7 Wall St.) and two for Morgan Stanley’s; Samsung Electronics’ Wednesday close, flat at 232,000 won on the Seoul Economic Daily and up 0.65 percent on the Korea Times, both printed; and the Options Trading Report preview of 10 October that set thresholds for a bookings line ASML stopped publishing in January, a forecast and not a figure. The Brief names Anthropic’s reported investor day in its calendar and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic.
14 October, second edition. At the author’s request the Brief was reissued at about 8:45 a.m. with the September consumer price index reported rather than previewed, the count unchanged at 218. The figures are sworn on three feeds read between 8:38 and 8:42 (Trading Economics’ inflation page, FXStreet, StockTitan): headline +0.6 percent on the month, as forecast, and 3.7 on the year against 3.6; core +0.3 and 2.6 against 0.2 and 2.5; gasoline +9.1 on the month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ release page and PDF returned the August release to the desk’s reader at 8:39 and 8:40 and are linked in the issue as unread for September. The first reaction is printed from one feed’s quote boxes with the caveat stated: Trading Economics’ ten-year at 5.269 and S&P 500 contract at 7,785.39 at about 8:41, against 5.21 and 7,818.44 before 7:30 on the same tables. Seen and not logged: StockTitan’s headline carrying August’s 3.4 percent above a body with September’s 3.7, on a page updated at 8:37; FXStreet’s line that the data was released “on Tuesday”; and Trading Economics’ bond page with 5.21, 5.20 and 5.27 in three places at one reading. Nothing else in the issue was read or changed after 7:40.
15 October, late morning. The Brief logged entries 222 to 225 and the count rises from 218 to 222; the days tile rises from 23 to 24. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 10:46, and every page was read between 10:46 and 11:00 a.m., after the open. The files were sent at about 11:20 a.m., after the 8:15 target and the 8:30 publication time; the issue is labelled a late edition, the 8:30 producer prices, retail sales, claims and regional surveys are previewed in it with consensus and prior and not reported, and no level read after the open is load-bearing. No Errata is recorded on this page for Wednesday 14 October, and The Errata, No. 11’s nine items remain open below. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 222, 223 and 225 were read twice and entry 224’s once. Wednesday’s closes are sworn at 7,718.94, 51,621.48, 26,692.87 and 2,729.53 on the Associated Press’s table on the Mankato Free Press and TheStreet’s 4:00 p.m. entry; Saxo’s Dow at 51,626.17 and Newsquawk’s S&P 500 at 7,724 are read as earlier tables. The ten-year’s Wednesday close is TheStreet’s 5.278, one feed, and the Treasury’s par curve was not read; overnight readings of 5.10 (AP, 12:06 a.m.), about 5.1 (FXStreet, 7:44 GMT) and 5.08 (Investrade; TipRanks) are printed with their times, the two-year at 4.73 on Investrade and Saxo. The Kospi’s close is 5,554.22 on the Korea JoongAng Daily and Trading Economics; the Nikkei’s 64,426 on Trading Economics’ narrative and the Rio Times, 64,425 on Investrade. Wednesday’s crude settlements, $95.09 and $106.06, are Newsquawk’s, with Investrade’s overnight changes implying the same bases. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ Japan page with 64,605 in its quote field and 64,555 in its statistics beside a 3,318-point change that fits neither, read as fields updating at different moments; the AP’s Asia story, published 12:06 a.m. Eastern with the Kospi at 5,527.12 and the Nikkei at 64,334.68, levels at the halt and at midday under a headline that does not call them closes; Saxo’s note with the same Kospi level and 64,267.09 for the Nikkei, stamped about 06:00 CET; Investrade’s continuing-claims estimate of 1.17 million beside a prior of 1.716 million, a dropped digit; two consensus figures for TSMC’s fourth-quarter guide, $48.8 billion on FXStreet and $50.48 billion on Investrade, two surveys; Investrade’s 41.1 percent and the release’s 41.2 for TSMC’s dollar growth, a rounding; and the Seoul Economic Daily’s Gartner figure of “$3.5 trillion” at risk of impairment through 2030, which is not on the Gartner document page the desk read (23 March 2026: $6.3 trillion of spending, a 40 to 70 percent write-down if returns fall short) and is left open until its source can be read. Yahoo Finance’s Wednesday live blog served an 11:22 a.m. cache. The Brief names Anthropic in a strategist’s claim relayed by the JoongAng Daily and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic.
16 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 226 and 227 and the count rises from 222 to 224; the days tile rises from 24 to 25. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:17 and not again until 8:32, and every page was read in that window, stamped to it unless a feed carries its own time. The Brief’s files were sent at about 8:43 a.m., after the 8:15 target and the 8:30 publication time and before the open; the 8:30 import-price release is previewed in it, not reported, and no level read after 8:32 is used. Thursday’s closes are sworn at 7,744.06, 52,177.69 and 26,713.03 on TheStreet, Armenpress, Investrade and Benzinga, with TheStreet’s Nasdaq at 26,713.02 and Saxo’s Dow at 52,183.23, an early table, both printed. The ten-year is left unsworn between 5.085 (TheStreet at 3:19 p.m.; Benzinga) and 5.10 (Strategitz; a yield summary page); the Treasury’s par curve was not read. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 226 and 227 were read twice. Entry 226 is the second morning of the pairing in entry 222 and is counted, because it is a new document with a new figure; whether Investrade’s 860 and 878 belong to a series the desk has not identified is left open, the Kospi 200 pages read (Investing.com, Yahoo Finance) being stale at 8 October or unreadable. Seen and not logged: Benzinga’s 4:05 p.m. Thursday text with CoreWeave down “nearly 3%” beside a widget at $69.90, up 6.26, where the close was $69.69, up 5.94 (Yahoo Finance; The Motley Fool), an intraday reading; Yahoo Finance’s ten-year ticker reading “5.09 −5.19 (−50.49%)”, a widget; Share Talk’s Associated Press relay with the Kospi up 3.6 percent and the Nikkei at 65,658.59, intraday levels under a morning headline, where the closes were 2.05 percent and 65,324.24; TheStreet’s sidebar headline on MongoDB’s chief executive, a September item; two readings of TSMC’s Thursday fall (4.14 percent at 10:08 a.m. on TheStreet; “fell 2%” in Yahoo Finance’s close text), the close not established; and Trading Economics’ United States index page, carrying Thursday’s changes beside Friday’s contract levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171 read again and counted once. The Brief’s account of the Gartner note rests on The Motley Fool’s, and the “$3.5 trillion” left open on 15 October is printed as the Fool’s figure, not Gartner’s. The Brief turns on CoreWeave, names the Reuters report on Anthropic’s valuation, and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic.
21 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 228 and 229 and the count rises from 224 to 226; the days tile rises from 25 to 26. No Brief is recorded on this page for Monday 19 or Tuesday 20 October, and no Errata since No. 11; its nine items remain open below. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:21, 7:30, 7:41 and 7:48, and every page was read between 7:30 and 7:48 a.m., stamped to that window unless a feed carries its own time. The files were sent at about 7:50, before the 8:15 target; the 8:30 publication time carries no release today and the 10:30 and 1:00 p.m. items are previewed. The author, present for this run, asked for the issue to run long on Anthropic’s draft prospectus, the SpaceX call and the premarket movers, and it does, at about 5,100 words with its sources. The Brief turns on Anthropic and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotation in entry 228 was read once and the two pages in entry 229 once each, the Equity Opening News a second time for its exact wording. Tuesday’s closes are sworn at 7,712.57, 52,495.88 and 26,424.82 on STL.News, the Seoul Economic Daily, Saxo and Benzinga; the Russell 2000 is 2,773.42 on STL.News alone at the decimal, 2,774 on Newsquawk. The ten-year’s close is 5.12 on the Treasury’s par curve as stockmarketwatch.com relays it and on Forbes, with Saxo at 5.117; the two-year 4.79 on the same two. December Brent settled at $108.79 on three feeds and $108.78 on Newsquawk; November WTI expired at $101.79 on the Seoul Economic Daily, one feed, and December WTI settled at $97.82 on Newsquawk, with Benzinga’s and Investrade’s morning changes dividing to that base. The Kospi’s close is 5,735.66 on the Korea JoongAng Daily and the Associated Press, 5,735.67 on TradingKey; the Nikkei’s 64,621.24 on TradingKey and the AP. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ euro-area table, with Tuesday’s changes beside Wednesday’s levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171 counted once; its Euro Stoxx 50 page, with 6,148 down 0.33 percent in its table and “rose to 6150,” up 0.42, in its text, read once; 24/7 Wall St.’s closing card with “closed at 7,707.57” in its body under a ticker at 7,747.80, the card named in No. 11’s ninth item and read as early prints; a Yahoo Finance video page whose description gives Anthropic’s first-half figures in billions and whose machine transcript gives them in millions, a transcription; heygotrade’s “Nvidia Stock News (Oct 20, 2026)” carrying Monday’s $217.09 close under Tuesday’s date with the session named correctly in its body; Investrade’s crude table showing WTI up $2.49 to $100.31 above a sentence giving the session high as $99.88, two moments; GM’s Tuesday fall at 6.84, 6.8, 7.5 and 7.6 percent on four feeds, printed as a range; Tesla’s at 1.54 on two feeds and “2%” on Saxo, an earlier reading; and SpaceX’s overnight move on four feeds between 2.35 and 10.39 percent, none sworn. Unresolved: whether Anthropic’s Google and Amazon contracts were executed before June 30 and so sit inside the June backlogs ($513.9 billion and $496 billion), which no document read says; the Wall Street Journal’s own text, not opened, the figures resting on Investing.com’s, Reuters’, Crypto Briefing’s and TradingKey’s relays; CNBC’s Nscale page, seen in search and not opened, the deal resting on The Next Web’s account of Bloomberg; and The Motley Fool’s SpaceX transcript, which has monthly GB300 deployments at 200,000 in one passage and 20,000 in another.
21 October, second edition. At the author’s note, the Brief was reissued at about 8:15 a.m. with its headline figure as $252 billion, the three hyperscaler contracts ($111 billion Google Cloud, $110 billion AWS, $31 billion Microsoft), where the first edition’s headline carried the Journal’s “about $450 billion,” which is all cloud agreements over seven to ten years. The issue now sets the five published figures side by side with their scopes: $252 billion (three hyperscalers, the Journal via Investing.com and TradingKey), about $450 billion (cloud agreements, the Journal), $518 billion (compute, cloud and infrastructure over a decade, Reuters, 28 September and 15 October, about 80 percent non-cancelable per Crypto Briefing), above $600 billion (locked-in commitments, TradingKey, 21 October) and up to $750 billion (with about $150 billion in talks, the Journal). They are different cuts of one schedule, not a disagreement between outlets, and none is logged. The count is unchanged at 226.
28 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 230 to 232 and the count rises from 226 to 229; the days tile rises from 26 to 27. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:21 and not again until 3:43 p.m., and every page was read inside that window, so pages are stamped to the window, with a feed’s own stamp given where it prints one. The issue is a late edition, delivered after the close: it is built from the record as it stood before the open, the 8:30 goods trade balance and the 2:00 p.m. decision are previewed in it with consensus and prior, not reported, and no market level read after the open is used; Trading Economics’ currency page and calendar, read after the decision, are used for the calendar’s consensus and prior only. The Brief turns on Anthropic’s prospectus and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ Japan page carrying four values for Wednesday’s session (64,650 and 2.18 percent in its table, 64,575 and 2.07 in its statistics, 63,954 and 1.08 in its summary, 64,053 and 1.24 in a news item), read once; Yahoo Finance’s markets page with the S&P 500 “closed 0.7% higher” and the Nasdaq 1.3 percent against settled gains of 0.60 and 1.18, earlier readings under the word “closed,” and its own live blog at 4:03 p.m. with 0.6 and “more than 1.1”; a Trading Economics news page dated 18 February, “The Nikkei 225 Index Closes 1.18% Higher,” surfacing in a search for Wednesday’s close, dated correctly at source; Trading Economics’ futures note, whose lead paragraph refers to Chair Jerome Powell under a March timestamp over October stream items, read once; the $63 billion Broadcom–Anthropic financing figure (Benzinga, unfetched; Trading Economics’ Japan summary) against the filing’s “up to $42 billion” and Bloomberg’s $60 billion package of 2 October, scopes not established; and Brent on two bases Tuesday, “below $114” on Yahoo Finance with no contract named and $109.41 implied for January by Investing.com and Investrade, the December contract expiring Friday, a roll. The ten-year’s Tuesday close is 4.99 on the Treasury’s par curve as Stockmarketwatch relays it and “near 4.99%” on Yahoo Finance, with 4.986 (TheStreet, 3:47 p.m.) and 4.993 (Portfolio Terminal) printed and not sworn; SpaceX’s third-quarter figures rest on BigGo Finance’s summary of the 20 October call, the company’s release and The Motley Fool’s transcript not having opened. No Errata is recorded on this page since No. 11, and its nine items remain open below.
28 October, afternoon. The Errata, No. 12, Tuesday’s issue, is delivered Wednesday afternoon. Its run fired at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, read its clock at 7:15 and the runbook and this page by about 7:20, then stalled; it resumed at 3:34 p.m. on Wednesday 28 October, after the Federal Reserve’s 2:00 p.m. decision and Chair Warsh’s press conference, and every page was read between 3:35 and 3:52 p.m. by four parallel readers working from one brief, stamped to the minute. The desk’s clock was read at 3:34, 3:56 and 4:04 p.m. The issue is Tuesday’s: its entries are Tuesday’s coverage, no level later than Tuesday’s close is used except where its time is printed, and its forecast is for Thursday 29 October, the first estimate of third-quarter growth, because a forecast made after the fact is not one; the nine items below are to be scored on Thursday night, not Wednesday. No Errata ran between No. 11 on Friday 9 October and tonight; No. 11’s nine items are scored in No. 12 sixteen days late, against pages as they stood on Wednesday afternoon: six occurred, two in a weaker form than named, and three did not. Two of the six are entries, 219 (logged by the 13 October Brief) and 242; the rest are reported in the register and not logged. Tuesday’s closes are sworn at 7,722.60, 52,377.57 and 26,477.81 on the Associated Press, TheStreet, Yahoo Finance and Schwab, the Russell 2000 at 2,818.87 on the Associated Press and TheStreet; the ten-year’s close at 4.99 on the Treasury’s par curve, Forbes Advisor and Schwab, with 4.995 on CappNotes and 24/7 Wall St., 4.992 on Investrade and 4.993 on Yahoo Finance; December WTI at $99.90 beside December Brent at $113.88 on Bloomberg via Rigzone, Reuters via MarketScreener and Investrade. Seen and not logged: TheStreet’s Monday 4:06 p.m. wrap, with the S&P 500 at 7,676.80, the Dow at 52,361.52 and the Russell 2000 at 2,787.81 against the Associated Press’s 7,676.77, 52,361.58 and 2,786.42, an early table; Trading Economics’ Russell 2000 row, 2,818.98 beside 0.25, a contract beside a cash close, and its stock page’s 0.16 percent beside 0.13 for one S&P 500 change, read once; Investing.com’s Monday ten-year at 4.967, a different series; Kiplinger’s Fed blog with a Tuesday pre-open post stamped 4:41 p.m. Monday, a date; Forbes Advisor’s page with 4.99 as of 27 October in its body and 5.24 as of 9 October in its description; a Yahoo Finance live blog last updated 9 December 2025 whose widget carried Tuesday’s Dow; six consensus figures for the Conference Board index (80, 80.4, 80.5, 81, 81.0, 81.2), different surveys; and, from Wednesday’s own coverage, left for the Wednesday Errata, Wealth Professional’s “Governors Cook and Hammack,” Just the News’ “two members of the board,” the Associated Press’s key rate “about 3.9%” with no range printed, and seven values for the December hike probability. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 234, 237 and 238 were read twice and the rest once. The Kiplinger page in entry 234 is headlined on Broadcom’s agreement with Anthropic, and the issue says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. The issue was drafted against a count of 226, read from this page at 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, with its entries numbered 230 to 239; the Wednesday Brief, stalled in the same way, published entries 230 to 232 at 4:30 p.m. while No. 12 was being built. The page is right: the count stood at 229 when No. 12 went out, the issue was renumbered before delivery, and the count rises to 239 with entries 233 to 242; the days tile rises from 27 to 28 with Tuesday 27 October.
28 October, evening. The Errata, No. 13, Wednesday’s issue, was read between 7:17 and 7:58 p.m. by four parallel readers working from one brief and by the desk, stamped to the minute; the files went out at about 8:05 p.m. One correction to No. 12 runs at full size at the top of No. 13: its forecast item 2 said the second quarter’s 2.2 percent had been “revised from 1.5 at the second estimate and 2.1 at the first.” The first estimate was 1.5 as well (BEA advance release of 30 July; Investing.com’s release history: 1.5 on 30 July, 1.5 on 26 August, 2.2 on 30 September); the 2.1 was the first quarter’s. The item is corrected in place below and stands for Thursday. No. 12’s nine items were made for Thursday 29 October and remain open; four of them surfaced in Wednesday’s coverage and are logged tonight as entries 243 to 245, 248 and 250, which the Thursday scoring will take into account. Wednesday’s closes are sworn at 7,743.98, 52,475.10, 26,549.85 and 2,830.51 on the Associated Press, Yahoo Finance, TheStreet Pro, The Motley Fool and TradingKey. The ten-year has two closes, both corroborated: 5.05 at 3:00 p.m. (Yahoo Finance’s ^TNX, TheStreet Pro’s cash session, Forbes Advisor) and 5.02 after hours (the AP, The Motley Fool, Trading Economics 5.021, Kiplinger 5.024, TheStreet Pro 5.020); the Treasury’s par curve had no Wednesday row at 7:31 or 7:47 p.m. December WTI settled at $102.78 beside December Brent at $115.32 (Bloomberg via Rigzone). Seen and not logged: Kiplinger’s and the AP’s Brent near $111.40 and $111.64 with no month named, the January contract, a roll; Trading Economics’ index pages pairing Tuesday’s change of 45.83 with Wednesday’s levels, the template of entries 162 and 171, counted once; the Census Bureau’s landing page serving August’s advance indicators at 7:19 p.m. beside the September PDF; Kiplinger’s October Fed live blog, last updated 27 October and dated so; 9to5google’s “$112.1 billion in net income last quarter” for Alphabet, unchecked against the second-quarter release; and seven values for the December hike probability (73, 81.4, 82, 83, 84, 84 to 85, 87.5) on different tools at different hours. The quotations in entries 243, 249 and 250 were read twice, the rest once. The count rises from 239 to 250 with entries 243 to 253; the days tile is unchanged at 28, Wednesday 28 October already being counted. The run stalled after the files were sent and this page was republished at about 9:05 a.m. on Thursday 29 October, before the 8:30 releases had been read; nothing in the issue was changed after 8:05 p.m. Wednesday.
29 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 254 to 257 and the count rises from 250 to 254; the days tile rises from 28 to 29. This run read the page at about 7:30 a.m., when it stood at 239 with entry 242 the last; The Errata, No. 13, Wednesday’s issue, published entries 243 to 253 at 9:14 a.m. while the Brief was being built, and the Brief’s entries were first numbered 243 to 246 against the older page. The page is right, and the issue was renumbered before delivery. It is a late edition: the run fired at 7:15 a.m., its clock was read at 7:25 and not again until 9:04, and every page was read inside that window, so pages are stamped to the window with a feed’s own stamp given where it prints one. The issue is built from the record as it stood before the open; the 8:30 releases are previewed in it with consensus and prior, not reported, and Trading Economics’ calendar, read after 8:30, is used for consensus and prior only. Wednesday’s closes are sworn at 7,743.98, 52,475.10, 26,549.85 and 2,830.51 on Yahoo Finance’s board, CappNotes and TradingKey; the ten-year’s close at 5.05 on the Treasury’s par curve and Yahoo’s board, with CappNotes at 5.044, the 3:00 p.m. reading No. 13 swore in, its after-hours 5.02 not having been read by this run; the two-year is left unsworn between the Treasury’s 4.67, CappNotes’ 4.731 and Mortgage News Daily’s 4.684; December WTI $102.78 beside December Brent $115.32 at settlement on CappNotes and Daniel San. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 254 to 256 were read twice and in 257 once. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ Japan page carrying four values for Thursday’s session (64,534; 64,543; 64,595; 64,659); its index table pairing Wednesday’s changes with Thursday’s contract levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171, counted once; a Trading Economics bond item dated 5 February surfacing in a search for Wednesday’s yield, dated correctly at source; TradingKey’s forecast page with “plunge 8%” in its headline strip beside “about 10%” in its body; Samsung Electronics’ Thursday move, 4.1 percent on the AP and 0.62 on Trading Economics, left open; and Brent on two bases overnight, December on TipRanks and January on the AP, the December contract expiring Friday. The Errata, No. 13’s items remain open below for tonight’s scoring.
29 October, evening. The Errata, No. 14, scores No. 12 and No. 13 together, fifteen items made on Wednesday for Thursday: eight occurred (one in a second form, one in one of three forms), seven did not, none unresolved. The run fired at 7:15 p.m.; its clock was read at 7:16, 7:30 and 7:36, and every page was read between 7:17 and 7:32 p.m., by four parallel readers working from one brief and by the desk; the files were built by 7:38 and sent before this page was republished, so that a stall could not hold them. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 258, 259, 260, 261 and 264 were read twice, those in 262, 263, 265, 266 and 267 once. Thursday’s closes are sworn at 7,720.39, 52,342.56 and 26,184.72 on the Associated Press and Reuters, the S&P 500 also on Yahoo Finance’s board; Reuters has the Nasdaq’s fall at 1.37 percent where Investrade and Yahoo have 1.38. The ten-year’s close is sworn at 4.94 on the AP and Trading Economics’ table (4.938); the Treasury’s file had no row for Thursday at 7:22 p.m., and a cluster at 4.987 to 4.997 on Investrade and three evening tickers is printed in the issue and not used. December WTI settled at $102.00 beside December Brent at $114.88 and January Brent at $110.80 (Bloomberg via Rigzone, 5:16 p.m.). Entry 259 is the two-Dows contradiction on Trading Economics’ United States page; the same page’s pairing of Wednesday’s changes with Thursday’s contract levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171, was read this morning and again tonight and is counted once, in the morning. Seen and not logged: Investing.com’s copy of Reuters’ 2:40 p.m. market story, never updated, with the Dow “fell 315.36 points ... to 52,163.07” in the past tense of a close; Investrade’s closing table at 132.48 and 23.76 against the AP’s 132.54 and 23.59, an early table; Yahoo Finance’s ten-year quote page served at 7:19 p.m. with a stamp of 8:06 a.m. Central, a cache; Mortgage News Daily’s live quote of 4.997 at 7:19, on the page that is entry 256; a GoldSeek repost of a CNBC piece headlined “hovers above 5%” where CNBC’s address says “below,” the body unreadable; Trading Economics’ crude narrative, “fell towards $101,” above a table at $102.85 beside Brent at $115.49; Startup Fortune’s 27 October preview with Apple reporting on the 29th, a Tuesday page; RSM’s Wednesday note with growth “released on Friday,” still standing; and the December hike probability at 78.4, 82, 82.6, 83, 85 to 87, 87.5 and 88 percent on eight Thursday pages, none with a time, differences by this register’s rule. Not reachable tonight: CappNotes’ Thursday close, Benzinga, CNBC, FXStreet and Seeking Alpha. The count rises from 254 to 264 with entries 258 to 267; the days tile is unchanged at 29.
2 November, morning. The Brief logged entry 268 and the count rises from 264 to 265; the days tile rises from 29 to 30 with Friday 30 October, the date of the page logged. No Brief and no Errata are recorded on this page for Friday 30 October, and The Errata, No. 14’s nine items remain open below. The run fired at 11:15 UTC, which after Sunday’s clock change is 6:15 a.m. Eastern rather than 7:15; its clock was read at 6:23 and 6:31 a.m., every page was read inside that window and is stamped to it unless a feed carries its own time, and the files were sent at about 8:16 a.m., a minute after the 8:15 target and before the 8:30 publication time. Nothing in the issue was read or changed after 6:31 beyond the build. The 9:45 and 10:00 releases are previewed in the Brief with consensus and prior, not reported. Friday’s closes are sworn at 7,580.07, 51,770.31, 25,437.00 and 2,811.84 on the Associated Press and Portfolio Terminal, with Investrade’s rounded table agreeing; TheStreet’s 4:03 p.m. table (7,578.97; 51,785.82; 25,442.31; 2,801.16) and Newsquawk’s rounded copy of it are early readings. The ten-year’s Friday close is left unsworn between 4.913 and 4.929 on four readings, and the Treasury’s par curve was not read. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotation in entry 268 was read once. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ Japan (62,996) and Hong Kong (23,374) contracts beside cash closes of 63,081.86 and 23,411.49, and its FTSE 100 row still dated 30 October at 6:28 a.m.; Saxo’s ASML fall at 6.1 percent in its European note and 4.7 in its Asian one, whose page metadata carries 19 October over a 2 November body; Investrade’s Brent settlement of $117.64, the December contract on its expiry day with no month named, where January’s Friday level is implied near $113.4 by the AP’s Monday change (the roll of entries 165 and 181, and No. 14’s eighth item, left for the Errata); SK hynix’s Monday close at 1,482,000 won, up 4.51 percent, on TradingKey against 1.47 million won, up 3.81, on the Korea JoongAng Daily and 4.7 percent on Saxo, printed as a range; Kioxia’s guidance in three measures on three pages (adjusted operating profit about ¥2 trillion, up about one percent; October-to-December net profit about fifteen-fold to ¥1.36 trillion; April-to-December net profit nineteen times), not reconciled; the Nikkei at 63,081.64 on TradingKey against 63,081.86 on the AP and BigGo Finance; Yahoo Finance’s AP page with a live crude widget at $100.62, down $3.50, under a Friday story that says oil rose; and an Elec article of 30 July, “more than 10 customers,” surfacing in a search for SK hynix’s fourteen, dated correctly at source. The subject is OpenAI’s round, from the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times as relayed by The Decoder, Sweden Herald and Newsquawk, neither original opened; the Brief names Anthropic in a relayed FT item and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic.
3 November, morning. The Brief logged entry 269 and the count rises from 265 to 266. The run fired at 7:15 a.m. and its clock was read at 6:15, 6:36 and 8:12 a.m. Eastern (the first two readings are in Standard Time, clocks having changed on Sunday); it stalled between the second and third, and pages are stamped to the windows 6:17 to 6:40 and 8:13 to 8:20 a.m. The Brief was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target; no release was scheduled for 8:30 and nothing printed before delivery is reported in it. Monday’s ten-year close is 4.89 on Cappnotes (4.893) and Admiral Markets, with The Rio Times at 4.909 and Saxo at “about 4.91,” and the two-year is left unsworn between 4.581 and 4.60. Seen and not logged: Newsquawk’s Dow at 51,989 and Trading Economics’ narrative line “closed Monday at 52,008 points, up 0.46%,” against the sworn 51,983.98, read as early tables; Trading Economics’ United States index page pairing Monday’s changes with Tuesday’s contract levels (entries 162 and 171, counted once) and its commodities table showing gold with a positive change beside a negative percentage (the display noted on 1 October); 24/7 Wall St.’s morning piece with Oracle down 4 percent in its body and 2 in its Quick Read, two minutes of a falling tape; Cappnotes’ Apple up 0.87 percent after hours against three feeds at minus 2.5 to 3, a reading taken before the margin guidance; TNW’s six bond tranches against BigGo Finance’s five, left for the pricing supplement; and Saxo’s Kospi at 5,666, an earlier reading of a session that closed at 5,648.79. The Errata, No. 14’s nine items remain open below; no Errata is recorded on this page for Friday 30 October or Monday 2 November.
What qualifies
An entry is a figure published as current that was not. A screen quote differing from an exchange settlement is a difference, not an error, and is not logged. A field that contradicts itself, a component carried forward from a month that has already been superseded, a benchmark quoted below the benchmark it always trades above, a record announced before the record occurred — those are errors, and they are.
Every entry names what was printed, what was true, and how the discrepancy surfaced. Publications are named because the point is not that any one outlet is careless; it is that the supply chain these numbers travel through has no error-correction layer at all, and almost nobody checks.
Corrections and updates to this record
· Entry 111
Removed the unsupported claim that the quoted magnitude was right. The supplied level of 157.871 and increase of 1.2965 imply a prior level of 156.5745 and approximately 0.828 percent, not 1.22 percent. This arithmetic does not independently establish the observed market move.
Previous assessment for entry 111A rising dollar-yen is a weaker yen. The pair rose after the Bank of Japan's increase to 1.25 percent; Invezz had the yen weakening toward 157 at 1:28 a.m. The magnitude was right and the direction was inverted.
· Entry 115
Corrected the equation: 52,064 + 316 = 52,380. Dividing 316 by 0.0060 yields approximately 52,666.67, not 52,380. A displayed percentage may be rounded and does not reconstruct an exact prior close.
Previous assessment for entry 115A quote equal to its own previous close cannot carry a change of 316 points; 316 ÷ 0.0060 implies a base near 52,380, which the page does not show. The range contains neither Wednesday's close of 51,461.90 nor Thursday's of 51,778.04 (Google Finance; +316 points also per Trading Economics). The same page carried Wednesday's close correctly at 4:11 p.m. and an older session eleven minutes later.
· Entry 118
Removed the invalid assertion that identical benchmark prices with unequal percentage changes cannot both be correct. A Monday comparison does not establish Friday settlements. The entry is retained with source verification pending; no contemporaneous same-contract settlement evidence or new outcome has been supplied.
Previous assessment for entry 118Brent trades above WTI, and did all week: this morning the pair was $101.91 against $98.54, a spread of $3.37 on one page at one minute (Trading Economics, 6:40 a.m.). Identical levels with unequal percentage changes cannot both be right in any case, and $100.70 is also the same table's Thursday WTI level.
· Entry 149
Entry 149 added, as logged in the Morning Brief of 28 September 2026. The count rises from 147 to 148. No existing entry or anchor changes.
· Entry 150
Entry 150 added, as logged in the Morning Brief of 28 September 2026. The count rises from 148 to 149. No existing entry or anchor changes.
· Entry 151
Entry 151 added, as logged in the Morning Brief of 28 September 2026. The count rises from 149 to 150, matching the Brief's "147 before, 150 after." No existing entry or anchor changes.
· Entry 152, Entry 153, Entry 154, Entry 155, Entry 156, Entry 157, Entry 158, Entry 159, Entry 160, Entry 161, Entry 162, Entry 163, Entry 164, Entry 165, Entry 166, Entry 167, Entry 168, Entry 169, Entry 170, Entry 171, Entry 172, Entry 173, Entry 174, Entry 175, Entry 176, Entry 177, Entry 178, Entry 179, Entry 180, Entry 181, Entry 182, Entry 183, Entry 184, Entry 185, Entry 186, Entry 187, Entry 188, Entry 189, Entry 190, Entry 191, Entry 192, Entry 193, Entry 194, Entry 195, Entry 196, Entry 197, Entry 198, Entry 199, Entry 200
Add documented entries 152–200 from the 6 October desk artifact; preserve entry 169 as a withdrawn duplicate, update Errata No. 5, and add Nos. 6–9 with correction chronology.
Other documented changesForecast group errata-6 · Forecast group errata-7 · Forecast group errata-8 · Forecast group errata-9 · Forecast row errata-5:0 · Forecast row errata-5:1 · Forecast row errata-5:2 · Forecast row errata-5:3 · Forecast row errata-5:4 · Forecast row errata-5:5 · Forecast row errata-5:6 · Forecast row errata-5:7 · Forecast group notes errata-5
October 6 editorial update. The historical observation and desk-issue dates below are not this public web register’s publication dates. The artifact conflicts on when entries 185–199 first appeared on its page (about 9:45 p.m. October 5 versus 8:59 a.m. October 6); that page-publication time remains unresolved. The earlier evidence note’s Friday-night reference described Errata No. 5 in the prior revision; Errata No. 9 is now the latest group and its eight outcomes remain open. Linked source pages identify evidence, not independent verification of every historical claim.
28 September, morning. The Brief logged entries 149 to 151 and the count rises from 147 to 150. It was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target, following a full fact-check and rewrite of a first draft that was not delivered; its reads are stamped to windows, 7:16 to 8:44 a.m. and 9:02 to 9:12 a.m. for the fact-check, rather than to minutes, and where a feed stamps its own page that stamp is given. The undelivered draft would have logged the Zacks preview’s ten-year figure of 5.23 percent as a close; the preview says the yield “briefly touched” it, which is right, and entry 150 is confined to its two-year. Brent was quoted on two bases this morning: about $107 for the November contract on three feeds, and about $98 on Investing.com and in the Associated Press’s Friday close story, neither of which names a contract month. The gap is left as a difference and is not logged. The Errata, No. 5’s eight items remain open below.
28 September, midday. The Whisper, No. 9, adds entry 152 and the count rises from 150 to 151. The issue was built between 11:10 a.m. and 12:20 p.m. and its observations are stamped to those minutes. Its entry is a headline pointing in the opposite direction from its own body, on the very claim that issue reconstructs, with a range’s ceiling taken into the same headline as the figure: the failure modes of entries 108 and 148 on one page. No rumor was added to The Whisper Register today.
29 September, morning. The Brief logged entry 153 and the count rises from 151 to 152. Its reads are stamped to minutes between 7:16 and 7:33 a.m. The ten-year was left unsworn: five feeds carried five values between 5.20 and 5.25 percent and the Treasury’s Monday par curve had not posted. An FX Leaders headline dated 28 September, “NVDA Stock Closes Under $130,” against a close of $228.86, was seen and not logged because the page could not be opened; left for the evening’s Errata.
29 September, second edition. The Brief was fact-checked after the open, between 9:40 and 10:05 a.m., and republished with five of the desk’s own errors corrected at full size: WTI $96.31 and Brent $108.50 were printed as Monday’s settlements from TheStreet’s feed and were intraday readings near the highs, the November contracts having settled at $92.60 and $105.28 (DTN; Investrade; Trading Economics’ Tuesday change); the Treasury’s Monday par curve, said not to have posted at 7:26, had posted, and the ten-year’s close is sworn at 5.24 on the Treasury, Yahoo Finance and Investrade, the two-year at 4.92; the Fed speaker times taken from Investing.com were each an hour early against the Board’s own calendar and Newsquawk (Bowman 11:00, Barr 12:40, Goolsbee 1:00, Cook 1:25, Musalem 1:30, Williams 2:00, Waller 3:00), and Governor Cook’s appearance was missing; MongoDB, Boeing and Cleveland-Cliffs were printed from intraday readings (20, 6.2 and 8.3 percent) where the closes were 18.46, 6.91 and 7.88 on stockanalysis.com; and a Motley Fool piece published at 4:23 p.m. with 11:26 a.m. figures was described as written before noon. Trading Economics’ consumer confidence row carries 89.4, August’s own reading, in its consensus column beside a blank previous; whether that is the page’s error or the desk’s reader’s is left open and it is not logged. The count is unchanged at 152.
29 September, late morning. The Errata, No. 6, Monday’s issue, is delivered Tuesday morning: its run stalled after reading the runbook, resumed at 8:19 p.m., built and sent its files between 8:22 and 8:46 p.m., and stalled again before this page could be republished. It was drafted against a count of 151; the Tuesday Brief logged entry 153 while it waited, and No. 6’s first entry is the same page and the same pairing as entry 153, read at 8:25 p.m. rather than 7:23 a.m., so it adds two, not three. The page is right: the count stood at 152 when No. 6 went out and rises to 154 with entries 154 and 155. No Errata ran on Friday 25 September; No. 5’s forecast is scored in No. 6, three days late. Two discrepancies read Monday evening were classified as differences and are not logged: Kiplinger’s Friday ten-year (5.156, down 0.6 basis points, implying a Thursday base of 5.162 that no feed carried, where its levels are quotes taken after the Treasury’s afternoon close its changes track) and gold’s four Monday changes on four boards, one measured from Monday’s own settlement. The FX Leaders headline noted above could not be opened by this run either and is left unresolved.
29 September, afternoon. The desk artifact adopted direct source links for each new entry from #153 onward. The public web register already links #149–151; this update also links #152 and #153–200. Older #79–148 remain for source-link backfill where independently recoverable. A link identifies a page, not necessarily the historical version observed at the stated minute.
30 September, morning. The Brief logged entries 156 to 158 and the count rises from 154 to 157. Its reads are stamped between 7:17 and 7:50 a.m.; the run stalled after the files were built, the Brief was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target, and the 8:30 releases are previewed in it, not reported. Entry 157 rests on two reports of OpenAI’s run rate and the desk’s multiplication; Bloomberg’s original report could not be opened, and if it carries the lower figure in the form the two rewrites gave it, the entry will be corrected here. The ten-year was left unsworn: the Treasury’s par curve page returned no rows after 22 September to the desk’s reader, which on yesterday’s evidence is more likely the reader’s failure than the page’s, and two feeds gave Tuesday’s close as 5.251 and 5.282. A 24/7 Wall St. page showing the Russell 2000 at 2,821.38, up 0.19 percent, against a sworn close of 2,807.92, down 0.35, carries no time and is not logged. Trading Economics’ calendar is read with its first figure as the previous and its second as consensus, confirmed on one row against FXStreet; its personal spending row could not be reconciled and was not printed. The Errata, No. 6’s eight items remain open below.
30 September, evening. The Errata, No. 7, was delivered late: its run fired at 7:15 p.m., stalled for two hours after reading the runbook, and made every observation between 9:21 and 9:50 p.m.; the issue went out after its 8:30 p.m. publication time. No Errata ran on Tuesday 29 September; No. 6’s forecast is scored in No. 7, a day late. One correction to No. 6 runs at full size at the top of No. 7: the forecast’s item 3 named seven Federal Reserve speakers for Tuesday, Governor Cook among them, and the Tuesday Brief’s second edition had placed her at 1:25 p.m. The Board’s calendar for 29 September lists Bowman, Barr and Waller, and Newsquawk’s primer adds Goolsbee, Musalem and Williams: six. The desk’s two readings of Cook’s schedule disagree with each other (a speech page dated Monday 28 September; a calendar entry for Wednesday 30 September at 3:25 p.m.) and that is left unresolved; neither puts her on Tuesday. No. 6’s item 1 carried a Conference Board consensus of 90.1 that appeared nowhere else; outlets printed 89.0, 89.2 and 90. The ten-year’s Tuesday close, left unsworn by Wednesday morning’s Brief between 5.251 and 5.282, is sworn at 5.26 on the Treasury’s par curve, one copy of the Associated Press’s close story and Yahoo Finance’s board; Wednesday’s close is 5.29 on the AP and 5.297 on Investrade and is not sworn, the Treasury’s row not having posted at 9:40 p.m. Seen and not logged: the AP’s Tuesday line that the ten-year touched “its highest level since 2002,” where Investrade’s marks put that record on Wednesday (the series the AP used could not be established); the AP’s two copies of one story, 5.25 and 5.26, under one 4:28 p.m. stamp; Investrade’s index tables, a point or two from the AP’s closes on three days, read as early tables; Investing.com’s December Brent at $97.88 for Wednesday against $98.03 on three feeds; and Schwab’s PCE consensus, a second survey. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations on which tonight’s entries turn were read twice, except Schwab’s headline, read once. Entry 165 covers two outlets and one roll and is counted once. The count rises from 157 to 167 with entries 159 to 168.
1 October, morning. The Brief logged entry 170 and the count rises from 167 to 168. It was delivered late, after the open: the run fired at 7:15 a.m. and its clock was not read again until 9:39; the pages read in between (Wednesday’s closes, Micron’s release and the overnight notes) carry no recorded minute, and the rest are stamped to windows between 9:37 and 9:52 a.m. and, for a section on October and the fourth quarter added during the build, between 10:18 and 10:26. The issue is labelled a late edition; the 8:30, 9:45 and 10:00 releases had printed before it went out and are previewed in it, not reported. Entry 169 is withdrawn. This run first published the page between 9:57 and 10:14 a.m. with two entries, and with a paragraph here that gave its early reads minutes the desk had not recorded (“by 7:20”); both are corrected in this version. Entry 169 was the data provider’s United States index page, still pairing Wednesday’s changes with Thursday’s levels between 9:37 and 9:39 a.m.: the same page and the same pairing as entry 162, read twelve hours later, and by the rule applied on 29 September it is counted once. It stays on the page, numbered and marked, and is not counted; The Errata, No. 7’s item 6 is left open below for tonight’s scoring. Wednesday’s ten-year close, left unsworn by No. 7 between 5.29 and 5.297, is sworn at 5.29 on the Treasury’s par curve and Benzinga, with TheStreet at 5.289. Seen and not logged: Investing.com’s account of Micron’s close, $1,066.10 beside an after-hours quote of $1,056.75, down 0.78 percent, where stockanalysis.com carries $1,065.11 and 0.78 percent is the distance from that figure (read once); Trading Economics’ commodities table, gold and natural gas each with a positive change beside a negative percentage (read once, through the reader); ZeroHedge’s WTI near $92 and Brent above $100 as of about 8:00 against $90.53 and $98.31 on Trading Economics between 9:37 and 9:39, no contract named on either; Fortune’s web address for its 23 September piece on midterm-year Octobers, which carries 78.9, November’s share of winning years, where the headline now reads 73.7; and two accounts of the range from which Alphabet raised its 2026 capital spending guidance, $180 to $190 billion (Data Center Dynamics, 22 July) and $175 to $185 billion (MLQ, 2 August), not checked against the company’s own document. Micron’s remaining performance obligations of about $150 billion and its agreements at more than 35 percent of revenue through 2030 could not be reconciled by the Brief and are left open there; they are one company’s two statements, not a decoy.
1 October, evening. The Errata, No. 8, was delivered late: its run fired at 7:15 p.m., read every page between 7:17 and 7:49 p.m. and had built its files by 7:55, then stalled before they could be sent or this page republished; both happened at about 10:47 p.m., after the issue’s 8:30 p.m. publication time. Nothing was read or changed in the issue after 7:55. The desk’s clock was read at 7:17, 7:29, 7:37, 7:48 and 7:49, and pages are stamped to the window between two readings rather than to minutes. No. 7’s forecast is scored in it. Two consensus figures printed in that forecast, 54.8 for the ISM index and 201,000 for claims, appeared in no outlet read on Thursday, where 55.0 and 200,000 did; and No. 7’s November Brent expiry of $103.53 is $103.50 on The Rio Times, a difference between feeds. The ten-year’s Thursday high is sworn at 5.34 (Yahoo Finance; Kiplinger at 5.344; BigGo Finance) and its close at 5.23 on Kiplinger (5.234) and Eurasia Business News (5.233), with Trading Economics’ evening table and Yahoo’s 2:53 p.m. board at 5.24, both printed; the Treasury’s par curve returned no row after 7 July to the desk’s reader, which is the reader’s failure, and Thursday’s row is unread. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ bond narrative, “retreating slightly to 5.27%,” above a table at 5.24, read as an older sentence over a later quote; Eurasia Business News’ Brent near $101.58 beside WTI near $90.79, with no time or contract, where BigGo Finance has $102.31 beside $92.87 for the day and TheStreet at 7:07 a.m. had $100.60 beside $92.28; TheStreet’s 9:53 a.m. item headlined “Despite Cooler PCE Data,” which measures the core rate against forecasts; Zacks’ “highest level since June 2007” for Wednesday’s touch of 5.3 percent against Investrade’s “May 2002,” the series not established; and four payroll consensus figures (84,000, 89,000, 93,000, and 90,000 in a Bloomberg headline seen in search), which are different surveys. Entry 177 covers two outlets and one event and is counted once. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 171 to 174 and 176 were read twice, those in 175, 177 and 178 once, and the two FXStreet pieces in entry 178 are dated by their addresses and were not opened. The standing Championship line, which says trading “begins October 1,” ran unchanged in No. 8 on the day trading began. The count rises from 168 to 176 with entries 171 to 178.
2 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 179 to 182 and the count rises from 176 to 180. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 8:28, and pages were read between 8:28 and 8:55 a.m. and, on a second pass, between 9:19 and 10:12 a.m. The Brief was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target; the 8:30 employment report is previewed in it, not reported, and no post-release level is used. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 179 and 180 were read four times and those in 181 and 182 twice. One of four reads of the Japan table in entry 180 returned a row (69,315, up 358) that the other three did not; the entry rests on the narrative and on the three matching reads. Entry 181’s base, November Brent’s final settlement of $103.53, is the figure in entry 165 and in The Errata, No. 7. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ United States index page, carrying Thursday’s changes (+14.91, +20.51) beside Friday’s contract levels, the pairing of entry 171 read again and counted once (The Errata, No. 8’s item 6 is left open below for tonight’s scoring); TheStreet’s live blog, with Nike down 10.40 percent in its lead and 7.26 in its 8:23 a.m. update, two times on one page; Investing.com’s “$400 million” for Toshiba’s ¥60 billion, where the same outlet had $380 million the evening before, a rounding; Yahoo Finance’s Friday live blog, whose text has S&P 500 futures up 0.3 percent above a board at 0.49, two times; STL.News’ Thursday table (S&P 500 7,668.82, Dow 50,935.89), an early table; and Benzinga’s post-release line at 8:43 a.m., “S&P 500 up 0.41% at 7,737.78,” where 7,737.78 is 0.93 percent above Thursday’s close, left for tonight’s Errata. The Brief turns on Anthropic and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. The standing Championship line now reads “Trading began October 1.”
5 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 183 and 184 and the count rises from 180 to 182. It was delivered late, after the open: the run fired at 7:15 a.m., its clock was not read again until 9:43, and every page was read between 9:43 and 9:58 a.m.; the files were built by 10:04 and, after a second stall, sent at about 10:20. The issue is labelled a late edition; the 9:45 and 10:00 releases are previewed in it, not reported, and no level read after 10:00 is used. No Errata is recorded on this page for Friday 2 October, and The Errata, No. 8’s nine items remain open below. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 183 and 184 were read twice. The first of two reads of 24/7 Wall St.’s card returned index figures (an S&P 500 at 7,729.20, a Nasdaq at 10,030.83) that the second did not (7,722.57), and entry 183 rests on the Treasury rows, which both reads returned identically. Seen and not logged: that card’s Russell 2000 at 2,836.24, up 0.78 percent, against 2,832.89 or 2,832.90, up 0.94, an early table; Trading Economics’ bond narrative, “eased to around 5.25%,” above a table at 5.31; Investrade’s Brent at $103.00, up 0.75, beside WTI at $90.85, down 0.26, where two other feeds had Brent below its settlement, a different time; a Yahoo Finance piece stamped 10:32 a.m. Friday with Seagate “down 11%” beside a close of $848.99, down $96.58, which is 10.2 percent (read once); and Stocktwits’ $10 billion for the OpenAI–Cerebras agreement, which it dates to January. The Brief’s figures for Cerebras’s backlog schedule rest on The Motley Fool’s account of the quarterly filing, which the desk did not open.
5 October, evening. The Errata, No. 9, Monday’s issue, is delivered Tuesday morning: its run fired at 7:15 p.m., its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 8:25, and every page was read between 8:26 and 9:36 p.m. The files were built by about 9:45 p.m.; the run then stalled before they could be sent, and they went out at about 8:40 a.m. on Tuesday 6 October, after the issue’s 8:30 p.m. publication time and ten minutes after the trade report its forecast names. The desk artifact gives conflicting times for when the updated page first displayed these entries; that page-publication time is unresolved. Nothing was read or changed in the issue after 9:45 p.m. Monday, and the eight items below stand as made. No Errata ran on Friday 2 October; No. 8’s forecast is scored in No. 9, three days late, and six of tonight’s fifteen entries are Friday’s and carry Friday’s date. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text, and tonight they were read by five parallel readers working from one brief; the quotation on which each entry turns was read at least twice, the “April 2002” item in entry 187 and FXStreet’s sentence in the reconciliation once each. Friday’s S&P 500 close is 7,722.72 on Schwab’s table, Zacks, Investing.com and Yahoo Finance’s quote page; the 7,722.57 in this morning’s paragraph above is the figure one read of 24/7 Wall St.’s card returned. Monday’s closes are sworn at 7,773.95, 51,267.90 and 27,477.31 on the Associated Press and TheStreet. The ten-year’s Monday high is sworn at 5.35 (Trading Economics; FXStreet) and its close at 5.31 (Associated Press; Yahoo Finance; Kiplinger at 5.309); the Treasury’s par curve had no row for Monday when read between 8:42 and 8:52 p.m., and the morning is left unsworn between Benzinga’s 5.25 at 8:43 a.m. and Schwab’s 5.28 at 9:11. Seen and not logged: TheStreet’s 4:07 p.m. Russell 2000 at 2,853.27, up 20.38, against 2,847.14, up 14.24, on the Associated Press, investingLive and Investrade, an early table; Investrade’s “rises 7 bps to 5.347%” for the ten-year in a closing review, read as an earlier snapshot; the Dow’s point change at 90.94, 91.01, 91.41 and 91.65 on four feeds; four consensus figures for the ISM services index (55.0, 55.1, 55.2 and 55.7, the last in FXStreet’s preview box above a body that says 55); FXStreet’s and Investing.com’s calendar pages showing no actual for the index eleven hours after release, which may be the reader’s failure; the Associated Press’s two intraday versions of its close story still standing on two newspaper sites; a paid release on Yahoo Finance giving Monday-morning readings of the VIX, gold and WTI as Friday’s closes; TipRanks’ Brent “fell 2.2% to $99” with no companion time; Seeking Alpha’s Dow at +0.1 and S&P 500 at +0.6 percent, truncated; The Motley Fool’s ten-year that “rose 0.03%,” a unit; Investrade’s “Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) up 15%”; TheStreet’s Thursday post with the ten-year up four basis points “to 5.3338% on Thursday,” the reading’s time not given; and, in Friday’s coverage, the Associated Press’s “up just 3% last year from a year earlier” in an early version later changed, Deseret News’s unemployment rate up “0.1%,” and Yahoo Finance’s two consensus figures on one page. Unresolved: the Treasury’s row for Monday, which settles whether 5.31 is the highest close since 2002; Futu’s weekly list on Accenture, which could not be read; and whether Kansas City’s President Schmid speaks on Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. (Econoday; Goldman Sachs’s list) or only on Friday (Kiplinger). The count rises from 182 to 197 with entries 185 to 199.
6 October, morning. The Brief logged entry 200 and the count rises from 197 to 198. This run read the page shortly after 7:16 a.m., when it stood at 182 with entry 184 the last; the version carrying The Errata, No. 9’s fifteen entries was described here as published at 8:59 a.m., while the Brief was being built; this conflicts with the artifact’s Monday-night publication note and is not independently settled. The Brief’s entry was first numbered 185 against the older page and is 200; the page is right, and the issue was renumbered before delivery. The Brief was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target: the run fired at 7:15 a.m., its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 8:32, and every page was read between 8:32 and 8:58 a.m. The 8:30 trade report had printed before the Brief went out; it is previewed there with its consensus and prior, not reported, and its result is used nowhere in the issue. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the Quartz quotations in entry 200 were read twice and Nvidia’s release once. Two reads of TheStreet’s 4:07 p.m. Monday wrap returned the S&P 500 at 7,773.99, up 51.27, to this run, where No. 9 read 7,773.95 on the same page; the Brief prints both figures and swears neither. Monday’s ten-year close is printed at 5.31 on Yahoo Finance’s board and in The Motley Fool’s wrap, as No. 9 swore it, with Investrade’s 5.347 beside it; the Treasury’s October par curve returned only rows from 1990 to the desk’s reader, which is the reader’s failure, and Monday’s row is still unread. The Fed speakers’ times in the Brief (Williams 9:05 a.m., Bowman 10:45, Schmid 1:15 p.m., Logan 7:00) are Trading Economics’, converted from a display the desk read as UTC; Bowman’s agrees with the Board’s calendar as No. 9 read it, and Schmid’s Tuesday appearance, left unresolved above, is also in Reuters’ day-ahead note. Seen and not logged: PTC’s Monday gain at 33 percent in TheStreet’s wrap and 42.3 in Investrade’s review, not reconciled; Investrade’s two-year, up 2.2 basis points at 4.85, beside TheStreet’s statement that the two-year edged lower; and a HuggingNews headline, “Google and Constellation Sign $4.3B Nuclear Deal for 890 MW,” where $4.3 billion is Constellation’s own investment and the agreement’s price is undisclosed (read once). One account of the Google release, TradersAgency’s, has all 890 megawatts due before the end of 2032; the release as read on two sites gives only “by 2028” for the first uprate, and the Brief prints the later date as one account.
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PCE reported as Friday's release: August personal income and outlays is due Wednesday 30 September; or July's actuals (0.2 monthly, 3.7 headline, 3.3 core) quoted as the August consensus.
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The Michigan final (consensus 47.6) compared with August's 51.7 rather than the preliminary 47.8, and reported as a plunge.
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Durable goods (consensus −0.4 percent after +1.1; ex-transport +0.6) reported as a manufacturing collapse on the headline alone, or the ex-transport figure printed as the headline.
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Thursday's changes (−1.90, −161.61) beside Friday's contract levels on the same data provider's index page, a ninth time; level less change should equal 7,704.13 and 51,349.98.
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The ten-year's Thursday close as three numbers (5.19, 5.206, “5.2”), with Friday's change measured from any of them; the Treasury's Thursday par close settles the base.
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The thirty-year's record given the ten-year's date (2007 for 2004), or the seven-year auction's “highest since 1993” attached to a benchmark yield.
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A “fourth straight weekly loss” for the Dow printed before Friday's close; last Friday's close was 51,682.64.
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Schwab's 202,000 propagating: last week's claims as 202,000, or “claims fell 5,000” in a weekly recap; the Labor Department says 198,000 and 1,000.
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· Entry 200
Apply the owner-supplied 6 October withdrawal of entry 200: the Quartz passage described first-quarter history rather than presenting it as the latest quarter. The earlier assessment, permanent number and source links remain in the public revision history; this entry no longer counts as an active documented error. Source: https://claude.ai/artifact/HZkPXgQThh939tCncBbPSs, read 16 October 2026.
Previous assessment for entry 200Nvidia reported its second quarter of fiscal 2027 on 26 August: revenue of $96.2 billion, up 106 percent, with data center revenue of $89.0 billion, and an outlook of $108.0 billion, plus or minus 2 percent, for the third. The quarter the piece treats as still to come had ended on 26 July and been reported five weeks before the piece ran; its guidance of roughly $91 billion had been replaced by an actual about $5 billion higher and by a new outlook $17 billion above it. The first quarter’s report as the latest, in a story about October’s record.
· Entry 157
Append the owner-supplied 9 October annotation to entry 157: the subsequent reported company run rate and the investors’ adjusted estimate are distinct measures. Keep the original published claim, prior assessment in revision history, and existing source links. Source: https://claude.ai/artifact/HZkPXgQThh939tCncBbPSs, read 16 October 2026. This is an attributed editorial update, not independent verification of private revenue.
Previous assessment for entry 157Axios the same day, citing sources familiar with the financials: the run rate “has grown more than 70% since the beginning of the third quarter, reaching almost $70 billion.” Investing.com’s version of the wire story, stamped 10:48 a.m., says the figure “marks a sharp jump from the $40 billion run rate reported by Bloomberg and Forbes just last month.” $40 billion times 1.7 is $68 billion: the $40 billion is where the growth began, printed as where it arrived. At the round’s reported $1.4 trillion the two figures are 20 and 35 times revenue. Quartz’s own page, stamped 21:12 UTC, reads “nearing $70 billion”; its Yahoo copy still read $40 billion at 7:37 a.m. Wednesday. Bloomberg’s original could not be opened, so where the slip began is not established. Two outlets, one error, counted once.
· Entry 201, Entry 202, Entry 203, Entry 204, Entry 205, Entry 206, Entry 207, Entry 208, Entry 209, Entry 210, Entry 211, Entry 212, Entry 213, Entry 214, Entry 215, Entry 216, Entry 217, Entry 218, Entry 219, Entry 220, Entry 221, Entry 222, Entry 223, Entry 224, Entry 225, Entry 226, Entry 227
Update from the owner-supplied Decoy Chronicle through 16 October 2026: add entries 201–227, append dated source history, carry the reported forecast outcomes and add Errata Nos. 10–11. Preserve all existing entries, citations, corrections and original forecast claims. Entry 200’s withdrawal and entry 157’s annotation were published separately. Source outcome qualifiers are retained in notes where the existing status vocabulary is narrower; open forecasts remain open. Source links are supplied, not an assertion of independent verification. Source: https://claude.ai/artifact/HZkPXgQThh939tCncBbPSs.
Other documented changesForecast group errata-10 · Forecast group errata-11 · Forecast row errata-6:1 · Forecast row errata-9:0 · Forecast row errata-9:1 · Forecast row errata-9:2 · Forecast row errata-9:3 · Forecast row errata-9:4 · Forecast row errata-9:5 · Forecast row errata-9:6 · Forecast row errata-9:7 · Forecast group notes errata-9
6 October, second edition. The Brief was read again against second sources between 10:20 and 11:20 a.m. and reissued. Entry 200 is withdrawn. The Quartz piece gives Nvidia’s first-quarter revenue and second-quarter guidance as history, the sentence between the two quoted here beginning “At the time”; both figures are right for the quarter they describe, and leaving out the quarter that followed is an omission, not a figure published as current. The desk had quoted two sentences without the one between them. The entry stays on the page, numbered and marked, and is not counted. Entry 201 is added: Investrade’s morning preview, with the Nikkei up “737 points to 70,883” where the close was 70,683.98. The count falls to 197 and rises to 198 with entry 201, and the reissued Brief states it as 197 to 198. Monday’s S&P 500 close is sworn at 7,773.95 on the Associated Press, S&P Dow Jones Indices’ series, Investing.com and Yahoo Finance, as No. 9 had it; four more reads of TheStreet’s 4:07 p.m. wrap returned 7,773.99 each time, a lone early print, and the sentence above that says the Brief swears neither figure describes the first edition only. The ten-year’s close is 5.31 on Yahoo Finance, The Motley Fool and the AP’s 8:02 a.m. update, with Kiplinger at 5.309, Investing.com at 5.304 and two sites that cite the Treasury at 5.31; the Treasury’s own page was again unreadable. The thirty-year closed at 5.66 (Yahoo Finance; Kiplinger at 5.664). The Fed schedule is settled: Newsquawk’s primer has five officials, with President Musalem at 10:40 a.m. beside the four above, and Schmid’s 1:15 p.m., left unresolved by No. 9, is on Forex Factory and in the primer. Two items in the paragraph above are closed. PTC’s two figures are a closing gain of 33.49 percent and an offer premium of 42.3 percent, which is what Investrade’s own sentence says; and Investrade’s 4.85 is its “shorter end of curve,” not named as the two-year, which closed at 4.821 on Kiplinger and 4.823 on TheStreet. Seen and not logged in the second reading: Investrade’s closing review with the ten-year at 5.347, “rises 7 bps,” four-tenths of a basis point under the day’s high of 5.351 on Investing.com, which No. 9 read as an earlier snapshot and left; Benzinga’s 6:53 a.m. line that “Bloomberg reported on Tuesday” a report that its own text and Reuters’ relay place on Monday evening, a date and not a figure; Trading Economics’ Japan page, with one item finishing the Nikkei at 70,684 and another at 70,729 (the second item’s date not established); Trading Economics’ SK hynix at minus 3.53 percent against minus 3.69 on Yonhap; Yahoo Finance’s blog, whose text under a 6:00 a.m. stamp has futures up 0.1 percent above a strip at 0.25 to 0.42, two times; a 6 p.m. listing for President Logan’s San Antonio event on two calendars, where the Dallas Fed gives 6 p.m. without a zone and Newsquawk 7:00 Eastern; and investingLive’s Friday trade consensus of $95.2 billion beside its own Tuesday note at $102.0 billion, a consensus that moved. The NRC’s expected-applications page was read row by row twice; both readings gave twelve Constellation entries, and its yearly summary and its rows did not reconcile by one row as the reader relayed them, so the Brief prints “a dozen.”
7 October, morning. The Brief logged entry 202 and the count rises from 198 to 199. It was delivered late, after the open: the run fired at 7:15 a.m., its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 8:32, and every page was read between 8:33 and 9:20 a.m., by two parallel readers working from one brief and by the desk; the files were built by 9:52. No release was scheduled for 8:30, the later releases are previewed in the Brief with consensus and prior, and no market level read after 9:20 is used in it. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotation in entry 202 was read twice, and the pound and the FTSE 100 on Trading Economics, used only in that entry’s arithmetic, were read at 9:48. Tuesday’s closes are sworn at 7,818.93, 51,521.28 and 27,599.79 on the Associated Press and TheStreet, the S&P 500 also on Yahoo Finance’s history; the Russell 2000 is 2,830.30 on the AP and Trading Economics and 2,830.97 on TheStreet’s 4:03 p.m. table, both printed. The ten-year’s close is 5.27 on Yahoo Finance’s board and on the Treasury’s par curve as stockmarketwatch.com relays it, with TheStreet at 5.275 and the AP at 5.28; the Treasury’s own page could not be opened. Seen and not logged: Newsquawk’s European opening note, published at 06:04 UTC on Wednesday, with “SPX +0.72% at 7,830” and “DJI +0.49% at 51,526” as Tuesday’s closes, where the level and the percentage agree with each other and the basis of the reading was not established (read twice); Trading Economics’ United States index page, carrying Tuesday’s changes (+44.97, +253.38) beside Wednesday’s contract levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171 read again and counted once; the same provider’s Japan row, 69,603 beside the cash close’s change of 648.27, and its euro-area table, Tuesday’s closes under Wednesday’s date (each read once); Yahoo Finance’s Tuesday blog, whose text has the S&P 500 up 0.7 percent at the close where its own quote has 0.58; the Investing.com page carrying Reuters’ futures story, with a dollar index of 102.235 beside a change of +0.630 that belongs to a level near 102.46; TheStreet’s Tuesday page, with WTI at $87.77 beside Brent at $98.67 near its close table, where Investing.com’s history has WTI settling at $89.44, a different time; two closes for Nvidia, $240.43 on Investing.com’s history and $239.24 on 24/7 Wall St., not reconciled; and a Whalesbook headline of 5 October, “Samsung Electronics Forecasts Record $80 Billion Q3 Profit,” three days before the company’s preliminary figures, where two readings of the body disagreed on whether it attributes the forecast to analysts. The Brief’s account of SpaceX’s financing rests on Reuters’ and Bloomberg’s relays of the Financial Times, which the desk did not open, and its SpaceX second-quarter figures on SiliconANGLE and 24/7 Wall St., not on the company’s release. The Treasury auction sizes in the Brief ($39 billion and $75 billion) are ZeroHedge’s alone. No Errata is recorded on this page for Tuesday 6 October, and The Errata, No. 9’s eight items remain open below.
7 October, late morning. The Errata, No. 10, Tuesday’s issue, is delivered Wednesday morning. Its run fired at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday; its clock was read at 7:16, 7:23, 7:33 and 7:34 p.m., every page was read inside those windows, and pages are stamped to the window between two readings rather than to minutes. The files were built by about 7:45 p.m.; the run then stalled at the republishing of this page and resumed at 10:49 a.m. on Wednesday 7 October, after the issue’s 8:30 p.m. publication time and after Wednesday’s open, though before the Fed minutes its forecast names. It was drafted against a count of 198 with its entries numbered 202 to 207; the Wednesday Brief logged entry 202 while it waited, so they are numbered 203 to 208. The page is right: the count stood at 199 when No. 10 went out and rises to 205, and the issue, its first figure and its thread were renumbered before delivery. Nothing else was read or changed in the issue after 7:34 p.m. Tuesday; No. 9’s forecast is scored as of Tuesday evening and the eight items below stand as made. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotation on which each of the six entries turns was read twice. The S&P 500’s Tuesday high is 7,835.09 in Investrade’s review and 7,844.52 on Yahoo Finance’s history table and is not sworn; Benzinga’s 7,840 at 1:11 p.m. sits between them. No. 10 left the ten-year’s Tuesday close unsworn between “around 5.27” (Investrade), 5.275 (TheStreet at 3:33 p.m.) and 5.281 (Anadolu), the Treasury’s par curve having returned no row after 2 July to the desk’s reader; the Wednesday Brief’s 5.27, above, is the later and fuller reading. No. 10 prints crude from two boards, $89.44 beside $100.58 on Investrade’s 4:07 p.m. table and $89.91 beside $101.08 on Investing.com’s tables as they stood between 7:23 and 7:33 p.m.; the Brief later read Investing.com’s history at $89.44 for WTI. Seen on Tuesday evening and not logged: Investopedia’s running piece, headlined “Treasury Yields, Oil Prices Fall” over crude “about $88” and $98.30, which says “in recent trading”; TheStreet’s 4:03 p.m. lead on “easing oil prices” on a day crude finished higher on both boards, a characterisation and not a figure; Yahoo Finance’s blog with the S&P 500 up 0.7 percent at the close, which one of this run’s two reads returned and the Brief also saw; the Russell 2000’s close at 2,832.45 on 24/7 Wall St. beside the figures above; Investrade’s review with the S&P 500 up 45.09 and the Dow up 253.32, an early table; Yahoo Finance’s quote page for the index, still showing Monday’s close under Monday’s own stamp three and a half hours after Tuesday’s bell; 24/7 Wall St.’s homepage strip (S&P 500 7,811.60, up 0.31 percent; Russell 2000 2,861.17, up 0.26), with no time and read once; Trading Economics’ bond table at 5.29 under a narrative at 5.26; three consensus figures for the trade deficit ($102.0, $95.2 and $89.8 billion), the last still in Yahoo Finance’s morning post; two sizes of beat for Constellation Brands’ $3.74 (13 cents on StreetInsider, 19 on MarketBeat), two surveys; and MarketBeat’s “updated its FY 2027 guidance” for a comparable range the company’s release, read once, reaffirmed. Unresolved: whether 24/7 Wall St. published a Treasury card on Tuesday (No. 9’s item 7; none was found); and the date of Vice Chair Bowman’s speech on the Board’s calendar, which the reader relayed twice on Tuesday evening as 8 October at 10:45 a.m. where No. 9 and entry 193 read 6 October. The St. Louis Fed’s notice puts her keynote on the first morning of its 6–7 October conference; the reader’s dates for that page are relied on only for the minutes and the G.19, which Kiplinger and investingLive confirm. For tonight’s scoring of No. 10’s item 7: the Brief, above, read Tuesday’s changes beside Wednesday’s contract levels on Trading Economics’ index page this morning. The count rises from 199 to 205 with entries 203 to 208.
9 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 209 to 211 and the count rises from 205 to 208. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16, 7:23, 7:25, 7:37 and 7:43, and pages are stamped to the window between two readings. No United States release was scheduled for 8:30; the 10:00 Michigan survey is previewed in the Brief with consensus and prior. Entry 157 is annotated. On 30 September the Brief logged two outlets’ $40 billion for OpenAI’s run rate and set against it, as the true value, Axios’s “almost $70 billion.” The Financial Times reported on Thursday 8 October, as Investing.com relayed it at 1:05 p.m., that the company’s annualized revenue “stands at approximately $50bn as of September,” and Bloomberg that night that it was “roughly $50 billion at the end of September.” The higher figure is described as investors’ adjustment of OpenAI’s revenue to Anthropic’s method, and the same relay says earlier adjustments “resulted in reports that the company’s annualized revenue reached $40bn” in August. The figure this desk printed as true was not the company’s count, and the multiplication on which the entry turned, 40 times 1.7, set one adjusted figure against another. The correction runs at the top of this morning’s Brief. The entry stays numbered and counted for now: whether the $40 billion was wrong when printed cannot be settled without the Financial Times’s original and Bloomberg’s of 29 September, neither of which this run could open, and whether to withdraw it is left to the next reading. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ United States index page, carrying Thursday’s changes (−36.41, +51.77) beside Friday’s contract levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171 read again; two relays that disagree on which OpenAI figure compares with Anthropic’s, the $70 billion in the Financial Times’s account as Investing.com has it and the $50 billion in CNBC’s as Digital Today has it, neither original opened; Trading Economics’ stocks table, with a Japan row of 68,233, down 2.57 percent, dated 8 October, where the Nikkei 225 closed Friday at 69,030.92, down 11.19 points, on the Associated Press and TradingKey (read once; the row may be a contract); two sizes for Firmus’s shelved listing, roughly $5 billion on Investing.com and a $44 billion valuation on Startup Fortune; and Applied Optoelectronics’ Thursday fall at 13.58 percent on TradingKey and 14.1 on 24/7 Wall St.’s 4:11 p.m. table, both printed in the Brief. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 209 to 211 were read twice. The Brief turns in part on Anthropic’s method of counting revenue and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. No Errata is recorded on this page for Wednesday 7 or Thursday 8 October, and The Errata, No. 10’s eight items remain open below.
9 October, evening. The Errata, No. 11, was read against this page at 7:16 p.m., when the count stood at 208 with entry 211 the last; the page and the issue agree. The desk’s clock was read at 7:16, 7:22, 7:36, 7:42 and 7:49 p.m., and pages are stamped to the window between two readings. The issue was delivered late: its files were built by 7:54 p.m. on Friday, the run then stalled before they could be sent, and they went out, and this page was republished, at about noon on Sunday 11 October, after the issue’s 8:30 p.m. Friday publication time and before Monday’s session, which its forecast names. Nothing was read or changed in the issue after 7:54 p.m. Friday, and the nine items below stand as made. No. 10’s forecast, made on Tuesday for Wednesday, is scored in No. 11 two days late, against Wednesday’s coverage as two parallel readers found it on Friday evening; three of the four items scored “did not occur” rest on a handful of pages, and Kiplinger’s calendar, Yahoo Finance’s Wednesday post and Investing.com’s preview were not reached. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 213, 214 and 216 were read twice and the two cards (212, 215) once each. Friday’s closes are sworn at 7,811.54 and 51,654.95 on Yahoo Finance and Trading Economics, with TheStreet’s 4:00 p.m. post at 7,811.51 and 51,655.01, and the Nasdaq Composite at 27,366.17 on three feeds; the Russell 2000 is 2,806.98 on Yahoo Finance and 2,808.57 on TheStreet, both printed. The ten-year’s close is sworn at 5.24 on Yahoo Finance’s board and Trading Economics’ table, with Kiplinger at 5.244; Investrade’s table has 5.27. Seen and not logged: TheStreet’s “quarter basis point decline” for an energy sector down a quarter of a percent, a unit; its link titled “Oct. 8, 2025” for a 2026 page, a date; its deck, “Oil prices rose,” above a lead in which oil eased, and Yahoo Finance’s closing lead to the same effect over settlements of $91.85 beside $104.72, each up about 0.4 percent on Investrade, characterisations; three consensus figures for the Michigan index (47.6, 47.8, 48) and three for Delta’s earnings ($1.76, $1.82, $1.89), different surveys; Trading Economics’ bond note at 5.26 over a table at 5.24, an older sentence over a later quote; Investrade’s Wednesday preview, with the ten-year at 5.32 in its text and 5.399 in its table, read once by a parallel reader; and Benzinga’s Wednesday line that 5.32 was the yield’s “highest since 2002,” two days after 5.35, the series not established. Unresolved: the Nasdaq’s week, printed as up 0.64 percent (Investrade, the same figure as its Friday change), up 0.19 (TheStreet) and down 0.1 (Trading Economics, index not named); Tuesday’s S&P 500 high, now 7,844.52 on three pages against Investrade’s earlier 7,835.09; the Associated Press’s Friday table and the Board’s calendar, neither of which could be opened; and entry 157, left as the morning left it. The count rises from 208 to 213 with entries 212 to 216.
12 October, morning. The Brief logged entry 217 and the count rises from 213 to 214. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16, 7:22, 7:29, 7:40, 7:41, 7:45 and 7:49, and pages are stamped to the window between two readings or to a clock of their own. It is Columbus Day: stocks trade, the cash Treasury market is shut, no United States release was scheduled for 8:30, and the week’s releases are previewed in the Brief with consensus and prior. Entry 217 is a page published on Thursday 8 October and read on Monday; it carries its publication date, the day is already among the twenty covered, and the days tile is unchanged. Its quotations were read twice. Friday’s closes were read again on the Associated Press’s table as La Nación carries it (7,811.54, 51,654.95, 27,366.17, 2,806.98), which No. 11 could not open on Friday, and agree with what No. 11 swore; that table’s week is 88.82 points for the S&P 500 and 477.99 for the Dow, as entry 216 has it. Crude was left unsworn: Trading Economics had 90.575 beside 103.328 with no minute, and Yahoo Finance’s strip had November WTI at 91.42 at 4:19 a.m. and 92.99 at 7:22 by the page’s own countdown, with no Brent. Seen and not logged: Invezz’s 7:08 a.m. piece, in which the ten-year “currently trades at 5.24%” on a morning the cash market is shut, and Yahoo Finance’s strip with the ten-year at 5.24, “+0.01,” on Monday’s page, both left for tonight’s scoring of The Errata, No. 11’s first item; Trading Economics’ bond note at 5.26 for Friday over a table at 5.24, read on Friday too; its euro-area table with Friday’s changes beside rows dated 12 October, and its United States table with Friday’s 46.19 and 423.30 beside Monday’s contract levels (7,812.38; 51,692.54), the pairing of entries 162 and 171 and the last clause of No. 11’s ninth item; its commodities table, with positive changes beside negative percentages, as the reader relayed it; its Hong Kong page, 24,271 in the closing note and 24,216 in the quote box, two times; Newsquawk’s S&P 500 at 7,810, up 0.58 percent, a rounding; a Reuters item of 10 June on Yahoo Finance headlined “top $500 billion” over a body with “nearly $570 billion,” four months old; and Benzinga’s Intel quote page, showing $116.19 under a stamp of 5 October. Unresolved: two relays of the Wall Street Journal’s report on the OpenAI financing, one with a close expected by year-end (Benzinga) and one with no deal expected before then (Crypto Briefing), the original not opened; how the $42 billion of convertible notes in Quartz’s account relates to the $42 billion senior class; Intel’s Friday close, on one feed; and CNBC’s piece on the Singapore remarks, which could not be opened. The Brief turns in part on a financing to which Anthropic is a party and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. The Brief was delivered late: its files were built and this page republished by about 7:52 a.m., the run then stalled before the files could be sent, and they went out at 9:02 a.m., after the 8:15 target and the 8:30 publication time and before the open. Nothing was read or changed in the issue after 7:50, and no level later than 7:49 is used in it. The Errata, No. 11’s nine items remain open below.
12 October, second edition. The Brief was read again against second sources by four parallel readers between 9:18 and 9:36 a.m. and reissued; the count is unchanged at 214. The first edition carried these errors of the desk’s own, each now changed in the issue, its figures and its thread. Shanghai was printed down 0.36 percent from a Trading Economics row with no time; the close was 3,797.24, down 0.43, on Armenpress, 24/7 Wall St. and ad-hoc-news, and Hong Kong’s close was up 0.25 percent at 24,271.2, not 0.3. The first edition added the Wall Street Journal’s “more than $50 billion” for the OpenAI financing to the $60 billion package and printed “more than $110 billion”; Bloomberg on 9 October put the OpenAI figure at around $30 billion, and the sum is a range, $90 billion to $110 billion, with both reports printed. It said Blackstone led the $60 billion package, where Bloomberg has it leading the $18 billion junior class, and gave “backed by Broadcom’s A-minus credit rating” as the Financial Times’s description, where the phrase is Investing.com’s and a second summary of the FT has “Broadcom-supported” loans “guaranteed by Broadcom.” It opened on an order of bottlenecks (chips, electricity, memory) that was the desk’s and read as Mr. Tan’s; his list, in The Standard, is wafers, memory, power, land. It printed the capital remark as a flat statement in its lede and headline where CNBC’s quotation is “might be,” printed one sentence of Lip-Bu Tan’s as two, and carried a 2029-to-2030 horizon that The Standard’s account does not support. It attributed 4.69 percent for the ten-year on 20 August to the Associated Press; that is Yahoo Finance’s figure and the AP’s is 4.70. It printed a second prior of 1.1 percent for August retail sales that no calendar read on the second pass carried; the Census Bureau’s figure is 1.2. Settled on the second reading: the timing of the OpenAI financing, where investingLive, Data Center Dynamics, StockTwits, Investing.com, Oninvest and Benzinga have a close before or by year-end and Crypto Briefing’s “no deal is expected before the end of the year” stands alone, a statement and not a figure, and not logged; Intel’s Friday close, $104.70 on stockanalysis.com and MarketChameleon; the venue of Intel’s chief executive, the same panel, per DBS’s agenda; and the source of the $42 billion of convertible notes, a Reuters report of 1 October from Anthropic’s filing. CNBC’s piece was read on two reposts, the original still not opening. Seen on the second reading and not logged: two closes for the DAX on Friday, 25,102.34 on finanzen.net, ms-aktuell and Newsquawk and 25,087.27 on Armenpress and in finanzen.net’s own index box; TheStreet’s Friday table, a few cents from the Associated Press’s on two indexes; and the Kospi at 6,384.25 on TradingKey against 6,384.24 on five Korean and relay pages. Still open: the relation between the notes and the senior loans, the terms of Broadcom’s support, and the loan’s pricing, none of which any page read has printed.
13 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 218 and 219 and the count rises from 214 to 216; both carry days not yet covered, Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 October, and the days tile rises from 20 to 22. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 8:36, and every page was read between 8:36 and 8:54 a.m., stamped to the window between two readings (8:36, 8:45, 8:53, 8:54) or to a clock of its own. The Brief’s files were sent shortly after 9:00 a.m., after its 8:15 a.m. target and its 8:30 publication time and before the open; the run then stalled before this page could be republished, which happened at about 12:15 p.m., and nothing was read or changed in the two entries after 9:00. No United States release was scheduled for 8:30, Wednesday’s consumer price index is previewed in it with consensus and prior, and no level read after 8:54 is used. No Errata is recorded on this page for Monday 12 October; entry 219 is the form named in The Errata, No. 11’s first item, and that item and the other eight are left open below for the Errata to score. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 218 and 219 were read twice. Monday’s closes are sworn at 51,850.55, 7,807.24 and 27,245.90 on TheStreet’s 4:00 p.m. table and TradingKey’s recap, with The Motley Fool’s rounded figures agreeing; Investrade’s changes (+195.36, −4.34) imply 51,850.31 and 7,807.20 on Friday’s closes, and the Associated Press’s table could not be opened. The Kospi’s close is 6,035.35 on the AP and Aju Press, and Monday’s crude settlements $93.74 beside $106.65 on Investrade and TradingKey. Seen and not logged: Aju Press’s closes for Samsung Electronics (233,500 won, down 6.79 percent) and SK Hynix (1,453,000, down 9.47) against 232,000 and 1,443,000 on SBS and the Korea JoongAng Daily, the session not established; Trading Economics’ Korea note with Samsung down 7.19 percent against 7.39 on three pages, read once; CXMT’s share of the DRAM market at 7 percent (TradingKey, Monday) and about 10 (TradingKey, Tuesday; Invezz), under one citation, the measure not stated; an Investing.com headline with the Nikkei down 1.68 percent against 1.82 on the AP and Investrade, not opened; gold on Monday at $4,167.56, $4,190.60 and $4,195.9 on three pages, spot and futures; Investing.com’s CXMT quote page, stamped 24 September; and Yahoo Finance’s Tuesday strip with the ten-year at 5.24, Friday’s close, where Investrade at 6:54 a.m. and Trading Economics had 5.19. Unresolved: the Associated Press’s Monday table; the series to which Investrade’s 942 belongs; and the Fed speakers’ times in the Brief, which rest on Trading Economics’ calendar alone, its display read as UTC. The desk did not open CXMT’s statement, Bloomberg’s report of it or the Wall Street Journal’s.
14 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 220 and 221 and the count rises from 216 to 218; the days tile rises from 22 to 23. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16, 7:17, 7:26, 7:29, 7:34, 7:36 and 7:38, and every page was read between 7:17 and 7:29 a.m., stamped to the window between two readings or to a clock of its own. The files were sent at about 7:40, before the 8:15 target; the run then stalled before this page could be republished, which happened at about 8:38 a.m., and nothing was read or changed in the two entries after 7:40. The 8:30 consumer price index is previewed in the Brief with consensus and prior, not reported, and no level read after 7:29 is used. No Errata is recorded on this page for Tuesday 13 October, and The Errata, No. 11’s nine items remain open below. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 220 and 221 were read once. Tuesday’s closes are sworn at 7,805.45, 51,670.10 and 27,204.38 on TheStreet’s 4:02 p.m. table and the Associated Press’s table on the Mankato Free Press; the Russell 2000 is 2,786.13 on TheStreet and 2,783.37 on the AP, both printed. The ten-year’s close is 5.21 on the Treasury’s par curve as stockmarketwatch.com relays it and on Trading Economics, with Investing.com at 5.217 and Saxo at 5.215; the two-year 4.79. Brent’s Tuesday settlement, $105.69, is one feed (Reuters on Oklahoma Energy Today); WTI’s $94.14 is sworn against Yahoo Finance’s November base. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ United States index page with Tuesday’s changes (−1.79, −180.45) beside Wednesday’s contract levels (7,818.44, 51,845.04), the pairing of entries 162 and 171 read again and counted once; its Japan page with one item closing the Nikkei at 67,744, another at 67,874, up 97, and a third with the index up 0.4 percent above 68,000, the later items’ hours not established; NordFX’s untimed pulse with the Kospi up one to two percent and the Nikkei up 0.4 percent, read as morning levels against closes of −0.44 and −0.05 percent; Yahoo Finance’s Wednesday blog with futures up 0.1 percent in its text under a strip at 0.22 and 0.31; Investing.com’s ten-year at 5.209 in one table and 5.201 in a sidebar; two surveys for Bank of America’s estimate ($1.10 Newsquawk, $1.11 24/7 Wall St.) and two for Morgan Stanley’s; Samsung Electronics’ Wednesday close, flat at 232,000 won on the Seoul Economic Daily and up 0.65 percent on the Korea Times, both printed; and the Options Trading Report preview of 10 October that set thresholds for a bookings line ASML stopped publishing in January, a forecast and not a figure. The Brief names Anthropic’s reported investor day in its calendar and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic.
14 October, second edition. At the author’s request the Brief was reissued at about 8:45 a.m. with the September consumer price index reported rather than previewed, the count unchanged at 218. The figures are sworn on three feeds read between 8:38 and 8:42 (Trading Economics’ inflation page, FXStreet, StockTitan): headline +0.6 percent on the month, as forecast, and 3.7 on the year against 3.6; core +0.3 and 2.6 against 0.2 and 2.5; gasoline +9.1 on the month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ release page and PDF returned the August release to the desk’s reader at 8:39 and 8:40 and are linked in the issue as unread for September. The first reaction is printed from one feed’s quote boxes with the caveat stated: Trading Economics’ ten-year at 5.269 and S&P 500 contract at 7,785.39 at about 8:41, against 5.21 and 7,818.44 before 7:30 on the same tables. Seen and not logged: StockTitan’s headline carrying August’s 3.4 percent above a body with September’s 3.7, on a page updated at 8:37; FXStreet’s line that the data was released “on Tuesday”; and Trading Economics’ bond page with 5.21, 5.20 and 5.27 in three places at one reading. Nothing else in the issue was read or changed after 7:40.
15 October, late morning. The Brief logged entries 222 to 225 and the count rises from 218 to 222; the days tile rises from 23 to 24. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:16 and not again until 10:46, and every page was read between 10:46 and 11:00 a.m., after the open. The files were sent at about 11:20 a.m., after the 8:15 target and the 8:30 publication time; the issue is labelled a late edition, the 8:30 producer prices, retail sales, claims and regional surveys are previewed in it with consensus and prior and not reported, and no level read after the open is load-bearing. No Errata is recorded on this page for Wednesday 14 October, and The Errata, No. 11’s nine items remain open below. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 222, 223 and 225 were read twice and entry 224’s once. Wednesday’s closes are sworn at 7,718.94, 51,621.48, 26,692.87 and 2,729.53 on the Associated Press’s table on the Mankato Free Press and TheStreet’s 4:00 p.m. entry; Saxo’s Dow at 51,626.17 and Newsquawk’s S&P 500 at 7,724 are read as earlier tables. The ten-year’s Wednesday close is TheStreet’s 5.278, one feed, and the Treasury’s par curve was not read; overnight readings of 5.10 (AP, 12:06 a.m.), about 5.1 (FXStreet, 7:44 GMT) and 5.08 (Investrade; TipRanks) are printed with their times, the two-year at 4.73 on Investrade and Saxo. The Kospi’s close is 5,554.22 on the Korea JoongAng Daily and Trading Economics; the Nikkei’s 64,426 on Trading Economics’ narrative and the Rio Times, 64,425 on Investrade. Wednesday’s crude settlements, $95.09 and $106.06, are Newsquawk’s, with Investrade’s overnight changes implying the same bases. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ Japan page with 64,605 in its quote field and 64,555 in its statistics beside a 3,318-point change that fits neither, read as fields updating at different moments; the AP’s Asia story, published 12:06 a.m. Eastern with the Kospi at 5,527.12 and the Nikkei at 64,334.68, levels at the halt and at midday under a headline that does not call them closes; Saxo’s note with the same Kospi level and 64,267.09 for the Nikkei, stamped about 06:00 CET; Investrade’s continuing-claims estimate of 1.17 million beside a prior of 1.716 million, a dropped digit; two consensus figures for TSMC’s fourth-quarter guide, $48.8 billion on FXStreet and $50.48 billion on Investrade, two surveys; Investrade’s 41.1 percent and the release’s 41.2 for TSMC’s dollar growth, a rounding; and the Seoul Economic Daily’s Gartner figure of “$3.5 trillion” at risk of impairment through 2030, which is not on the Gartner document page the desk read (23 March 2026: $6.3 trillion of spending, a 40 to 70 percent write-down if returns fall short) and is left open until its source can be read. Yahoo Finance’s Wednesday live blog served an 11:22 a.m. cache. The Brief names Anthropic in a strategist’s claim relayed by the JoongAng Daily and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic.
16 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 226 and 227 and the count rises from 222 to 224; the days tile rises from 24 to 25. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:17 and not again until 8:32, and every page was read in that window, stamped to it unless a feed carries its own time. The Brief’s files were sent at about 8:43 a.m., after the 8:15 target and the 8:30 publication time and before the open; the 8:30 import-price release is previewed in it, not reported, and no level read after 8:32 is used. Thursday’s closes are sworn at 7,744.06, 52,177.69 and 26,713.03 on TheStreet, Armenpress, Investrade and Benzinga, with TheStreet’s Nasdaq at 26,713.02 and Saxo’s Dow at 52,183.23, an early table, both printed. The ten-year is left unsworn between 5.085 (TheStreet at 3:19 p.m.; Benzinga) and 5.10 (Strategitz; a yield summary page); the Treasury’s par curve was not read. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 226 and 227 were read twice. Entry 226 is the second morning of the pairing in entry 222 and is counted, because it is a new document with a new figure; whether Investrade’s 860 and 878 belong to a series the desk has not identified is left open, the Kospi 200 pages read (Investing.com, Yahoo Finance) being stale at 8 October or unreadable. Seen and not logged: Benzinga’s 4:05 p.m. Thursday text with CoreWeave down “nearly 3%” beside a widget at $69.90, up 6.26, where the close was $69.69, up 5.94 (Yahoo Finance; The Motley Fool), an intraday reading; Yahoo Finance’s ten-year ticker reading “5.09 −5.19 (−50.49%)”, a widget; Share Talk’s Associated Press relay with the Kospi up 3.6 percent and the Nikkei at 65,658.59, intraday levels under a morning headline, where the closes were 2.05 percent and 65,324.24; TheStreet’s sidebar headline on MongoDB’s chief executive, a September item; two readings of TSMC’s Thursday fall (4.14 percent at 10:08 a.m. on TheStreet; “fell 2%” in Yahoo Finance’s close text), the close not established; and Trading Economics’ United States index page, carrying Thursday’s changes beside Friday’s contract levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171 read again and counted once. The Brief’s account of the Gartner note rests on The Motley Fool’s, and the “$3.5 trillion” left open on 15 October is printed as the Fool’s figure, not Gartner’s. The Brief turns on CoreWeave, names the Reuters report on Anthropic’s valuation, and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic.
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August job openings (consensus 7.23 million from 7.271) measured from July’s unrevised figure, or the July report surfacing for Tuesday’s query as this month’s.
Second named form occurred; the first did not. BLS: August 7.079 million, July revised to 7.335. Every newsroom read used the revised July (Reuters via Yahoo; FXStreet; investingLive; Trading Economics). The July report surfaced as “the latest” on FedRateCalc, a calculator site: entry 168.
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The trade report at 7:30: Investing.com’s time for Tuesday (entry 193) copied by a calendar or a morning note, or Vice Chair Bowman placed at 9:45. Census and the BEA publish at 8:30; the Board’s calendar has Bowman at 10:45.
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A beat and a miss from one deficit: the August consensus is in print at $102.0 billion (Trading Economics; Goldman Sachs’s list via ZeroHedge), $95.2 billion (Investing.com; investingLive; FX Empire) and $89.8 billion (ActionForex; Avalon Capital); a print between them called both wider and narrower than expected.
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The goods deficit under the total’s name: July’s deficit in goods and services was $88.6 billion and the advance goods deficit for August was $132.6 billion; the larger figure called “the trade deficit,” or the word “record,” which belongs to the goods deficit of March 2025.
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Job openings on a Tuesday that has none: a calendar or preview listing JOLTS for 6 October. The Bureau of Labor Statistics published August’s on 29 September and publishes September’s on 3 November.
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The ten-year’s record with the wrong year: “highest since 2007” (Yahoo Finance’s morning lead, entry 186) or “since March 2022” (entry 187) in Tuesday’s coverage. The year is 2002.
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Monday’s changes (51.23, 90.94) beside Tuesday’s contract levels on Trading Economics’ index page at the open, and a new pair on Tuesday night; for Monday’s pair, level less change should equal 7,722.72 and 51,176.96.
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Monday’s Treasury rows on Tuesday’s card: 24/7 Wall St. carrying the previous day’s yields under the current stamp a third time; Monday’s rows would read 5.31 for the ten-year, up three basis points.
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Constellation Brands on the wrong day, against the wrong number: results are Tuesday after the close and the call is Wednesday at 8:00 a.m.; a preview or recap saying it reports on 7 October, or a beat and a miss from consensus at $3.55, $3.56 and $3.62 a share.
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· Entry 228, Entry 229
Append source-linked entries 228–229 from the owner’s October 21 update. Preserve prior entries, withdrawals, corrections, forecast claims and unresolved outcomes.
21 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 228 and 229 and the count rises from 224 to 226; the days tile rises from 25 to 26. No Brief is recorded on this page for Monday 19 or Tuesday 20 October, and no Errata since No. 11; its nine items remain open below. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:21, 7:30, 7:41 and 7:48, and every page was read between 7:30 and 7:48 a.m., stamped to that window unless a feed carries its own time. The files were sent at about 7:50, before the 8:15 target; the 8:30 publication time carries no release today and the 10:30 and 1:00 p.m. items are previewed. The author, present for this run, asked for the issue to run long on Anthropic’s draft prospectus, the SpaceX call and the premarket movers, and it does, at about 5,100 words with its sources. The Brief turns on Anthropic and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotation in entry 228 was read once and the two pages in entry 229 once each, the Equity Opening News a second time for its exact wording. Tuesday’s closes are sworn at 7,712.57, 52,495.88 and 26,424.82 on STL.News, the Seoul Economic Daily, Saxo and Benzinga; the Russell 2000 is 2,773.42 on STL.News alone at the decimal, 2,774 on Newsquawk. The ten-year’s close is 5.12 on the Treasury’s par curve as stockmarketwatch.com relays it and on Forbes, with Saxo at 5.117; the two-year 4.79 on the same two. December Brent settled at $108.79 on three feeds and $108.78 on Newsquawk; November WTI expired at $101.79 on the Seoul Economic Daily, one feed, and December WTI settled at $97.82 on Newsquawk, with Benzinga’s and Investrade’s morning changes dividing to that base. The Kospi’s close is 5,735.66 on the Korea JoongAng Daily and the Associated Press, 5,735.67 on TradingKey; the Nikkei’s 64,621.24 on TradingKey and the AP. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ euro-area table, with Tuesday’s changes beside Wednesday’s levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171 counted once; its Euro Stoxx 50 page, with 6,148 down 0.33 percent in its table and “rose to 6150,” up 0.42, in its text, read once; 24/7 Wall St.’s closing card with “closed at 7,707.57” in its body under a ticker at 7,747.80, the card named in No. 11’s ninth item and read as early prints; a Yahoo Finance video page whose description gives Anthropic’s first-half figures in billions and whose machine transcript gives them in millions, a transcription; heygotrade’s “Nvidia Stock News (Oct 20, 2026)” carrying Monday’s $217.09 close under Tuesday’s date with the session named correctly in its body; Investrade’s crude table showing WTI up $2.49 to $100.31 above a sentence giving the session high as $99.88, two moments; GM’s Tuesday fall at 6.84, 6.8, 7.5 and 7.6 percent on four feeds, printed as a range; Tesla’s at 1.54 on two feeds and “2%” on Saxo, an earlier reading; and SpaceX’s overnight move on four feeds between 2.35 and 10.39 percent, none sworn. Unresolved: whether Anthropic’s Google and Amazon contracts were executed before June 30 and so sit inside the June backlogs ($513.9 billion and $496 billion), which no document read says; the Wall Street Journal’s own text, not opened, the figures resting on Investing.com’s, Reuters’, Crypto Briefing’s and TradingKey’s relays; CNBC’s Nscale page, seen in search and not opened, the deal resting on The Next Web’s account of Bloomberg; and The Motley Fool’s SpaceX transcript, which has monthly GB300 deployments at 200,000 in one passage and 20,000 in another.
21 October, second edition. At the author’s note, the Brief was reissued at about 8:15 a.m. with its headline figure as $252 billion, the three hyperscaler contracts ($111 billion Google Cloud, $110 billion AWS, $31 billion Microsoft), where the first edition’s headline carried the Journal’s “about $450 billion,” which is all cloud agreements over seven to ten years. The issue now sets the five published figures side by side with their scopes: $252 billion (three hyperscalers, the Journal via Investing.com and TradingKey), about $450 billion (cloud agreements, the Journal), $518 billion (compute, cloud and infrastructure over a decade, Reuters, 28 September and 15 October, about 80 percent non-cancelable per Crypto Briefing), above $600 billion (locked-in commitments, TradingKey, 21 October) and up to $750 billion (with about $150 billion in talks, the Journal). They are different cuts of one schedule, not a disagreement between outlets, and none is logged. The count is unchanged at 226.
· Entry 230, Entry 231, Entry 232, Entry 233, Entry 234, Entry 235, Entry 236, Entry 237, Entry 238, Entry 239, Entry 240, Entry 241, Entry 242, Entry 243, Entry 244, Entry 245, Entry 246, Entry 247, Entry 248, Entry 249, Entry 250, Entry 251, Entry 252, Entry 253, Entry 254, Entry 255, Entry 256, Entry 257, Entry 258, Entry 259, Entry 260, Entry 261, Entry 262, Entry 263, Entry 264, Entry 265, Entry 266, Entry 267, Entry 268, Entry 269
Append source entries 230–269 and the dated desk notes, score the October 12 forecast, and add Errata forecast groups 12–14. Observations and forecast outcomes are attributed to the supplied desk record.
Other documented changesForecast group errata-12 · Forecast group errata-13 · Forecast group errata-14 · Forecast row errata-11:0 · Forecast row errata-11:1 · Forecast row errata-11:2 · Forecast row errata-11:3 · Forecast row errata-11:4 · Forecast row errata-11:5 · Forecast row errata-11:6 · Forecast row errata-11:7 · Forecast row errata-11:8 · Forecast group notes errata-11
28 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 230 to 232 and the count rises from 226 to 229; the days tile rises from 26 to 27. The run fired at 7:15 a.m.; its clock was read at 7:21 and not again until 3:43 p.m., and every page was read inside that window, so pages are stamped to the window, with a feed’s own stamp given where it prints one. The issue is a late edition, delivered after the close: it is built from the record as it stood before the open, the 8:30 goods trade balance and the 2:00 p.m. decision are previewed in it with consensus and prior, not reported, and no market level read after the open is used; Trading Economics’ currency page and calendar, read after the decision, are used for the calendar’s consensus and prior only. The Brief turns on Anthropic’s prospectus and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ Japan page carrying four values for Wednesday’s session (64,650 and 2.18 percent in its table, 64,575 and 2.07 in its statistics, 63,954 and 1.08 in its summary, 64,053 and 1.24 in a news item), read once; Yahoo Finance’s markets page with the S&P 500 “closed 0.7% higher” and the Nasdaq 1.3 percent against settled gains of 0.60 and 1.18, earlier readings under the word “closed,” and its own live blog at 4:03 p.m. with 0.6 and “more than 1.1”; a Trading Economics news page dated 18 February, “The Nikkei 225 Index Closes 1.18% Higher,” surfacing in a search for Wednesday’s close, dated correctly at source; Trading Economics’ futures note, whose lead paragraph refers to Chair Jerome Powell under a March timestamp over October stream items, read once; the $63 billion Broadcom–Anthropic financing figure (Benzinga, unfetched; Trading Economics’ Japan summary) against the filing’s “up to $42 billion” and Bloomberg’s $60 billion package of 2 October, scopes not established; and Brent on two bases Tuesday, “below $114” on Yahoo Finance with no contract named and $109.41 implied for January by Investing.com and Investrade, the December contract expiring Friday, a roll. The ten-year’s Tuesday close is 4.99 on the Treasury’s par curve as Stockmarketwatch relays it and “near 4.99%” on Yahoo Finance, with 4.986 (TheStreet, 3:47 p.m.) and 4.993 (Portfolio Terminal) printed and not sworn; SpaceX’s third-quarter figures rest on BigGo Finance’s summary of the 20 October call, the company’s release and The Motley Fool’s transcript not having opened. No Errata is recorded on this page since No. 11, and its nine items remain open below.
28 October, afternoon. The Errata, No. 12, Tuesday’s issue, is delivered Wednesday afternoon. Its run fired at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, read its clock at 7:15 and the runbook and this page by about 7:20, then stalled; it resumed at 3:34 p.m. on Wednesday 28 October, after the Federal Reserve’s 2:00 p.m. decision and Chair Warsh’s press conference, and every page was read between 3:35 and 3:52 p.m. by four parallel readers working from one brief, stamped to the minute. The desk’s clock was read at 3:34, 3:56 and 4:04 p.m. The issue is Tuesday’s: its entries are Tuesday’s coverage, no level later than Tuesday’s close is used except where its time is printed, and its forecast is for Thursday 29 October, the first estimate of third-quarter growth, because a forecast made after the fact is not one; the nine items below are to be scored on Thursday night, not Wednesday. No Errata ran between No. 11 on Friday 9 October and tonight; No. 11’s nine items are scored in No. 12 sixteen days late, against pages as they stood on Wednesday afternoon: six occurred, two in a weaker form than named, and three did not. Two of the six are entries, 219 (logged by the 13 October Brief) and 242; the rest are reported in the register and not logged. Tuesday’s closes are sworn at 7,722.60, 52,377.57 and 26,477.81 on the Associated Press, TheStreet, Yahoo Finance and Schwab, the Russell 2000 at 2,818.87 on the Associated Press and TheStreet; the ten-year’s close at 4.99 on the Treasury’s par curve, Forbes Advisor and Schwab, with 4.995 on CappNotes and 24/7 Wall St., 4.992 on Investrade and 4.993 on Yahoo Finance; December WTI at $99.90 beside December Brent at $113.88 on Bloomberg via Rigzone, Reuters via MarketScreener and Investrade. Seen and not logged: TheStreet’s Monday 4:06 p.m. wrap, with the S&P 500 at 7,676.80, the Dow at 52,361.52 and the Russell 2000 at 2,787.81 against the Associated Press’s 7,676.77, 52,361.58 and 2,786.42, an early table; Trading Economics’ Russell 2000 row, 2,818.98 beside 0.25, a contract beside a cash close, and its stock page’s 0.16 percent beside 0.13 for one S&P 500 change, read once; Investing.com’s Monday ten-year at 4.967, a different series; Kiplinger’s Fed blog with a Tuesday pre-open post stamped 4:41 p.m. Monday, a date; Forbes Advisor’s page with 4.99 as of 27 October in its body and 5.24 as of 9 October in its description; a Yahoo Finance live blog last updated 9 December 2025 whose widget carried Tuesday’s Dow; six consensus figures for the Conference Board index (80, 80.4, 80.5, 81, 81.0, 81.2), different surveys; and, from Wednesday’s own coverage, left for the Wednesday Errata, Wealth Professional’s “Governors Cook and Hammack,” Just the News’ “two members of the board,” the Associated Press’s key rate “about 3.9%” with no range printed, and seven values for the December hike probability. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 234, 237 and 238 were read twice and the rest once. The Kiplinger page in entry 234 is headlined on Broadcom’s agreement with Anthropic, and the issue says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. The issue was drafted against a count of 226, read from this page at 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, with its entries numbered 230 to 239; the Wednesday Brief, stalled in the same way, published entries 230 to 232 at 4:30 p.m. while No. 12 was being built. The page is right: the count stood at 229 when No. 12 went out, the issue was renumbered before delivery, and the count rises to 239 with entries 233 to 242; the days tile rises from 27 to 28 with Tuesday 27 October.
28 October, evening. The Errata, No. 13, Wednesday’s issue, was read between 7:17 and 7:58 p.m. by four parallel readers working from one brief and by the desk, stamped to the minute; the files went out at about 8:05 p.m. One correction to No. 12 runs at full size at the top of No. 13: its forecast item 2 said the second quarter’s 2.2 percent had been “revised from 1.5 at the second estimate and 2.1 at the first.” The first estimate was 1.5 as well (BEA advance release of 30 July; Investing.com’s release history: 1.5 on 30 July, 1.5 on 26 August, 2.2 on 30 September); the 2.1 was the first quarter’s. The item is corrected in place below and stands for Thursday. No. 12’s nine items were made for Thursday 29 October and remain open; four of them surfaced in Wednesday’s coverage and are logged tonight as entries 243 to 245, 248 and 250, which the Thursday scoring will take into account. Wednesday’s closes are sworn at 7,743.98, 52,475.10, 26,549.85 and 2,830.51 on the Associated Press, Yahoo Finance, TheStreet Pro, The Motley Fool and TradingKey. The ten-year has two closes, both corroborated: 5.05 at 3:00 p.m. (Yahoo Finance’s ^TNX, TheStreet Pro’s cash session, Forbes Advisor) and 5.02 after hours (the AP, The Motley Fool, Trading Economics 5.021, Kiplinger 5.024, TheStreet Pro 5.020); the Treasury’s par curve had no Wednesday row at 7:31 or 7:47 p.m. December WTI settled at $102.78 beside December Brent at $115.32 (Bloomberg via Rigzone). Seen and not logged: Kiplinger’s and the AP’s Brent near $111.40 and $111.64 with no month named, the January contract, a roll; Trading Economics’ index pages pairing Tuesday’s change of 45.83 with Wednesday’s levels, the template of entries 162 and 171, counted once; the Census Bureau’s landing page serving August’s advance indicators at 7:19 p.m. beside the September PDF; Kiplinger’s October Fed live blog, last updated 27 October and dated so; 9to5google’s “$112.1 billion in net income last quarter” for Alphabet, unchecked against the second-quarter release; and seven values for the December hike probability (73, 81.4, 82, 83, 84, 84 to 85, 87.5) on different tools at different hours. The quotations in entries 243, 249 and 250 were read twice, the rest once. The count rises from 239 to 250 with entries 243 to 253; the days tile is unchanged at 28, Wednesday 28 October already being counted. The run stalled after the files were sent and this page was republished at about 9:05 a.m. on Thursday 29 October, before the 8:30 releases had been read; nothing in the issue was changed after 8:05 p.m. Wednesday.
29 October, morning. The Brief logged entries 254 to 257 and the count rises from 250 to 254; the days tile rises from 28 to 29. This run read the page at about 7:30 a.m., when it stood at 239 with entry 242 the last; The Errata, No. 13, Wednesday’s issue, published entries 243 to 253 at 9:14 a.m. while the Brief was being built, and the Brief’s entries were first numbered 243 to 246 against the older page. The page is right, and the issue was renumbered before delivery. It is a late edition: the run fired at 7:15 a.m., its clock was read at 7:25 and not again until 9:04, and every page was read inside that window, so pages are stamped to the window with a feed’s own stamp given where it prints one. The issue is built from the record as it stood before the open; the 8:30 releases are previewed in it with consensus and prior, not reported, and Trading Economics’ calendar, read after 8:30, is used for consensus and prior only. Wednesday’s closes are sworn at 7,743.98, 52,475.10, 26,549.85 and 2,830.51 on Yahoo Finance’s board, CappNotes and TradingKey; the ten-year’s close at 5.05 on the Treasury’s par curve and Yahoo’s board, with CappNotes at 5.044, the 3:00 p.m. reading No. 13 swore in, its after-hours 5.02 not having been read by this run; the two-year is left unsworn between the Treasury’s 4.67, CappNotes’ 4.731 and Mortgage News Daily’s 4.684; December WTI $102.78 beside December Brent $115.32 at settlement on CappNotes and Daniel San. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 254 to 256 were read twice and in 257 once. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ Japan page carrying four values for Thursday’s session (64,534; 64,543; 64,595; 64,659); its index table pairing Wednesday’s changes with Thursday’s contract levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171, counted once; a Trading Economics bond item dated 5 February surfacing in a search for Wednesday’s yield, dated correctly at source; TradingKey’s forecast page with “plunge 8%” in its headline strip beside “about 10%” in its body; Samsung Electronics’ Thursday move, 4.1 percent on the AP and 0.62 on Trading Economics, left open; and Brent on two bases overnight, December on TipRanks and January on the AP, the December contract expiring Friday. The Errata, No. 13’s items remain open below for tonight’s scoring.
29 October, evening. The Errata, No. 14, scores No. 12 and No. 13 together, fifteen items made on Wednesday for Thursday: eight occurred (one in a second form, one in one of three forms), seven did not, none unresolved. The run fired at 7:15 p.m.; its clock was read at 7:16, 7:30 and 7:36, and every page was read between 7:17 and 7:32 p.m., by four parallel readers working from one brief and by the desk; the files were built by 7:38 and sent before this page was republished, so that a stall could not hold them. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotations in entries 258, 259, 260, 261 and 264 were read twice, those in 262, 263, 265, 266 and 267 once. Thursday’s closes are sworn at 7,720.39, 52,342.56 and 26,184.72 on the Associated Press and Reuters, the S&P 500 also on Yahoo Finance’s board; Reuters has the Nasdaq’s fall at 1.37 percent where Investrade and Yahoo have 1.38. The ten-year’s close is sworn at 4.94 on the AP and Trading Economics’ table (4.938); the Treasury’s file had no row for Thursday at 7:22 p.m., and a cluster at 4.987 to 4.997 on Investrade and three evening tickers is printed in the issue and not used. December WTI settled at $102.00 beside December Brent at $114.88 and January Brent at $110.80 (Bloomberg via Rigzone, 5:16 p.m.). Entry 259 is the two-Dows contradiction on Trading Economics’ United States page; the same page’s pairing of Wednesday’s changes with Thursday’s contract levels, the pairing of entries 162 and 171, was read this morning and again tonight and is counted once, in the morning. Seen and not logged: Investing.com’s copy of Reuters’ 2:40 p.m. market story, never updated, with the Dow “fell 315.36 points ... to 52,163.07” in the past tense of a close; Investrade’s closing table at 132.48 and 23.76 against the AP’s 132.54 and 23.59, an early table; Yahoo Finance’s ten-year quote page served at 7:19 p.m. with a stamp of 8:06 a.m. Central, a cache; Mortgage News Daily’s live quote of 4.997 at 7:19, on the page that is entry 256; a GoldSeek repost of a CNBC piece headlined “hovers above 5%” where CNBC’s address says “below,” the body unreadable; Trading Economics’ crude narrative, “fell towards $101,” above a table at $102.85 beside Brent at $115.49; Startup Fortune’s 27 October preview with Apple reporting on the 29th, a Tuesday page; RSM’s Wednesday note with growth “released on Friday,” still standing; and the December hike probability at 78.4, 82, 82.6, 83, 85 to 87, 87.5 and 88 percent on eight Thursday pages, none with a time, differences by this register’s rule. Not reachable tonight: CappNotes’ Thursday close, Benzinga, CNBC, FXStreet and Seeking Alpha. The count rises from 254 to 264 with entries 258 to 267; the days tile is unchanged at 29.
2 November, morning. The Brief logged entry 268 and the count rises from 264 to 265; the days tile rises from 29 to 30 with Friday 30 October, the date of the page logged. No Brief and no Errata are recorded on this page for Friday 30 October, and The Errata, No. 14’s nine items remain open below. The run fired at 11:15 UTC, which after Sunday’s clock change is 6:15 a.m. Eastern rather than 7:15; its clock was read at 6:23 and 6:31 a.m., every page was read inside that window and is stamped to it unless a feed carries its own time, and the files were sent at about 8:16 a.m., a minute after the 8:15 target and before the 8:30 publication time. Nothing in the issue was read or changed after 6:31 beyond the build. The 9:45 and 10:00 releases are previewed in the Brief with consensus and prior, not reported. Friday’s closes are sworn at 7,580.07, 51,770.31, 25,437.00 and 2,811.84 on the Associated Press and Portfolio Terminal, with Investrade’s rounded table agreeing; TheStreet’s 4:03 p.m. table (7,578.97; 51,785.82; 25,442.31; 2,801.16) and Newsquawk’s rounded copy of it are early readings. The ten-year’s Friday close is left unsworn between 4.913 and 4.929 on four readings, and the Treasury’s par curve was not read. Pages reach the desk through a reader that relays their text; the quotation in entry 268 was read once. Seen and not logged: Trading Economics’ Japan (62,996) and Hong Kong (23,374) contracts beside cash closes of 63,081.86 and 23,411.49, and its FTSE 100 row still dated 30 October at 6:28 a.m.; Saxo’s ASML fall at 6.1 percent in its European note and 4.7 in its Asian one, whose page metadata carries 19 October over a 2 November body; Investrade’s Brent settlement of $117.64, the December contract on its expiry day with no month named, where January’s Friday level is implied near $113.4 by the AP’s Monday change (the roll of entries 165 and 181, and No. 14’s eighth item, left for the Errata); SK hynix’s Monday close at 1,482,000 won, up 4.51 percent, on TradingKey against 1.47 million won, up 3.81, on the Korea JoongAng Daily and 4.7 percent on Saxo, printed as a range; Kioxia’s guidance in three measures on three pages (adjusted operating profit about ¥2 trillion, up about one percent; October-to-December net profit about fifteen-fold to ¥1.36 trillion; April-to-December net profit nineteen times), not reconciled; the Nikkei at 63,081.64 on TradingKey against 63,081.86 on the AP and BigGo Finance; Yahoo Finance’s AP page with a live crude widget at $100.62, down $3.50, under a Friday story that says oil rose; and an Elec article of 30 July, “more than 10 customers,” surfacing in a search for SK hynix’s fourteen, dated correctly at source. The subject is OpenAI’s round, from the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times as relayed by The Decoder, Sweden Herald and Newsquawk, neither original opened; the Brief names Anthropic in a relayed FT item and says that the desk’s tooling is built on Claude, made by Anthropic.
3 November, morning. The Brief logged entry 269 and the count rises from 265 to 266. The run fired at 7:15 a.m. and its clock was read at 6:15, 6:36 and 8:12 a.m. Eastern (the first two readings are in Standard Time, clocks having changed on Sunday); it stalled between the second and third, and pages are stamped to the windows 6:17 to 6:40 and 8:13 to 8:20 a.m. The Brief was delivered after its 8:15 a.m. target; no release was scheduled for 8:30 and nothing printed before delivery is reported in it. Monday’s ten-year close is 4.89 on Cappnotes (4.893) and Admiral Markets, with The Rio Times at 4.909 and Saxo at “about 4.91,” and the two-year is left unsworn between 4.581 and 4.60. Seen and not logged: Newsquawk’s Dow at 51,989 and Trading Economics’ narrative line “closed Monday at 52,008 points, up 0.46%,” against the sworn 51,983.98, read as early tables; Trading Economics’ United States index page pairing Monday’s changes with Tuesday’s contract levels (entries 162 and 171, counted once) and its commodities table showing gold with a positive change beside a negative percentage (the display noted on 1 October); 24/7 Wall St.’s morning piece with Oracle down 4 percent in its body and 2 in its Quick Read, two minutes of a falling tape; Cappnotes’ Apple up 0.87 percent after hours against three feeds at minus 2.5 to 3, a reading taken before the margin guidance; TNW’s six bond tranches against BigGo Finance’s five, left for the pricing supplement; and Saxo’s Kospi at 5,666, an earlier reading of a session that closed at 5,648.79. The Errata, No. 14’s nine items remain open below; no Errata is recorded on this page for Friday 30 October or Monday 2 November.
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A ten-year close on a day without one: the cash Treasury market is shut on Monday for Columbus Day; Friday’s 5.24 printed under Monday’s date with a change, or “yields were little changed” in a Monday wrap.
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“Markets are closed Monday”: stocks trade 9:30 to 4:00 and bonds do not; the half printed as the whole, or the bond market described as open.
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The 5.27, or the 5.26, as Friday’s close: any weekend or Monday piece giving the ten-year’s last close as anything but 5.24 (5.244 on Kiplinger).
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The week’s gains, still swapped: the Dow up 1.15 percent or 585 points, or the S&P 500 up 0.9 or 0.95, in a weekend recap or Monday preview (entry 216). The week was 1.15 percent for the S&P 500 and 0.93 for the Dow.
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Inflation on the wrong morning: September’s consumer price index is Wednesday 14 October at 8:30, placed on Tuesday; or the core consensus (0.2 percent on the month, 2.5 on the year, investingLive) under the headline’s name (0.6 and 3.6).
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The banks a day early or a day late: JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo report Tuesday before the open, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley on Wednesday (Investrade’s calendar); “banks report Monday,” or JPMorgan moved to Wednesday.
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A bull market with two birthdays: Yahoo Finance dates the fourth anniversary to Monday 12 October and puts the advance at 119 percent with no base printed; a second percentage, a second date, or both.
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A record low that belongs to a component: the Michigan survey’s current-conditions index at 44.7 is the record low (Benzinga); the headline index, 46.3, is the lowest since May (Yahoo Finance); “consumer sentiment at a record low.”
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The card and the template, again: 24/7 Wall St.’s Monday closing card with an S&P 500 level or Dow change that is not the settled one; its opening piece with a Fed statement at 2:00; and Trading Economics’ index page at the open with Friday’s changes (46.18, 423.31) beside Monday’s contract levels, where level less change should equal 7,765.36 and 51,231.64.
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2693 NOV
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Entry 269 (3 NOV): a month-old board under a dated briefing
Published claimThe Rio Times, Global Economy Briefing for 3 November, live board stamped 01:24: S&P 500 “7,722, +0.59%,” Nikkei “63,268, +1.73%,” ten-year 4.995, Brent $109.58, above an article whose own text gives Monday’s close as 7,541 and the ten-year as 4.909.
Desk assessmentMonday’s close is 7,541.40 on the Associated Press, STL.News and Cappnotes; 7,722.72 was the close of 2 October, a month earlier. Tokyo was closed on Tuesday for Culture Day (Newsquawk; CNBC-TV18), so no Nikkei session could be up 1.73 percent. The outlet’s ticker bar was logged on 15 October (entry on Brent and WTI); this is the index board, a different set of fields, counted as a new entry.
The dated board reading is the desk’s observation from the source edition. Its original page could not be independently retrieved during this hosted update.
This entry is retained with its assessment pending contemporaneous source evidence. It is not presented as an independently verified error.
- Source 1: https://riotimesonline.com/global-economy-briefing-november-3-2026
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/world-indices/articles/major-us-stock-indexes-fared-212103580.html
- Source 3: https://www.newsquawk.com/headlines/newsquawk-daily-european-equity-opening-news---3rd-november-2026
- Source 4: https://www.tradingview.com/news/cnbctv:c2e63fab3094b:0/
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26830 OCT
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Entry 268 (30 OCT): a narrative yield beside a table yield
Published claimInvestrade, Friday’s market review (published 4:14 p.m.): narrative, the ten-year “4.913%,” down six basis points on the day; macro table on the same page, 4.928, down 0.06.
Desk assessmentOne page, two closes, a point and a half apart. Friday’s close is not sworn on any pair of feeds: Portfolio Terminal has 4.929, TheStreet 4.917 at 2:31 p.m., and Investrade both of the above. Four feeds disagreeing is a difference; a page disagreeing with itself is the error, and it is the one logged.
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26729 OCT
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Entry 267 (29 OCT): a miss in the headline, in line in the body
Published claimHeyGoTrade, 29 October: headline “Alphabet Q3 Earnings Miss Sinks Stock”; body, revenue of $127.6 billion was “roughly in line with the $127.9 billion analysts expected.”
Desk assessmentThe release’s revenue is $127.6 billion; whether it missed depends on the survey, and Thursday offered $127.22 billion (a beat), $127.9 and $127.93 (in line), about $128 and $128.2 (a miss). One page carrying both verdicts is the error; six surveys are a difference. Forecast in No. 13.
- Source 1: https://www.heygotrade.com/en/news/alphabet-q3-earnings-miss-sinks-stock-reignites-ai-capex-fears-googl-nasdaq-futures/
- Source 2: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/alphabets-heavy-cloud-spending-drives-biggerthanexpected-cash-burn-4980612
- Source 3: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/alphabet-nasdaq-googl-posts-q3-201459872.html
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26629 OCT
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Entry 266 (29 OCT): the ECB forty-five minutes early
Published claimFinancecalendar.com’s page for the ECB’s 29 October decision: “at 13:45 CET,” “press conference will follow at 14:30 CET,” “(8:45 a.m. EDT).”
Desk assessmentThe Governing Council published at 14:15 CET, 9:15 a.m. Eastern, with the press conference at 14:45, per the ECB’s weekly calendar; rates unchanged at 2.50, 2.65 and 2.90 percent. Europe’s clocks fell back on 25 October and America’s do not until 1 November, so the gap is five hours this week; the page got the gap right and the Frankfurt time wrong. Forecast in No. 13.
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26529 OCT
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Entry 265 (29 OCT): Apple on the wrong Thursday
Published claimAskTheDate’s earnings calendar for 29 October: “AAPL reports earnings on Thursday, October 29, 2026 · After Market Close.” Financecalendar.com: “Next AAPL Quarterly Earnings: Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 12:00 pm ET,” described as its own estimate.
Desk assessmentApple reports Monday 2 November after the close, per the company’s date as relayed by MacRumors and Wall Street Horizon’s confirmed listing. Thursday’s after-the-close report was Amazon’s. The earnings calendar a week off; forecast in No. 12. Two pages, one event, counted once.
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26429 OCT
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Entry 264 (29 OCT): a dissenter who was not in the room
Published claimKuCoin’s flash, relayed from Odaily, release time 10:44 a.m. 29 October: “Cook and Harker voted against, advocating for a 25-basis-point rate hike.” The same page: a December increase at “87.5%” in its summary and bets that “have approached 90%” six paragraphs on.
Desk assessmentThe dissents were Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, per the committee’s statement. Patrick Harker retired from the Philadelphia Fed in June 2025 and holds no vote. A dissenter who was not in the room.
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26329 OCT
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Entry 263 (29 OCT): the reserve rate as the policy rate
Published claimThe Associated Press’s video script, carried by Social News XYZ at 7:04 a.m. Thursday: the Fed “kept its key interest rate unchanged at about 3.9% on Wednesday.” The same sentence under Fox station headlines Wednesday afternoon: “Fed holds key interest rate at 3.9%.” No range on either page.
Desk assessmentThe target range is 3.75 to 4.00 percent; 3.90 is the interest rate on reserve balances, set separately in the implementation note. The rate without its range, the morning after; forecast in No. 12.
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26229 OCT
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Entry 262 (29 OCT): two Brents, neither named
Published claimInvestrade’s market review for 29 October, text: “Brent Crude futures settle at $114.88/bbl, down 44 cents, or 0.38%.” Its macro table on the same page: Brent 110.63, −1.01. Neither names a contract.
Desk assessmentBoth prices exist: December Brent, which expires Friday, settled at $114.88 and the more active January contract at $110.80, beside December WTI at $102.00, on Bloomberg via Rigzone at 5:16 p.m. One page, two Brents four dollars apart ($4.25, desk arithmetic), with no contract named; the reader cannot tell what Brent did.
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26129 OCT
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Entry 261 (29 OCT): Wednesday under Thursday’s title
Published claimWhyItMoved, “Daily Market Report — Thursday, October 29, 2026”: “S&P 500: ~7,743–7,751 | Day’s Move: +0.28%–+0.37%”; “elevated bond yields at 5.02%”; “Brent North Sea crude trading near $115–$116/bbl.”
Desk assessmentEvery figure is Wednesday’s: the S&P 500 closed Wednesday at 7,743.98, up 0.28 percent, and Thursday at 7,720.39, down 0.30. The page’s modification stamp is 02:59 UTC on 29 October, 10:59 p.m. Wednesday. Wednesday’s session under Thursday’s title.
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26029 OCT
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Entry 260 (29 OCT): a rise that is a fall
Published claimTrading Economics’ government-bond page, Thursday evening: in one of its two tables the ten-year at 4.938 with a change of 0.083 beside a percentage change of −0.08%; in the other, −0.083. The narrative above both: “hovered around 5% on Thursday.”
Desk assessmentThe ten-year fell on Thursday, to 4.94 from 5.05, on the AP and on the provider’s own level. A positive change cannot sit beside a negative percentage of the same move; the narrative is six basis points from the figure beneath it.
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25929 OCT
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Entry 259 (29 OCT): two Dows on one page
Published claimTrading Economics’ United States page, two items dated 29 October. The first: “The Dow Jones Index fell 133 points or 0.25 percent on Thursday to close at 52343 points.” The second: “the Dow losing 135 points.”
Desk assessmentThe Dow lost 132.54 points, to 52,342.56, on the AP and Reuters. Two point changes for one close on one page. Beneath both, the provider’s table pairs 7,661.81 with a change of −23.59, which puts Wednesday’s close at 7,685.40 against 7,743.98 (desk arithmetic); that pairing is the one recorded this morning and is counted there.
- Source 1: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market/
- Source 2: https://lancasteronline.com/business/stock_market/a-historic-drop-for-alphabets-stock-drags-the-us-market-lower/article_ba035af5-4128-5bf7-93e7-040866082d61.html
- Source 3: https://www.marketscreener.com/news/wall-street-slides-as-alphabet-revenue-miss-revives-ai-capex-jitters-ce785fdadd89ff24
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25829 OCT
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Entry 258 (29 OCT): a closing card that is not the close
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s closing-bell card for Thursday, headlined “S&P 500 Closes Down 0.5% as Nasdaq Leads the Selling Into Amazon Earnings”: “The S&P 500 slipped 37.74 points to close at 7,706.63.” Its closing list: Dow −0.51%, Nasdaq −1.57%.
Desk assessmentThe S&P 500 closed at 7,720.39, down 23.59 points, or 0.30 percent, on the Associated Press, Reuters and Yahoo Finance’s board; the Dow fell 0.25 percent and the Nasdaq 1.38. The site’s own ticker bar, read at the same minute, had the S&P 500 at 7,684.40. A card that is not the close, a fourth time; forecast in No. 12.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/the-nasdaq-s-1-57-drop-was-triple-the-dow-s-concentrating-gspc-market-bell-01m64m5jtya3f2cehqh2qnm9az
- Source 2: https://lancasteronline.com/business/stock_market/a-historic-drop-for-alphabets-stock-drags-the-us-market-lower/article_ba035af5-4128-5bf7-93e7-040866082d61.html
- Source 3: https://www.marketscreener.com/news/wall-street-slides-as-alphabet-revenue-miss-revives-ai-capex-jitters-ce785fdadd89ff24
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25729 OCT
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Entry 257 (29 OCT): two readings, neither the close
Published claimIC Markets’ Thursday note, published 06:55 UTC (2:55 a.m. Eastern), fifty-five minutes after the Tokyo close: header, “Nikkei up 0.21%”, “Hang Seng down 0.00%”; body, “the Nikkei 225 rose 0.49%”, “the Hang Seng gained 0.24%.”
Desk assessmentThe Nikkei 225 closed at 64,659.47, up 1.1 percent (the Associated Press, 5:51 a.m.; Trading Economics’ narrative). Two readings of one session on one page, neither of them the close, published after it.
- Source 1: https://www.icmarkets.com.au/blog/thursday-29th-oct-2026-u-s-futures-fall-as-microsoft-alphabet-earnings-put-ai-trade-in-focus/
- Source 2: https://www.cp24.com/news/money/2026/10/29/world-shares-and-us-futures-are-mixed-after-google-parent-alphabets-earnings-disappoint/
- Source 3: https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/stock-market
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25629 OCT
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Entry 256 (29 OCT): a live quote in yesterday’s row
Published claimMortgage News Daily’s Treasury page, read Thursday morning: in its table of daily closes, “Oct 28 2026 · 4.996 · −0.020” for the ten-year, beside “Oct 27 2026 · 4.997 · −0.002.” Its live quote at the top of the page: 4.997, −0.020.
Desk assessmentWednesday’s close is 5.05 on the Treasury’s par yield curve and on Yahoo Finance’s board (up 0.05), 5.044 on CappNotes (up 5.2 basis points), the day’s biggest rise since 28 September. The 4.996 in the Wednesday row is Thursday morning’s live quote, filed under Wednesday’s date as the close; a −0.020 change from a 4.997 prior does not produce 4.996 either.
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25529 OCT
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Entry 255 (29 OCT): two Wednesdays on one page
Published claimTrading Economics’ United States stock market page, item dated 28 October: “The Dow Jones Index gained 132 points or 0.25 percent on Wednesday to close at 52509 points.” The same page’s market wrap, dated 29 October: “During Wednesday’s regular session, the Dow gained 0.19%.”
Desk assessmentThe Dow closed at 52,475.10, up 97.53 points or 0.19 percent, on Yahoo Finance’s board carrying Investopedia, CappNotes and TradingKey. The 52,509 is an intraday level labelled a close, and the page carries both percentages at once.
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Entry 254 (29 OCT): February’s quarter, quoted as Wednesday’s
Published claimFortune, 4:40 p.m. Wednesday 28 October, on Alphabet’s third quarter: “Cloud significantly accelerated with revenues growing 48%, now on an annual run rate of over $70 billion,” said Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai “during a call with analysts Wednesday” — in a piece headlined on Cloud revenue doubling to $31 billion.
Desk assessmentThe run-rate sentence is in the fourth-quarter 2025 release of 4 February: “Google Cloud ended 2025 at an annual run rate of over $70 billion”; fourth-quarter Cloud growth was 48 percent by the desk’s division (17,664 ÷ 11,955). Wednesday’s release gives Cloud at $30,709 million against $15,157 million, 103 percent, a run rate of $122.8 billion (× 4, desk arithmetic). February’s figures printed as Wednesday’s call.
- Source 1: https://fortune.com/2026/10/28/alphabet-google-stock-drops-cloud-revenue-doubles-free-cash-flow-negative
- Source 2: https://s206.q4cdn.com/479360582/files/doc_financials/2025/q4/2025q4-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf
- Source 3: https://s206.q4cdn.com/479360582/files/doc_news/2026/Oct/28/attachments/2026q3-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf
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25328 OCT
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Entry 253 (28 OCT): the wrong hour
Published claimNewsquawk’s preview, headline: “ECB Policy Announcement due Thursday, 29th October 2026 at 13:15GMT/08:15EDT.”
Desk assessment13:15 GMT is 9:15 a.m. Eastern this week: Europe set its clocks back on 25 October and the United States does not until 1 November, so the gap is four hours, not five. The press conference, 13:45 GMT, is 9:45.
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Entry 252 (28 OCT): won under a dollar sign
Published claimThe Seoul Economic Daily’s English edition, headline: “Microsoft Beats Estimates With $124 Billion Revenue as Azure Jumps 48%.” Body: “revenue reached $92.279 billion (about 123.8 trillion won).”
Desk assessmentRevenue was $92.3 billion, up 19 percent (Microsoft’s release). The headline’s figure is the won conversion under a dollar sign; 123.8 trillion ÷ 92.279 billion = 1,342 won per dollar, this desk’s arithmetic.
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Entry 251 (28 OCT): a snapshot called the close
Published claimTrading Economics’ United States stock-market page, news item: “The Dow Jones Index gained 132 points or 0.25 percent on Wednesday to close at 52509 points.”
Desk assessmentThe Dow closed at 52,475.10, up 97.53 or 0.19 percent. 52,509 less 132 is Tuesday’s 52,377, so the base is right and the “close” is a reading from before it.
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Entry 250 (28 OCT): one card, three closes, no record
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s closing-bell card for Wednesday, stamped 4:00 p.m.: headline “S&P 500 Closes at a Record 7,738 Ahead of the Fed Decision”; body “added 16 points to close at 7,738.81”; closing-bell box +0.21%; its own ticker, marked at close, 7,731.40, +0.04%.
Desk assessmentThe S&P 500 closed at 7,743.98, up 21.38 or 0.28 percent. Three values for one close on one card, none of them the close; the index closed at 7,807.24 on 12 October (entry 242), so 7,738 is no record; the decision was at 2:00 p.m. Forecast in The Errata, No. 12, item 9, for Wednesday or Thursday.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/another-record-close-for-the-s-p-500-squeezed-out-of-a-16-p-gspc-market-bell-01m621sgwr684jfks32s1h71tc
- Source 2: https://krmg.com/2026/10/28/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-wednesday-10-28-2026/
- Source 3: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-wednesday-october-28-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-fed-meeting-decision-big-tech-earnings-130508769.html
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Entry 249 (28 OCT): a snapshot called the close
Published claimInvesting.com’s market story, updated 4:16 p.m.: “The benchmark S&P 500 rose 0.4% to close at 7,750.88 points, while the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.2% to settle at 52,479.62 points.”
Desk assessmentThe S&P 500 closed at 7,743.98, up 21.38 or 0.28 percent; the Dow at 52,475.10, up 97.53 (Associated Press; Yahoo Finance; TheStreet Pro; The Motley Fool; TradingKey). 7,750.88 is inside the day’s range, whose high was 7,758.43: a pre-bell reading under the word “close.” The Nasdaq on the same page is right.
- Source 1: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/us-stock-futures-flat-with-fed-rate-decision-megacap-tech-earnings-on-tap-4977314
- Source 2: https://krmg.com/2026/10/28/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-wednesday-10-28-2026/
- Source 3: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-wednesday-october-28-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-fed-meeting-decision-big-tech-earnings-130508769.html
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Entry 248 (28 OCT): a pre-decision post as the decision
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s card, “Fed Holds Rates but Eyes a December Hike That Reshapes 2026”: “the Fed holds its benchmark rate unchanged while signaling that a December increase is on the way.” Built on a post stamped 8:44 a.m.
Desk assessmentThe statement, released at 2:00 p.m., does not contain the word December, or hike, or increase outside the sentence describing the dissent; its forward sentence is that “the accumulation of more information will help the Committee determine the policy stance.” Named for Thursday in The Errata, No. 12, item 7; it arrived on Wednesday.
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Entry 247 (28 OCT): headline against body
Published claimTheStreet Pro’s live blog, 2:25 p.m. entry: “FOMC Holds Rates Steady; Governor Cook Dissents.” The body: “Cleveland Fed President Hammack, who did dissent,” and “there was also a dissent from Governor Lisa Cook.” No vote count or range on the page.
Desk assessmentTwo dissenters; the headline names one. The same outlet’s 3:52 p.m. note has the range right, “between 375 and 400 basis points,” and the chair’s name wrong once, “Chair Walsh.”
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Entry 246 (28 OCT): headline against body
Published claiminvestingLive’s recap, headline: “Recap: Fed holds at 3.75%-4% in 10-2 vote as Cook dissents for a hike, December move in focus.” Its first paragraph: “with Governor Cook and Cleveland Fed’s Hammack dissenting for a hike.”
Desk assessmentA ten-to-two vote has two dissenters, Cook and Hammack, as the body and the statement say; the headline names one above its own vote count.
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Entry 245 (28 OCT): a point for a range
Published claimThe Associated Press, in copies carried by PBS NewsHour (updated 3:08 p.m.) and WMAR (modified 6:45 p.m.): “The Federal Reserve kept its key rate unchanged Wednesday at about 3.9%.” No range anywhere in the text. Fox 13 Tampa’s headline at 2:56 p.m.: “Fed holds key interest rate at 3.9%.”
Desk assessmentThe policy rate is a target range, 3¾ to 4 percent. 3.90 is the interest rate on reserve balances in the implementation note, and the midpoint by coincidence. The AP’s titles for the two dissenters are right.
- Source 1: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/watch-live-fed-chair-warsh-holds-briefing-after-latest-interest-rate-decision
- Source 2: https://www.wmar2news.com/politics/economy/federal-reserve-keeps-rates-unchanged-despite-elevated-inflation-gives-little-signal-of-next-move
- Source 3: https://www.fox13news.com/money/fed-reserve-interest-rate-inflation
- Source 4: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20261028a1.htm
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Entry 244 (28 OCT): two members of the Board, one of whom is not
Published claimJust the News, published 2:20 p.m. and updated 2:24: “Two members of the board reportedly sought to raise rates outright, according to the Wall Street Journal.” No rate, range or name on the page.
Desk assessmentOne of the two dissenters sits on the Board of Governors; Hammack is a Reserve Bank president. The headline’s “last meeting before midterms” is right: the next meeting is 8 and 9 December, the election 3 November.
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Entry 243 (28 OCT): a president called governor
Published claimWealth Professional’s account of the decision, byline dated 28 October, publication stamp 14:00 UTC: “The decision was not unanimous. Governors Cook and Hammack voted for another 25 basis point interest rate hike.”
Desk assessmentLisa Cook is a governor; Beth Hammack is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The statement names “Lisa D. Cook and Beth M. Hammack” without titles. Seen by No. 12 on Wednesday afternoon and left for the evening; uncorrected at 7:58 p.m.
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Entry 242 (12 OCT): one card, not the close
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s closing card for Monday 12 October, stamped 4:00 p.m.: “The S&P 500 ended the session at 7,804.81, a loss of less than a tenth of a percent”; the Dow “rose 0.34%”; the Nasdaq “fell 0.49%.” Tuesday’s card carried it forward: “the prior close of 7,807.2” in one line, “at 7,804.6” in another.
Desk assessmentThe S&P 500 closed at 7,807.24, down 0.06 percent; the Dow up 195.60 points or 0.38 percent; the Nasdaq down 0.44 (TheStreet’s 4:00 p.m. table; TradingKey; as this page recorded on 13 October). Forecast in The Errata, No. 11, item 9, and found when that forecast was scored, sixteen days late.
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Entry 241 (16 SEP): one page, two counts
Published claimCharles Schwab’s FOMC explainer, dated 16 September 2026 and still the top result for a preview query on 28 October: “16 of 19 members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) expect at least one more rate hike,” and lower on the same page, “16 of 18 members.”
Desk assessmentThere are nineteen participants and eighteen sets of projections, Chair Warsh having said in June that he does not submit one (the count corrected at the top of The Errata, No. 2). Sixteen of eighteen is the September materials’ count; the page carries both.
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Entry 240 (27 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claimThe Motley Fool, “Next Fed Meeting: It Starts Oct. 28 and Here’s What to Expect,” the first result for a preview of this week’s meeting at 3:47 p.m. Wednesday: “The Fed meets Oct. 28 to 29 and is expected to cut rates again,” with the range “likely landing” at 3.75 to 4.00 percent as a level after a cut.
Desk assessmentPublished 1 October 2025. This week’s meeting ran 27 and 28 October, no cut was expected, and the range held at 3.75 to 4.00 percent on Wednesday, where September’s quarter-point hike put it (Federal Reserve statements of 16 September and 28 October). The stale page is right by accident.
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Entry 239 (27 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claiminvestingLive, “US October consumer confidence 94.6 vs 93.2 expected,” the first result for the October 2026 release in three separate searches between 3:36 and 3:51 p.m. Wednesday. Its address ends in 20251028.
Desk assessmentIt is the October 2025 release. October 2026’s index is 91.7 against a consensus near 81 (The Conference Board; Trading Economics). Same calendar slot a year on, which is why it surfaces and why it reads as current.
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Entry 238 (27 OCT): wrong sign, at source
Published claimThe Conference Board’s October release, first version, as its own note describes it: the share of consumers calling business conditions “good” reported as down from 18.8 percent. The note now on the page: “This press release has been updated to read 21.4% of consumers said business conditions were ‘good,’ up from 18.8% in September. A previous version incorrectly reported ‘down’ instead of ‘up.’”
Desk assessmentThe share was 21.4 percent, up from 18.8, as the corrected document says. The sign of a line every outlet quoted on Tuesday was inverted in the primary document itself. A search for the wrong form at 3:51 p.m. Wednesday found only 2024 pages; if an outlet carried it, it has since been changed without a note.
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Entry 237 (27 OCT): one site, two figures
Published claimInvesting.com’s calendar row for the Conference Board’s October index, read thirty hours after the release: actual blank, consensus 80.5, previous 81.9. Investing.com’s own news story, Tuesday: the index “notably exceeds the forecasted level of 81.2” and “the previous month’s level of 84.2.”
Desk assessmentThe Conference Board has October at 91.7, up 7.5 points from a September revised to 84.2 from 81.9. One outlet, two consensus figures and two priors for one release; the calendar carries the unrevised prior and a consensus the newsroom did not use.
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Entry 236 (27 OCT): a number against its own sentence
Published claimTradingKey’s wrap of Tuesday’s session, stamped 12:49 a.m. Wednesday: West Texas Intermediate “fell 1.02% to close at $100.21, dropping back below $100.” The same piece: the Dow “rose 0.03% to 52,383.25 points,” under a teaser carrying 52,377.57.
Desk assessment$100.21 is above $100. December WTI settled at $99.90, beside December Brent at $113.88 (Bloomberg via Rigzone, 5:07 p.m.; Reuters via MarketScreener, 3:24 p.m.; Investrade), which is under a hundred. The Dow closed at 52,377.57 (Associated Press; TheStreet). TradingKey’s Brent, $109.73, is left as a difference between feeds.
- Source 1: https://www.tradingkey.com/analysis/stocks/us-stocks/262245038-anthropic-63b-deal-boosts-chips-broadcom-up-crwn-up-boeing-down-10-percent-tradingkey
- Source 2: https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/oil_slips_as_iran_diplomacy_picks_up-27-oct-2026-184947-article/
- Source 3: https://www.marketscreener.com/news/oil-slips-1-as-iran-diplomacy-eases-supply-fears-ce785cdcd08cf622
- Source 4: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/usa/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-tuesday-10272026-nid27102026/
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Entry 235 (27 OCT): prose against table
Published claimInvestrade’s market review for Tuesday 27 October: “The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped amid weakness in Boeing (BA).” Its own table on the same page: “DJ Industrials | 16.82 | 0.03% | 52,378.”
Desk assessmentThe Dow closed up, 15.99 points on the Associated Press and TheStreet, 16.82 on Investrade’s own table. The second outlet on one day to write the Dow’s close from its afternoon (entry 231).
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Entry 234 (27 OCT): dek against body
Published claimKiplinger’s Tuesday wrap, under the dek “Boeing’s post-earnings drop kept the Dow Jones Industrial Average underwater”: “the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average had added 0.03% to 52,377.”
Desk assessmentThe Dow closed up 15.99 points, or 0.03 percent, at 52,377.57 (Associated Press; TheStreet’s 4:19 p.m. wrap). The dek describes the afternoon and the body the bell; a sixteen-point gain is not underwater.
- Source 1: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/nasdaq-jumps-308-points-on-broadcoms-big-gains-stock-market-today
- Source 2: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/usa/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-tuesday-10272026-nid27102026/
- Source 3: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-27-2026
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Entry 233 (27 OCT): one card, not the close
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s closing card, marked “As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 27, 2026”: at the closing bell the S&P 500 “+0.72%,” the Dow “managed just 0.13%,” the Nasdaq “added 1.21%.” The same card: Boeing’s close at $168.07 in its movers and $168.18 in its 52-week-low item.
Desk assessmentThe S&P 500 closed at 7,722.60, up 45.83 points or 0.60 percent; the Dow at 52,377.57, up 15.99 or 0.03; the Nasdaq Composite at 26,477.81, up 308.43 or 1.18 (Associated Press; TheStreet’s 4:19 p.m. wrap; Yahoo Finance’s quote page, “At close: October 27 at 4:00:00 PM EDT”). The outlet’s own Wednesday piece has “gained 0.60% to 7,722.60.” Monday’s card is entry 188, and the card named in No. 11’s ninth item is entry 242.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/tech-is-carrying-the-entire-session-the-nasdaq-is-up-0-98-gspc-market-bell-01m5z1j2rtp839b941qy12w4wd
- Source 2: https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/10/28/oct-27-has-historically-marked-the-stock-markets-autumn-bottom/
- Source 3: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/usa/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-tuesday-10272026-nid27102026/
- Source 4: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-27-2026
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Entry 232 (28 OCT): an intraday reading under the word “close”
Published claimInvesting.com, published 3:00 a.m. and updated 3:05 a.m. Eastern Wednesday 28 October: “Japan stocks higher at close of trade; Nikkei 225 up 1.52%,” with “At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 gained 1.52%” in the body.
Desk assessmentThe Nikkei 225 closed at 63,954.19, up 685.82 points or 1.08 percent, on Yahoo Finance’s quote page (“At close: 3:45:03 PM GMT+9”), Investrade’s Morning Preview and Trading Economics’ Japan summary. Yahoo’s day’s range of 63,660.30 to 64,308.71 against a previous close of 63,268.37 puts 1.52 percent inside the session and below its high of 1.64: an intraday reading published, fifteen minutes after the close, as the close. The same page’s stock moves (Kioxia up 13.76 percent) are closing figures.
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Entry 231 (28 OCT): a level that belongs to nothing, a fourth time
Published claimInvestrade’s Morning Preview for Wednesday 28 October, published 10:56 UTC: “the Korean Kospi jumps 7.4% to 946.”
Desk assessmentThe Kospi closed at 6,012.44, up 374.1 points or 6.63 percent, on the Korea JoongAng Daily (5:50 p.m. KST), The Asia Business Daily (4:20 p.m. KST) and the Associated Press; SK hynix rose 10.89 percent and Samsung Electronics 9.01. The same preview had the Nikkei right at 63,954, up 685. This is the template that printed 860, 891 and 942 under the Kospi’s name (entries 222 and 228), a fourth time; the series the figure belongs to is still not established, and the percentage is wrong as well as the level.
- Source 1: https://investrade.com/morning-preview-october-28-2026/
- Source 2: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/kospi-surges-past-6000-as-sk-hynix-record-earnings-reignite-ai-rally/12943596
- Source 3: https://view.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026102816203154547
- Source 4: https://www.wsls.com/business/2026/10/28/asian-stocks-rise-after-a-rally-on-wall-street-while-oil-prices-edge-higher/
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Entry 230 (28 OCT): a decimal place moved, in the headline, over a body that has it right
Published claimKuCoin’s news flash on Anthropic’s prospectus, stamped 2026/10/27 06:44:53 with no zone given, headline: “Anthropic files S-1 for IPO, reveals $162.86 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026.” Its summary: “A net loss of $807.5 billion was reported, primarily due to non-cash expenses.”
Desk assessmentThe same page’s body text: “In the first half of 2026, Anthropic generated revenue of $16.286 billion” and “net loss for the first half of the year reached $80.75 billion.” Yahoo Finance’s filing live blog (4:03 p.m. UTC Monday) and Fortune carry $16.3 billion and $80.7 billion. The headline and summary move the decimal point one place on both figures, and the summary’s adjusted operating profit of about $16.18 billion is the body’s $1.618 billion moved the same way.
- Source 1: https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/anthropic-files-s-1-for-ipo-reveals-162-86b-revenue-in-first-half-of-2026
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/live/anthropic-ipo-live-updates-frontier-ai-lab-discloses-revenue-and-risks-in-highly-anticipated-s-1-filing-141702607.html
- Source 3: https://fortune.com/2026/10/26/anthropics-s-1/
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Netflix revenue replaced by SpaceX revenue
Published claimNewsquawk’s Daily European Opening News for Wednesday 21 October (05:44 UTC): “Netflix (NFLX) Q3 2026 (USD): EPS 0.87 (exp. 0.82), Revenue 14.6bln (exp. 12.9bln).” Its Daily European Equity Opening News (06:18 UTC), under a line saying the company reported “its slowest revenue growth in three years”: Q3 revenue of $14.6bn versus $12.87bn expected.
Desk assessmentNetflix reported third-quarter revenue of $12.87 billion, in line with estimates, on Yahoo Finance (8:48 p.m. Tuesday) and Benzinga (6:03 a.m. Wednesday, “$12.87B vs. $12.88B”). $14.6 billion is SpaceX’s third-quarter revenue, reported the same evening, which both Newsquawk pages also carry under SpaceX’s own name (“Revenue 14.6bln (exp. 12.98bln)”). A revenue beat of 13 percent does not sit under the slowest growth in three years, and the figure appears twice on one page under two companies.
- Source 1: https://www.newsquawk.com/headlines/newsquawk-daily-european-opening-news---21st-october-2026
- Source 2: https://www.newsquawk.com/headlines/newsquawk-daily-european-equity-opening-news---21st-october-2026
- Source 3: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/article/netflix-stock-sinks-after-announcing-q3-earnings-q4-revenue-forecast-falls-short-of-estimates-204545261.html
- Source 4: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/26/10/62488591/stock-market-today-sp-500-nasdaq-100-futures-gains-as-iran-prolongs-us-talks-ahead-of-midterms-nflx-spcx-smci-in-focus
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Korean index level mislabelled in morning preview
Published claimInvestrade’s Morning Preview for Wednesday 21 October, published 10:52 UTC: “Kospi: up 32 points (3.76%) to 891.”
Desk assessmentThe Kospi closed at 5,735.66, up 182.92 points or 3.29 percent, on the Korea JoongAng Daily (5:22 p.m. KST) and the Associated Press, 5,735.67 on TradingKey; Samsung Electronics rose 5.67 percent and SK hynix 5.81. The same preview had the Nikkei right at 64,621, up 545. This is the template that printed “860” for Thursday 15 October (entry 222) and “878” for Friday 16 October (entry 226): a Korean level that belongs to no index on the page, a third morning in a week, with the percentage near the Kospi’s each time and never equal to it. 891 − 32 = 859 is not a prior close for anything in Seoul.
- Source 1: https://investrade.com/morning-preview-october-21-2026/
- Source 2: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/kospi-rebounds-over-3-on-eased-ai-spending-woes/12932490
- Source 3: https://www.news4jax.com/business/2026/10/21/asian-shares-are-mixed-with-kospi-up-3-after-us-stocks-rally-on-strong-earnings/
- Source 4: https://www.tradingkey.com/analysis/stocks/more/262228327-japan-south-korea-stocks-kospi-nikkei-softbank-sk-hynix-samsung-kioxia-tradingkey
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Entry 227 (16 OCT): wrong sign
Published claimBenzinga’s premarket piece for Friday 16 October, published 5:25 a.m. Eastern: “Crude Oil WTI futures were trading higher in the early New York session by 0.98% to hover around $97.01 per barrel.”
Desk assessmentNovember WTI settled Thursday at $97.97, up $2.88, on Newsquawk’s crude wrap (19:12 UTC), beside Brent at $105.92; Investrade’s Friday changes (−0.45 to 97.52; −0.12 to 105.80) imply the same bases. $97.01 is 0.98 percent below $97.97: 97.97 × 0.9902 = 97.01, this desk’s multiplication. The size of the move is exact and the direction is inverted. TipRanks at 5:40 a.m. had WTI down 0.83 percent at $97.16 beside Brent down 0.62 at $105.27. Benzinga’s piece carries no Brent.
- Source 1: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/26/10/62404483/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-futures-rise-as-bessent-intensifies-economic-pressure-on-iran-treasury-yields-cool-off-tsla-aa-ibkr-in-focus
- Source 2: https://www.newsquawk.com/headlines/crude-wrap-wti-x6-settles-usd-288-higher-at-9797bbl-brent-x6-settles-usd-014-lower-at-usd-10592bbl
- Source 3: https://investrade.com/morning-preview-october-16-2026/
- Source 4: https://www.tipranks.com/news/stock-market-today-oct-16-futures-rise-as-tech-selloff-eases-treasury-yields-fall
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Entry 226 (16 OCT): impossible relationship
Published claimInvestrade’s Morning Preview for Friday 16 October, published 10:54 UTC: “The Korean Kospi rose 2% or 17 points to 878.”
Desk assessmentThe Kospi closed at 5,668.05, up 113.83 points or 2.05 percent, on the Seoul Economic Daily (16:03 KST) and 5,668.06 on TradingKey; the Kosdaq closed at 794.78, up 33.96. The same preview had the Nikkei right at 65,324, up 898. This is the template that printed “860” for Thursday (entry 222): a level that belongs to no index on the page, two mornings running, with the percentage right each time. 878 − 17 = 861, the previous morning’s figure to the point; whatever series this is, it is not the one named, and the desk could not establish it from the Kospi 200 pages it tried, which were stale.
- Source 1: https://investrade.com/morning-preview-october-16-2026/
- Source 2: https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/10/16/kospi-rebounds-after-7-day-losing-streak-kosdaq-triggers
- Source 3: https://www.tradingkey.com/analysis/stocks/more/262220492-japan-south-korea-stocks-kospi-nikkei-softbank-sk-hynix-samsung-kioxia-tradingkey
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Entry 225 (15 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claimThe Rio Times’ Asia Intelligence Brief for Thursday 15 October, published 12:02 UTC, in its ticker bar, twice: “BRENT 88.88 ▼ 0.03%” and “WTI 83.11 ▼ 0.11%.”
Desk assessmentBrent was $104.47 beside WTI at $94.17 on the Associated Press at 12:06 a.m. Eastern, $104.60 beside $95.21 on TheStreet at 8:04 a.m., and $104.04 beside $94.81 on Investrade; Wednesday’s settlements were $106.06 and $95.09 on Newsquawk. The ticker is about $16 below every feed read on the day for Brent and $11 for WTI, with changes of hundredths of a percent beside them; the article under it has the Kospi’s close right. A stale strip under a current page.
- Source 1: https://www.riotimesonline.com/asia-intelligence-brief-thursday-october-15-2026
- Source 2: https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/ap-top-news/2026/10/15/south-koreas-benchmark-kospi-index-sinks-more-than-7-as-tech-sell-off-deepens
- Source 3: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-15-2026
- Source 4: https://www.newsquawk.com/headlines/newsquawk-daily-european-equity-opening-news---15th-october-2026
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Entry 224 (15 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for Thursday 15 October’s European session returned, without a date warning, Reuters’ “European shares subdued as Mideast tensions outweigh ASML’s strong forecast” on Hargreaves Lansdown: the Stoxx 600 “slipped 0.1% to 641.07 points by 0709 GMT,” ASML up 6 percent, oil at “$85 a barrel.”
Desk assessmentThat is 15 July 2026; the page is dated at source. On 15 October the Stoxx 600 was down 0.35 percent at 635.54 by 0709 GMT on Reuters’ report of the day, with its technology sector down 3.2 percent, and Brent was near $104. The same calendar day, three months apart, a chip rally where there was a chip rout.
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Entry 223 (15 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claimTradingView’s “Key facts” card on TSMC’s third quarter, Thursday 15 October: “TSMC (2330) raised 2026 capex to $60–64B; analysts model ~$63B for 2026 and up to ~$83B for 2027.”
Desk assessmentThe budget was reiterated, not raised. The chief financial officer on Thursday’s call: “we reiterate our full-year 2026 capital budget to be between US$60 and US$64 billion.” The raise to that range happened on the 16 July call, from the $52 to $56 billion set in January, per BigGo Finance’s account. A July action printed as Thursday’s news, on the morning the question was whether the range would hold.
- Source 1: https://www.tradingview.com/news/tradingview:b9aeff60d735d:0-key-facts-tsmc-2330-q3-revenue-nt-1-49t-record-2026-capex-60-64b/
- Source 2: https://www.benzinga.com/news/26/10/62373492/taiwan-semiconductor-reports-q3-2026-results-full-earnings-call-transcript
- Source 3: https://www.marketbeat.com/instant-alerts/transcript-taiwan-semiconductor-manufacturing-q3-earnings-call-highlights-2026-10-15/
- Source 4: https://finance.biggo.com/news/US_TSM_2026-07-16
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22215 OCT
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Entry 222 (15 OCT): impossible relationship
Published claimInvestrade’s Morning Preview for Thursday 15 October, published 10:58 UTC: “the Korean Kospi sunk 76 points or 8.13% to finish at 860.”
Desk assessmentThe Kospi closed at 5,554.22, down 454.59 points or 7.57 percent, on the Korea JoongAng Daily and Trading Economics, after a circuit breaker at 12:38 p.m. Seoul time with the index at 5,527.12. No Korean index closed near 860 or lost 76 points: the Kosdaq closed at 757.81, down 68.45 or 8.31 percent at the halt. A level, a change and a percentage that belong to no index on the page.
- Source 1: https://investrade.com/morning-preview-october-15-2026/
- Source 2: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/kospinbspplunges-over-7-as-ai-doubts-us-rate-fears-hit-seoul-1/12922059
- Source 3: https://tradingeconomics.com/south-korea/stock-market
- Source 4: https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/10/15/korea-halts-trading-as-kospi-kosdaq-plunge-8-percent-on
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22114 OCT
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Entry 221 (14 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for Bank of America’s third-quarter 2026 results, run at about 7:28 a.m. on the morning the quarter printed, returned without a date warning American Banker’s “Bank of America dials up outlook slightly after solid Q3”: net income $8.5 billion, up 23 percent; earnings $1.06 a share against $0.95 forecast; revenue $28.1 billion.
Desk assessmentThat is the third quarter of 2025; the page is dated 15 October 2025 at source. The 2026 quarter, released at 6:45 a.m., has adjusted earnings of $1.08 a share against $1.10 expected and revenue of $30.0 billion against $30.58 billion on Newsquawk (24/7 Wall St.: $1.11 and $29.96 billion), with a $1.2 billion regulatory settlement charge, 17 cents a share, and fixed-income trading of $2.55 billion against $2.86 billion. The same calendar quarter, a year apart, a beat where there was a miss.
- Source 1: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/fees-net-interest-income-fuel-bank-of-america-earnings-beat
- Source 2: https://www.newsquawk.com/headlines/bank-of-america-bac-q3-2026-usd-eps-091-exp-110-revenue-300bln-exp-3058bln
- Source 3: https://247wallst.com/cards/bank-of-america-q3-2026-earnings-bac-01m4x0nj8jz5wveh8jkame6x53
- Source 4: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/bank-of-america-reports-third-quarter-2026-financial-results-830864028.html
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22014 OCT
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Entry 220 (14 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimA Stocktwits account republished on TradingView, Wednesday 14 October, headlined “ASML Raises Sales Forecast For A Third Time, But Q3 Revenue Miss Sends Stock Lower”: “the $13.07 billion figure missed the analyst expectation of $13.12 billion from Koyfin.”
Desk assessmentASML reports in euros. Third-quarter total net sales were €11,662 million (the company’s release, 1:00 a.m.), inside its own guidance of €11.0 to €12.0 billion and inside the €11.6 to €11.8 billion range TradingKey gave as consensus on 12 October; Invezz has it “matching market expectations.” The dollar gap is $50 million, 0.4 percent: $13.07 billion is €11.662 billion at 1.1207 and $13.12 billion is the same euro figure at 1.1250, this desk’s division, with the euro at 1.1191 on Trading Economics at 7:28 a.m. A euro quarter graded as a miss on a dollar estimate at an unstated rate, by less than the euro moves in a morning. Gross margin (57.5 against 55.9 expected) and net income (€4.96 billion against about €4.13 billion) were above expectations on Invezz’s account.
- Source 1: https://www.tradingview.com/news/stocktwits:ed9a44374094b:0-asml-raises-sales-forecast-for-a-third-time-but-q3-revenue-miss-sends-stock-lower-earnings-selloff-spreads-to-mu-sndk-intc/
- Source 2: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/14/3380319/0/en/asml-reports-11-7-billion-total-net-sales-and-5-0-billion-net-income-in-q3-2026.html
- Source 3: https://www.tradingkey.com/analysis/stocks/us-stocks/262211059-asml-q3-earnings-preview-revenue-tradingkey
- Source 4: https://invezz.com/news/2026/10/14/asml-earnings-hit-record-e5b-as-ai-demand-exceeds-supply-why-is-stock-14-down/
- Source 5: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/currency
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21912 OCT
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Entry 219 (12 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimThe Motley Fool’s closing wrap for Monday 12 October, stamped 21:03 UTC and republished on Yahoo Finance at 5:23 p.m.: “Gold prices fell 0.64% to $4,167.56 as of U.S. market close, and the 10-Year Treasury yield edged up 0.01% to 5.24%.” The same piece: “Bond markets were closed today.”
Desk assessmentThe cash Treasury market was shut on Monday for Columbus Day, as the piece says in its own words and as Investrade’s review has it. 5.24 percent is Friday’s close (Yahoo Finance’s board and Trading Economics’ table, with Kiplinger at 5.244, as this page recorded on 9 October), and a yield does not edge up on a day its market did not open. On Tuesday morning it was 5.19 on Investrade at 6:54 a.m. and on Trading Economics. This is the form named in The Errata, No. 11’s first item, which is left for the Errata to score.
- Source 1: https://www.fool.com/coverage/stock-market-today/2026/10/12/stock-market-today-oct-12-dow-gains-as-memory-stocks-weigh-on-nasdaq/
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/stock-market-today-oct-12-212311190.html
- Source 3: https://investrade.com/market-review-october-12-2026/
- Source 4: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-bond-yield
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21813 OCT
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Entry 218 (13 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimInvestrade’s Morning Preview for Tuesday 13 October, stamped 10:54 UTC, 6:54 a.m. Eastern: “The South Korean Kospi sunk -62 points or 6.25% to 942 led by the tech weakness.”
Desk assessmentThe Kospi closed on Tuesday at 6,035.35, down 348.89 points, or 5.46 percent, from 6,384.24: the Associated Press, updated at 7:30 a.m., and Aju Press carry the close, and Trading Economics the point change. The preview’s level and change agree roughly with each other (62 on a base of 1,004 is 6.2 percent, this desk’s arithmetic) and belong to some other series printed under the Kospi’s name; which one was not established. The same page’s Nikkei line, down 1,253 points or 1.82 percent to 67,777, agrees with the AP’s 67,777.52.
- Source 1: https://investrade.com/morning-preview-october-13-2026/
- Source 2: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2026/10/13/south-koreas-kospi-index-sinks-more-than-7-on-sell-off-of-semiconductor-shares-over-ai-boom-worries/
- Source 3: https://www.ajupress.com/view/20261013171446394
- Source 4: https://tradingeconomics.com/south-korea/stock-market
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2178 OCT
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Entry 217 (8 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimA KuCoin news flash, released “2026/10/08 10:38:51” and crediting AIBase, headlined “Broadcom to Raise Over $500 Billion for OpenAI Custom AI Chip Project.” Its summary: “secure over $500 billion in private debt,” “arranging up to $600 billion in AI chip financing for Anthropic,” and “a $180 billion subordinated debt portion.”
Desk assessmentThe page’s own body has “over $50 billion” for OpenAI, “up to $60 billion” for Anthropic and “$18 billion in subordinate debt”: each figure in the headline and summary is ten times the one beneath it. The body agrees with the reporting it rests on: the Wall Street Journal’s more than $50 billion, as Crypto Briefing and TIKR relay it, and the $60 billion package in $42 billion and $18 billion classes that Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported, as Quartz and Investing.com relay them. Broadcom’s own borrowings were $59.4 billion at 2 August (2,252 + 57,167, $ million, its release of 2 September). The desk opened none of the three newspapers. The page was still standing, unchanged, on Monday 12 October.
- Source 1: https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/broadcom-to-raise-over-500-billion-for-openai-custom-ai-chip-project
- Source 2: https://cryptobriefing.com/broadcom-50-billion-openai-chip-financing/
- Source 3: https://www.tikr.com/blog/broadcom-is-arranging-50-billion-so-openai-can-buy-its-chips
- Source 4: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/broadcom-raises-60-billion-debt-113047288.html
- Source 5: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/wall-street-tests-lender-appetite-214705266.html
- Source 6: https://investors.broadcom.com/news-releases/news-release-details/broadcom-inc-announces-third-quarter-fiscal-year-2026-financial
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2169 OCT
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Entry 216 (9 OCT): propagated error
Published claimTheStreet’s live blog, 4:13 p.m. Friday: “Today’s advances help place indexes like the Dow (+1.15%) and S&P 500 (+0.95%) higher week-over-week.” Trading Economics’ closing note: “For the week, the S&P 500 rose 0.9%, the Nasdaq shed 0.1% and the Dow gained 585 points.”
Desk assessmentThe five daily changes sum to 88.82 points, or 1.15 percent, for the S&P 500 (51.23 + 44.98 − 17.16 − 36.41 + 46.18, on a 2 October close of 7,722.72) and to 477.99 points, or 0.93 percent, for the Dow (90.94 + 253.38 − 341.41 + 51.77 + 423.31, on 51,176.96), this desk’s arithmetic from closes logged on this page. Investrade’s review has the same: “the S&P 500 gained 1.15% … and the Dow climbed 0.93%.” The larger gain was the S&P 500’s and both outlets gave it to the Dow; 585 points is 1.14 percent of the Dow. Two outlets and one error, counted once. The Associated Press’s Friday table could not be opened.
- Source 1: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-09-2026
- Source 2: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
- Source 3: https://investrade.com/market-review-october-09-2026/
- Source 4: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-friday-october-9-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-080148117.html
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2159 OCT
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Entry 215 (9 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s closing card, marked “As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 9, 2026” and headlined “S&P 500 Closes at 7,812 as the Dow Leads a Broad Rally”: deck “the Dow’s 501-point gain outran both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq”; text “a gain of roughly 0.98% on the day” and “the S&P 500 finished at 7,812.85.”
Desk assessmentThe Dow closed at 51,654.95, up 423.31 points, or 0.83 percent, and the S&P 500 at 7,811.54, up 46.18, or 0.59 percent (Yahoo Finance’s board; Trading Economics); TheStreet’s 4:00 p.m. post has 51,655.01, up 423.37, and 7,811.51. The card’s Dow gain is 77.69 points too large and its S&P 500 level 1.31 points high, this desk’s arithmetic. With entries 188, 208, 212 and 211 it is the fifth such card in five sessions.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/cyclicals-did-the-heavy-lifting-the-dow-s-501-point-gain-ou-gspc-market-bell-01m4h4799hnnkytneswf7552q5
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-friday-october-9-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-080148117.html
- Source 3: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
- Source 4: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-09-2026
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2149 OCT
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Entry 214 (9 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s opening piece, published at 9:30 a.m. on Friday 9 October: “An FOMC press release is on the calendar for 2 p.m. ET, so the morning rally is still exposed to a hawkish surprise,” and “The Fed’s 2 p.m. ET statement is the day’s biggest risk.” The same piece: “WTI recently traded at $96 after hitting $107 in mid-September.”
Desk assessmentNo statement was scheduled for Friday. The committee met on 15–16 September and meets next on 27–28 October; the week’s only 2:00 p.m. release was the minutes on Wednesday 7 October, and the piece itself refers to “the Fed’s Oct. 7 statement.” Friday’s paragraph is Wednesday’s. TheStreet had WTI at $90.90 beside Brent at $103.20 at 7:20 a.m. Friday, and Investrade has the settlements at $91.85 beside $104.72. One page, two stale items, counted once. The Board’s calendar could not be opened on Friday evening; the meeting dates are as this desk has read them there before.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/10/09/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-and-nasdaq-in-focus-at-the-opening-bell/
- Source 2: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm
- Source 3: https://admiralmarkets.com/analytics/traders-blog/fomc-minutes-october-2026
- Source 4: https://www.roic.ai/news/fed-minutes-reveal-all-19-officials-backed-september-rate-hike-but-october-pause-gains-steam-10-07-2026
- Source 5: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-09-2026
- Source 6: https://investrade.com/market-review-october-09-2026/
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2138 OCT
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Entry 213 (8 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claimTrading Economics’ bond page, item dated 8 October, “US 10-Year Treasury Yield Nearly Flat”: the yield “swung around 5.3% on Thursday, after hitting a fresh 24-year high of 5.35%.”
Desk assessmentThe same page’s item of 5 October had the yield at 5.35%, “the highest since April 2002,” as entry 206 records it, and Wednesday 7 October went higher: 5.36 percent at 9:25 a.m. on BabyPips, 5.361 on Eurasia Business News and 5.3645 in Investrade’s Friday review. Thursday’s 5.35 was neither fresh nor the high. The 5 October item was no longer on the page when it was read on Friday.
- Source 1: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-bond-yield
- Source 2: https://www.babypips.com/news/financial-forex-market-recap-2026-10-07
- Source 3: https://eurasiabusinessnews.com/2026/10/07/stock-market-today-treasury-yields-retreat-after-strong-auction-dow-slips/
- Source 4: https://investrade.com/market-review-october-09-2026/
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2127 OCT
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Entry 212 (7 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s closing card, marked “As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 7, 2026” and headlined “S&P 500 Closes Down 0.3% While the Dow Absorbs a 341-Point Drop”: text “The S&P 500 settled at 7,798.06,” and the fall given as “the S&P 500’s 0.27% decline.”
Desk assessmentThe S&P 500 closed at 7,801.77, down 17.16 points, or 0.22 percent (Associated Press; TheStreet’s 4:03 p.m. wrap). The card’s level is 3.71 points below the close, this desk’s arithmetic, and its 0.27 percent is the distance from Tuesday’s 7,818.93 to the card’s own level. Forecast in The Errata, No. 10, item 8. The card’s ticker strip showed 7,823.60, up 0.58 percent, when read on Friday evening, the same figures as on Friday’s card (entry 215); it belongs to neither day and is not used. Monday’s card is entry 188, Tuesday’s 208 and Thursday’s 211.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/the-dow-s-341-point-drop-did-more-than-double-the-damage-of-gspc-market-bell-01m4bzecab3w26atdew1v6g1eh
- Source 2: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/usa/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-wednesday-1072026-nid07102026/
- Source 3: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-07-2026
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2118 OCT
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Entry 211 (8 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s closing card, marked “As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 8, 2026” and headlined “S&P 500 Drops 0.5% at Close While Dow Holds Flat”: text “The S&P 500 closed at 7,761.68, down 0.5%”; its “At close” ticker, S&P 500 7,782.20, +0.04%.
Desk assessmentThe S&P 500 closed at 7,765.36, down 36.41 points, or 0.47 percent (The Motley Fool’s quote box; Investing.com; Yahoo Finance’s board; the change also on Trading Economics). The card’s two levels are 20.52 points apart and stand 3.68 below and 16.84 above the close, this desk’s arithmetic, and its ticker shows a gain on a day the index fell. The card carries a notice that its updates may no longer reflect current data. Tuesday’s card is entry 208 and Monday’s entry 188.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/tech-took-the-hit-alone-the-nasdaq-shed-1-3-while-the-dow-gspc-market-bell-01m4ehtpqwb2j3q0msh3ck0gy6
- Source 2: https://www.fool.com/coverage/stock-market-today/2026/10/08/stock-market-today-oct-8-tech-stocks-slide-as-treasury-yields-and-oil-prices-surge/
- Source 3: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/asia-stocks-mixed-chipmakers-slide-on-openai-revenue-concerns-4940150
- Source 4: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
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2108 OCT
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Entry 210 (8 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimThe Motley Fool’s closing wrap for Thursday, stamped 21:05 UTC, and its copy on Yahoo Finance, stamped 5:25 p.m. Eastern: “the 10-Year Treasury yield rose 0.01% to 5.28%” and, further down the same piece, “Treasury yields fell as the trading session progressed, ultimately closing at a 5.23% yield.”
Desk assessmentThe ten-year closed at 5.23 percent (Associated Press; Yahoo Finance’s board, which has it down 0.87 percent on the day; Schwab Network at 5.233), having touched 5.35 early in the session. A yield cannot rise to 5.28 and close at 5.23 in one wrap. 5.23 divided by 0.9913 is 5.276, this desk’s arithmetic, so 5.28 is about where the yield began the day. One article on two sites, counted once.
- Source 1: https://www.fool.com/coverage/stock-market-today/2026/10/08/stock-market-today-oct-8-tech-stocks-slide-as-treasury-yields-and-oil-prices-surge/
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/stock-market-today-oct-8-212502041.html
- Source 3: https://www.news4jax.com/business/2026/10/09/asian-shares-are-mixed-and-crude-prices-fall-after-an-unsettled-day-on-wall-st/
- Source 4: https://schwabnetwork.com/articles/closing-bell-openai-revenue-concerns-hit-tech-stocks-as-oil-rises
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2098 OCT
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Entry 209 (8 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimKuCoin’s news page, stamped 2026/10/08 10:38:51 with no time zone and credited to AIBase and MetaEra: headline “Broadcom to Raise Over $500 Billion for OpenAI Custom AI Chip Project”; its summary box has Broadcom moving “to secure over $500 billion in private debt.”
Desk assessmentThe page’s own body says Broadcom is in talks with Apollo and Blackstone to raise more than $50 billion, which is the Wall Street Journal’s figure as investingLive relayed it at 5:16 p.m. on Wednesday 7 October and as RuntimeWire has it. Headline and body are a factor of ten apart. The first of two reads also returned $600 billion and $180 billion in the summary box where the body has $60 billion and $18 billion for a separate financing; the second read was confined to the headline, the box’s first sentence and the body’s opening, and the entry rests on those.
- Source 1: https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/broadcom-to-raise-over-500-billion-for-openai-custom-ai-chip-project
- Source 2: https://investinglive.com/stocks/wsj-broadcom-seeks-over-50-billion-for-openai-chips-as-oracle-spacex-chase-ai-debt-deals/
- Source 3: https://runtimewire.com/article/broadcom-openai-50-billion-chip-financing
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2086 OCT
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Entry 208 (6 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s closing card, marked “As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 6, 2026”: headline “S&P 500 Closes at a Fresh Record, Up 0.6% to 7,822”; text “The S&P 500 settled at 7,822.72”; table “S&P 500 7,832.00 +0.57%”; and a prior close of 7,774.11.
Desk assessmentThe S&P 500 closed at 7,818.93, up 44.98, or 0.58 percent, from 7,773.95 (Associated Press; TheStreet; Anadolu; Yahoo Finance’s history table). The card’s two levels are 9.28 points apart and stand 3.79 and 13.07 points above the close, this desk’s arithmetic. Monday’s card had 7,787.91 for a close of 7,773.95 (entry 188).
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/a-7-822-close-on-the-s-p-500-is-a-fresh-high-water-mark-and-gspc-market-bell-01m49d0y2a56q1dpg7vaer706v
- Source 2: https://krmg.com/2026/10/06/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-tuesday-10-6-2026/
- Source 3: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-06-2026
- Source 4: https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2026/10/06/us-stocks-close-at-record-highs-as-tech-gains-lower-yields-lift-markets
- Source 5: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/history/
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2076 OCT
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Entry 207 (6 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimTheStreet Pro, 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, headline: “Trade Deficit Widens to Largest in 19 Months on Record Imports.”
Desk assessmentThe body of the same piece: “The trade deficit widened 13.7% to $105.6 billion in August, the largest since March 2025.” From March 2025 to August 2026 is seventeen months, this desk’s count; nineteen would reach back to January 2025, a month the piece does not mention, and the body nowhere says nineteen. Reuters has “the largest since March 2025” as well.
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2066 OCT
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Entry 206 (6 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimTrading Economics’ bond page on Tuesday, under “10-Year Treasury Yield Softens from 24-Year High”: the yield was “pausing a surge that peaked at a 24-year high of 5.33% touched yesterday.” Benzinga, 1:11 p.m.: “The 10-year Treasury yield fell about 4 basis points to 5.27%, retreating from a 24-year high of 5.33%.”
Desk assessmentA news item on the same Trading Economics page, dated 5 October: “US 10 Year Government Bond Yield increased to 5.35%, the highest since April 2002.” Monday’s high was sworn at 5.35 in The Errata, No. 9; Investrade’s Tuesday review has 5.349 and Investopedia “above 5.35%.” The 5.33 is Monday’s midday reading (entry 187), promoted to the peak a day later. Two outlets and one error, counted once.
- Source 1: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-bond-yield
- Source 2: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/26/10/62199369/sp-500-nasdaq-100-record-highs-treasury-yields-ease-stock-market-today
- Source 3: https://investrade.com/market-review-october-06-2026/
- Source 4: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/stock-market-today-indexes-rise-104456505.html
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2056 OCT
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Entry 205 (6 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimInvesting.com’s “FOMC minutes, crude oil inventories among economic data due Wednesday,” published at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday: “1:00 PM ET - FOMC Meeting Minutes”; “2:00 PM ET - Consumer Credit (Forecast:14.40B, Previous: 18.06B)”; “9:30 AM ET - EIA Crude Oil Inventories”; “12:00 PM ET - 10-Year Note Auction.”
Desk assessmentThe Federal Reserve Board’s calendar has the minutes of the 15–16 September meeting at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday 7 October and the G.19 consumer credit release at 3:00 p.m.; Kiplinger’s calendar has both at those times, and investingLive has crude inventories at 10:30 a.m. and the auction at 1:01 p.m. Every row is an hour early. The shift of entries 175 and 193, a third time from the same outlet.
- Source 1: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/fomc-minutes-crude-oil-inventories-among-economic-data-due-wednesday-93CH-4935056
- Source 2: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/2026-october.htm
- Source 3: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/economy/this-weeks-economic-calendar
- Source 4: https://investinglive.com/news/week-ahead-ism-services-fed-minutes-and-canadian-jobs-lead-the-economic-calendar-be-aware/
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2046 OCT
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Entry 204 (6 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimWhalesbook, stamped 7:39 p.m. on 6 October with no zone given, in its headline on the August trade report: “US Trade Deficit ka bada jhatka: AI Tech ke chakkar mein deficit hua record $105.6 Billion!”
Desk assessmentThe Bureau of Economic Analysis: “the goods and services deficit was $105.6 billion in August, up $12.7 billion from $92.8 billion in July, revised.” Reuters has that as the largest since March 2025, so March 2025 was larger, and the release has the year-to-date deficit down $138.2 billion, or 19.9 percent, from 2025; the article’s own body says the eight-month total is 20 percent lower. What set a record was imports, at $420.8 billion. The superlative moved from one line of the release to another. The form The Errata, No. 9, named for Tuesday (item 3).
- Source 1: https://www.whalesbook.com/news/Hinglish/economy/US-Trade-Deficit-Hits-dollar1056-Billion-on-AI-Tech-Surge/6ac501185aacb956d08e0a47
- Source 2: https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/us-international-trade-goods-and-services-august-2026
- Source 3: https://www.investing.com/news/economic-indicators/us-trade-deficit-widens-in-august-amid-strong-imports-4934478
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2036 OCT
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Entry 203 (6 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimTrading Economics’ United States index page, read twice between 7:16 and 7:33 p.m. Tuesday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,829.44 beside a change of 44.98, 0.58 percent, and the Dow at 51,563.27 beside 253.38, 0.49 percent, both dated 6 October, under a narrative saying the indexes “closed higher on Tuesday.”
Desk assessmentThe changes are Tuesday’s cash session to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,818.93, up 44.98, and the Dow at 51,521.28, up 253.38 (Associated Press; TheStreet at 4:03 p.m.; Anadolu) — and the levels belong to a later minute. Level less change is 7,784.46 and 51,309.89, this desk’s arithmetic; Monday closed at 7,773.95 and 51,267.90. The pairing of entry 192, a night later. The form The Errata, No. 9, named for Tuesday night (item 6).
- Source 1: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
- Source 2: https://krmg.com/2026/10/06/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-tuesday-10-6-2026/
- Source 3: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-06-2026
- Source 4: https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2026/10/06/us-stocks-close-at-record-highs-as-tech-gains-lower-yields-lift-markets
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2027 OCT
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Entry 202 (7 OCT): wrong series
Published claimA 24/7 Wall St. market card dated Wednesday 7 October: “The FTSE 100 is currently trading at 13,967, a modest pullback that sits within a broader slide carrying the index down from higher levels in recent weeks.”
Desk assessmentThe FTSE 100 was at 10,501.41, down 0.4 percent, in early trade on the Associated Press, at 10,481 on Trading Economics, and had closed on Tuesday at 10,542 in Newsquawk’s note. It has never traded within three thousand points of 13,967. The printed figure divided by the AP’s level is 1.33, and the pound was at $1.3195 on Trading Economics, so the card may be carrying the index restated in dollars under the index’s own name; it does not say, and no feed read carried a FTSE 100 at that level.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/if-you-are-overweight-european-industrials-the-risk-sits-in-ftse-market-bell-01m4amge0zak0vegfyjdpk01j2
- Source 2: https://www.ksat.com/business/2026/10/07/world-stocks-mostly-fall-back-despite-latest-earnings-driven-rally-on-wall-street/
- Source 3: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/currency
- Source 4: https://www.newsquawk.com/headlines/newsquawk-daily-european-equity-opening-news---7th-october-2026
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2016 OCT
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Entry 201 (6 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimInvestrade’s morning preview for Tuesday, published at 6:47 a.m. Eastern: “The Nikkei Index jumped 737 points to 70,883.”
Desk assessmentThe change is right and the level is not. The Nikkei 225 closed on Tuesday at 70,683.98, up 737.12 points or 1.05 percent, on Nikkei’s own index page, in the Associated Press’s report and on Fisco’s closing line; Monday’s close was 69,946.86. A level of 70,883 less a gain of 737 is 70,146, which was nobody’s Monday close, and Tokyo had been shut for more than four hours when the preview went out, so no later reading exists. One digit, two hundred points. The same page has the Hang Seng right, up 240 at 24,280.
- Source 1: https://investrade.com/morning-preview-october-06-2026/
- Source 2: https://indexes.nikkei.co.jp/en/nkave
- Source 3: https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/world/asian-shares-mostly-advance-after-wall-street-gains-and-oil-prices-fall/article_3e2a9d1a-d521-5045-900a-48c3a6688b98.html
- Source 4: https://jp.investing.com/news/forex-news/article-1702342
- Source 5: https://www.bbntimes.com/global-economy/nikkei-225-jumps-2-40-to-69-946-86-highest-close-since-july-as-ai-chip-stocks-surge
- Source 6: https://www.ibtimes.com.au/japan-nikkei-closes-above-70000-1876319
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2002 OCT
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Entry 200 (2 OCT): withdrawn — this desk’s error
Published claimWITHDRAWN 6 OCT. Quartz, carried by Yahoo Finance and stamped 1:54 p.m. Eastern on Friday 2 October, under “Nvidia stock hits record high, market cap nears $6 trillion”: “Nvidia reported record revenue of $81.6 billion in its first quarter of fiscal 2027, up 85% from a year earlier,” and “Nvidia guided for roughly $91 billion in second-quarter revenue.” This register logged that as a superseded quarter presented as the latest.
Desk assessmentIt was not presented as the latest. Read in context, the piece gives those figures as history: the sentence between the two begins “At the time, the company also authorized $80 billion in additional stock buybacks,” and the quarter is named as the first. Both figures are right for the quarter they describe; Nvidia’s release of 20 May has revenue of $81.6 billion and an outlook of $91.0 billion, plus or minus 2 percent. The piece does not mention the second quarter, reported on 26 August at $96.2 billion, and an omission is not a figure published as current. The desk quoted two sentences without the one between them. The entry stays numbered and is not counted.
- Source 1: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/nvidia-stock-hits-record-high-175422059.html
- Source 2: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2027
- Source 3: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-first-quarter-fiscal-2027
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1992 OCT
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Entry 199 (2 OCT): propagated error
Published claimSwingFish, under Friday’s date and credited to forexlive, and finwire, dated 1 October, both carry “Preview: September non-farm payrolls by the numbers” with the line “Consensus estimate +910K (range +35K to +180K).”
Desk assessmentEntry 173’s error, travelling: a consensus at five times the top of its own range. investingLive’s Friday result story used “+90K expected”, and the print was 29,000. The original preview still reads +910K. The form The Errata, No. 8, named for Friday (item 1).
- Source 1: https://www.swingfish.trade/blog/market-news/preview-september-non-farm-payrolls-by-the-numbers-439216/
- Source 2: https://finwire.io/news/stock-markets-news/preview-september-non-farm-payrolls-by-the-numbers
- Source 3: https://investinglive.com/news/preview-september-non-farm-payrolls-by-the-numbers/
- Source 4: https://investinglive.com/news/us-september-non-farm-payrolls-29k-vs-90k-expected/
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1982 OCT
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Entry 198 (2 OCT): wrong series
Published claimMy Weekly Stock’s “Weekly Market Recap (Sep 28-Oct 2),” dated 2 October, under “S&P 500 Movers: Top & Worst Performers”: “$FICO (Fair Isaac): -23.4% / $CTVA (Corteva): -84.8%.”
Desk assessmentCorteva separated from Vylor during the week, and the fall is the separation, not a loss of 85 percent of the company’s value; the page nowhere mentions Vylor or a spin-off. HDFC Sky’s headline the same day has Corteva “Plunges 84.31% on Major Corporate Moves,” over a body that mentions the spin-off. A price series read across a separation without adjustment. The form The Errata, No. 8, named for the week’s end (item 8).
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1972 OCT
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Entry 197 (2 OCT): impossible relationship
Published claimBreitbart’s report on the September jobs figures: “Goods-producing jobs added 18,000. Eight million jobs were added in durable goods manufacturing and 11 in construction.”
Desk assessmentThe whole economy added 29,000 jobs in September (Bureau of Labor Statistics). Eight million is 276 times the total and 444 times the goods-producing figure in the sentence before it (8,000,000 ÷ 29,000 and ÷ 18,000, this desk’s arithmetic). A part larger than its whole; the unit meant is thousands, and the next number in the sentence, 11, has it.
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1962 OCT
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Entry 196 (2 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimTrading Economics, “Treasury Yields Resume Their Rise,” Friday: “The yield on the US 10-year Treasury note resumed its rise to 5.52% on Friday after falling as much as 8bps earlier in the session.”
Desk assessmentThe Treasury’s par curve closed the ten-year at 5.28 on Friday, four basis points above Thursday’s 5.24, and the highest reading of the week was about 5.34 on Thursday. No feed read on Friday or Monday carried a ten-year above 5.36. The likeliest reading is 5.25 with two digits exchanged, which the desk could not confirm.
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1952 OCT
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Entry 195 (2 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimKiplinger’s jobs-report piece, updated 1:33 p.m. Friday: “At the same time, job growth for July (-31,000 to -10,000) and August (-29,000 to +133,000) was revised down, resulting in a combined 60,000 fewer jobs than previously reported.”
Desk assessmentThe Bureau of Labor Statistics: July “was revised down by 31,000, from +21,000 to -10,000,” and August “was revised down by 29,000, from +162,000 to +133,000.” Minus 31,000 and minus 29,000 are the sizes of the revisions, printed where the first estimates belong. The Errata, No. 8, expected this outlet’s earlier first estimates to be repeated (item 3); they were not, and this took their place.
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1942 OCT
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Entry 194 (2 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claimABC News, stamped 8:34 a.m. on Friday: “Employers added 29,000 jobs in September, a sharp slowdown from the 162,000 jobs added in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed.” Investopedia’s markets wrap for the day: “below economists’ expected addition of 84,000 and well below the 162,000 figure in August.”
Desk assessmentThe release that gave 29,000: “the change for August was revised down by 29,000, from +162,000 to +133,000.” Neither piece contains the word “revised.” Quartz, the same morning, printed both: August “added 162,000 jobs” and, further down, “August was revised down to 133,000 from 162,000.” The form The Errata, No. 8, named for Friday (item 3). Two outlets, one error, counted once.
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1935 OCT
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Entry 193 (5 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimInvesting.com’s “Trade balance, ADP employment, and Fed’s Bowman among data due Tuesday,” published at 2:00 p.m. Monday: “7:30 AM ET - Trade Balance (Forecast: -$95.20B, Previous: -$88.60B)”; “9:45 AM ET - FOMC Member Bowman Speaks”; “12:00 PM ET - 3-Year Note Auction.”
Desk assessmentThe Census Bureau’s and the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s schedules put the August trade report at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday 6 October. The Federal Reserve Board’s calendar has Vice Chair for Supervision Bowman at 10:45 a.m., and the conference’s agenda has her at 9:45 Central. The failure of entries 163 and 175 on a third page: every time an hour early under an Eastern label. The Errata, No. 8, expected another calendar to copy Friday’s 7:30 (item 2); none was found, and the source repeated the shift itself.
- Source 1: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/trade-balance-adp-employment-and-feds-bowman-among-data-due-tuesday-93CH-4932687
- Source 2: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/schedule.html
- Source 3: https://www.bea.gov/news/schedule
- Source 4: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/2026-october.htm
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1925 OCT
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Entry 192 (5 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimTrading Economics’ United States index page, read three times between 8:27 and 9:08 p.m. Monday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,781.04 beside a change of 51.23, 0.66 percent, and the Dow at 51,324.29 beside 90.94, 0.18 percent, both dated 6 October, under a sentence saying the index “rose to 7781 points on October 6, 2026, gaining 0.09% from the previous session.”
Desk assessmentThe changes are Monday’s cash session to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,773.95, up 51.23, and the Dow at 51,267.90, up 90.94 (Associated Press) — and the levels are contracts trading after the bell. 7,781.04 less 51.23 is 7,729.81; Friday’s close was 7,722.72. One row says 0.66 percent and the sentence above it says 0.09. The fifteenth entry for this page; the pairing of entry 171 with new numbers.
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1915 OCT
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Entry 191 (5 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimInvestrade’s Mid-Morning Look for Monday, stamped 14:32 UTC: “10-Year Note | 0.021 | 4.30%” and “EUR/USD | -0.0065 | 1.188.”
Desk assessmentThe outlet’s morning table had the ten-year at 5.287, up 0.01, and its closing table at 5.347, up 0.07; both imply a Friday base of 5.277, and 5.277 plus 0.021 is 5.298. Its euro was 1.1206 in the morning and 1.1205 at the close; 1.1255 less 0.0065 is 1.1190. Two levels that contradict the changes printed beside them. The morning table also has Dow futures down 111.00, “0.022%,” where 111 over 51,477 is 0.22 percent.
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1905 OCT
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Entry 190 (5 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimInvestrade’s Market Review for Monday, stamped 20:11 UTC, in its text: “U.S. WTI crude oil futures settle at $89.43 per barrel, down -$1.68, or 1.84% while Brent Crude futures settle at $100.32 per barrel, down -$1.93, or 1.89%.” In its table: “WTI Crude | -1.68 | 89.43” and “Brent | -1.08 | 101.17.”
Desk assessmentDecember Brent settled at $100.32, down $1.93, beside November WTI at $89.43, down $1.68 (investingLive; the review’s own text). The table’s Brent row is identical to the row in the outlet’s mid-morning table, stamped 14:32 UTC, while its WTI row was updated. 101.17 plus 1.08 and 100.32 plus 1.93 are both 102.25, Friday’s settlement (this desk’s arithmetic): one base, two Brents, on one page.
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1895 OCT
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Entry 189 (5 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s two-year card, marked as seen on the homepage on 5 October and stamped 7:00 p.m.: “2-Year Treasury Yield 7:00pm ET 4.83% +5 bp”; “The front end keeps pricing in more Fed tightening, with the 2-year up another 5 basis points to 4.83%.”
Desk assessmentUp five to 4.83 is Friday: the Treasury’s par curve has the two-year at 4.78 on Thursday and 4.83 on Friday, and the H.15 agrees. On Monday the two-year was at 4.823, down 0.2 basis points, on TheStreet at 3:57 p.m. and 4.821, down 0.4, on Kiplinger. Friday’s row under Monday’s stamp; the outlet’s Friday card carried Thursday’s rows the same way (entry 183).
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/the-front-end-keeps-pricing-in-more-fed-tightening-with-the-macro-release-01m474shytr3308gb6b269fhxc
- Source 2: https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/daily-treasury-rates.csv/2026/all?type=daily_treasury_yield_curve&field_tdr_date_value=2026&page&_format=csv
- Source 3: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/
- Source 4: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-05-2026
- Source 5: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/nasdaq-hits-new-highs-on-ai-boom-optimism-stock-market-today
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1885 OCT
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Entry 188 (5 OCT): mislabelled
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s closing card for Monday, marked “As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 5, 2026” under a closing-bell stamp: “S&P 500 closes at 7,787 as Nasdaq leads broad market higher”; “the Nasdaq’s 1.06% gain nearly tripled the Dow’s 0.36%, leaving the S&P 500 at 7,787.91”; “S&P 500 +0.84%.”
Desk assessmentThe S&P 500 closed at 7,773.95, up 51.23, or 0.66 percent, and the Dow at 51,267.90, up 90.94, or 0.18 percent (Associated Press; TheStreet at 7,773.99; Yahoo Finance’s quote page). 7,787.91 over Friday’s 7,722.72 is 0.84 percent, so the card agrees with itself and misses the close by 13.96 points; the level sits inside the day’s range of 7,727.59 to 7,794.35 and Investrade has the index “slipping in final minutes.” A late-session level under a closing label, on the outlet whose Thursday card is entry 179.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/tech-did-the-heavy-lifting-again-the-nasdaq-s-1-06-gain-ne-gspc-market-bell-01m46tkf2f7w10vn47cy4b9tyt
- Source 2: https://krmg.com/2026/10/05/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-monday-10-5-2026/
- Source 3: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-05-2026
- Source 4: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/
- Source 5: https://investrade.com/market-review-october-05-2026/
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1875 OCT
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Entry 187 (5 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimTrading Economics’ bond page on Monday: “The US 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.33% on Monday, near its highest level since March 2022 as investors assessed fresh economic data.” Benzinga, 12:53 p.m.: “The 10-year Treasury yield rose about 5 basis points to 5.33%, near its highest since March 2022.”
Desk assessmentA news item on the same Trading Economics page: “US 10 Year Government Bond Yield increased to 5.35%, the highest since April 2002.” The yield passed its 2007 peak last week (Reuters, 1 October), so no level from 2022 is near it; the same page says the yield is 1.18 points higher than a year ago. One page with two years twenty apart, and a second outlet carrying the wrong one. Two outlets, one error, counted once.
- Source 1: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-bond-yield
- Source 2: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/market-summary/26/10/62170436/nasdaq-100-record-brazil-etf-ewz-soars-bolsonaro-ism-services-prices-stock-market-today
- Source 3: https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/10-year-us-treasury-yield-hits-highest-since-2002-4926542
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1865 OCT
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Entry 186 (5 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claimThe same blog, in a post stamped 9:41 a.m.: “The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield (^TNX) hovered around 5.3% early Monday after finishing Friday near 5.24%.” Its 10:15 a.m. lead, still standing on AOL: “rose 2 basis points to 5.30%, hovering near its highest levels since 2007.”
Desk assessmentThe Treasury’s par yield curve has the ten-year at 5.28 on Friday and 5.24 on Thursday; the Federal Reserve’s H.15 agrees. The page’s own leads (“rose 2 basis points to 5.30%”; at 4:01 p.m., “rose 3 basis points to 5.31%”) both put Friday at 5.28. Thursday’s close under Friday’s name, the failure of entry 183 on another outlet. The yield passed its 2007 peak last week (Reuters, 1 October: “surpassing its 2007 peak, and hitting its highest since early 2002”); the 4:01 p.m. version says 2002. Two stale figures on one page, counted once.
- Source 1: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-monday-october-5-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-081220790.html
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-rise-as-tech-rallies-investors-shrug-off-bond-market-caution-081220790.html
- Source 3: https://www.aol.com/articles/stock-market-today-dow-p-081220000.html
- Source 4: https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/daily-treasury-rates.csv/2026/all?type=daily_treasury_yield_curve&field_tdr_date_value=2026&page&_format=csv
- Source 5: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/
- Source 6: https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/10-year-us-treasury-yield-hits-highest-since-2002-4926542
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1855 OCT
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Entry 185 (5 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimYahoo Finance’s live blog, in the version stamped 10:15 a.m. Monday, under a post titled “US services activity accelerated in September amidst elevated prices pressures”: “The ISM Services PMI came in at 55.9 in September, up from 55.4 in August and above the consensus forecast of 55.7.” In the version stamped 4:01 p.m. the sentence reads “54.9 in September, down from 55.4 in August and above the consensus forecast of 55.7.”
Desk assessmentThe Institute for Supply Management: “In September, the Services PMI registered 54.9 percent, a decrease of 0.5 percentage point compared to August’s figure of 55.4 percent.” The first version had the wrong number and the wrong direction; the second fixed both and left “above” over a figure that is below 55.7. AOL’s copy still carries 55.9 and “accelerated.” The blog’s 9:00 a.m. UTC calendar post gives the consensus as 55.2 and prints the prices-paid figures (73 expected, 72.6 prior) a second time under “new orders.” Counted once.
- Source 1: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-monday-october-5-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-081220790.html
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-rise-as-tech-rallies-investors-shrug-off-bond-market-caution-081220790.html
- Source 3: https://www.aol.com/articles/stock-market-today-dow-p-081220000.html
- Source 4: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/services-pmi-at-54-9-september-2026-ism-services-pmi-report-302898421.html
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18430 SEP
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Entry 184 (30 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimBigGo Finance, published at 18:22 UTC on 30 September and modified on 2 October, under “Cerebras Tumbles 7% as Report Says OpenAI’s New Ultrafast Model Runs on Nvidia Chips”: “The company has signed a multiyear agreement with OpenAI, reported to be worth more than $10 billion, to deploy 750 megawatts of Cerebras systems from 2026 through 2028.”
Desk assessmentMore than $10 billion is the value reported in January. On 16 April Reuters, citing The Information, reported that OpenAI “has agreed to pay chip startup Cerebras more than $20 billion over the next three years,” and gave the January deal “valued at more than $10 billion” as the earlier one. Yahoo Finance on 24 June has the agreement “now worth more than $20 billion, covering 750 megawatts of inference capacity through 2028,” and The Motley Fool’s account of the quarterly filing, on 5 September, calls it “a deal Cerebras has valued at more than $20 billion.” A figure doubled in April, printed at its January size in a story about the stock falling on that contract. Stocktwits, syndicated by Yahoo Finance on 4 October, uses $10 billion and dates it to January; it is not counted. The filing itself was not opened.
- Source 1: https://finance.biggo.com/news/ff824066-1b87-4f34-97d6-90fde6ef0de8
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/openai-spend-more-20-billion-013150907.html
- Source 3: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/openai-cerebras-deal-supposed-good-200700053.html
- Source 4: https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/09/05/cerebras-has-a-usd25-4-billion-backlog-and-one-openai-agreement-is-behind-much-of-it/
- Source 5: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/cerebras-stock-gets-boost-openai-030754605.html
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1832 OCT
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Entry 183 (2 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s closing card for Friday, headlined “S&P 500 Closes at 7,722 as Nasdaq Leads a Broad Friday Rally” and stamped “Oct 2, 4:00pm ET,” carries the rows “2-Year Treasury Yield Oct 2, 9:00pm ET 4.78% -10 bp” and “10-Year Treasury Yield Oct 2, 9:00pm ET 5.24% -5 bp,” and says: “A softer-than-expected jobs report raises the odds of earlier Federal Reserve rate cuts.”
Desk assessmentThe Treasury’s par yield curve closed the two-year at 4.83 on Friday against 4.78 on Thursday, and the ten-year at 5.28 against 5.24; Yahoo Finance’s close story has the ten-year at 5.28 percent, up four basis points. The card’s levels are Thursday’s closes and its ten-year change is Thursday’s too, five basis points down from Wednesday’s 5.29. On Friday both yields rose, after the ten-year had dipped below 5.17 on the jobs report (Associated Press). The committee’s last move, on 16 September, was an increase; what the report lowered was the odds of another. Thursday’s rows under Friday’s stamp, on the outlet whose Thursday card is entry 179.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/money-went-back-into-growth-on-friday-the-nasdaq-s-1-12-ga-gspc-market-bell-01m3z3df0myxj2j89fswzwnegp
- Source 2: https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/TextView?type=daily_treasury_yield_curve&field_tdr_date_value_month=202610
- Source 3: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/p-500-nasdaq-dow-end-222859024.html
- Source 4: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/world-indices/articles/asian-shares-higher-easing-worries-041437602.html
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1821 OCT
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Entry 182 (1 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claimBenzinga, timed 2:21 p.m. on Thursday, under the headline “Anthropic’s IPO Filing Reveals a $42 Billion Broadcom Lending Deal”: “Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) agreed on Thursday to provide Anthropic with as much as $42 billion in lending tied to the AI company’s long-term plan to secure massive amounts of computing capacity.”
Desk assessmentThursday is when Reuters reported it. Broadcom’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended 2 August, filed on 10 September, already says its customer “may, under certain circumstances and if needed, issue to us convertible promissory notes up to an aggregate principal amount of $42 billion” and that “As of August 2, 2026, no notes have been issued to us”; ts2.tech reported it on 12 September, and Reuters’ own story has Anthropic depositing cash in a restricted account for Broadcom’s benefit in April. An arrangement at least two months old, dated to the day it was written up.
- Source 1: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/private-markets/26/10/62118633/anthropics-ipo-filing-reveals-a-42-billion-broadcom-lending-deal
- Source 2: https://investors.broadcom.com/static-files/96641754-401f-4090-a4ab-210728c83a28
- Source 3: https://ts2.tech/en/broadcoms-126-8-billion-purchase-commitments-top-nine-month-revenue/
- Source 4: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/exclusivebroadcom-to-lendanthropic-up-to-42-billion-to-lease-its-chips-filing-says-4926853
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1812 OCT
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Entry 181 (2 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimThe National, on a page first stamped 9:20 a.m. on Friday on its own clock and since updated: “Brent remained volatile on Thursday, opening lower but rallying more than 4 per cent intraday before closing down 1.2 per cent at $102.3 per barrel on supply improvement signals from the Middle East.”
Desk assessmentDecember Brent, the front month since November expired on Wednesday, settled on Thursday at $102.31, up $4.28, or 4.37 percent (Reuters via The Nation; Investrade). The 1.2 percent is the distance down from November’s final settlement of $103.53 on Wednesday (102.31 ÷ 103.53 = 0.988, this desk’s arithmetic; $103.50 on another feed gives the same figure): two contracts in one sentence, and a fall printed for a day on which the contract rose. The form The Errata, No. 7, named for Thursday (item 5) and did not find; it arrived a day later, and smaller.
- Source 1: https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/energy/2026/10/02/oil-prices-stable-amid-mixed-supply-signals-from-the-middle-east/
- Source 2: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/world/40071767
- Source 3: https://investrade.com/market-review-october-01-2026/
- Source 4: https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/oil_futures_rise_despite_increasing_flows-30-sep-2026-184743-article/
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1802 OCT
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Entry 180 (2 OCT): wrong series
Published claimTrading Economics’ Japan page on Friday: “The Nikkei 225 Index dropped 0.99% to close at 68,309 on Friday, ending a two-day winning streak as investors took profits and turned more cautious over the outlook for rates and geopolitical risks.”
Desk assessmentThe Nikkei 225 closed at 68,309.46, down 647.26 points, or 0.94 percent (Nikkei Inc.’s index page; Fisco; the Associated Press’s “fell 0.9 per cent to 68,309.46”). 0.99 percent is the Topix’s fall on the same day, 40.98 points to 4,091.00 (Fisco). The table on the same page carries the Nikkei’s change as −647.26 and −0.94 percent, beside a contract level that moved between reads (69,301.00; 69,677.00). The right level under another index’s percentage, contradicted by the row beneath it; the same page disagreed with itself on 24, 25 and 30 September (entries 138, 146 and 162).
- Source 1: https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/stock-market
- Source 2: https://indexes.nikkei.co.jp/en/nkave/index/profile?idx=nk225
- Source 3: https://jp.investing.com/news/forex-news/article-1699604
- Source 4: https://www.cp24.com/news/money/2026/10/02/world-shares-mixed-after-global-bond-sell-off-deepens-and-ahead-of-us-jobs-data/
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1791 OCT
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Entry 179 (1 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claim24/7 Wall St.’s closing card for Thursday, marked “As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on October 1, 2026” with no time, was headlined “S&P 500 Closes at 7,678 as Growth Leads on Quarter-Open Day,” over a body that says “The S&P 500 closed at 7,678.25, up about 0.34%” and “the S&P 500 finished at 7,678.25 while the Dow ended red.” The table on the same card, labelled “At close,” has the S&P 500 at 7,686.00, up 0.17 percent, the Dow at 51,030.80 and the Russell 2000 at 2,815.81.
Desk assessmentThe S&P 500 closed at 7,666.45, up 14.91, or 0.19 percent, the Dow at 50,926.56, up 20.51, and the Russell 2000 at 2,806.63 (the Associated Press’s table; BBN Times; Schwab). The Dow did not end red. Two closes on one card, 7.75 points apart, and neither is the close: they miss it by 11.80 and 19.55 points. The headline’s level and change are the ones a data provider’s page attached to its contract on Thursday evening (entry 171). Contract levels under a closing label, the failure of entries 124 and 131.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/cards/money-kept-rotating-toward-growth-on-the-first-day-of-the-qu-gspc-market-bell-01m3wh1qqyjq2w2q0evc9aef69
- Source 2: https://krmg.com/2026/10/01/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-thursday-10-1-2026/
- Source 3: https://www.bbntimes.com/companies/s-p-500-rises-to-7-666-45-as-treasury-yields-retreat-from-2002-highs-and-accenture-soars
- Source 4: https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/stock-market-update-open
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1781 OCT
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Entry 178 (1 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claimSearches on Thursday evening for the September 2026 ISM manufacturing index returned Trading Economics’ “US Manufacturing Sector Remains in Contraction: ISM” and FXStreet’s “US: ISM Manufacturing PMI declines to 50.9 in September vs. 52.2 expected” and “US ISM Manufacturing PMI declines to 46.7 in October vs 49 expected,” all reading as current.
Desk assessmentThe first is dated 1 October 2025, a year old to the day, with the index at 49.1; the others are dated by their addresses to 3 October 2022 and 1 November 2023. Thursday’s reading was 54.5, from 54.6, and the Institute’s release says manufacturing “expanded in September for the ninth consecutive month.” Correctly dated at source; nothing where they surfaced said so.
- Source 1: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/business-confidence/news/489639
- Source 2: https://www.fxstreet.com/amp/news/us-ism-manufacturing-pmi-declines-to-509-in-september-vs-522-expected-202210031404
- Source 3: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-ism-manufacturing-pmi-declines-to-467-in-october-vs-49-expected-202311011405
- Source 4: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/manufacturing-pmi-at-54-5-september-2026-ism-manufacturing-pmi-report-302894520.html
- Source 5: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-ism-manufacturing-pmi-fell-to-545-in-september-202610011406
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1771 OCT
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Entry 177 (1 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimStocktwits, syndicated by Yahoo Finance at 10:45 a.m. Thursday: “Corteva’s Market Cap Tumbles By Over $42B Today – CTVA Stock Hits Record Low,” with “Shares of Corteva (CTVA) crashed 83% to an all-time low on Thursday” and “CTVA shares have slumped around 81% so far in 2026.” TheStreet’s live blog at 10:13 a.m.: Corteva “tumbled 81.75% after completing the corporate spin-off.”
Desk assessmentOn Thursday Corteva distributed one share of Vylor, its seed and genetics business, for every Corteva share. Corteva closed at $12.57 against $77.65 on Wednesday (stockanalysis.com); Vylor ended the day at $68.26 (MarketChameleon) or “near $69” (Pomegra), one feed each. $12.57 plus $68.26 is $80.83, 4.1 percent more than Wednesday’s single share (this desk’s arithmetic). Both pages name the spin-off; neither adds the two prices, and the record low and the 81 percent year exist only if the distribution is ignored. Two outlets, one event, counted once.
- Source 1: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/corteva-market-cap-tumbles-over-144520131.html
- Source 2: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-01-2026
- Source 3: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/ctva/
- Source 4: https://marketchameleon.com/Overview/VYLR/Summary/
- Source 5: https://pomegra.io/news/vylor-vylr-debuts-on-nyse-up-45-as-corteva-splits
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1761 OCT
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Entry 176 (1 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimZacks’ “Stock Market News for Oct 1, 2026,” syndicated by Yahoo Finance at 3:36 a.m. Thursday: “Third-quarter 2026 was also mixed for U.S. stocks. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 25 and 2.5%, respectively. However, the Dow fell 2.7%.”
Desk assessmentThe S&P 500 gained 2.0 percent in the quarter on Investrade’s table (“For the quarter, the S&P 500 rose 2.0%, the Dow fell -2.7% and the Nasdaq rose 2.5%”), 2.03 on this desk’s arithmetic in The Errata, No. 7. The Nasdaq’s and the Dow’s figures are right, as are the same piece’s figures for September. A neighbour of the form The Errata, No. 7, named (item 7): neither swapped nor stale, one digit.
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1751 OCT
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Entry 175 (1 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimInvesting.com’s preview “Nonfarm payrolls, unemployment rate and hourly earnings due Friday,” published at 2:01 p.m. Thursday, lists nonfarm payrolls, the unemployment rate and average hourly earnings under “7:30 AM ET.”
Desk assessmentThe Bureau of Labor Statistics: “The Employment Situation for September 2026 is scheduled to be published on Friday, October 2, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. (ET)”; Kiplinger’s preview has 8:30 as well. The failure of entry 163 on a new page a day later: the same outlet listed Thursday’s claims at 7:30 and the ISM index at 9:00. The Errata, No. 7, expected other calendars to copy those times (item 1); none was found, and the source repeated the shift itself. The page’s later times were not checked against a second calendar.
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1741 OCT
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Entry 174 (1 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimKiplinger’s “What to Expect From the September Jobs Report,” stamped 13:47 UTC Thursday (9:47 a.m. Eastern): “And job growth for June (+11,000 to +31,000) and July (+44,000 to +21,000) was upwardly revised, resulting in a combined 55,000 more jobs than previously reported.”
Desk assessmentAs printed, June rose by 20,000 and July fell by 23,000: a downward revision called upward, and a combined change of minus 3,000, not plus 55,000. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ August release: June “was revised up by 11,000, from +20,000 to +31,000, and the change for July was revised up by 44,000, from -23,000 to +21,000.” The 11,000 and the 44,000 are the sizes of the revisions, printed where the first estimates belong. The total is right; the sentence does not add up to it.
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1731 OCT
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Entry 173 (1 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claiminvestingLive’s “Preview: September non-farm payrolls by the numbers,” stamped 5:53 p.m. Thursday on its own clock, opens with “Consensus estimate +910K (range +35K to +180K).”
Desk assessmentA consensus cannot sit at five times the highest estimate in its own range. The other previews read the same evening carry 84,000 (Schwab), 89,000 (Investing.com) and 93,000 (Kiplinger); the same list gives August as +162K and the private consensus as +85K. The likeliest reading is 91 with a zero attached, which the desk could not confirm. A field contradicted by the field beside it, on the number the whole of Friday will be measured against.
- Source 1: https://investinglive.com/news/preview-september-non-farm-payrolls-by-the-numbers/
- Source 2: https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/stock-market-update-open
- Source 3: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/nonfarm-payrolls-unemployment-rate-and-hourly-earnings-due-friday-93CH-4928058
- Source 4: https://kiplinger.com/investing/economy/what-to-expect-from-the-september-jobs-report
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1721 OCT
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Entry 172 (1 OCT): stale resurfacing
Published claimTheStreet’s live blog, in the update stamped 4:32 p.m. Thursday, was headlined “Stocks finish flat on rising Treasury yields,” over the sentence “The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rose 4 basis points to 5.3338% on Thursday, according to LSEG data, reaching its highest level since April 2002.” The update stamped 4:30 p.m.: “Stocks finish mostly flat despite rising yields.”
Desk assessmentThe ten-year reached that level early and then fell. Kiplinger’s close story, stamped 4:11 p.m.: it “hit an intraday high of 5.344% today … before closing down 5.9 basis points at 5.234%”; Eurasia Business News has the close at 5.233; Yahoo Finance’s board read 5.24, down 0.06, at 2:53 p.m., under a headline that says “as Treasury yields fall.” Yields fell on the day, by about six basis points from Wednesday’s 5.29, and the page’s closing headline says they rose. The early tape in a close headline, the failure of entries 104, 127 and 161. No later update on the page carries the close.
- Source 1: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-01-2026
- Source 2: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/stocks-gain-as-treasury-yields-fluctuate-stock-market-today
- Source 3: https://eurasiabusinessnews.com/2026/10/01/stock-market-today-treasury-selloff-flips-as-10-year-yield-pulls-back-from-24-year-high-oil-price-above-101/
- Source 4: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-thursday-oct-1-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-080602402.html
- Source 5: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/stock-futures-mixed-10-treasury-112524234.html
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1711 OCT
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Entry 171 (1 OCT): internal contradiction
Published claimA data provider’s United States index page, read between 7:17 and 7:29 p.m. and again between 7:37 and 7:48 p.m. Thursday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,677.05 beside a change of 14.91, 0.19 percent, and the Dow at 50,956.55 beside 20.51, 0.04 percent, both dated 1 October, under a sentence saying the index “rose to 7678 points on October 1, 2026, gaining 0.34% from the previous session.”
Desk assessmentThe changes are Thursday’s cash session to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,666.45, up 14.91, and the Dow at 50,926.56, up 20.51 (Associated Press; BigGo Finance; Kiplinger’s 7,666 and 50,926) — and the levels are contracts trading after the bell. 7,677.05 less 14.91 implies a Wednesday close of 7,662.14, and 50,956.55 less 20.51 implies 50,936.04; Wednesday’s closes were 7,651.54 and 50,906.05. One row says 0.19 percent and the sentence above it says 0.34. The fourteenth time in sixteen sessions on this page (entries 107, 110, 120, 125, 130, 135, 137, 140, 145, 149, 153, 158, 162). The Errata, No. 7, named the morning form (item 6); that was read by the Brief at 9:37 a.m. and is the pairing of entry 162 (withdrawn entry 169). This pairing is new.
- Source 1: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
- Source 2: https://krmg.com/2026/10/01/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-thursday-10-1-2026/
- Source 3: https://finance.biggo.com/news/095860bc-d5fb-4403-87d2-60e945caf231
- Source 4: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/stocks-gain-as-treasury-yields-fluctuate-stock-market-today
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1701 OCT
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Entry 170 (1 OCT): mislabelled
Published claimThe Seoul Economic Daily, stamped 17:55 Seoul time on Thursday (4:55 a.m. Eastern), headlined its account of Micron’s fiscal fourth quarter “Micron Data Center Revenue Jumps 11-Fold on AI Demand,” over the sentence “The data center business drove the record, with revenue of $18 billion, more than 11 times the $1.577 billion posted a year earlier.”
Desk assessment$18,002 million and $1,577 million are the Core Data Center unit in the business unit table of Micron’s release, one of two units that sell into data centers. The other, Cloud Memory, went from $4,543 million to $16,283 million, 3.6 times; the two together went from $6,120 million to $34,285 million, 5.6 times (this desk’s arithmetic). Micron’s own prepared remarks put data center revenue for the fiscal year at “up fourfold.” A part of the number printed as the whole, the failure of entry 109. CNBC’s headline carries the same wording; its page returned an error and its body is unread, so it is linked and not counted. The Tribune’s headline, seen in search and not opened, names the unit.
- Source 1: https://en.sedaily.com/international/2026/10/01/micron-data-center-revenue-jumps-11-fold-on-ai-demand
- Source 2: https://investors.micron.com/news/press-release/2026/Micron-Technology-Inc--Reports-Record-Fiscal-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2026-Results/default.aspx
- Source 3: https://s25.q4cdn.com/621799436/files/doc_financials/2026/q4/Q4-FY26-Prepared-Remarks.pdf
- Source 4: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/micron-mu-q4-earnings-report-2026.html
- Source 5: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/business/micron-projects-usd-61-5-bn-q1fy27-revenue-as-core-data-center-sales-jumps-over-11-fold
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1691 OCT
Withdrawn — retained in the record, not counted
Withdrawn item 169
Published claimNo claim is published at this number. The supplied item was withdrawn during source review.
Desk assessmentThis item was not admitted as a documented error. See the withdrawal explanation and sources.
Withdrawn as a duplicate of entry 162: the same page paired Wednesday cash-session changes with Thursday levels. The later read is not an additional occurrence and does not increase the lifetime tally.
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16829 SEP
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Entry 168 (29 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search on Wednesday evening for Tuesday’s August job openings report returned FedRateCalc’s page titled “Latest JOLTS Report: July 2026 Job Openings,” which says “The latest JOLTS report showed 7.271 million job openings in July 2026” and “Data and formulas checked September 12, 2026.”
Desk assessmentThe page’s own schedule marks the August report as released on 29 September. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has August at 7.079 million and July revised up by 64,000 to 7.335 million; the page shows neither. A calculator site, not a newsroom, and logged as that; every newsroom read measured August from the revised July. The second form of The Errata, No. 6’s item 2.
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16729 SEP
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Entry 167 (29 SEP): internal contradiction
Published claim24/7 Wall St., at 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, under “September Has Been One of the S&P 500’s Weakest Months”: “SPY gained 1% through September 2026 and is up 13% YTD.”
Desk assessmentIts own body gives 0.82 percent “from Sept. 1 through a.m. trading on Sept. 28” and 12.38 percent for the year “as of Monday morning,” which does not round to 13. By Monday’s close the S&P 500 stood at 7,683.69 against 7,686.14 on 31 August, down 0.03 percent for the month, seventeen hours before the piece appeared; September ended down 0.45. The form The Errata, No. 6, named (item 8), on a different outlet: the CoinCentral figure it named was not repeated.
- Source 1: https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/09/29/september-has-been-one-of-the-sp-500s-weakest-months-what-history-says-about-q4/
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/world-indices/articles/major-us-stock-indexes-fared-201822598.html
- Source 3: https://coincentral.com/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-fall-as-iran-tensions-resurface/
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16629 SEP
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Entry 166 (29 SEP): mislabelled
Published claimTheStreet’s “Gold and silver crash as 10-year yield tops 5.2%,” stamped 10:07 p.m. Tuesday and syndicated by Yahoo Finance at 1:07 a.m. Wednesday: “December gold futures settled 3.52% lower at $4,135.40 an ounce on Sept. 28.”
Desk assessmentDecember gold settled on Monday at $4,168.40, down $152.80, or 3.54 percent, per Investrade’s review and 24/7 Wall St.: $33.00 above the figure printed. The piece’s worked example, $10,000 of gold bought at August’s close of $4,481.50 and worth “about $9,227,” inherits the gap; on $4,168.40 it is about $9,301. Which contract $4,135.40 belongs to was not established. The Errata, No. 6, named Monday’s fall arriving in Tuesday’s coverage in more than one size (item 6); none of its four sizes was found, and this one was.
- Source 1: https://thestreet.com/investing/gold-and-silver-crash-as-10-year-yield-tops-5-2
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/commodities/articles/gold-silver-crash-10-yield-050700476.html
- Source 3: https://investrade.com/market-review-september-28-2026/
- Source 4: https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/09/30/gold-just-had-its-worst-day-in-over-two-months-gld-is-now-26-off-its-high
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16529 SEP
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Entry 165 (29 SEP): mislabelled
Published claimInvestrade’s three Tuesday tables carried Brent at 105.12 (preview, 6:46 a.m.), 96.35, down 1.48 (mid-morning, 10:28 a.m.) and 102.59, down 2.69 (review), beside WTI at 92.33, 90.79 and 89.38. No table names a contract. Kiplinger’s Tuesday close story: “Front-month Brent crude oil futures, the global benchmark, dipped 1.9% to $95.95.”
Desk assessmentRead in order, Brent drops $8.77 between the first two tables while WTI drops $1.54. The first and third are the November contract, which settled Tuesday at $102.59; the second is December, which settled at $96.16; November WTI settled at $89.38 (Bloomberg on Rigzone; Investing.com’s December table). Kiplinger’s $95.95 is December under the front month’s name: the front month was November, which expired Wednesday at $103.53 beside December at $98.03. The form The Errata, No. 6, named (item 4): the step shows in the level, not in any printed change. One roll, two outlets, counted once.
- Source 1: https://investrade.com/morning-preview-september-29-2026/
- Source 2: https://investrade.com/mid-morning-look-september-29-2026/
- Source 3: https://investrade.com/market-review-september-29-2026/
- Source 4: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/stocks-grind-lower-under-interest-rate-pressure-stock-market-today
- Source 5: https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/oil_slides_on_saudi_supply_relief-29-sep-2026-184732-article/
- Source 6: https://www.rigzone.com/news/wire/oil_futures_rise_despite_increasing_flows-30-sep-2026-184743-article/
- Source 7: https://www.investing.com/commodities/brent-oil-historical-data
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16430 SEP
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Entry 164 (30 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for Kiplinger’s Wednesday close story returned “Stocks Close September on a High Note: Stock Market Today” first, reading as tonight’s. A search for September’s Conference Board index returned FXStreet’s “US CB Consumer Confidence Index dropped to 94.2 in September.”
Desk assessmentBoth are a year old to the day: Kiplinger’s is dated 30 September 2025, with the S&P 500 at 6,688 and the Dow at 46,397, against Wednesday’s 7,651.54 and 50,906.05; FXStreet’s is the September 2025 survey, against Tuesday’s reading of 81.9 (the Conference Board’s release). The same calendar date is why they surface and why they read as current. Correctly dated at source; nothing where they surfaced said so.
- Source 1: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/stocks-close-september-on-a-high-note-stock-market-today
- Source 2: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-cb-consumer-confidence-index-dropped-to-942-in-september-202509301402
- Source 3: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-consumer-confidence-fell-in-september-302892867.html
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16330 SEP
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Entry 163 (30 SEP): mislabelled
Published claimInvesting.com’s preview “Jobless claims, manufacturing PMI, and ISM data due Thursday,” published at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, lists “7:30 AM ET - Initial Jobless Claims,” “8:45 AM ET - Manufacturing PMI” and “9:00 AM ET - ISM Manufacturing PMI.”
Desk assessmentKiplinger’s calendar has weekly claims at 8:30 Eastern, the S&P Global index at 9:45 and the ISM’s at 10:00; FinanceCalendar’s listing, seen in search and not opened, has the ISM at 10:00 a.m. ET. Every morning release on the list sits an hour early under an Eastern label. It is the same hour by which this desk, copying the same outlet’s times, misplaced Tuesday’s Fed speakers (audit block, 29 September).
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16230 SEP
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Entry 162 (30 SEP): internal contradiction
Published claimA data provider’s United States index page, read at 9:27 and 9:44 p.m. Wednesday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,677.36 beside a change of −19.30, −0.25 percent, and the Dow at 51,036.20 beside −443.87, −0.86 percent, both dated 1 October, under a sentence saying the index “rose to 7677 points on October 1, 2026, gaining 0.33% from the previous session.” Its Japan page showed the Nikkei 225 up 1.44 percent in its table and “0.9%” in its narrative.
Desk assessmentThe US changes are Wednesday’s cash session to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,651.54, down 19.30, and the Dow at 50,906.05, down 443.87 (Associated Press; Kiplinger’s 7,651 and 50,906) — and the levels are Thursday’s contracts. 7,677.36 plus 19.30 implies a Tuesday close of 7,696.66, and 51,036.20 plus 443.87 implies 51,480.07; Tuesday’s closes were 7,670.84 and 51,349.92. One row says down 0.25 percent and the sentence above it says up 0.33. The thirteenth time in fifteen sessions on the US page (entries 107, 110, 120, 125, 130, 135, 137, 140, 145, 149, 153, 158).
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16130 SEP
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Entry 161 (30 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimThe Motley Fool published “Stock Market Indexes Rally on Inflation Data, Though the Dow Sat It Out” at 5:03 p.m. Wednesday. Its body: the Nasdaq Composite “climbed 1.1% as of 12:05 p.m. ET and the S&P 500 added 0.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sat exactly flat.”
Desk assessmentThe tickers the page prints beside those three names read +0.24, −0.25 and −0.86 percent, which are the closes: the Nasdaq Composite at 26,861.06, the S&P 500 at 7,651.54, down 19.30, and the Dow at 50,906.05, down 443.87 (Associated Press, 4:16 p.m.). The rally in the headline was an hour gone when the piece appeared, and the page says so itself, in parentheses. Noon’s tape in a five o’clock story, the failure of entries 104 and 127.
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16030 SEP
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Entry 160 (30 SEP): mislabelled
Published claimKiplinger’s close story for Wednesday, stamped 20:15 UTC (4:15 p.m. Eastern): “the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 0.9% at 50,906, bringing its September decline to 4.0%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 0.2% today to finish at 28,861, and added 2% on the month. And the S&P 500 slipped 0.3% to 7,651, ending the month down 0.2%.”
Desk assessmentThe Nasdaq Composite closed at 26,861.06 (Associated Press; Investrade 26,861): the figure printed is 1,999.94 points too high. From the 31 August closes of 7,686.14 and 53,185.90 (AP; Investrade), the S&P 500 lost 0.45 percent in September and the Dow 4.29; Investrade prints 0.4 and 4.3. The 0.2 is where the S&P’s month stood at Tuesday’s close (7,670.84, down 0.20). The same story has the headline PCE index up 0.2 percent on the month where the BEA’s release says 0.3. The Dow and S&P 500 closes are right. The second evening running that this paragraph has carried another session’s numbers (entry 156).
- Source 1: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/s-and-p-500-nasdaq-outperform-in-historically-tough-september-stock-market-today
- Source 2: https://abcnews.com/Business/wireStory/major-us-stock-indexes-fared-wednesday-9302026-136901112
- Source 3: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/world-indices/articles/major-us-stock-indexes-fared-201822598.html
- Source 4: https://investrade.com/market-review-september-30-2026/
- Source 5: https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/personal-income-and-outlays-august-2026
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Published claimCharles Schwab’s market note, stamped 9:13 a.m. Wednesday, was headlined “Inflation Growth Slows, Sending Stocks Up Early,” on August PCE inflation of 3.4 percent over the year and 3.0 for the core.
Desk assessmentThe Bureau of Economic Analysis published August alongside its annual update, which revises the series from January 2021. July’s annual rates, first printed on 26 August as 3.7 and 3.3, are now 3.4 and 3.0 (FXStreet; Investrade for the core), so the annual rate did not move, and the monthly rate rose to 0.3 percent from a revised 0.1 (the BEA’s release; TechTimes). Kiplinger’s close story says the monthly increases “accelerated from July” and the lower annual figures “were a result of the BEA’s adjustment.” Inflation slowed only against July as first published, and the consensus of 3.7 that most outlets measured against was that number.
- Source 1: https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/stock-market-update-open
- Source 2: https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/personal-income-and-outlays-august-2026
- Source 3: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-core-pce-inflation-set-to-rise-in-august-pressuring-the-federal-reserve-202609300830
- Source 4: https://investrade.com/market-review-september-30-2026/
- Source 5: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/328346/20260930/august-pce-inflation-cooled-34-bea-rewrote-how-it-measures-prices.htm
- Source 6: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/s-and-p-500-nasdaq-outperform-in-historically-tough-september-stock-market-today
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Entry 158 (30 SEP): internal contradiction
Published claimA data provider’s United States index page, read at 7:31 a.m. Wednesday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,667.39 beside a change of −12.85, −0.17 percent, and the Dow at 51,302.99 beside −131.59, −0.26 percent, both dated 30 September, under a narrative saying futures were “slightly higher.” Its Japan page, read at 7:43, showed the Nikkei 225 at 67,035 beside +1,272.45, +1.94 percent.
Desk assessmentThe US changes are Tuesday’s cash session to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,670.84, down 12.85, and the Dow at 51,349.92, down 131.59 (Associated Press; Investing.com’s table for the S&P 500) — and the levels are Wednesday morning’s contracts. 7,667.39 plus 12.85 implies a Monday close of 7,680.24, and 51,302.99 plus 131.59 implies 51,434.58; Monday’s closes were 7,683.69 and 51,481.51. On the Japan page the change is the cash session’s and the level is not: 67,035 less 1,272.45 is 65,762.55, where Tuesday’s close was 65,481, and the same page’s narrative gives Wednesday’s close as 66,754, as does TradingKey at 66,753.50. The twelfth time in fourteen sessions on the US page (entries 107, 110, 120, 125, 130, 135, 137, 140, 145, 149, 153).
- Source 1: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
- Source 2: https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/stock-market
- Source 3: https://krmg.com/2026/09/29/how-major-us-stock-indexes-fared-tuesday-9-29-2026/
- Source 4: https://www.tradingkey.com/analysis/stocks/more/262193470-japan-south-korea-stocks-kospi-nikkei-softbank-sk-hynix-samsung-kioxia-tradingkey
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Entry 157 (29 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimTechCrunch, stamped 12:52 p.m. Pacific on Tuesday, on OpenAI’s reported funding round: a refocus on coding “has fueled a 70% jump in run-rate revenue since July, reaching $40 billion in August.” Quartz, as syndicated on Yahoo Finance at 2:50 p.m. Eastern: “The company’s annualized revenue has climbed past $40 billion, a figure that reflects 70% growth since July, Bloomberg reported.”
Desk assessmentAxios the same day, citing sources familiar with the financials: the run rate “has grown more than 70% since the beginning of the third quarter, reaching almost $70 billion.” Investing.com’s version of the wire story, stamped 10:48 a.m., says the figure “marks a sharp jump from the $40 billion run rate reported by Bloomberg and Forbes just last month.” $40 billion times 1.7 is $68 billion: the $40 billion is where the growth began, printed as where it arrived. At the round’s reported $1.4 trillion the two figures are 20 and 35 times revenue. Quartz’s own page, stamped 21:12 UTC, reads “nearing $70 billion”; its Yahoo copy still read $40 billion at 7:37 a.m. Wednesday. Bloomberg’s original could not be opened, so where the slip began is not established. Two outlets, one error, counted once. Annotated 9 October: the Financial Times and Bloomberg reported on 8 October that OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was about $50 billion at the end of September; the “almost $70 billion” set here as the true value is described as investors’ adjusted estimate, not the company’s count. See the note of 9 October above the register.
- Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/openai-reportedly-in-talks-to-raise-30b-round-at-1-4t-valuation/
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/openai-targets-30-billion-funding-185008998.html
- Source 3: https://qz.com/openai-funding-round-30-billion-valuation-092926
- Source 4: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/29/scoop-openais-annual-recurring-revenue-nears-70b
- Source 5: https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/openai-revenue-run-rate-nears-70-billion-as-ai-ipo-race-heats-up-4923048
- Source 6: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-29/openai-targets-30-billion-in-new-funding-at-1-4-trillion-value
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Entry 156 (29 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimKiplinger’s close story for Tuesday 29 September, read at 7:33 a.m. Wednesday, said: “At the closing bell, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite had slipped 0.09% to 26,797, the S&P 500 was down 0.8% at 7,683, and the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen 0.7% to 51,481.”
Desk assessmentThe Nasdaq figure is Tuesday’s. The other two are Monday’s closes, 7,683.69 and 51,481.51, with Monday’s changes of 0.77 and 0.67 percent (entry 153). On Tuesday the S&P 500 closed at 7,670.84, down 0.17 percent, and the Dow at 51,349.92, down 0.26 (Associated Press; Investing.com’s table for the S&P 500; Trading Economics’ point changes, 12.85 and 131.59). One sentence, two sessions, in a story about the close.
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Entry 155 (28 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for Monday’s session returned Yahoo Finance’s live blogs headlined “Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq drop as oil tops $95, bond yields rise” and “Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq edge higher as bond yields pause climb,” reading as this week’s.
Desk assessmentThey are dated 1 and 2 September 2026, four weeks old: the same story — Iran, oil and yields — with the ten-year at 4.79 percent, “highest intraday level since January 2025,” and WTI’s October contract at $100.05. Monday’s ten-year closed at 5.24 on Yahoo Finance’s own board, on Vistap Global and on the Treasury’s par curve, the highest since 2007, and the front-month WTI is November. Correctly dated at source; nothing where they surfaced said so.
- Source 1: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-tuesday-september-1-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-080617884.html
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-wednesday-september-2-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-082624175.html
- Source 3: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/stocks-fall-on-fog-of-war-and-fear-of-ai-stock-market-today
- Source 4: https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/TextView?type=daily_treasury_yield_curve&field_tdr_date_value_month=202609
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Entry 154 (28 SEP): mislabelled
Published claimA market live blog carried, at 6:48 a.m., “Brent crude jumped 4.02% to $108.50 per barrel” beside WTI at $96.31; at 10:59 a.m., “Brent crude oil jumping back towards $110/bbl”; and at 4:00 p.m., “Brent crude jumped settled near $98.” No contract month is named anywhere on the page.
Desk assessmentRead down the page, Brent fell ten dollars in a session in which it rose. The morning figure is the November contract: $108.50 up 4.02 percent implies a Friday base of $104.31, and Trading Economics’ Brent, $105.65 beside WTI at $92.93 at 8:29 p.m., carries a Friday base of $104.32 from its own change of +1.33; that contract settled at $105.28, up on the day, per DTN and Investrade. The $98 is the December contract, the one Yahoo Finance’s board quotes, also up on the day. November expires Wednesday 30 September and the feeds are rolling at different times. Two contracts on one page, neither named, and a phantom collapse between them.
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Entry 153 (29 SEP): internal contradiction
Published claimA data provider’s United States index page, read at 7:23 a.m. Tuesday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,691.94 beside a change of −59.72, −0.77 percent, and the Dow at 51,553.31 beside −347.11, −0.67 percent, both dated 29 September. Its Japan page, read at 7:28, showed the Nikkei 225 at 65,575.00 beside −396.35, −0.60 percent.
Desk assessmentThe US changes are Monday’s cash session to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,683.69, down 59.72, and the Dow at 51,481.51, down 347.11 (Associated Press via the Mankato Free Press; TheStreet 4:51 a.m.) — and the levels are Tuesday morning’s contracts. 7,691.94 less 59.72 implies a Friday close of 7,632.22, and 51,553.31 less 347.11 implies 51,206.20; Friday’s closes were 7,743.41 and 51,828.62. On the Japan page the change is the cash session’s and the level is not: 65,575 plus 396.35 is 65,971.35, where Monday’s close was 65,878, and the same page’s narrative gives Tuesday’s close as 65,481, as does TradingKey. The eleventh time in thirteen sessions on the US page (entries 107, 110, 120, 125, 130, 135, 137, 140, 145, 149), and the form The Errata, No. 5, named (item 4). The Errata, No. 6, read the same pairing at about 8:25 p.m. Monday, with the same changes beside evening contract levels of 7,684.50 and 51,495.70 dated 28 September (implied Friday closes 7,744.22 and 51,842.81), and it is counted once.
- Source 1: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
- Source 2: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-monday-september-28-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-080420627.html
- Source 3: https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-sept-28-2026
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Entry 152 (28 SEP): internal contradiction
Published claimA market-news site, published at 08:36:54 UTC Monday — 4:36 a.m. Eastern, before the open — headlined its write-up of the Taiwanese report on TSMC’s 2nm capacity “TSMC (TSM) Stock Rises as Apple, Nvidia Order Surge Hits 20%.”
Desk assessmentIts own opening paragraph says the stock “ticked lower by 0.12%” — Friday’s session, the only completed one the page could describe, in which TSM fell from 451.15 to 450.61 (stockanalysis.com, and an independent market note carrying the same close for the same date). Headline and body in opposite directions on one page. The same headline also takes 20 percent, the ceiling of the report’s 10-to-20-percent range of customer order increases, as the figure; the body prints the range correctly two sentences later. Two failure modes in eleven words, both visible without leaving the page.
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Entry 151 (28 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for Oracle's premarket move on Monday returned a social-investing site's piece, "ORCL Stock Drops Premarket: OpenAI Reportedly Misses Targets, Raising Concerns Over Oracle's $300B Cloud Deal," reading as this morning's, with the shares down 4.2 percent in early premarket trading on a report that OpenAI had missed internal revenue and user targets.
Desk assessmentIt is dated 28 April 2026, 5:10 a.m., five months old, and its date sits below the byline rather than beside the headline, which is why a search result reads it as current. The $300 billion agreement it describes as "announced last September" is the same one carried in Oracle's remaining performance obligations at this month's first-quarter report, so nothing in the text dates it either. Correctly dated at source; nothing where it surfaced said so.
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Entry 150 (28 SEP): wrong series
Published claimA research provider's Monday-morning market summary, published at 2:04 a.m. and carried by a major finance portal, wrote that "the yield on the short-term 2-Year U.S. Treasury Note also reached 5.163%" on Friday.
Desk assessmentThe Treasury's par yield curve closed the two-year at 4.81 percent on Friday, 25 September, and the ten-year at 5.17. 5.163 sits within a basis point of the ten-year's close and 35 basis points above anything the two-year printed: a ten-year number under a two-year label. The same summary's 5.23 intraday touch for the ten-year was checked against two screens and is correctly labelled as a brief touch, so the error is confined to the one sentence.
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Entry 149 (28 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA data provider's United States index page, read Monday morning, showed the S&P 500 at 7,702.05 beside a change of +39.28 and the Dow at 51,514.14 beside +478.64, both dated 28 September. The same provider's Japan page quoted the Nikkei 225 at 65,895 beside a change of −486.58 while its own narrative on the same page gave the close as 65,878.
Desk assessmentThe changes are Friday's cash session to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,743.41, up 39.28, and the Dow at 51,828.62, up 478.64, identical on the Associated Press (8:20 p.m.) and Zacks (2:04 a.m.) and sworn in — and the levels are Monday morning's contracts. 7,702.05 less 39.28 implies a Thursday close of 7,662.77, and 51,514.14 less 478.64 implies 51,035.50; Thursday closed at 7,704.13 and 51,349.98 (entry 145), so neither implied base exists. The tenth time in twelve sessions on this page (entries 107, 110, 120, 125, 130, 135, 137, 140, 145). On the Japan page, quote and narrative sit 17 points apart on one page, the failure of entries 138 and 146.
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Entry 148 (25 SEP): threshold printed as forecast
Published claimA technology-news site published a UBS finding under the headline “UBS Warns Silicon Wafer Prices Could Jump 40% by 2027.”
Desk assessmentThe body of the same page says something else: wafer manufacturers “may need price increases of 40% to 50% just to justify building the capacity the AI industry says it needs,” and adds that suppliers “won’t commit to new fabs unless the economics justify it.” That is a threshold required to unlock investment, not a forecast of what prices will do — the page states the distinction explicitly two paragraphs below its own headline. The error matters this week because a real forty-percent figure is circulating beside it: the Commercial Times of Taipei put new 2027 long-term contract prices for polished twelve-inch wafers above forty percent on 23 September, a different quantity from a different source, and the two are already being merged downstream.
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Entry 147 (25 SEP): wrong sign
Published claimThe same provider's currency page, read at 7:35 a.m. Friday, carried dollar-yen at 157.726 with a change of +1.1380 and a percentage change of −0.72.
Desk assessment1.138 on an implied base of 156.588 is 0.727 percent, so the magnitude is right and one of the two signs is wrong; a field cannot rise by 1.138 and fall by 0.72 percent at once. The same page's dollar index line (100.987, −0.2977, −0.29 percent) carried consistent signs at the same minute. Which sign is wrong is left open; the pair's direction is not printed in the Brief.
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Entry 146 (25 SEP): quote contradicts narrative
Published claimThe same provider's Japan page, read at 7:30 a.m. Friday, quoted the Nikkei 225 at 66,572 beside a change of +850.21, +1.30 percent, while its own narrative on the same page said the index “rose 1.3% to close at 66,364 on Friday.”
Desk assessmentThe narrative reconciles: 66,364 less 850.21 is 65,513.79, Thursday's close of 65,514 (Business Standard; the same page's Thursday narrative). The quote does not: 66,572 less 850.21 is 65,721.79, a base no feed carried. Quote and narrative, one page, 208 points apart, the same failure as entry 138 on the same page a day earlier.
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Entry 145 (25 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA data provider's United States index page, read at 7:28 a.m. Friday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,722.99 beside a change of −1.90, −0.02 percent, and the Dow at 51,443.06 beside −161.61, −0.31 percent, both dated 25 September.
Desk assessmentThe changes are Thursday's cash session to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,704.13, down 1.90, and the Dow at 51,349.98, down 161.61 (Associated Press 4:18 p.m.; The Motley Fool 5:33 p.m.) — and the levels are Friday morning's contracts. 7,722.99 plus 1.90 implies a Wednesday close of 7,724.89, and 51,443.06 plus 161.61 implies 51,604.67; no feed carried either. The ninth time in eleven sessions on this page (entries 107, 110, 120, 125, 130, 135, 137, 140), and the form The Errata, No. 5, named the night before (item 4).
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Entry 144 (24 SEP): level contradicts description
Published claimA market live blog, in an update stamped 2:27 on a page clock that reads as UTC (10:27 a.m. Eastern) Thursday, said “the 10-year yield remained at its highest level since 2007, at 5.10%.”
Desk assessmentWednesday closed at 5.11 on the Treasury's Daily Par Yield Curve and touched 5.14 (Investrade; Vantage Markets); Schwab's 9:15 a.m. table had Thursday at 5.12. A level below the previous day's close and high cannot be at its highest since 2007. Either the level or the description was stale; TheStreet had 5.192 at 3:46 p.m., where the description would have held.
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Entry 143 (24 SEP): wrong maturity
Published claimA market site's morning preview said the “30-year yield hits highest levels since 2007.”
Desk assessmentThe thirty-year's high is the highest since 2004: TheStreet at 3:46 p.m. (5.476 percent, “highest since 2004”), Yahoo Finance's morning update, Schwab's “22-year highs.” Since 2007 is the ten-year's comparison, and the same preview uses it correctly for the ten-year two lines earlier. One record, moved to the wrong maturity.
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Entry 142 (23 SEP): mislabelled size
Published claimA bond blog's Wednesday piece said “it took a yield of 4.787% to sell all $79 billion of 2-year notes” and gave Wednesday's five-year auction as “$80 billion.”
Desk assessmentThe two-year auction was $69 billion, the same size as every two-year sale this year (investingLive, Newsquawk, Helious); the five-year was $70 billion (investingLive 1:07 p.m. Wednesday; Helious). The yields are right; each size is a round ten billion high. The form The Errata, No. 4, named (item 1), which had feared its own $78 billion would propagate; scored there in a neighbouring form.
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Entry 141 (24 SEP): wrong series
Published claimA brokerage's 9:15 a.m. note said “weekly initial jobless claims fell to 197,000 from 202,000 the prior week.”
Desk assessmentThe Labor Department's release has the prior week at 198,000, revised up from 196,000, and the decline at 1,000; the 202,000 is the four-week moving average, 202,250, rounded. Kiplinger's close story carries 198,000 to 197,000. Right direction, wrong series, and a decline of 5,000 printed where the document says 1,000.
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Entry 140 (24 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA data provider's United States index page, read at 8:21 p.m. Thursday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,688.28 beside a change of −1.90, −0.02 percent, and the Dow at 51,260.37 beside −161.61, −0.31 percent, both dated 25 September.
Desk assessmentThe changes are Thursday's cash session — the S&P 500 closed at about 7,704, down 0.02 percent, and the Dow at about 51,350, down 0.3 (Kiplinger 4:12 p.m.; 7,706.03 less 1.90 is 7,704.13 and 51,511.59 less 161.61 is 51,349.98) — and the levels are Friday morning's contracts. 7,688.28 plus 1.90 implies a Wednesday close of 7,690.18, which no feed carried. The eighth time in ten sessions on this page (entries 107, 110, 120, 125, 130, 135, 137).
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Entry 139 (24 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for Thursday's Asian session returned Investing.com's “Asian stocks mostly rise as South Korea leads rebound; Nikkei set for weekly loss,” reading as this morning's, with the Kospi up 0.90 percent — the same figure as Wednesday's Seoul close.
Desk assessmentIt is dated 21 August 2026, with the ten-year Treasury at 4.7 percent, the thirty-year at 5.3 and Brent settling at $93.12; Thursday's readings were 5.13, 5.42 and $105.13. Tokyo had been shut for five days and reopened Thursday up 0.76 percent, not the 1.36 in the piece. Correctly dated at source; nothing where it surfaced said so.
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Entry 138 (24 SEP): quote contradicts narrative
Published claimThe same provider's Japan page, read at about 9:00 a.m. Thursday, showed the Nikkei 225 at 65,385 beside a change of +495.04, +0.76 percent, dated to the day, while its own narrative on the same page said the index “rose 0.76% to close at 65,514 on Thursday.”
Desk assessmentThe narrative is right: 65,514 less 495.04 is 65,018.96, Friday's close on two feeds (Xinhua; TradingKey), and Business Standard carries 65,514 independently. The quote beside it is a contract level: 65,385 less 495.04 is 64,889.96, a base no feed carried. Quote and narrative, one page, 129 points apart. The same page did the same thing on 17 and 18 September (entries 107 and 110).
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Entry 137 (24 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA data provider's United States index page, read at about 8:59 a.m. Thursday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,667.21 beside a change of −58.61, −0.75 percent, and the Dow at 51,365.01 beside −352.10, −0.68 percent, both dated 24 September.
Desk assessmentThe changes are Wednesday's cash session to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,706.03, down 58.61, and the Dow at 51,511.59, down 352.10 (Associated Press 4:12 p.m.; The Motley Fool) — and the levels are Thursday morning's contracts. 7,667.21 plus 58.61 implies a Tuesday close of 7,725.82, and 51,365.01 plus 352.10 implies 51,717.11; no feed carried either. The seventh time in nine sessions on this page (entries 107, 110, 120, 125, 130, 135).
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Entry 136 (23 SEP): field contradicts field
Published claimA finance portal's Hang Seng index page, read at 7:47 a.m. Wednesday, carried a level of 25,087.75, up 45.04, labelled “at close, 4:08 p.m.” Hong Kong time, beside a previous close of 24,750.80.
Desk assessmentLevel less change is 25,042.71; the previous-close field is 292 points from what the change beside it implies, and no feed carried 24,750.80 for Monday. Investing.com carries 25,087.75 as Tuesday's close and as the previous close for Wednesday's session, which stood at 24,850.00, down 237.75, when read at 7:44 a.m. The level and the change on the portal's page are Tuesday's and agree with a second feed; the field beside them agrees with neither.
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Entry 135 (23 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA data provider's United States index page, read at 7:24 a.m. Wednesday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,768.06 beside a change of −0.06 and the Dow at 51,873.85 beside −185.14, −0.36 percent, both dated 23 September.
Desk assessmentThe changes are Tuesday's cash session to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,764.64, down 0.06, and the Dow at 51,863.69, down 185.14 (Yahoo Finance 4:09 p.m.; TheStreet's percentages agree) — and the levels are Wednesday morning's contracts. 7,768.06 plus 0.06 implies a Monday close of 7,768.12, and 51,873.85 plus 185.14 implies 52,058.99; no feed carried either. The sixth time in eight sessions on this page (entries 107, 110, 120, 125, 130), and the form The Errata, No. 4, named the night before (item 7).
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Entry 134 (22 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for Monday's Chicago Fed National Activity Index returned a release page reading “Actual −0.08, prev −0.02, below prior,” reading as August's print.
Desk assessmentIt is the July release, published 24 August and dated in its own text. August's figure, published Monday, was −0.04 against a July reading revised up to +0.08 (Benzinga; Trading Economics): a decline, not the improvement from −0.08 that The Errata, No. 3, warned of. Correctly dated at source; nothing where it surfaced said so.
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Entry 133 (22 SEP): stale frame
Published claimA business magazine's piece stamped 1:06 p.m. Tuesday, syndicated by Yahoo Finance, was headlined “The 10-year Treasury yield just hit 5% for the first time since 2007.”
Desk assessmentThe ten-year hit five percent on 14 September and cleared the 2007 comparison on the fifteenth (entries 79, 80); it first closed above five on the Treasury's par curve on the sixteenth (entry 104). On Tuesday it sat at 4.96 percent all afternoon on two feeds. The body says “this month,” which is true; the headline says “just,” a week later.
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Entry 132 (22 SEP): propagated error
Published claimThe same 5:00 p.m. card said the ten-year was “easing to 4.96% after touching 5%,” down five basis points.
Desk assessmentThe ten-year closed at 4.96 percent Tuesday (Avalon Capital; BBN Times) and at 4.95 or 4.96 on Monday on four feeds: the day's move was zero to one basis point. Five basis points is the distance from 5.01, the level the same outlet's Monday card gave as a close, up seven, on a day the yield fell (entry 124). Monday's error became Tuesday's base.
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Entry 131 (22 SEP): mislabelled
Published claimA market site's card stamped 5:00 p.m. Tuesday gave the S&P 500 “at close” at 7,776.60 (+0.03%), the Dow at 51,947.30 (+0.01%), the Nasdaq 100 at 30,774.80 (+0.08%) and the Russell 2000 at 2,895.43 (−0.01%).
Desk assessmentNone is a close. The Dow fell 0.36 percent to 51,863.69 on three feeds; the Russell 2000 rose, 0.55 percent to 2,891.13 (Yahoo Finance) or 0.51 to 2,889.92 (Avalon); the S&P 500 closed at 7,764.64, down six cents. Two of four indices with the wrong direction, under a label that says the opposite of what the numbers are.
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13022 SEP
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Entry 130 (22 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA data provider's United States index page, read Tuesday evening, showed the S&P 500 at 7,765.34 beside a change of −0.06 and the Dow at 51,885.76 beside −185.14, −0.36 percent, both dated 23 September; its search snippet advertised “7,767 points” and a “0.03% gain.”
Desk assessmentThe changes are Tuesday's cash session to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,764.64, down 0.06, and the Dow at 51,863.69, down 185.14 (Yahoo Finance 4:09 p.m.; Avalon Capital) — and the levels are Wednesday's contracts. 7,765.34 plus 0.06 implies a Monday close of 7,765.40, which no feed carried; Monday's was 7,764.70. The fifth time in seven sessions on this page (entries 107, 110, 120, 125).
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12921 SEP
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Entry 129 (21 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimSearches for Chicago Fed President Goolsbee's Monday remarks in London returned “Fed's Goolsbee: I want more proof of inflation easing to end rate hikes,” which in a hiking cycle reads as this week's.
Desk assessmentThe URL dates it 1 August 2023. Monday's remarks, per the Associated Press at 11:12 a.m. and Investing.com at 9:10 a.m., were that the rate response to demand-driven inflation “is more aggressive and more front-loaded” and that bringing inflation down “is going to be painful.” Correctly dated at source; nothing where it surfaced said so.
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12821 SEP
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Entry 128 (21 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for Tuesday 22 September's calendar returned “Building permits, new home sales, and consumer confidence due Tuesday,” reading as this week's.
Desk assessmentIt is Investing.com's preview for Tuesday, 25 August, published 24 August and dated as such in its own text, with consensus figures (1.443 million permits, 620,000 new home sales, confidence 90.3) superseded a month ago. None of the three is due this Tuesday; the calendar has the Richmond Fed survey at 10:00, a $69 billion two-year auction at 1:00 (printed as $78 billion until 22 September; see the audit block) and three Federal Reserve speakers. Correctly dated at source; nothing where it surfaced said so.
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12721 SEP
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Entry 127 (21 SEP): morning's move in a close story
Published claimA closing digest for Monday, timed 21:04, said “Meta Platforms, which jumped 7.09% following a Wells Fargo price target hike to $796,” beside index closes that were right to the cent.
Desk assessmentMeta closed up 11.34 percent per TheStreet, 11.4 per Kiplinger and Reuters. The seven is the morning's move: Yahoo Finance's live blog had Meta “jumped nearly 7%” in an update stamped 10:09 a.m. Eastern. A ten o'clock number in a five o'clock digest, on the stock that carried the day.
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12621 SEP
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Entry 126 (21 SEP): a dip labelled a session
Published claimA Nasdaq close story said “Brent dropped below $100 a barrel for a fourth straight session,” beside a WTI decline of “about 4% to 5%.”
Desk assessmentBrent's November contract settled at $100.34, down $3.53, per Reuters at 3:37 p.m., which called it the lowest settlement since 9 September; it dipped under $100 during the day and came back. A settlement that is the lowest since 9 September and still above $100 means every settlement in between was above $100 too: there has been no session below $100 at the close, let alone four. TheStreet's 4:00 p.m. table had Brent at $101.30 beside WTI at $97.79; WTI's October contract settled at $95.78 (Reuters; Kiplinger).
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12521 SEP
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Entry 125 (21 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA data provider's United States index page, read at 9:24 a.m. Tuesday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,771.88 beside a change of +114.20, +1.49 percent, and the Dow at 52,386.72 beside +366.19, +0.71 percent, both dated to the day.
Desk assessmentThe changes are Monday's cash session to the cent; the levels are Tuesday's pre-market contracts. 7,771.88 less 114.20 implies a prior close of 7,657.68, and 52,386.72 less 366.19 implies 52,020.53; no feed carried either. Monday's closes were 7,764.70 and 52,048.83. The fourth time in six sessions this page has paired one session's change with another session's level (entries 107, 110 and 120).
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12421 SEP
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Entry 124 (21 SEP): wrong direction
Published claimA closing-bell card said “the 10-year just closed above 5% for the first time in this cycle,” and carried the yield at “5.01% +7 bp” under an 8:00 p.m. stamp; the same card had the S&P 500 “closed at 7,768.43.”
Desk assessmentThe ten-year fell on Monday: 4.951 percent from 5.00 per TheStreet's closing table, 4.95 per Stock Market Watch, 4.96 per The Motley Fool, “fell below 5%” per Reuters. And the first close above five in this cycle was Wednesday, 16 September, at 5.01 on the Treasury's par curve (entry 104); Wolf Street has 5.01 again on Friday. Wrong direction on the day, and a record five days stale. The S&P 500's settled close was 7,764.70 on seven feeds.
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12322 SEP
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Entry 123 (22 SEP): misquoted range
Published claimA venture blog's post, headlined “Meta AI Capex 2026: Guidance Narrows to $135-145B After Q2,” carried that range as the company's current capital expenditure guidance.
Desk assessmentExhibit 99.1 to Meta's Form 8-K of 29 July 2026 gives $130 to $145 billion, narrowed from $125 to $145 billion. The low end is five billion dollars off in a headline about the range, on the day Meta's market value moved by more than the whole of it.
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12222 SEP
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Entry 122 (22 SEP): wrong session
Published claimA market site's close story headlined “Stock Market Today, September 21, 2026: S&P 500 Closes Mixed as Rates Stabilize,” timed 21:16 UTC, carried the S&P 500 at 5,847.92, the Nasdaq Composite at 18,234.16, the Dow at 42,156.39, the ten-year at 3.94 percent and WTI at $71.18.
Desk assessmentMonday's closes were 7,764.70, 27,122.09 and 52,048.83 (Associated Press 4:34 p.m.; Motley Fool 5:02 p.m.), the ten-year 4.95 or 4.96 percent and WTI above $92. Every figure on the page belongs to a market roughly two years older than the one it is dated to; the S&P 500 level alone is 1,900 points off. The page discloses that it uses AI systems to draft its analysis.
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12121 SEP
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Entry 121 (21 SEP): wrong direction
Published claimThe same closing table's opening line told readers that Friday's mixed session came “just two day after the Federal Reserve cut rates.”
Desk assessmentThe Federal Open Market Committee raised its target range by a quarter point on 16 September, to 3.75–4.00 percent — its first increase since July 2023, reported as such all week by this desk and by every major outlet. A policy decision printed in the opposite direction, two days after it happened, at the top of the page carrying the closing levels. Three errors on one page this morning, with entries 118 and 119.
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12021 SEP
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Entry 120 (21 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA data provider's United States index page, read at 6:31 a.m. Monday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,693.29 beside a change of +12.74, +0.17 percent, and the Dow at 51,986.13 beside −95.39, −0.18 percent, both dated to the day.
Desk assessmentThose are Friday's cash changes to the cent — the S&P 500 closed at 7,650.50, up 12.74, and the Dow at 51,682.64, down 95.40 (Yahoo Finance; TheStreet) — printed beside Monday morning's contract levels. 7,693.29 less 12.74 implies a prior close of 7,680.55, which no feed carried. The third time in five sessions this page has paired one session's change with another session's level (entries 107 and 110).
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11921 SEP
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Entry 119 (21 SEP): mismatched level and change
Published claimThe same closing table carried the Russell 2000 at 2,876.85, down 0.50 percent, for Friday's session.
Desk assessmentFriday's close was 2,860.40, down 14.23, on Yahoo Finance at 4:30:13 p.m., against a prior close of 2,874.63. The 2,876.85 is the same table's own Thursday level, printed there beside a gain of 0.63 percent. Thursday's level, Friday's change, second week running on the same page.
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11821 SEP
Source verification pending
Entry 118 (21 SEP): impossible relationship
Published claimA market site's Friday closing table, read at 6:28 a.m. Monday, carried West Texas Intermediate at “$100.70, −1.19%” and Brent at “$100.70, −1.98%” — one level for two benchmarks, with two different changes.
Desk assessmentDifferent benchmarks can reach the same price from different previous prices and therefore have different percentage changes. The supplied Monday comparison ($101.91 Brent against $98.54 WTI at 6:40 a.m., attributed to Trading Economics) does not establish the quoted Friday settlements. The supplied text also notes that $100.70 is the same table's Thursday WTI level. Whether the Friday table was wrong requires contemporaneous, same-contract settlement evidence. Source verification pending.
source verification pending
This entry is retained with its assessment pending contemporaneous source evidence. It is not presented as an independently verified error.
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11718 SEP
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Entry 117 (18 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for this week's unusual options activity in a large-cap semiconductor name returned an options-flow scan reading as current: thirty-two trades, calls outnumbering puts twenty-three to nine, strikes “from $140.0 to $280.0 over the last three months,” and the stock quoted at $215.89, up 0.26 percent.
Desk assessmentThe stock traded above $543 on Friday morning and closed at 545.09 on Thursday (stockanalysis.com; Investing.com). The scan's strike ladder and its expiries — January, February and May 2026 — place it in late 2025, and its own text dates it to thirty-four days before an earnings date it does not name. Correctly dated at source; nothing where it surfaced said so, and an options scan carries no headline date to warn a reader.
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11617 SEP
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Entry 116 (17 SEP): narrative vs. table
Published claimA data provider's index page at 4:27 p.m. said in its narrative that “the S&P 500 rose 1.1%, the Dow added 316 points, and the Nasdaq gained 1.7%,” and in its table that the S&P 500 rose 90.69 points or 1.20 percent and the Dow 335.22 points.
Desk assessmentThe narrative matches the index closes (S&P 500 +1.14 percent, Dow +316.14, Nasdaq Composite +1.69, per Google Finance); the table is the site's own contract, quoted against a different base, and the page presents both under one heading. The same page and the same failure as entries 95 and 100, in the other direction: this time the prose is right and the table is not.
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11517 SEP
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Entry 115 (17 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA data site's Dow Jones page, read at 4:22, 4:31 and 4:48 p.m. Thursday, showed a quote of 52,064 beside a change of −316 (−0.60%), a previous close of 52,064, a day's range of 51,963–52,292 and the label “Closed·15:59:59.”
Desk assessmentA quote equal to its own previous close cannot carry a change of 316 points; 52,064 + 316 implies a previous close of 52,380, which the page does not show. The range contains neither Wednesday's close of 51,461.90 nor Thursday's of 51,778.04 (Google Finance; +316 points also per Trading Economics). The same page carried Wednesday's close correctly at 4:11 p.m. and an older session eleven minutes later.
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11417 SEP
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Entry 114 (17 SEP): mislabelled week
Published claimA market-news site's claims story, stamped 12:34 GMT, dated continuing claims of 1.730 million to “the week ending August 5.”
Desk assessmentThe Labor Department's release dates insured unemployment of 1,730,000 to the week ending September 5. Right number, wrong month. Forecast in The Errata, No. 2 (item 3, in its “claims week mislabelled” form); scored there.
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11317 SEP
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Entry 113 (17 SEP): impossible relationship
Published claimA market live blog, in an update stamped 10:25 a.m. Thursday, printed: “The S&P 500 climbed 1.19%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 8.81%, and the Nasdaq slipped 0.01%. The Russell 2000 dipped 0.40%.”
Desk assessmentA Dow gain of 8.81 percent would be about 4,500 points; the Dow was up 0.47 percent at 9:45 on Yahoo Finance's board and closed up 0.61, or 316 points, on Google Finance and Trading Economics. A Nasdaq slipping 0.01 percent beside an S&P 500 up 1.19 describes no session this week; the Nasdaq Composite closed up 1.69 percent on two feeds. Two impossible numbers in one sentence, the second of which is Wednesday's Nasdaq close.
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11218 SEP
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Entry 112 (18 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for Friday's Tokyo close after the Bank of Japan's decision returned “Japanese Shares Trim Gains on Hawkish BOJ,” reading as this morning's session.
Desk assessmentA note dated 26 February 2026, with the Nikkei at 58,753 and the Topix at 3,880, seven thousand points below Friday's close. Correctly dated at source; nothing where it surfaced said so.
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11118 SEP
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Entry 111 (18 SEP): wrong direction
Published claimThe same provider's currency page at 7:38 a.m. said “the yen strengthened notably, climbing over 1.2%” beside a dollar-yen quote of 157.871, up 1.2965, +1.22 percent.
Desk assessmentA rising dollar-yen is a weaker yen. The pair rose after the Bank of Japan's increase to 1.25 percent; Invezz had the yen weakening toward 157 at 1:28 a.m. The quoted level and increase imply a prior level of 156.5745 and a gain of approximately 0.828 percent, not 1.22 percent. The quoted percentage is internally inconsistent; the actual observed move still requires contemporaneous source verification.
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11018 SEP
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Entry 110 (18 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA data provider's Japan page, read at 7:25 a.m. Friday, showed the Nikkei 225 at 65,635 beside a change of +882.70, +1.38 percent, dated to the day.
Desk assessmentThe change is Friday's cash session to the yen; the level is not. The Nikkei closed at 65,018.95 (Xinhua; TradingKey 65,018.73), and 65,635 − 882.70 is 64,752.30, a prior close no feed carried; Thursday's close was 64,136.25. The same page did the same thing on Thursday morning (entry 107).
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10918 SEP
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Entry 109 (18 SEP): component as total
Published claimA market site put Generac's “data center backlog” before the Amazon deal at “approximately $1.35 billion.”
Desk assessmentThe backlog was approximately $1.6 billion on 29 July per the company's second-quarter release, excluding the second hyperscale customer; $1.35 billion is the portion of it scheduled for 2027 delivery, per the chief executive on the call. A part of the number printed as the whole.
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10818 SEP
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Entry 108 (18 SEP): headline vs. body
Published claimA crypto news wire headlined Generac's Amazon agreement “Generac Signs $24 Billion Amazon Data Center Generator Deal,” timed 4:24 a.m. on its own clock.
Desk assessmentIts own body gave $2.4 billion of initial deliveries across 2027 and 2028 and an $8 billion cap on warrant vesting, which is what Generac's 8-K of 16 September says as summarised by TipRanks and StockInvest. Headline and body, one page, a factor of ten apart.
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10717 SEP
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Entry 107 (17 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA data provider's United States index page, read at 7:24 a.m. Thursday, showed the S&P 500 at 7,618.82 beside a change of −33.93, −0.45 percent, and the Dow at 51,889.06 beside −631.21, −1.21 percent, dated to the day. Its Japan page showed the Nikkei at 64,700 beside +213.25, +0.33 percent.
Desk assessmentThe changes are Wednesday's cash session to the cent; the levels are Thursday's pre-market quotes. 7,618.82 less 33.93 implies a prior close of 7,652.75, which no feed carried, and 33.93 ÷ 7,652.75 is 0.443 percent, which does not round to the 0.45 printed. On the Japan page, 64,700 less Wednesday's close of 63,922.78 is +777, not +213.25; the cash close was 64,136. One failure mode, two pages, one morning.
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10617 SEP
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Entry 106 (17 SEP): mislabelled pair
Published claimA morning preview for Thursday carried “Housing Starts: Est. 1.41M (prior 1.433M)” and “Building Permits: Est. 1.309M (prior 1.2339M).”
Desk assessmentThose are each other's figures. Trading Economics and Investing.com both have August starts at 1.31 million from 1.239 and permits at 1.41 million from 1.433. Starts up and permits down became starts down and permits up. The exact form The Errata, No. 2 named the night before; scored there.
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10516 SEP
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Entry 105 (16 SEP): median called an average
Published claimA brokerage's decision note said “the average projection for rates at the end of this year rose to 4.1%.”
Desk assessmentThe Fed publishes a median, and 4.1 is the median. The average of the eighteen published projections — twelve at 4.125, four at 4.375, two at 3.875, per Yahoo Finance's account of the table — is 4.15, which rounds to 4.2. Right number, wrong word. Forecast in The Errata, No. 1 (item 8, in one of its three forms).
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10416 SEP
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Entry 104 (16 SEP): two o'clock's tape in a close story
Published claimA close story with the right S&P 500 close (7,551.81) said “two-year yields eased roughly one basis point, while 10-year and 30-year yields dropped four and five basis points, respectively.”
Desk assessmentThose were the moves at 2:05 p.m. At the close the Treasury's par curve had the two-year at 4.74, up seven basis points, the ten-year at 5.01, up one, and the thirty-year at 5.35, down one. Wrong sign on two of three, and the ten-year's first close above five percent on the government's own series went unreported in a story about the close. Forecast in The Errata, No. 1 (item 5).
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10316 SEP
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Entry 103 (16 SEP): page never turned over
Published claimA data site's S&P 500 page showed “7,585.68, −34.30 (−0.45%), Closed 15:59:59” as the latest close at 8:57 p.m. on Wednesday, with no 16 September row in its history table.
Desk assessmentThat is Tuesday's close, five hours after Wednesday's, which was 7,551.81, down 33.92 (BBN Times; Kiplinger). The same site's Dow page, read a minute earlier, had rolled to Wednesday and carried the right close, 51,461.90.
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10216 SEP
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Entry 102 (16 SEP): table dated a day late
Published claimA finance site's S&P 500 history table, read at 8:58 p.m., carried a row dated 16 September with an open of 7,612.30, a high of 7,617.26, a low of 7,572.69 and a close of 7,585.73; the row dated 15 September carried a close of 7,619.98.
Desk assessmentThose are Tuesday's and Monday's sessions. Investing.com's dated table carries the identical figures, to the cent, for 15 and 14 September, and the same page's own header said “At close: September 15” beside 7,585.73. Every row is one day late. Wednesday's close was 7,551.81.
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10116 SEP
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Entry 101 (16 SEP): headline vs. board
Published claimA market live blog was headlined “Dow sinks 600 points” at 4:50 p.m. while its own quote board, on the same page, showed the Dow at 51,363.01, down 730.10 — and still showed it at 8:55 p.m. The same board had the S&P 500 at 7,527.80, down 57.93, and the Nasdaq Composite at 25,875.21, down 106.36.
Desk assessmentThe Dow closed at 51,461.90, down 631.21 (Investing.com; Kiplinger 51,461, down 631; Trading Economics' point change agreeing). The S&P 500 closed at 7,551.81, down 33.92 (BBN Times; Kiplinger 7,551). The Nasdaq Composite closed at 25,978.42, nearly flat (BBN Times; Kiplinger). Three indices, misses of 24, 99 and 103 points; a headline 130 Dow points from its own board. The board's implied base, 52,093.11, was Tuesday's close: right base, wrong level.
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10016 SEP
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Entry 100 (16 SEP): narrative vs. table
Published claimA data provider's index page, an hour after the Fed-day close, said in its narrative that the S&P 500 “fell 1%,” the Dow “1.5%” and the Nasdaq 100 “0.5%.”
Desk assessmentThe table on the same page, at the same minute, showed the S&P 500 at 7,554.59, down 0.41 percent, the Dow at 51,488.15, down 1.15, and the Nasdaq 100 up 0.10. Prose and table, one page, in opposite directions on one index. The second time this week the same page has disagreed with itself about the Dow (entry 95).
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9916 SEP
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Entry 99 (16 SEP): stale under a fresh date
Published claimA market-news page dated 8 September put the odds of a September hike at “nearly 56%” after Chair Warsh's Jackson Hole remarks, with June's unemployment rate and June's PCE as the latest data.
Desk assessmentThe speech was on 28 August; the July jobs report of 7 August and the August report of 4 September had both been published by the page's date, and the odds were 66 percent on 31 August and 70 on 10 September. The page carries a late-August reading under a September date. It reached the first edition of this desk's Fed Day piece, which placed the 56 on 8 September; corrected at full size.
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9816 SEP
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Entry 98 (16 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimSearches at midday for what the market has priced for the September 2026 meeting returned “Fed Traders Now Fully Pricing In Seven Standard Hikes for 2022” and “Traders Cast Doubt on More Fed Hikes as Even December Odds Ease,” both reading as current.
Desk assessmentThey are Bloomberg pieces from March 2022 and December 2018, dated in their own URLs. What is priced for September 2026 is a quarter point at 92.7 percent and about 100 basis points over the following year, per Yahoo Finance and Bank of America via Benzinga.
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9716 SEP
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Entry 97 (16 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimSearches for a September 2026 Fed preview on the morning of the decision returned “Fed preview: forecasts from 15 major banks, a pause but the end of rate hikes” and “Fed September preview: terminal rate projection is key,” both reading as current.
Desk assessmentThey are FXStreet's previews of the September 2023 and September 2022 meetings, dated in their own URLs. The 2026 meeting is a hike, not a pause, and the committee's target range is 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 percent per the July minutes.
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9615 SEP
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Entry 96 (15 SEP): wrong sign
Published claimA secondary economic calendar published the August retail sales consensus as minus 0.9 percent.
Desk assessmentThe consensus is plus 0.9 percent, per Trading Economics, against a July reading of minus 0.6. The inverted sign reached an earlier edition of this desk's 15 September recap, where it supported a section that was withdrawn and rewritten at full size. Logged against the calendar; the failure to check it before building on it was this desk's.
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9515 SEP
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Entry 95 (15 SEP): narrative vs. table
Published claimA data provider's post-close narrative said the Dow “lost 1%.”
Desk assessmentThe table on the same page showed the Dow at 52,059.96, down 361.24 points, 0.69 percent. Prose and table on one page, a third of a point apart.
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9415 SEP
Withdrawn — retained in the record, not counted
Entry 94 (15 SEP): this desk's error
Published claimWithdrawn 16 Sep. The same note's headline said the ten-year Treasury yield had “hit 5.04%,” and its table said 5.00; this register logged that as a contradiction.
Desk assessmentIt was not one. Kiplinger's live blog carries Tuesday's intraday high at 5.041 percent and Saxo's Asia note carries 5.04: the headline reported the day's high and the table the level at that moment. Two true things. The 5.02 this desk had sworn in as the peak was the level Bloomberg saw at 1:20 a.m. and TheStreet at 9:35 a.m. The entry stays numbered and is not counted.
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9315 SEP
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Entry 93 (15 SEP): level contradicts change
Published claimA brokerage's 9:12 a.m. market table carried the S&P 500 at 7,619.98, up 0.48 percent.
Desk assessmentMonday's close was 7,621.54. A level below the prior close cannot be a gain. For +0.48 percent to hold, Monday would have had to close at 7,583.58, a figure no feed carried.
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9215 SEP
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Entry 92 (15 SEP): mismatched level and change
Published claimA live blog showed the S&P 500 at 7,619, down about half a percent, an hour after the close.
Desk assessment7,619 is within three points of the previous day's close. Monday's level beside Tuesday's percentage change. The magnitude was right and the level was a day old.
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9115 SEP
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Entry 91 (15 SEP): wrong session
Published claimA market page carried a session summary dated to the day, describing index moves, single stocks and Federal Reserve expectations.
Desk assessmentIt describes an entirely different session: job openings at 7.67 million “in October,” an expected rate cut rather than a hike, JPMorgan's 2026 expense guidance and a Warner Bros bid. None of it happened that day.
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9015 SEP
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Entry 90 (15 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for the September 2026 Empire State survey returned a report headlined “index jumps to 19 in September vs 10 expected.”
Desk assessmentThe September 2023 survey — the same calendar date, three years apart, which is precisely why it surfaced and precisely why it reads as today's.
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8915 SEP
Source links not supplied
Entry 89 (15 SEP): propagated error
Published claimA major network carried the “19-year high” description of the previous day's 5.01 percent print.
Desk assessmentEntry 80's error, now propagating. The figure had not cleared October 2023's 5.02 when the description ran. It cleared it later the same day, which is not the same thing as having been right.
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8815 SEP
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Entry 88 (15 SEP): impossible relationship
Published claimA live blog quoted Brent crude at about $102 while quoting West Texas Intermediate at $103.55, at the same minute.
Desk assessmentThe benchmarks are inverted. Brent trades above WTI and did that morning — a separate feed had Brent at $107.90 against WTI at $104.10. An oil price without its companion benchmark hides this; printed as a pair, it cannot.
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8715 SEP
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Entry 87 (15 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimSearches for the September 2026 Empire State print returned two analyses with headline numbers reading as current.
Desk assessmentOne was the September 2025 survey. One was May 2026. Both correctly dated at source; neither carried a warning where it surfaced.
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8615 SEP
Source links not supplied
Entry 86 (15 SEP): carried-forward components
Published claimA provider published a September Empire State manufacturing headline of 7.6 with its component detail.
Desk assessmentThe September components — new orders 17.3, shipments 11.7 — are identical to the values the New York Fed published for August, which this desk retrieved and read directly. Two other calendars showed no September actual at all. The whole row is unusable.
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8514 SEP
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Entry 85 (14 SEP): internal contradiction
Published claimA provider published two different closing levels for the same index, on the same page, at the same moment.
Desk assessmentThe quote widget read 7,619.90, down 0.48 percent. The prose beneath it read 7,621, down 0.46. One page, two closes.
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8414 SEP
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Entry 84 (14 SEP): stale resurfacing
Published claimA search for the day's enterprise software moves returned an article reporting Salesforce up 7 percent, ServiceNow 8, Workday 10.
Desk assessmentDated 27 July 2026 — seven weeks old — and carrying S&P futures at 7,824.75, a level nowhere near that day's. Nothing on the page marked it as historic.
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8314 SEP
Source links not supplied
Entry 83 (14 SEP): mislabelled
Published claimA market widget carried index levels under the label “at close,” on a piece published at 10:11 a.m. Eastern.
Desk assessmentSix hours before any close. The level shown was live and moving. The words on the box were not describing the number in it.
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8214 SEP
Source links not supplied
Entry 82 (14 SEP): wrong series
Published claimThe same wire described core inflation as running at 3.4 percent, above the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target.
Desk assessment3.4 percent is the headline CPI rate. Core CPI was 2.4 percent — a five-year low — and core PCE 3.3. Naming the wrong series inverts what the number argues for.
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8114 SEP
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Entry 81 (14 SEP): internal contradiction
Published claimA wire wrote that the yield “hadn't reached 5% since 2007 before last touching it in July 2023.”
Desk assessmentThe sentence contradicts itself — both cannot be the last time — and the 2023 touch was October, not July. Two errors in one clause.
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8014 SEP
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Entry 80 (14 SEP): contradicted by prior peak
Published claimA data provider described the day's 5.01 percent intraday high as a “19-year high.”
Desk assessmentOctober 2023 printed 5.02 percent. A reading of 5.01 does not clear it, so the 19-year framing was unavailable that day. The same provider's sister framing — a 52-week high — was correct.
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7914 SEP
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Entry 79 (14 SEP): stale comparison
Published claimA widely circulated market update described the ten-year Treasury yield as approaching five percent “for the first time since 2007.”
Desk assessmentThree independent wires put the last five percent print in October 2023, less than three years earlier. The 2007 comparison belongs to a different episode. Twenty-four hours later the claim became true — the yield reached 5.02 percent on 15 September and took the 2007 record properly. It was still wrong when it was published.
The forecast register
The forecast register
Each issue of The Errata ends by naming the errors it expects in the next day's coverage. They are listed here the night they are made and scored the following night against what was actually printed — occurred, did not occur, or unresolved — as reporting, not as a grade. A forecast that occurred also becomes a numbered entry above.
All 123 supplied forecast records are shown. Outcomes remain the desk’s reported observations; open or unresolved records are not inferred successes or failures.
The Errata, No. 1 · made Tue 15 Sep for Wed 16 Sep, Fed day
scored Wednesday night: four occurred, four did not, one unresolved
- did not occur
A "second monthly decline" in retail sales that is not in the data: the August consensus is +0.9%, after −0.6% in July; watch also for a mechanical Prime Day rebound reported as clean strength.
Census: August +1.2% (±0.4), July revised to −0.5%. The print removed the premise.
- did not occur
"The last meeting before the midterms." The FOMC meets again 27–28 October; the election is 3 November.
Searched Wednesday’s coverage; not found.
- occurred
A sixth published value for the CME FedWatch hike probability, after 85, 88, 90, "over 92" and 92, with no outlet saying when it looked.
Nine values by 11:19 a.m.: Yahoo, Kiplinger, Investing.com, Benzinga, FXStreet, UPI, Schwab (two), Kiplinger’s weekend note. Documented in the noon piece.
- did not occur
"First hike since" with the wrong year: it would be the first since July 2023. Watch for "since 2022," "in two years," and "first of the Warsh era" presented as the same claim.
“Since 2023” or “three years” at CNBC, Fox Business, CNN, Yahoo Finance and Schwab; “since 2022” not found.
- occurred
The ten-year error, flipped: "highest since October 2023" is now the stale claim; and a close above 5% reported when the yield only touched it, or under-reported if it is real.
Under-reported: BBN Times’ close story carried the 2:05 yield moves on a day the Treasury’s curve closed the ten-year at 5.01, up one. Entry 104. “Highest since October 2023” not found.
- unresolved
A live blog showing the wrong index level beside the right percentage change between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m., in either direction.
The live blogs served caches between 2:00 and 3:00 (Yahoo’s page 2:38 all afternoon). The same failure occurred after the close on Yahoo’s board: entry 101.
- occurred
"The Dow fell X points" with no base level, inheriting Tuesday's thirty-two-point disagreement between feeds.
Four values: 600 (Yahoo’s and CNBC’s headlines), 631 (Kiplinger, Investing.com), 700 (CNBC as indexed at 4:50), 730 (Yahoo’s board). Reconciled in No. 2 at 631.21 to 51,461.90; base 52,093.11.
- occurred, one of three forms
The dots misread three ways: a median of nineteen reported as "the Fed sees"; the 2026 and 2027 medians swapped; projection materials posted at 2:00 quoted as said at 2:30.
“The average projection” for a median: Schwab, entry 105. Swapped medians and 2:00 materials quoted as 2:30 remarks: not found. The forecast’s own count (nineteen) was wrong; it is eighteen — see the audit block.
- did not occur
Deutsche Bank's conditional — a hold would be the biggest dovish surprise at a scheduled meeting since 1994 — quoted without the "if," in either direction.
Searched; not found. The hike made the conditional moot by 2:01.
The Errata, No. 2 · made Wed 16 Sep for Thu 17 Sep, claims, starts and the Philly Fed at 8:30
scored in No. 3, four days late: two occurred, four did not, one unresolved
- did not occur
The fed funds rate quoted as a single number that is neither bound of 3.75–4.00: 3.88 (the midpoint), “4%” alone, or 3.63 (Wednesday's effective rate carried into Thursday).
Searched Thursday’s coverage; not found. The Associated Press printed “approximately 3.9 percent” on Monday 21 September, four days on. Reported, not scored.
- did not occur
The Dow's Wednesday drop quoted as 600, 700 or 730 in Thursday's recaps. It was 631.21, to 51,461.90.
Thursday’s recaps found carried 631 (Mitrade, KuCoin) or “over 600” (Benzinga), which is true of 631.21.
- occurred
The claims week mislabelled: initial claims cover the week ended Saturday 12 September, continuing claims the week ended 5 September; watch for “week ended September 13” and the prior reported after revision as the print. Consensus 208K and 1.780M.
Continuing claims dated to “the week ending August 5” by a market-news site; the Labor Department says September 5. Entry 114.
- occurred
Starts and permits with the signs swapped: consensus has August starts up (1.31M from 1.239M) and permits down (1.41M from 1.433M); expect “both fell” or “both rose,” and permits reported as starts.
A morning preview carried each series’ figures under the other’s name. Entry 106.
- did not occur
A Philadelphia Fed reading in the thirties described as a collapse (consensus 30.5 from 47.4; thirty is expansion), and the Empire State's September figure quoted as Philadelphia's.
37.8 from 47.4 against 30.5; headlines said “falls less than expected” (Seeking Alpha) and “kept climbing” (Dow Jones via MarketScreener), which describes activity rather than the index. No collapse, no Empire State.
- did not occur
“The Fed sees rates at 4.1 percent in 2027” attributed to the chairman, who submitted no projection.
Searched; not found.
- unresolved
The chairman's line on financial conditions rendered a fourth way; the Board's transcript settles it. Wednesday: “I would be hard pressed to describe broad financial conditions as restrictive” (Reuters), “I am hard-pressed to call financial conditions restrictive” (FXStreet), “hard to describe overall financial conditions as restrictive” (404k Research).
The Board’s preliminary transcript: “I would be hard-pressed to describe broad financial conditions as restrictive.” Reuters’ version is the verbatim one; the other renderings found were paraphrases, not quotations, so none is a fourth.
The Errata, No. 3 · made Mon 21 Sep, delivered Tue morning, for Tue 22 Sep, WTI expiry, three Fed speakers, the Richmond Fed and a two-year auction
scored Tuesday night: none occurred in the form named, eight did not, one detail unresolved
- did not occur
A “$3 drop” in oil that is the contract roll: front-month WTI goes from October (settled $95.78) to November (settled $92.47); a decline of about 3.5 percent that did not happen, or two feeds quoting two contracts without saying which.
TheStreet and Yahoo Finance measured November against November; Avalon printed both contracts, labelled. Two feeds’ changes imply November settled Monday at $92.37 against the $92.47 printed here; unresolved, see the audit block.
- did not occur
The ten-year's first close above 5 percent dated to Monday or “last week” without the date. It was Wednesday 16 September; a Tuesday close above five is a return, not a first.
Not found in that form. Fortune’s “just hit 5%” is the neighbouring error: entry 133.
- did not occur
The $69 billion two-year auction's result with the wrong sign (a tail called a stop-through or the reverse), or its high yield printed as the two-year's closing yield.
investingLive and Helious both reported a 0.2 bp tail at 4.787%; FX.co’s “yield jumps to 4.787%” describes the auction. The size here was wrong: $69 billion, corrected in the audit block.
- did not occur
Goolsbee's Monday London remarks re-dated to Tuesday, or the “painful” line attributed to Williams (10:05), Jefferson (10:20) or Barkin (1:00).
Quartz and Yahoo Finance, 11:48 a.m. Tuesday, dated them to Monday.
- did not occur
The fed funds rate as one number in Fed-speaker coverage: “4%” alone, 3.88, or the AP's “approximately 3.9 percent.” The range is 3.75–4.00.
Not found in the coverage read (Reuters on Williams, Newsquawk, Avalon on Barkin); BBN Times printed the range.
- did not occur
AutoZone's sixteen-week fiscal fourth quarter compared with the twelve-week third: a sequential revenue “jump” that is the calendar. Made after the fact: AutoZone reported at 6:55 a.m. Tuesday ($56.05 a share against Kiplinger's $54.30), before No. 3 went out; the coverage is what is scored.
The release and GuruFocus compared the quarter with the year-earlier sixteen weeks, up 5.6 percent.
- did not occur
The Chicago Fed index reported as “improved to −0.04 from −0.08,” using July's unrevised figure; July was revised to +0.08 and August's −0.04 is a decline.
Benzinga and Trading Economics used the revised +0.08. The unrevised July page surfaced anyway: entry 134.
- did not occur
The Nasdaq's record with the wrong predecessor (27,093.90 on 2 June per Reuters): “first since May,” or the Nasdaq 100's record conflated with the Composite's; and an S&P 500 record called on the intraday high before the close confirms it.
BBN Times named 27,093.90 on 2 June; Quartz had Monday’s as the first since June; the S&P 500 set no record.
The Errata, No. 4 · made Tue 22 Sep for Wed 23 Sep, the flash PMIs, Governor Barr and a five-year auction
scored in No. 5, a day late: two occurred (one in a neighbouring form), five did not, one unresolved
- occurred, neighbouring form
The two-year's 0.2 basis point tail (4.787 against 4.785 when-issued) carried into Wednesday as a stop-through or “strong demand”; or the $78 billion size, this desk's own error, surfacing elsewhere.
Wolf Street’s Wednesday piece: “$79 billion of 2-year notes” and an “$80 billion” five-year; $69 and $70 billion on three feeds. Entry 142. No stop-through found; Phil Newton called demand “merely adequate.”
- did not occur
The five-year auction's high yield printed as the five-year's closing yield, or its result with the wrong sign.
$70 billion at 5.033 against 5.002 when-issued, a 3.1 bp tail (investingLive 1:07 p.m.). No stop-through found; TheStreet printed the closing yield as 4.996.
- did not occur
A flash PMI in expansion described as contraction (manufacturing consensus 53.9, composite 56; fifty is the line), or the ISM's 1 October index quoted as tomorrow's S&P Global flash.
Manufacturing 57.0, services 58.7, composite 58.4 (FXStreet); every outlet read said expansion; the ISM not quoted. The consensus figures here were the August priors; see the audit block.
- did not occur
A third straight Nasdaq record called on the intraday high (Tuesday's was 27,288.79; the record close is 27,244.28), or the Nasdaq 100 conflated with the Composite.
The Composite fell 1.13 percent to 26,936.04 (Minichart; Investrade); Vantage called Tuesday’s the second consecutive record close.
- did not occur
The ten-year's Wednesday move measured from 5.01 rather than 4.96, the mechanism of entry 132; change plus prior should equal 4.96.
Kiplinger up 13.7 bp to 5.104, TheStreet up 13.9 to 5.106: both from about 4.967.
- did not occur
The S&P 500's flat Tuesday (7,764.64, down 0.06) quoted as “edged higher” or as 7,776.60 in Wednesday's recaps.
Not found; Vantage’s “easing 0.04%” is a neighbouring slip (six cents on 7,764 is not four basis points).
- occurred
Tuesday's changes (−0.06, −185.14) beside Wednesday's contract levels on the same data provider's index page, a sixth time; level less change should equal 7,764.64 and 51,863.69.
Trading Economics at 7:24 a.m. Wednesday; the Brief’s entry 135.
- unresolved
November WTI's Monday settlement as two numbers, $92.47 and $92.37, with Tuesday's change quoted from either.
No feed read carried the November contract’s Monday settlement; October figures found (DTN $94.59, Rallies $94.99 for Tuesday) disagree with each other.
The Errata, No. 5 · made Thu 24 Sep for Fri 25 Sep, durable goods, the Michigan final, Williams and Hammack
scored in No. 6, three days late: three occurred (one in a neighbouring form), four did not, one unresolved
- did not occur
PCE reported as Friday's release: August personal income and outlays is due Wednesday 30 September; or July's actuals (0.2 monthly, 3.7 headline, 3.3 core) quoted as the August consensus.
Searched Friday’s coverage and the weekend’s; not found. Every calendar read carries August personal income and outlays on Wednesday 30 September (Kiplinger, Friday; Zacks via Yahoo).
- did not occur
The Michigan final (consensus 47.6) compared with August's 51.7 rather than the preliminary 47.8, and reported as a plunge.
Final 48.1 (Trading Economics). Kiplinger compared it with the preliminary 47.8 and named August’s 51.7 beside it; Advisor Perspectives compared it with August and said so; Breitbart’s “plunged” was the survey director’s word for the short-run business outlook.
- did not occur
Durable goods (consensus −0.4 percent after +1.1; ex-transport +0.6) reported as a manufacturing collapse on the headline alone, or the ex-transport figure printed as the headline.
Census: new orders “virtually unchanged” at $338.6 billion after July revised to +0.9; ex-transport +0.3 against +0.6. MarketScreener labelled ex-transport as ex-transport; KPMG said the headline “understates strength.”
- occurred
Thursday's changes (−1.90, −161.61) beside Friday's contract levels on the same data provider's index page, a ninth time; level less change should equal 7,704.13 and 51,349.98.
Trading Economics at 7:28 a.m. Friday: entry 145. Again Monday morning (entry 149), Monday evening and Tuesday morning (entry 153).
- occurred, neighbouring form
The ten-year's Thursday close as three numbers (5.19, 5.206, “5.2”), with Friday's change measured from any of them; the Treasury's Thursday par close settles the base.
Kiplinger’s Friday change (−0.6 bp to 5.156) was measured from 5.162, none of the three and not the Treasury’s par close, which was 5.18 Thursday and 5.17 Friday (Kiplinger, Thursday: 5.206). Classified as a difference, not logged; see the audit block.
- did not occur
The thirty-year's record given the ten-year's date (2007 for 2004), or the seven-year auction's “highest since 1993” attached to a benchmark yield.
Kiplinger’s Friday story: “fresh 52-week highs,” no year; Zacks via Yahoo Finance: “not seen since 2004,” which is right. A result titled “Highest Since 2007” surfaced and returned a 404; not dated.
- occurred
A “fourth straight weekly loss” for the Dow printed before Friday's close; last Friday's close was 51,682.64.
Quartz: “remained on course for a fourth consecutive weekly loss”; Schaeffer’s at 11:59 a.m.: “remains headed for its fourth-straight weekly loss.” The Dow closed the week at 51,828.62 against 51,682.64, up 0.28 percent (Kiplinger: “0.3% for the week”). Not repeated after the close in what was read; no entry.
- unresolved
Schwab's 202,000 propagating: last week's claims as 202,000, or “claims fell 5,000” in a weekly recap; the Labor Department says 198,000 and 1,000.
One candidate, MarketReview’s “Jobless Claims Drop to 197,000”, could not be fetched; nothing else read carried 202,000 or a 5,000 decline.
The Errata, No. 6 · made Mon 28 Sep, delivered Tue morning, for Tue 29 Sep, job openings, the Conference Board and seven Fed speakers
scored in No. 7, a day late: four occurred, none in the exact form named; three did not; one unresolved
- did not occur
Two consumer confidences treated as one: Michigan’s 48.1 quoted as “consumer confidence” on the Conference Board’s day (consensus 90.1 from 89.4), or a Conference Board reading near 90 called a rebound from 48.
The Conference Board’s 81.9, from a revised 88.6 (release), was kept apart from Michigan’s 48.1 wherever both appeared (DPA via Yahoo); Quartz, Axios and Yahoo did not mention Michigan. The 90.1 consensus printed here appeared nowhere else: 89.0, 89.2 and 90.
- occurred
August job openings (consensus 7.23 million from 7.271) measured from July’s unrevised figure, or the July report surfacing for Tuesday’s query as this month’s.
Source outcome qualifier: occurred, second form. BLS: August 7.079 million, July revised to 7.335. Every newsroom read used the revised July (Reuters via Yahoo; FXStreet; investingLive; Trading Economics). The July report surfaced as “the latest” on FedRateCalc, a calculator site: entry 168. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/us-job-openings-fall-august-142730716.html https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-jolts-job-openings-dropped-to-7079-million-in-august-202609291403 https://investinglive.com/news/jolts-job-openings-7-079m-vs-7-225m-estimate/ https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/job-offers https://fedratecalc.com/jolts-report-release-date/
- did not occur
A Fed speaker’s line given to the wrong speaker among the seven (Bowman, Barr, Goolsbee, Cook, Musalem, Williams, Waller); Williams’s Thursday “another rate hike may be appropriate by the end of the year” re-dated to Tuesday; or the fed funds rate as “4%” alone when the range is 3.75–4.00.
Not found in any of the three forms (investingLive; FXStreet). Williams said on Tuesday itself that “one further upward adjustment” may be appropriate late this year (Reuters via WBOW), and every outlet read printed the range. There were six speakers, not seven: Cook is not on the Board’s calendar for 29 September, nor in Newsquawk’s primer; see the audit block.
- occurred, neighbouring form
Brent’s roll printed as a fall: November (settled $105.28 Monday) expires Wednesday and December sits near $98; a drop of seven dollars or more on one board with WTI moving a dollar, and no contract named.
Investrade’s three Tuesday tables (preview, mid-morning, review): Brent 105.12, 96.35, 102.59 beside WTI 92.33, 90.79, 89.38, no contract named; Kiplinger called December the front month. Settlements $102.59 and $96.16 per Rigzone. No outlet printed the step as a change. Entry 165.
- unresolved
Monday’s changes (−59.72, −347.11) beside Tuesday’s contract levels on the same data provider’s index page still there after Tuesday’s close, having been there at 7:23 a.m. (entry 153); level less change should equal 7,683.69 and 51,481.51.
No Errata ran on Tuesday and the page was not read that evening. At 7:31 a.m. Wednesday it carried Tuesday’s changes (entry 158); at 9:27 p.m. Wednesday, Wednesday’s changes beside Thursday’s levels (Trading Economics; entry 162).
- occurred, neighbouring form
Gold’s Monday fall as four sizes ($13, $164, $167, 3.16 percent) inherited by Tuesday’s recaps, including “gold slipped $13” from a board measuring from Monday’s settlement; the COMEX settlement settles it.
None of the four sizes named was found. TheStreet printed December’s Monday settlement as $4,135.40, down 3.52 percent; Investrade and 24/7 Wall St. have $4,168.40, down $152.80, 3.54 percent. Entry 166.
- did not occur
The ten-year’s Tuesday move measured from 5.24, 5.234 or the Treasury’s Monday par close (5.24); “closed above 5.25 for the first time” on a touch; or the five-year’s “first time since 2007” repeated when it closed at 5.03 on the par curve on Thursday 24 September.
Kiplinger (+0.9 bp to 5.251) and Investrade (+4 bp to 5.282) both measured from 5.242; the AP from 5.24 (CMG Plus copy; BNN copy). The Treasury’s par curve closed Tuesday at 5.26, so a close above 5.25 was real; “first time” was not found, nor the five-year’s repeat.
- occurred, neighbouring form
September’s performance printed before September ends: CoinCentral’s “down 3.2% for September, worst since 2023” for the Dow (3:52 p.m. Monday) repeated Tuesday with a different percentage and no base; the 1 September board read Monday night implies about −1.1 percent.
CoinCentral’s figure was not repeated Tuesday. 24/7 Wall St., 9:00 a.m. Tuesday: “SPY gained 1% through September 2026,” measured to Monday morning; the S&P 500 was down 0.03 percent for the month by Monday’s close. Entry 167. StatMuse: “down 3.3% for the month” for the Dow at Tuesday’s close, no base given; from 31 August it was 3.45.
The Errata, No. 7 · made Wed 30 Sep for Thu 1 Oct, jobless claims, the ISM index and the first session of the quarter
scored Thursday night: one occurred as named, one in a neighbouring form, five did not, one unresolved
- did not occur
Claims at 7:30 and the ISM at 9:00: Investing.com’s Wednesday preview lists Thursday’s morning releases an hour early under an Eastern label (entry 163); a calendar or preview carrying those times took them from that list. Claims are at 8:30, the ISM at 10:00.
Searched; no other calendar or preview was found carrying 7:30 or 9:00. Investrade’s calendar had claims at 8:30 and the ISM at 10:00; FXStreet stamped the ISM at 14:06 GMT. Investing.com repeated the shift itself for Friday: entry 175.
- did not occur
“Inflation cooled from 3.7”: a Thursday recap or Fed-speaker story with PCE inflation falling three tenths in a month. July is 3.4 after the BEA’s annual update, and 3.0 on the core; August is 3.4 and 3.0.
Not found in the form named. TheStreet’s 9:53 a.m. item on the Minneapolis Fed’s president was headlined “Despite Cooler PCE Data” and measured the core rate against forecasts, not against July; Zacks measured the monthly rates against its own consensus. Reported, not logged.
- did not occur
Two factory indexes as one: S&P Global’s final September manufacturing reading (flash 57.0) at 9:45 quoted as the ISM’s (consensus 54.8 from 54.6) at 10:00, or the ISM’s prices index (consensus 72.9) printed as its headline.
Yahoo Finance printed S&P Global’s final 55.9 and the ISM’s 54.5 as two indexes; FXStreet and Kiplinger carried the ISM’s prices index (77.9) as the prices index. The consensus printed here, 54.8, appeared nowhere else; outlets had 55.0.
- did not occur
Claims measured from the wrong line: consensus 201,000 from 197,000; the four-week average, 202,250, printed as last week’s level, the form of entry 141.
The Labor Department: 197,000, down 1,000 from a revised 198,000; four-week average 200,000. Yahoo Finance printed 197,000 against a 200,000 consensus. The average as last week’s level was not found.
- did not occur
Brent “plunges five dollars”: November expired Wednesday at $103.53 and December settled at $98.03; a board that rolls overnight shows a fall of about $5.50 that did not happen. December against December is the comparison.
TheStreet at 7:07 a.m. (+2.61 percent to $100.60) and Investrade (+2.11 to $100.14) both measured December against December’s $98.03; BigGo Finance the same at the close. No five-dollar fall found.
- occurred
Wednesday’s changes (−19.30, −443.87) beside Thursday’s contract levels on the same data provider’s index page at the open, a fourteenth time; level less change should equal 7,670.84 and 51,349.92.
Read by the Morning Brief on Trading Economics between 9:37 and 9:39 a.m.: Wednesday’s changes beside Thursday’s levels. It is the pairing of entry 162 and added nothing to the count (withdrawn entry 169). Thursday evening’s new pairing is entry 171.
- occurred, neighbouring form
September and the quarter, swapped or stale: the S&P 500 lost 0.45 percent in September and gained 2.03 in the quarter; the Dow lost 4.29 and 2.70; the Nasdaq gained 1.86 and 2.47. Kiplinger’s 0.2 and 4.0 repeated, or a month’s figure given as the quarter’s.
Neither a swap nor a stale figure was found; Investrade had both periods right. Zacks via Yahoo Finance printed the quarter’s S&P 500 gain as “25”: entry 176.
- unresolved
The ten-year’s record a day stale or a touch too far: “highest since 2007” after Wednesday’s 5.304 touch (Investrade: highest since May 2002), or “closed above 5.30” on a touch; the Treasury’s Wednesday par close settles it.
Zacks: Wednesday’s touch of 5.3 percent marked the “highest level since June 2007”; Investrade had called it the highest since May 2002. Which is stale turns on June 2007’s peak in the series each used, which the desk could not establish. “Closed above 5.30” not found; Wednesday’s par close was 5.29.
The Errata, No. 8 · made Thu 1 Oct for Fri 2 Oct, the September jobs report at 8:30
scored in No. 9, three days late: five occurred as named, one in a neighbouring form, three did not
- occurred
A beat and a miss from one number: the payroll consensus is in print at 84,000 (Schwab), 89,000 (Investing.com), 93,000 (Kiplinger) and “+910K” (investingLive, entry 173); a print between them called both, a headline naming no consensus, or 910,000 surfacing elsewhere.
The 910K surfaced elsewhere: SwingFish republished “Consensus estimate +910K (range +35K to +180K)” under 2 October and finwire carries it (entry 199). A beat and a miss could not occur: 29,000 was below every consensus in print. Yahoo Finance’s blog carried two on one page, “about 55,000 less than economists expected” and “expectations of 90,000.”
- did not occur
The jobs report at 7:30: Investing.com’s time (entry 175) copied by a calendar or a morning note. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes at 8:30.
Searched; no calendar or morning note was found carrying 7:30. Reuters, Trading Economics, TokenPost and five others had 8:30 or its equivalent. Investing.com repeated the shift itself for Tuesday 6 October (entry 193).
- occurred
August measured from a number that no longer exists: August’s 162,000 and July’s 21,000 are revised Friday; “slowed from 162,000” printed after the revision, or Kiplinger’s first estimates of +11,000 and +44,000 for June and July (entry 174) repeated.
ABC News, 8:34 a.m.: “a sharp slowdown from the 162,000 jobs added in August”; Investopedia: “well below the 162,000 figure in August” (entry 194). Kiplinger’s +11,000 and +44,000 were not found; its revision sentence is entry 195.
- did not occur
Private payrolls as the headline: Investing.com has 82,000 private against 89,000 total; one printed under the other’s name.
Searched; no page printed 46,000 as the total or 29,000 as private. The Dallas Express and Wolf Street led with the private figure in their headlines and labelled it.
- occurred, neighbouring form
Wages, monthly for annual: consensus 0.3 percent on the month and 3.2 on the year, from 3.1; “rose 0.3 percent from a year earlier,” or the annual rate called unchanged.
Neither named form was found. The reverse was: Fox Business, “Average hourly earnings increased 3% in September, below the 3.2% increase that was expected,” the twelve-month rate under the month’s name; the release has 0.1 percent on the month and 3.0 over twelve. Reported, not logged.
- occurred
Thursday’s changes (+14.91, +20.51) beside Friday’s contract levels on the same data provider’s index page at the open, a fifteenth time; level less change should equal 7,651.54 and 50,906.05.
Read by the Friday Brief between 8:28 and 10:12 a.m. on Trading Economics’ United States index page: the pairing of entry 171, counted once. No copy of Friday’s page was found on Monday; the score rests on that read.
- did not occur
Thursday’s bond market told backwards: “yields rose Thursday” in a Friday-morning recap on the strength of the 5.34 high, or “closed at a 24-year high”; the close was about 5.23, down six basis points, and the closing record is Wednesday’s 5.29.
Searched; not found in a Friday-morning recap. Quartz, Reuters and Investopedia had the high and the retreat. TheStreet’s Thursday post, “rose 4 basis points to 5.3338% on Thursday, according to LSEG data,” gives no time for the reading and is not logged.
- occurred
The morning’s movers at the week’s end: Accenture’s 21.41 percent from 10:13 a.m., or “more than 20 percent,” in a recap, where it closed up 15.78 percent at $212.30; and Corteva in a list of the week’s biggest losers at minus 84 percent, without Vylor.
Corteva as named: My Weekly Stock, “$CTVA (Corteva): -84.8%,” with no mention of Vylor (entry 198). Accenture in a neighbouring form: CV Research, “jumped about 19% to $217.63 on Thursday,” against a close of $212.30, up 15.78 percent; Futu’s weekly list, whose address says “surged over 20,” could not be read.
- occurred
Two odds for one meeting: the chance of an increase on 28 October was 37 percent in Schwab’s note and 30 in investingLive’s, the same day, neither with a time; after 8:30 a third, described as a move from whichever the writer saw.
Benzinga had 23 percent before the release and 13 after; investingLive 28 and 15; Yahoo Finance 20, “down from 24% the day before”; Kiplinger 16 and later 22.7; Reuters 22.7 “from 24.4% in the prior session.” None with a time. Differences by this register’s rule, and not logged.
The Errata, No. 9 · made Mon 5 Oct for Tue 6 Oct, the August trade report at 8:30
scored in No. 10, made Tuesday night and posted Wednesday morning: two occurred, five did not, one unresolved
- did not occur
The trade report at 7:30: Investing.com’s time for Tuesday (entry 193) copied by a calendar or a morning note, or Vice Chair Bowman placed at 9:45. Census and the BEA publish at 8:30; the Board’s calendar has Bowman at 10:45.
Searched; no calendar or morning note was found carrying 7:30 or placing Bowman at 9:45. Kiplinger and investingLive had 8:30. Investing.com repeated the shift itself for Wednesday, with the Fed minutes at 1:00 p.m. (entry 205). Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/economy/this-weeks-economic-calendar https://investinglive.com/news/week-ahead-ism-services-fed-minutes-and-canadian-jobs-lead-the-economic-calendar-be-aware/ https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/fomc-minutes-crude-oil-inventories-among-economic-data-due-wednesday-93CH-4935056
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A beat and a miss from one deficit: the August consensus is in print at $102.0 billion (Trading Economics; Goldman Sachs’s list via ZeroHedge), $95.2 billion (Investing.com; investingLive; FX Empire) and $89.8 billion (ActionForex; Avalon Capital); a print between them called both wider and narrower than expected.
Could not occur: the deficit was $105.6 billion, wider than all three. Reuters, Benzinga and Investrade measured it against $102.0 billion; Yahoo Finance’s morning post still had $89.8 billion. Differences between surveys, not logged. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/us-international-trade-goods-and-services-august-2026 https://www.investing.com/news/economic-indicators/us-trade-deficit-widens-in-august-amid-strong-imports-4934478 https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/26/10/62199369/sp-500-nasdaq-100-record-highs-treasury-yields-ease-stock-market-today https://investrade.com/mid-morning-look-october-06-2026/ https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-tuesday-october-6-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-080526166.html
- occurred
The goods deficit under the total’s name: July’s deficit in goods and services was $88.6 billion and the advance goods deficit for August was $132.6 billion; the larger figure called “the trade deficit,” or the word “record,” which belongs to the goods deficit of March 2025.
Source outcome qualifier: occurred, second form. Whalesbook’s headline: “deficit hua record $105.6 Billion!” (entry 204); the release and Reuters have it as the largest since March 2025. No outlet was found calling the $136.6 billion goods deficit “the trade deficit.” Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://www.whalesbook.com/news/Hinglish/economy/US-Trade-Deficit-Hits-dollar1056-Billion-on-AI-Tech-Surge/6ac501185aacb956d08e0a47 https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/us-international-trade-goods-and-services-august-2026 https://www.investing.com/news/economic-indicators/us-trade-deficit-widens-in-august-amid-strong-imports-4934478
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Job openings on a Tuesday that has none: a calendar or preview listing JOLTS for 6 October. The Bureau of Labor Statistics published August’s on 29 September and publishes September’s on 3 November.
Searched; no calendar or preview listing JOLTS for 6 October was found. Kiplinger’s and investingLive’s Tuesday rows carry the trade report only. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/economy/this-weeks-economic-calendar https://investinglive.com/news/week-ahead-ism-services-fed-minutes-and-canadian-jobs-lead-the-economic-calendar-be-aware/
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The ten-year’s record with the wrong year: “highest since 2007” (Yahoo Finance’s morning lead, entry 186) or “since March 2022” (entry 187) in Tuesday’s coverage. The year is 2002.
Searched; not found. Yahoo Finance had “highest level in 24 years,” Investopedia “since April 2002,” Trading Economics “since 2002.” The year held; the level did not: Trading Economics and Benzinga gave Monday’s peak as 5.33 for 5.35 (entry 206). Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/live/stock-market-today-tuesday-october-6-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-080526166.html https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/stock-market-today-indexes-rise-104456505.html https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-bond-yield https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/26/10/62199369/sp-500-nasdaq-100-record-highs-treasury-yields-ease-stock-market-today
- occurred
Monday’s changes (51.23, 90.94) beside Tuesday’s contract levels on Trading Economics’ index page at the open, and a new pair on Tuesday night; for Monday’s pair, level less change should equal 7,722.72 and 51,176.96.
The Tuesday-night pair: Trading Economics’ index page, read twice between 7:16 and 7:33 p.m., had 7,829.44 beside 44.98 and 51,563.27 beside 253.38 (entry 203). The page was not read at the open by this run, and that half is unscored. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
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Monday’s Treasury rows on Tuesday’s card: 24/7 Wall St. carrying the previous day’s yields under the current stamp a third time; Monday’s rows would read 5.31 for the ten-year, up three basis points.
Tuesday’s closing card as the reader relayed it carries no Treasury rows, and no Tuesday yield card was found in search; Monday’s midday card still shows the two-year at 4.83 percent, up five basis points (entry 189). Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://247wallst.com/cards/a-7-822-close-on-the-s-p-500-is-a-fresh-high-water-mark-and-gspc-market-bell-01m49d0y2a56q1dpg7vaer706v https://247wallst.com/cards/tech-is-carrying-the-whole-market-today-the-nasdaq-is-up-0-gspc-market-bell-01m46cw1d7yv5hh2jw74y8r3m3
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Constellation Brands on the wrong day, against the wrong number: results are Tuesday after the close and the call is Wednesday at 8:00 a.m.; a preview or recap saying it reports on 7 October, or a beat and a miss from consensus at $3.55, $3.56 and $3.62 a share.
Results came Tuesday after the close as scheduled: comparable earnings of $3.74 a share in the company’s release, above all three estimates. No wrong-day preview was found. Two sizes of beat were: 13 cents against $3.61 on StreetInsider and 19 against $3.55 on MarketBeat. Two surveys, not logged. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0000016918/000001691826000039/stzex991_83120268kearnings.htm https://www.streetinsider.com/Earnings/Constellation+Brands+%28STZ%29+Beats+Q2+EPS+by+13c,+Revenue+Beats,+Offers+Guidance/27155522.html https://www.marketbeat.com/instant-alerts/earnings-constellation-brands-nyse-stz-posts-quarterly-earnings-results-beats-estimates-by-019-eps-2026-10-06/
The Errata, No. 10 · made Tue 6 Oct, delivered Wed morning, for Wed 7 Oct, the Fed minutes at 2:00
scored in No. 11, two days late: four occurred (two in a weaker or neighbouring form), four did not
- did not occur
The minutes at one o’clock: Investing.com’s hour-early schedule (entry 205) copied by a calendar or a morning note: the Fed minutes at 1:00, consumer credit at 2:00 or crude inventories at 9:30. The Board publishes the minutes at 2:00 p.m. and the G.19 at 3:00.
Searched; no calendar or note was found copying the hour-early schedule. Admiral Markets, BabyPips and roic.ai had 2:00 p.m. Kiplinger’s calendar and Investing.com’s own preview were not reached. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://admiralmarkets.com/analytics/traders-blog/fomc-minutes-october-2026 https://www.babypips.com/news/financial-forex-market-recap-2026-10-07 https://www.roic.ai/news/fed-minutes-reveal-all-19-officials-backed-september-rate-hike-but-october-pause-gains-steam-10-07-2026
- occurred
Three-week-old minutes in the present tense: the meeting ended on 16 September with the target range raised to 3.75–4.00 percent, before payrolls of 29,000 and a ten-year at 5.35; “officials see” for “officials saw,” the minutes called October’s, or the meeting placed after the jobs report. The next meeting is 27–28 October.
Source outcome qualifier: occurred, weak form. BabyPips’ summary bullet: many officials “see another hike as appropriate before year end,” above a body in which most “saw” one; investingLive’s wrap ran under “Fed officials prepared to hike again this year.” No page read placed the meeting after the jobs report. Read once, through a reader; reported, not logged. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://www.babypips.com/news/financial-forex-market-recap-2026-10-07 https://investinglive.com/news/investinglive-americas-market-news-wrap-fed-officials-prepared-to-hike-again-this-year/
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Oil’s Tuesday told by its morning: “oil fell on Tuesday” in a Wednesday recap. Crude was down about 2 percent before the open and finished higher on both boards read: $89.44 beside $100.58 on Investrade’s 4:07 p.m. table, $89.91 beside $101.08 on Investing.com’s closed tables.
Searched; not found. The three Wednesday wraps read (investingLive, BabyPips, Eurasia Business News) say nothing of Tuesday’s crude. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://investinglive.com/news/investinglive-americas-market-news-wrap-fed-officials-prepared-to-hike-again-this-year/ https://www.babypips.com/news/financial-forex-market-recap-2026-10-07 https://eurasiabusinessnews.com/2026/10/07/stock-market-today-treasury-yields-retreat-after-strong-auction-dow-slips/
- occurred
The S&P 500’s record with the wrong predecessor: the old closing record is 7,798.99 and the old intraday high 7,816.70, both of 13 August; the high printed as the old close, the record dated to 14 August, or Tuesday’s high given as 7,835.09 or 7,844.52 without the other.
Source outcome qualifier: occurred, third form. ts2.tech, Tuesday 4:23 p.m.: “S&P session high | 7,844.52,” without the other figure; Investrade’s Friday review now has “a record high of 7,844.52” where its Tuesday review had 7,835.09. No outlet read gave 7,816.70 as the old closing record or dated it to 14 August. The high is unsworn; not logged. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://ts2.tech/en/sp-500-sets-record-but-fades-26-points-before-fed-minutes/ https://investrade.com/market-review-october-09-2026/
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The 5.33 again: Monday’s ten-year peak repeated as 5.33 percent in Wednesday’s bond coverage (entry 206). It was 5.35.
Searched; not found. Benzinga at 12:53 p.m. Wednesday had the yield at 5.32, TheStreet at 5.35 and Investrade’s preview at 5.32; Trading Economics’ items for 5 to 7 October were no longer on its page. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/26/10/62226685/stock-market-today-sp-500-russell-2000-fall-bond-yields-rise https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-07-2026 https://investrade.com/?p=1601 https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-bond-yield
- did not occur
The auction told backwards: the ten-year auction’s high yield printed as the ten-year’s closing yield, a tail called a stop-through, or a result near 5.27 set against the previous auction’s 4.834 percent (Investing.com) as a one-day surge.
$39 billion sold at 5.300 percent against 5.317 beforehand, 1.7 basis points through, cover 2.77 (investingLive; BabyPips). No page read called it a tail, printed 5.30 as the close or set it against 4.834. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://investinglive.com/news/the-us-treasury-sells-39-billion-of-10-year-notes-at-a-high-yield-of-5-300-versus-wi-level-of-5-317/ https://www.babypips.com/news/financial-forex-market-recap-2026-10-07
- occurred
Tuesday’s changes (44.98, 253.38) beside Wednesday’s contract levels on Trading Economics’ index page at the open, and a new pair on Wednesday night; for Tuesday’s pair, level less change should equal 7,773.95 and 51,267.90.
Read by the Wednesday Brief at the open on Trading Economics’ index page, the pairing of entries 162 and 171, counted once. The Wednesday-night half was not read. On Friday evening the page was right: 7,811.54 beside 46.18. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market
- occurred
A closing card that is not the close, a third night: 24/7 Wall St.’s card with an S&P 500 level that differs from the settled close, or two levels on one card (entries 188 and 208).
Wednesday’s card: “The S&P 500 settled at 7,798.06” for a close of 7,801.77 (entry 212). Thursday’s card is entry 211 and Friday’s entry 215. Sources supplied in the updated artifact: https://247wallst.com/cards/the-dow-s-341-point-drop-did-more-than-double-the-damage-of-gspc-market-bell-01m4bzecab3w26atdew1v6g1eh
The Errata, No. 11 · made Fri 9 Oct for Mon 12 Oct, Columbus Day: stocks open, bonds shut
scored in No. 12, sixteen days late: six occurred (two in a weaker form), three did not
- occurred
A ten-year close on a day without one: the cash Treasury market is shut on Monday for Columbus Day; Friday’s 5.24 printed under Monday’s date with a change, or “yields were little changed” in a Monday wrap.
The Motley Fool’s Monday wrap is entry 219 (logged by the 13 October Brief). Also Tapeboard’s Monday scoreboard, “10-Year Treasury Yield (^TNX): 5.24%, −0.08% day,” and Investrade’s morning preview, whose table has “10-Year Note | +0.002 | 5.24%” on a page that says the bond market is closed. No “little changed” wrap was found. https://tapeboard.com/blog/market-pulse-2026-10-12 https://investrade.com/morning-preview-october-12-2026/
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“Markets are closed Monday”: stocks trade 9:30 to 4:00 and bonds do not; the half printed as the whole, or the bond market described as open.
Searched; not found. Kiplinger, Yahoo Finance, TheStreet, the Economic Times and Goodreturns all had stocks open and bonds shut. One Sunday Guardian opening sentence is garbled and corrected by its own body; not counted. https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/is-the-stock-market-closed-on-columbus-day https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/stock-market-closed-columbus-day-143108888.html https://sundayguardianlive.com/world/columbus-day-2026-whats-open-and-closed-in-the-us-on-october-12-check-holiday-closure-status-of-banks-usps-mail-schools-stock-market-more-303649/
- occurred
The 5.27, or the 5.26, as Friday’s close: any weekend or Monday piece giving the ten-year’s last close as anything but 5.24 (5.244 on Kiplinger).
occurred, weak form. Zacks via Yahoo Finance, Monday 8:28 a.m., on Friday’s session: “the 10-year Treasury yield reaching 5.261%,” under a ticker strip at 5.24. “Reaching” is not “closed.” Investrade’s Friday table has 5.27, as noted on 9 October. Reported, not logged. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/stock-market-news-oct-12-122800912.html https://investrade.com/market-review-october-09-2026/
- did not occur
The week’s gains, still swapped: the Dow up 1.15 percent or 585 points, or the S&P 500 up 0.9 or 0.95, in a weekend recap or Monday preview (entry 216). The week was 1.15 percent for the S&P 500 and 0.93 for the Dow.
Searched; the only page carrying the swap is TheStreet’s Friday post, entry 216. Investing.com’s Monday preview had a different swap, the Nasdaq’s 0.9 given to the Dow and 0.6 to the Nasdaq; not the form named. https://www.investing.com/analysis/wall-streets-busy-week-bank-results-cpi-and-retail-sales-in-focus-200689369
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Inflation on the wrong morning: September’s consumer price index is Wednesday 14 October at 8:30, placed on Tuesday; or the core consensus (0.2 percent on the month, 2.5 on the year, investingLive) under the headline’s name (0.6 and 3.6).
Searched; not found. Thirteen previews read, among them TheStreet, Kiplinger and FXEmpire, put the index on Wednesday 14 October with headline and core kept apart. https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-oct-12-2026-dow-futures-climb-as-wall-street-gears-up-for-busy-week https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/stocks-churn-ahead-of-cpi-earnings-season-stock-market-today https://www.fxempire.com/forecasts/article/the-week-ahead-jpmorgan-goldman-sachs-earnings-and-cpi-test-stock-market-strength-1637135
- did not occur
The banks a day early or a day late: JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo report Tuesday before the open, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley on Wednesday (Investrade’s calendar); “banks report Monday,” or JPMorgan moved to Wednesday.
Searched; not found. Schwab Network, TipRanks, TheStreet, Kiplinger, Investrade and the Associated Press all had the four banks on Tuesday and the two on Wednesday. https://schwabnetwork.com/articles/week-ahead-banks-kick-off-earnings-ppi-and-cpi-economic-data-in-focus https://www.tipranks.com/news/jpm-gs-bac-what-to-expect-from-big-bank-earnings-this-week
- occurred
A bull market with two birthdays: Yahoo Finance dates the fourth anniversary to Monday 12 October and puts the advance at 119 percent with no base printed; a second percentage, a second date, or both.
The date held at 12 October; the percentage did not. The Motley Fool: “gained over 120% since Oct. 12, 2022”; Inc.: “118 percent”; Yahoo Finance: 119. From 3,577.03 to 7,807.24 is 118.3 percent, this desk’s arithmetic. Reported, not logged. https://www.fool.com/coverage/stock-market-today/2026/10/12/stock-market-today-oct-12-dow-gains-as-memory-stocks-weigh-on-nasdaq/ https://www.inc.com/phil-rosen/sp-500-bull-market-year-investors-stock-rally/91418589
- occurred
A record low that belongs to a component: the Michigan survey’s current-conditions index at 44.7 is the record low (Benzinga); the headline index, 46.3, is the lowest since May (Yahoo Finance); “consumer sentiment at a record low.”
occurred, weak form. WeGetFunded’s 10 October briefing is titled “Consumer Sentiment Record Low” above a body giving 46.3 without calling it one. Kiplinger, Yahoo Finance, TheStreet and the Epoch Times had “second-lowest” or “lowest since May.” Reported, not logged. https://wegetfunded.com/en/blog/consumer-sentiment-record-low-e3f7e7/ https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/us-consumer-sentiment-near-record-low-in-october-6101848
- occurred
The card and the template, again: 24/7 Wall St.’s Monday closing card with an S&P 500 level or Dow change that is not the settled one; its opening piece with a Fed statement at 2:00; and Trading Economics’ index page at the open with Friday’s changes (46.18, 423.31) beside Monday’s contract levels, where level less change should equal 7,765.36 and 51,231.64.
The Monday card is entry 242: “ended the session at 7,804.81” for a close of 7,807.24. Trading Economics paired Friday’s changes with Monday’s contract levels at the open, as the 12 October Brief recorded, counted once. The Fed statement at 2:00 was not found in the 9:44 a.m. opening piece. https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/10/12/stock-market-today-sp-500-futures-pause-near-record-highs-as-oil-rises-ahead-of-bank-earnings/
The Errata, No. 12 · made Wed 28 Oct (Tuesday’s issue, delivered late) for Thu 29 Oct, the first estimate of third-quarter GDP at 8:30
scored in No. 14: four occurred (one in a second form), five did not; four items surfaced early on Wednesday and are entries 243 to 245, 248 and 250
- did not occur
The GDPNow figure printed as the consensus: the survey consensus for third-quarter growth is 3.2 percent (Trading Economics, Investing.com, investingLive, Bloomberg); the Atlanta Fed’s model said 3.5 on 23 October, 3.4 on the 27th and 3.3 on the 28th; a 3.3, 3.4 or 3.5 printed as expectations.
Searched; not found. Consensus printed at 3.2 (Trading Economics, Investing.com, Schwab, FXStreet) and 3.1 (TheStreet, naming Dow Jones; Yahoo Finance). The print was 3.4. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth https://uk.investing.com/news/economic-indicators/us-gdp-grows-34-in-the-third-quarter-as-inflation-squeeze-persists-4942407 https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-29-2026
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The wrong second quarter: the third estimate is 2.2 percent, revised from 1.5 at the first and second estimates (corrected in No. 13: the item as made said “2.1 at the first,” which was the first quarter’s figure); Thursday’s comparison made against 1.5, or against the first quarter’s 2.1.
Searched; not found. Every outlet read compared 3.4 with 2.2, the figure in the BEA’s release. https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/gdp-advance-estimate-3rd-quarter-2026
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Two inflation rates under one name: September’s PCE price index expected at 3.6 percent on the year (3.7 in one newsletter), core at 3.1; the quarterly PCE index inside the GDP release, expected at 3.4 against 5.0, is a different series; a 3.4 or a 5.0 reported as September’s annual rate.
Searched; not found. The quarterly index printed at 2.1 against 5.0 in the GDP release; September’s was 3.6 and 3.1 in the income and outlays release, and Kiplinger, Schwab, TheStreet, Investing.com and Yahoo Finance all had them so. https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/gdp-advance-estimate-3rd-quarter-2026 https://www.bea.gov/news/2026/personal-income-and-outlays-september-2026
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Claims at two consensus figures: 199,000 on Trading Economics and 198,000 on Investing.com for the week ending 24 October, against 194,000; both printed, or the wrong week named.
Only Trading Economics printed a consensus, 199,000, with the right week; the print was 194,000, the prior revised to 195,000. No second figure found. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/jobless-claims https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf
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Hammack promoted to governor: Wednesday’s dissents were Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack; “Governors Cook and Hammack” (Wealth Professional) or “two members of the board” (Just the News) inherited by a Thursday wrap, or the 10–2 vote called unanimous because the Board’s votes on the reserve rate and discount rate were.
Searched; neither form found in a Thursday wrap, and no page called the vote unanimous. Shattered, Zacks and Daily Headlines had the two right. The adjacent error was worse: KuCoin’s “Cook and Harker,” entry 264. https://shattered.io/fed-holds-3-75-4-00-percent-10-2-vote-big-tech-earnings-developers-2026/ https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/stock-market-news-oct-29-082000374.html https://www.kucoin.com/news/flash/fed-holds-rates-steady-market-eyes-december-hike-as-key-data-looms
- occurred
The rate without its range: the Associated Press’s “about 3.9%,” the rate on reserves, printed as the policy rate; “held at 3.9%” or “held at 4%” for 3.75 to 4.00 percent; or the stale 3.50 to 3.75, still live on three pages found Wednesday.
The AP’s “kept its key interest rate unchanged at about 3.9%” on Social News XYZ at 7:04 a.m. Thursday, and “Fed holds key interest rate at 3.9%” on Fox 5 New York and four sister stations; entry 263. “Held at 4%” and the stale 3.50 to 3.75 not found. https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/10/29/federal-reserve-keeps-rates-unchanged-despite-elevated-inflation-video https://www.fox5ny.com/money/fed-reserve-interest-rate-inflation
- occurred
A December signal the statement does not contain: Reuters’ “signals likely December hike” against Bloomberg’s and Trading Economics’ “no clear signal,” with no December reference in the statement’s text; the headline’s version attributed to the statement, or a December probability at an eighth value after Wednesday’s seven (73, 83, 84, 84 to 85, 86, nearly 90, 22 basis points).
occurred, second form. No page attributed a December signal to the statement’s text. The eighth value and six more: 78.4 (Paterson Capital), 82 (Benzinga’s headline), 82.6 (Daily Headlines), 83 (TokenPost, FXStreet), 83 to 88 (The Currency Analytics), 85 to 87 (Mitrade), 87.5 (KuCoin). None with a time. Differences by this register’s rule, not logged. https://patersoncapital.com/fed-holds-rates-steady-in-october-december-hike-odds-rise-to-78/ https://dailyheadlines.substack.com/p/why-two-fed-officials-voted-to-raise https://www.tokenpost.com/news/investing/43271 https://thecurrencyanalytics.com/finance/fed-holds-rates-3-75-4-10-2-vote-306743 https://www.mitrade.com/insights/more/Central-Banks/fed-holds-two-dissent-december-85-20261029J1055
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The earnings calendar a week off: Apple reports Monday 2 November and Meta reported on 21 October; “Apple reports Thursday after the close” beside Amazon, or “Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta on Wednesday.”
AskTheDate: “AAPL reports earnings on Thursday, October 29, 2026 · After Market Close”; Financecalendar the same day at noon; entry 265. Startup Fortune’s Tuesday preview had Amazon and Apple both on the 29th. “Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta on Wednesday” not found. https://askthedate.com/America/New_York/en/earnings-calendar/2026-10-29/AAPL/ https://www.financecalendar.com/?p=2207 https://startupfortune.com/alphabet-amazon-and-apple-earnings-will-test-wall-street-patience-on-ai-spending/
- occurred
The card and the template, again: 24/7 Wall St.’s closing card for Wednesday or Thursday with an S&P 500 level or percentage that is not the settled one; Trading Economics’ index page at Thursday’s open with Wednesday’s changes beside Thursday’s contract levels, where level less change should equal Wednesday’s close.
Thursday’s card: “close at 7,706.63” for 7,720.39, entry 258. Trading Economics’ page paired Wednesday’s changes with Thursday’s contract levels at the open, as the morning Brief recorded, and still at 7:31 p.m. (7,661.81 beside −23.59), counted once; its two Dows are entry 259. https://247wallst.com/cards/the-nasdaq-s-1-57-drop-was-triple-the-dow-s-concentrating-gspc-market-bell-01m64m5jtya3f2cehqh2qnm9az https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/stock-market/
The Errata, No. 13 · made Wed 28 Oct for Thu 29 Oct, the first estimate of third-quarter growth, September PCE, the ECB at 9:15 and Amazon after the close
scored in No. 14, with No. 12’s nine: four occurred (one in one of three forms), two did not
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One growth print, two verdicts: consensus 3.2 percent on Trading Economics, Investing.com and the WSJ survey as relayed, 3.0 at Briefing.com (via Schwab), FactSet (via the AP) and Newsquawk; “beat” and “miss” headlines for the same number, neither naming its survey.
Could not occur: 3.4 beat every survey in print, 3.2 and 3.1 alike, and every headline read said so (TheStreet, naming Dow Jones; Yahoo Finance; Schwab; Trading Economics). https://www.thestreet.com/stock-market-today/stock-market-today-dow-jones-sp-500-nasdaq-updates-oct-29-2026 https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/article/us-gdp-accelerates-to-34-in-the-third-quarter-giving-trump-a-messaging-boost-on-eve-of-midterms-140447511.html
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The ECB an hour early: the announcement is 13:15 GMT, 9:15 a.m. Eastern this week, the press conference 9:45; a calendar or live blog at 8:15 or 8:45 (Newsquawk’s headline already, entry 253); Tokyo’s CPI at 7:30 p.m. and the Bank of Japan near 11:00 p.m. Eastern given stale hours.
Financecalendar: “at 13:45 CET,” “(8:45 a.m. EDT)”; entry 266. For the Bank of Japan, ActionForex lists the decision at 06:00 GMT, 2:00 a.m. Eastern, half an hour before the press conference it also lists; carried into No. 14’s forecast. https://www.financecalendar.com/event/ecb-rate-decision-october-2026/ https://www.actionforex.com/?p=658576
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The ten-year’s close at two values, 5.05 (3:00 p.m.) and 5.02 (after hours), both called the close; and “first close above 5% since October 2023” or “since 2007,” where the ten-year closed above 5.2 for weeks in September and early October and reached 5.35 on 5 October.
Wednesday’s close at three values on Thursday: 5.05 on the AP and 24/7 Wall St., “bond yields at 5.02%” on WhyItMoved (entry 261), 4.996 on Mortgage News Daily (entry 256). “Since October 2023” and “since 2007” not found; 24/7 Wall St. had “first close above 5% since 5.13% on October 21.” https://lancasteronline.com/business/stock_market/a-historic-drop-for-alphabets-stock-drags-the-us-market-lower/article_ba035af5-4128-5bf7-93e7-040866082d61.html https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/10/29/the-10-year-treasury-yield-just-jumped-back-above-5/ https://whyitmoved.substack.com/p/daily-market-report-thursday-october-3b6
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Amazon’s capital spending on two bases: “purchases of property and equipment” in the cash-flow statement and a figure including finance leases, both called capex against one consensus, as Microsoft’s $39.4 billion and about $45 billion were on Wednesday (investingLive’s “$6bn below forecast” with $39 billion against $46 billion, which is seven).
Every outlet read used the cash-flow line, $77.26 billion (Reuters, Finimize, Implicator); the two bases were the consensus figures, FactSet’s $58.7 billion and “some $20 billion above” on LSEG’s. Carried into No. 14’s forecast. https://lufkindailynews.com/news_reuters/business/amazon-slides-on-light-fourth-quarter-sales-estimates-high-cash-burn/article_ee7b444b-08a5-51ec-b99b-a70bc5572a1f.html https://finimize.com/content/amazons-holiday-outlook-fell-short-as-cash-burn-rose https://www.implicator.ai/amazon-spent-77b-property-equipment-q3-leading-free-cash/
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Alphabet’s $127.6 billion both “in line” (Yahoo Finance, against $127.9) and a miss (TheStreet Pro against $127.96; 456X against $127.93), the consensus printed at six values from $127.22 to $128.2; and the diluted $2.12 called “adjusted” (Investing.com already) when the release carries no adjusted figure.
HeyGoTrade: “Miss” in the headline, “roughly in line with the $127.9 billion” in the body; entry 267. Thursday’s consensus values: $127.22 (Investing.com), $127.9 (StockStory), $127.93 (Shattered), about $128 (AFP), $128.2 (Reuters, Forbes), $128.22 (Seoul Economic Daily). The “adjusted” $2.12 stayed on Investing.com’s transcript page; no new carrier found. https://www.heygotrade.com/en/news/alphabet-q3-earnings-miss-sinks-stock-reignites-ai-capex-fears-googl-nasdaq-futures/ https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/alphabets-heavy-cloud-spending-drives-biggerthanexpected-cash-burn-4980612
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Releases that will not happen: the Kansas City Fed survey (published 22 October) listed for Thursday at 11:00 by Economic Weekly; pending home sales (20 October; next 18 November, which NAR’s topic page assigns to September and October alike) as “due”; RSM’s growth “released on Friday.”
RSM’s Wednesday note still says “when the data is released on Friday”; the data came Thursday. No Thursday calendar read listed the Kansas City survey or pending home sales; the New York Fed’s calendar has pending home sales on 20 October. Reported, not logged. https://realeconomy.rsmus.com/market-minute-expect-third-quarter-gdp-to-reach-3-4/ https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/calendars/nationalecon_cal
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The Bank of Japan at the wrong hour: the decision comes around noon in Tokyo, about 11 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, the press conference at 2:30 a.m.; ActionForex’s 06:00 GMT (2:00 a.m. Eastern) copied by a live blog or calendar, or the policy rate given as 1.0 percent where it is 1.25 after the 18 September increase.
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Amazon’s quarter at two sizes of beat: capital spending of $77.26 billion against FactSet’s $58.7 billion and LSEG’s “some $20 billion above” (about $57 billion); “$18.6 billion above” and “$20 billion above” for one number, the full-year $220 billion printed as a quarter, or revenue of $201.9 billion called in line against $202.3 billion and a miss against $202.21.
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Chicago at four consensus figures: the October barometer’s prior is 58.8; consensus 54.8 (Forex Factory, Admiral Markets), 55.9 (ActionForex), 56.1 (Trading Economics), 61.3 (MQL5); a print in the mid-fifties called a beat and a miss on one morning.
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A Michigan survey that already happened: the October final was published 23 October at 48.0 (from 46.3) with current conditions 46.7 (from the record-low 44.7); “Michigan sentiment due Friday,” or “record low” for a reading now second lowest.
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The Fed’s speakers at three counts: the Board’s calendar has no governors Friday; Kiplinger lists Daly at noon and Musalem at 12:30, Trading Economics Musalem alone, Investrade none; Daly reported from the one calendar that carries her, or the day called speaker-free.
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Exxon at four consensus figures and Chevron at three: Exxon $4.11 (Newsquawk), $4.03 (Alphastreet), $3.96 (StockTitan via Nasdaq), $3.40 (Admiral Markets); Chevron $4.86, $4.78, $4.32; one result called both a beat and a miss, neither naming its survey; or Charter listed among Friday’s reporters, where its webcast is 6 November.
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Thursday’s ten-year at two closes: 4.94 (AP; Trading Economics) and 4.99 (Investrade; the evening tickers) both called the close in a Friday-morning recap; the Treasury’s row settles it; or “held above 5%” for a session that closed under it.
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Brent’s roll told as a fall: December Brent settled at $114.88 and expires Friday, January at $110.80; a feed that rolls without saying so showing Brent “down $4,” or one that does not showing it flat (the roll of entries 165 and 181).
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The jobs report on the wrong Friday: the October employment report is Friday 6 November at 8:30 per the BLS; “jobs Friday” without the date in a week-ahead note, Calendarx’s “6:30 am” copied, or the hour wrong once clocks change on Sunday.
The Errata, No. 14 · made Thu 29 Oct for Fri 30 Oct, the Bank of Japan overnight, the employment cost index at 8:30, Chicago at 9:45, Exxon and Chevron before the open
scores Friday night
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The Bank of Japan at the wrong hour: the decision comes around noon in Tokyo, about 11 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, the press conference at 2:30 a.m.; ActionForex’s 06:00 GMT (2:00 a.m. Eastern) copied by a live blog or calendar, or the policy rate given as 1.0 percent where it is 1.25 after the 18 September increase.
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Amazon’s quarter at two sizes of beat: capital spending of $77.26 billion against FactSet’s $58.7 billion and LSEG’s “some $20 billion above” (about $57 billion); “$18.6 billion above” and “$20 billion above” for one number, the full-year $220 billion printed as a quarter, or revenue of $201.9 billion called in line against $202.3 billion and a miss against $202.21.
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Chicago at four consensus figures: the October barometer’s prior is 58.8; consensus 54.8 (Forex Factory, Admiral Markets), 55.9 (ActionForex), 56.1 (Trading Economics), 61.3 (MQL5); a print in the mid-fifties called a beat and a miss on one morning.
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A Michigan survey that already happened: the October final was published 23 October at 48.0 (from 46.3) with current conditions 46.7 (from the record-low 44.7); “Michigan sentiment due Friday,” or “record low” for a reading now second lowest.
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The Fed’s speakers at three counts: the Board’s calendar has no governors Friday; Kiplinger lists Daly at noon and Musalem at 12:30, Trading Economics Musalem alone, Investrade none; Daly reported from the one calendar that carries her, or the day called speaker-free.
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Exxon at four consensus figures and Chevron at three: Exxon $4.11 (Newsquawk), $4.03 (Alphastreet), $3.96 (StockTitan via Nasdaq), $3.40 (Admiral Markets); Chevron $4.86, $4.78, $4.32; one result called both a beat and a miss, neither naming its survey; or Charter listed among Friday’s reporters, where its webcast is 6 November.
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Thursday’s ten-year at two closes: 4.94 (AP; Trading Economics) and 4.99 (Investrade; the evening tickers) both called the close in a Friday-morning recap; the Treasury’s row settles it; or “held above 5%” for a session that closed under it.
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Brent’s roll told as a fall: December Brent settled at $114.88 and expires Friday, January at $110.80; a feed that rolls without saying so showing Brent “down $4,” or one that does not showing it flat (the roll of entries 165 and 181).
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The jobs report on the wrong Friday: the October employment report is Friday 6 November at 8:30 per the BLS; “jobs Friday” without the date in a week-ahead note, Calendarx’s “6:30 am” copied, or the hour wrong once clocks change on Sunday.