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Jessica Pegula rallied to reach the China Open semifinals with a 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-1 win Friday against fellow American Emma Navarro in Beijing. The fifth-seeded Pegula will face No. 26 seed Linda Noskova for a spot in the final of the WTA 1000 tournament. Pegula needed just over two hours to defeat the 16th-seeded Navarro in the quarterfinals. Navarro gamely fought off six set points in the opening set, winning it in a tiebreak before running out of steam as Pegula dominated the next two sets. "I told myself not to get too frustrated," Pegula said after the match. "Just stay calm, try to relax a little bit, and not try as hard to execute the game plan. That kind of allowed me to play more free." Pegula saved eight of 10 break points and reached the China Open semifinals for the first time. "She did a good job of staying tough, but at the same time I felt I was playing the right way," Pegula said. Noskova advanced to her first career WTA 1000 semifinal with a 6-3, 6-4 win against England's Sonay Kartal in just 70 minutes. Noskova took control of the opening set with breaks in the seventh and ninth games, then overcame a 3-1 deficit in the second set with breaks in the sixth and 10th games. The 20-year-old Noskova struck six aces and converted five of nine break chances to become the youngest Czech to reach a WTA 1000 semifinal since the format was introduced in 2009. It is the fourth semifinal of the year for Noskova and the 10th of her career, making her the third player born since 2004 to reach double digits (Coco Gauff, Diana Shnaider). Noskova also leads the WTA Tour with 12 wins in Asia in 2025, one more than World No. 2 Iga Swiatek of Poland. Kartal, ranked No. 81, was disappointed by the quarterfinal loss after knocking off World No. 5 Mirra Andreeva in the previous round. "I'm not not overly pleased with the performance today, but regardless I had an incredible week," Kartal said, per BBC Sport. "I think I'm on the right path. I think it's given me a lot of confidence. I think I've proved to myself that if I just add one or two more things into my game, I can take my level to a top-10 level and a much higher level than I'm currently ranked at." Saturday's other semifinal is an all-American affair, with defending champion and No. 2 seed Gauff taking on No. 3 Amanda Anisimova. –Field Level Media

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* Shutdown impacts travel, fraud reporting, small business loans * AI tools like ChatGPT used by 13% of retail investors for stock picking * Arabica coffee prices doubled due to tariffs, affecting U.S. coffee costs By Lauren Young NEW YORK, Oct 3 (Reuters) – This was originally published in the On The Money newsletter, where we share U.S. personal finance tips and insights every other week. Sign up here to receive it for free. It will come as no surprise that the ripple effects of the U.S. government shutdown will be felt far and wide. Here is what the shutdown means for you. The shutdown is expected to impact domestic as well as international travel, fraud reporting to the FTC and small business loans. Experts say the shutdown will curtail the IPO market’s momentum, too. And a key worry is how the closure will shut off the flow of key economic data – including the all-important September jobs report – at a moment of uncertainty among policymakers and investors about the health of the U.S. employment market, the trajectory of inflation and the strength of consumer spending and business investment. It’s a fast-moving story. Follow Reuters for the latest updates. HAVE YOU USED AI FOR PERSONAL FINANCE ADVICE? Have you used artificial intelligence to make any money decisions, big or small? I have not, but I am intrigued. As ChatGPT nears its third birthday, at least one in 10 retail investors is using a chatbot to pick stocks, fueling growth in the robo-advisory market, reports broker eToro. About half of retail investors say they would use AI tools such as ChatGPT or Google's Gemini to pick or alter investments in their portfolio. And 13% of them already use these tools, reports eToro, which polled 11,000 retail investors across the world. Stock picking using ChatGPT requires some financial knowledge, and its adopters say there is a high risk of getting it wrong before getting it right. That said, AI is extremely helpful for creating projections. I asked Microsoft Copilot how much money I need to save for college in a 529 College Savings plan per week for a baby born today to reach a $1 million goal by the time they are 18. (College is expensive, people!) The answer: Assuming a 6% average annual return, I need to save approximately $604.63 per week. Voila! Have you used AI for financial advice? If so, how? Share your thoughts or email me via my bio. READ, WATCH, LISTEN Investors look past AI hype to opportunities from government spending How and why disruptions to the global supply chain matter Attention, workers 50 and older: Your 401(k) rules are about to change Global currency trading closing in on $10 trillion a day What it’s like to retire in America after age 75 Affluent Americans up donations by 30% during past decade, as fewer give The best ideas from longtime personal-finance reporter, Jonathan Clements US government faces brain drain as 154,000 federal workers exit This week Inside ETFs: Can you outsmart volatility with buffer funds? 42% of young adults say they couldn’t afford to keep an inherited home What to know about Trump's newest round of tariffs US auto bankruptcies show rising credit pain in low-income households The risks of defanging the Fed WHY YOUR CUP OF COFFEE COSTS SO MUCH Coffee is one of the key items keeping food prices in the U.S. persistently high. Prices for arabica coffee, the mild variety mostly used by chains such as Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts, have roughly doubled on the Intercontinental Exchange in New York since the Trump administration applied a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports at the end of July, including green coffee. That stalled shipments from Brazil, a country that historically supplied a third of all coffee used in the U.S. As a result, roasted coffee prices at grocery stores in the U.S. rose 20.9% in August from a year ago, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. I am reconsidering my coffee purchases, although it is hard to resist popping into our local coffee shop. Are you altering your coffee habits, based on prices? Tell me how – or why via the email address in my bio. (By Lauren Young; Editing by Mark Porter)

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* 17 flights cancelled after drone sightings on eve of national holiday * Incident follows similar disruptions in Scandinavia last week * EU leaders this week backed anti-drone measures to counter threats * Ministers considering police shoot-down powers (Changes sourcing in paragraph 4, adds Belgian investigation paragraph 9, Danish intelligence assessment in paragraph 10-11, interior minister press conference in paragraph 12-13) By Ayhan Uyanik and Tilman Blasshofer MUNICH/SAARBRUECKEN, Germany, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Drone sightings overnight at Germany's Munich airport led to the cancellation and diversion of dozens of flights on the eve of a national holiday, leaving nearly 3,000 passengers stranded and leading politicians to promise tough new measures allowing for drones to be shot down. The Munich airport disruption was the latest in a series of similar incidents that have rattled European aviation, raising concerns about deniable hybrid attacks on Ukraine's European allies, possibly directed by Russia. The Kremlin has indeed denied any involvement in the incidents. The airport said several drone sightings late on Thursday evening had forced air traffic control to suspend operations, leading to the cancellation of 17 flights and disrupting travel for nearly 3,000 passengers, who were provided with camp beds, blankets and food. Another 15 arriving flights were diverted around the region. "Our police must get the power to shoot drones down," said Markus Soeder, premier of Bavaria, of which Munich is the capital, on social media, promising state-level emergency legislation to allow this. "We need sovereignty over our airspace." UNKNOWN TYPES As airport operations resumed early on Friday morning, passengers checking in for a flight to Varna in Bulgaria, and the departure board showed only a few flights had been cancelled. A flight from Bangkok was the first of the day to land at around 5:25 a.m. (0325 GMT). Public broadcaster BR said local and national police were investigating the incident. State and federal police had no immediate comment. The drones were sighted in the late evening above the airport, a police spokesperson told newspaper Bild. But because it was dark, the sizes and types of the drones could not be determined, he added. Police did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. The drone incidents follow airspace intrusions last week that temporarily shut airports in Denmark and Norway, which led European Union leaders at a Copenhagen summit to back plans to bolster the bloc's defences with anti-drone measures. HYBRID WARFARE In Brussels, the Belgian defence ministry said it had opened an investigation into several drones flying over the military base at Elsenborn, on the German border, overnight. Denmark's intelligence service assesses that Russia is conducting hybrid warfare against the West. "Russia is using military means, including in an aggressive way, to put pressure on us without crossing the line into armed conflict in a traditional sense," said Thomas Ahrenkiel, head of Denmark's military intelligence service. Interior minister Alexander Dobrindt, who already plans legislation letting armed forces help shoot down drones, said he would raise drone defences at a meeting of European interior ministers on Saturday that had originally been billed as a summit on migration. "We must ensure that drone defence technology is increasingly developed in Europe in cooperation with partners from Israel and Ukraine," he told reporters. Legislation due in parliament next week would allow police to ask the armed forces for help shooting drones down, he said. AIRSPACE VIOLATED Russian President Vladimir Putin joked on Thursday that he would not fly drones over Denmark anymore, but Moscow has denied responsibility for the incidents. European authorities have accused Russia of brazen violations of the region's airspace, including recent incursions by drones over Poland and fighter jets over Estonia, while Moscow has in turn accused NATO of provocations. The airport disruption in Munich added to a tense week for the city after its popular Oktoberfest was closed temporarily due to a bomb threat and the separate discovery of explosives in a residential building in the city's north. Friday is German Reunification Day, a public holiday. (Reporting by Ayhan Uyanik in Munich and Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; writing by Thomas Escritt, Editing by Jamie Freed, Hugh Lawson, William Maclean)

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NAIROBI, Oct 3 (Reuters) – The United Nations World Food Programme said on Friday it will slash the number of people it supports with emergency food aid in Somalia by two-thirds to just 350,000 next month, down from 1.1 million in August, because of a funding shortfall. The decision means that the agency will only be able to support one in 10 people who are in need of food assistance for survival, it said in a statement. "We are seeing a dangerous rise in emergency levels of hunger, and our ability to respond is shrinking by the day," said Ross Smith, the World Food Programme's director of emergency preparedness and response. "Without urgent funding, families already pushed to the edge will be left with nothing at a time when they need it most." The compounded effects of severe drought, conflict and reduced humanitarian assistance have rapidly pushed the most vulnerable families into emergency levels of food insecurity this year, the agency said. The World Food Programme said it requires $98 million to sustain a minimum of life-saving operations for 800,000 people through the lean season until March next year. (Reporting by Hereward Holland; Editing by Mark Porter)

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MOSCOW, Oct 3 (Reuters) – The Russian rouble weakened slightly against the U.S. dollar and, more significantly, against China's yuan on Friday, reacting to a planned reduction in the state's foreign currency purchases for the coming month. The Russian Finance Ministry said earlier that it would cut its foreign currency sales to 0.6 billion roubles ($7.36 million) a day from October 7 to November 7, from 1.4 billion roubles a day previously. The move will cut the state's overall daily net forex sales, which combine forex operations by the ministry and the central bank, to 9.54 billion roubles a day from October 7, from 10.34 billion roubles a day previously. The central bank buys and sells foreign exchange to ensure a steady supply on the domestic market and on behalf of the finance ministry, which runs the National Wealth Fund, denominated in foreign currency. The central bank has been a net seller of foreign currency throughout 2025, supporting the rouble, which has rallied by 45% against the dollar since the start of the year. The central bank currently accounts for about 10% of all daily trade in yuan. The rouble weakened by 0.3% to 82.30 to the dollar by 0900 GMT, according to over-the-counter trade data from LSEG. It weakened by 1.2% to 11.47 against China's yuan at the Moscow Stock Exchange, where yuan is the most traded foreign currency. "The reduction in forex sales could contribute to a downward correction of the rouble as soon as a trigger arises, and the likelihood of negative events amid tense geopolitical conditions and unstable macroeconomic data is quite high," said Natalya Milchakova from Freedom Finance. "In our view, the rouble may depreciate further in October following the release of inflation data for September and inflation expectations for October," she added. (Reporting by Gleb Bryanski; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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(Adds background paragraphs 2-4) WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to meet with U.S President Donald Trump on Tuesday in Washington to discuss economic and security issues, Carney's office said on Friday, as the two nations review a North American trade pact. Canada has been holding talks for months with the U.S. on a new economic and security relationship, with the aim of removing all U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, but those talks had stalled. Carney said last month on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly that trade negotiations with the U.S. were ongoing , and that many remaining issues would move to a forthcoming review of the United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, or USMCA. "Canada and the U.S. each launched consultations last month that will inform preparations for the first joint review of (USMCA)," Carney's office said in its statement Friday. "The prime minister’s working visit will focus on shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S." Representatives for the White House could not be immediately reached for comment. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; editing by Susan Heavey)

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Oct 3 (Reuters) – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said on Friday he was delighted to see his team rebound after suffering back-to-back losses in August, with the club unbeaten in the last six matches. City have picked up seven points in their last three Premier League games and scored a league-high 14 goals in their six matches, eight of which were scored by Erling Haaland. "The happiest feeling is how we have improved. I love that feeling. And the feeling that I think we can do better," Guardiola told reporters ahead of Sunday's visit to Brentford. "That's the feeling that I like as a manager. The feeling we are creating again, the tempo, the pace. Everything is a little bit more fluid and consistent. But we can do better and I love that." City have 10 points, five adrift of leaders Liverpool and three more than Brentford. "(Brentford) are doing really well, so it is a tough place to go… at the same time, we are looking forward to the last game before the international break and will do what we have to do," the manager said. Guardiola, however, cautioned that City could not have their best players on the pitch all the time, referring to key midfielder Rodri playing only one full game since August due to needing additional time to recover. Ballon d'Or winner Rodri returned in May after spending eight months on the sidelines due to a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament. Guardiola said on Tuesday that Rodri was unable to play three games per week, as his knee needed at least a year to fully recover. "We cannot play with 12," Guardiola said when asked if City needed more than one player to replace Rodri. "I know Rodri is irreplaceable in many ways, but he already could not play three days before because his knee was in a bad, bad condition. That's why… sometimes I want the best players there and fit, but I have to protect my players. "Rodri will be ready for the World Cup and next year we will get the best Rodri." (Reporting by Chiranjit Ojha in Bengaluru Editing by Toby Davis)

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(Updates paragraph 14 to show all group members perform "Golden") * 'KPop Demon Hunters' vocalists draw musical inspiration from Black American hip-hop artists * Movie is currently sitting as Netflix’s most popular English-language film * The film spawned the most-consumed soundtrack in the US so far this year By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Oct 2 (Reuters) – While the lead vocalists in animated film "KPop Demon Hunters" are largely inspired by the work of other K-Pop artists, EJAE, Rei Ami and Audrey Nuna said they also admire Black American hip-hop stars like Kendrick Lamar, Missy Elliott and Doechii. “I think I discovered West Coast rap in high school, and I learned a lot about storytelling, lyricism and rhythm,” Korean American rapper and singer Rei Ami said. All three vocalists told Reuters that rapper and record producer Lamar’s music had particularly impacted their musical styles. “His (Lamar’s) flow is insane, cadence, his way of writing, his way of vocal producing, I learned a lot from that,” Korean American singer and songwriter EJAE said. "KPop Demon Hunters," directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans and available on Netflix, is trending around the world. Its soundtrack has dominated the charts this summer, boasting more than 3 billion global streams to date, and breakout hit “Golden” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, Netflix reported in August. The streaming platform reported on Tuesday that the movie was currently its most popular English-language film. A sing-along version of "KPop Demon Hunters" topped the domestic box office during its opening weekend on August 23 and 24, in what appeared to be a historic first for Netflix. The action-packed movie received 2.1 billion on-demand audio and video streams in the U.S. across all platforms and earned a total of 5.4 billion minutes watched on Netflix in the U.S. by late September, according to Luminate. Luminate added it was the most-consumed soundtrack in the U.S. so far this year when looking at album sales and streaming equivalents. FIRST LIVE PERFORMANCE WILL BE ON 'THE TONIGHT SHOW' On October 7, the singers will perform "Golden" on "The Tonight Show," marking their first-ever live performance together. "It's official," the singers said in unison, confirming their upcoming live performance debut. "These girls, it's an honor being on stage with them," Rei Ami said, noting that for her, this history-making moment is "overdue." The movie, which came out on June 20, follows a K-pop girl group called HUNTR/X, comprised of Rumi, Mira, and Zoey, who are also a trio of demon hunters that perform K-pop music to impress fans and combat demons. EJAE, provides the singing voice for the lead singer Rumi and cowrote "Golden,” which she performs with Rei Ami, who sings as Zoey, and Audrey Nuna, who’s the vocalist for Mira. The film was produced by Sony Pictures Animation. With the musical movie continuing to trend, directors Kang and Appelhans said they are considering what the future may hold. Both said they are thinking about a potential sequel, but right now, they are just trying to take their busy schedules day by day. They are also appreciative of the Oscar and Grammy awards buzz they have received. “It’s an honor to be even recognized, to be potential nominees,” Kang said. (Reporting by Danielle Broadway and Jane Ross; Editing by Mary Milliken and Jamie Freed)

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