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Oct 3 (Stats Perform) – Standings from the NFL games on Friday American Football Conference East W L T PF PA PCT 1. Buffalo Bills 4 0 0 133 90 1.000 2. New England Patriots 2 2 0 102 81 .500 3. Miami Dolphins 1 3 0 83 118 .250 4. New York Jets 0 4 0 90 120 .000 West W L T PF PA PCT 1. Los Angeles Chargers 3 1 0 88 71 .750 2. Kansas City Chiefs 2 2 0 97 76 .500 3. Denver Broncos 2 2 0 96 67 .500 4. Las Vegas Raiders 1 3 0 77 99 .250 North W L T PF PA PCT 1. Pittsburgh Steelers 3 1 0 96 98 .750 2. Cincinnati Bengals 2 2 0 61 119 .500 3. Baltimore Ravens 1 3 0 131 133 .250 4. Cleveland Browns 1 3 0 56 102 .250 South W L T PF PA PCT 1. Indianapolis Colts 3 1 0 123 83 .750 2. Jacksonville Jaguars 3 1 0 96 72 .750 3. Houston Texans 1 3 0 64 51 .250 4. Tennessee Titans 0 4 0 51 120 .000 National Football Conference East W L T PF PA PCT 1. Philadelphia Eagles 4 0 0 108 88 1.000 2. Washington Commanders 2 2 0 107 91 .500 3. Dallas Cowboys 1 2 1 114 132 .375 4. New York Giants 1 3 0 73 101 .250 West W L T PF PA PCT 1. San Francisco 49ers 4 1 0 106 98 .800 2. Seattle Seahawks 3 1 0 111 67 .750 3. Los Angeles Rams 3 2 0 123 107 .600 4. Arizona Cardinals 2 2 0 82 74 .500 North W L T PF PA PCT 1. Detroit Lions 3 1 0 137 88 .750 2. Green Bay Packers 2 1 1 104 84 .625 3. Minnesota Vikings 2 2 0 102 80 .500 4. Chicago Bears 2 2 0 101 117 .500 South W L T PF PA PCT 1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 3 1 0 97 97 .750 2. Atlanta Falcons 2 2 0 76 86 .500 3. Carolina Panthers 1 3 0 75 95 .250 4. New Orleans Saints 0 4 0 66 121 .000 Sunday, October 5 schedules (EST/GMT) Minnesota Vikings at Cleveland Browns (1330/1330) New York Giants at New Orleans Saints (1700/1700) Houston Texans at Baltimore Ravens (1700/1700) Miami Dolphins at Carolina Panthers (1700/1700) Las Vegas Raiders at Indianapolis Colts (1700/1700) Dallas Cowboys at New York Jets (1700/1700) Denver Broncos at Philadelphia Eagles (1700/1700) Tennessee Titans at Arizona Cardinals (2005/2005) Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Seattle Seahawks (2005/2005) Washington Commanders at Los Angeles Chargers (2025/2025) Detroit Lions at Cincinnati Bengals (2025/2025) New England Patriots at Buffalo Bills (0020/0020) Monday, October 6 schedules (EST/GMT) Kansas City Chiefs at Jacksonville Jaguars (0015/0015)

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Oct 3 (Stats Perform) – Results from the NFL games on Friday (home team in CAPS) San Francisco 26 LA RAMS 23 (OT)

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BERLIN, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Munich airport reopened on Friday morning after being closed overnight due to drone sightings, a Reuters witness said. Flights had been halted after drone sightings on Thursday evening, leading to the cancellation of dozens of flights and disrupting travel for nearly 3,000 passengers. (Reporting by Ayhan Uyanik; Writing by Kirsti Knolle; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

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Oct 3 (Reuters) – Nottingham Forest manager Ange Postecoglou was not surprised fans were calling for him to be sacked after their 3-2 Europa League defeat by Midtjylland on Thursday but the Australian says he is focused on getting results and improving the team. Postecoglou has endured a torrid start at the Midlands club since replacing Nuno Espirito Santo last month, becoming the first permanent Forest manager in 100 years to fail to win any of his opening six matches. The 60-year-old former Tottenham Hotspur manager faced chants of, "You're getting sacked in the morning" from frustrated Forest fans after the loss to the Danish side at the City Ground and Postecoglou understood their disappointment. "They are allowed to have an opinion on it. I heard their opinion," Postecoglou told reporters. "Nothing surprises me in football. It's the climate we're in. It seems that's the way things are going. "My responsibility is to make sure we get some wins for this football club and progress it. I would prefer if people were optimistic in their outlook of what I'm doing. I can only change that by winning games of football. "I really believe in the process of what we're doing and I don't think we're far away from being the team that can eradicate the situation we're in at the moment and get the results." Forest are 17th in the Premier League table with five points from six matches and their October fixture list includes a trip to Newcastle United on Sunday, a home game against Chelsea and an away fixture at Bournemouth. "I get the mood around the place isn't going to be great, and I understand people's attitude at the moment, particularly towards me, but it's not unfamiliar territory for me, Postecoglou said. "I believe we are on the right track." (Reporting by Pearl Josephine Nazare in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)

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(Recasts with credit forecasts) HANOI, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Vietnam's central bank expects credit to increase by 19% to 20% this year and will prioritise economic growth while maintaining stability in the face of global uncertainties, senior officials said on Friday. Deputy Governor Pham Thanh Ha also said at a press conference that commercial banks' lending interest rates were on a downward trend and called for further cuts. "The global economic and political situation has so far this year evolved in an unpredictable manner, with market concerns about the U.S. tariff policy, the risks of a global trade war and geopolitical conflicts," Ha said. Pham Chi Quang, who heads the monetary policy department, said the State Bank of Vietnam would focus on stopping non-performing loans from rising, and said lending to risky sectors would be tightly controlled. Vietnam is targeting gross domestic product growth of 8.3%-8.5% this year, faster than the 7.09% rate last year. Credit growth is a key driver of the economy. Last month, prominent academics warned its lawmakers that breakneck credit expansion may fuel asset price bubbles. The central bank said bank lending has risen 13.37% as of September 29 compared to the end of last year. (Reporting by Khanh Vu; Writing by John Mair; Editing by David Stanway)

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(Adds details, background throughout) Oct 2 (Reuters) – BlackRock-owned Global Infrastructure Partners is in advanced talks to acquire Macquarie-backed Aligned Data Centers in a deal valuing the technology infrastructure company at $40 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The companies have yet to finalize a deal, but an agreement could be announced within days, Bloomberg said, citing people familiar with the matter. Mubadala, an investor in Aligned and a backer of MGX, an Abu Dhabi AI investment firm, is also involved in the talks and would invest independently as part of the transaction, the report said. Blackrock declined to comment on the report. GIP, Aligned, Macquarie, and Mubadala did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The enormous uptake of AI, both in business and personal use, has prompted a host of companies to invest in AI data centers. McKinsey estimates those investments to reach $6.7 trillion by 2030 to meet computing power demand. Texas-based Aligned, which specializes in AI-related infrastructure, raised more than $12 billion in January. (Reporting by Rhea Rose Abraham and Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema)

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Orlando City and the Columbus Crew will meet in Central Florida on Saturday night in a match that will be critical for both teams' playoff positioning. All nine Eastern Conference MLS Cup Playoff participants have already been finalized more than two weeks ahead of the final day of regular-season play on Oct. 18. But both seventh-place Orlando (14-7-10, 52 points) and ninth-place Columbus (13-8-11, 50 points) are still fighting to avoid the East wild-card game, which will be between the teams finishing in eighth and ninth. For much of the season, Columbus looked on track to be competing for the higher East positions. But after a stretch of only one win and six points earned in the last seven matches, manager Wilfried Nancy's side would face a must-win wild-card match on the road if the postseason began now. With only two games left on the schedule, Nancy is trying to impart to his team that it still has the quality of the side that took 24 points from its first 11 games. "We are qualified for the playoffs," Nancy said, "because of the way we started the season. And this we have to think about it. … We are qualified because we had the best start of the season in the club's history. So they can not forget that." Nancy also suggested leading scorer Diego Rossi is questionable this week after missing the last three matches. Orlando's trajectory has been the reverse, with the Lions at one point winning four straight league games through July and August. More recently, the team has used stoppage-time goals from Duncan McGuire and Alex Freeman, respectively, to earn dramatic late results in a 3-2 home win over Nashville on Sept. 20 and a 1-1 draw at FC Cincinnati last Sunday. Orlando City have also won three in a row at home and could move as high as fifth with a fourth consecutive home victory and other favorable results Saturday. Orlando also has a match in hand on Charlotte and Nashville, the current fifth- and sixth-place sides. "It's something that at the beginning of the season was a challenge, but now we have that record that inspires us," Orlando manager Oscar Pareja said of that recent home form. "The boys were talking about it … how important the game is, but how important it is to play it in front of our people." –Field Level Media

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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 (Reuters) – Malaysian palm oil futures rose for a third straight session on Friday, underpinned by stronger crude oil prices and a softer ringgit, and were on track for their first weekly gain in four. The benchmark palm oil contract for December delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange gained 14 ringgit, or 0.31%, to 4,460 ringgit ($1,059.38) a metric ton in early trade. The contract has risen 1.36% so far this week. FUNDAMENTALS * Soyoil prices on the Chicago Board of Trade were up 0.04%. The Dalian Commodity Exchange is closed from October 1 to 8 for holidays. * Palm oil tracks price movements of rival edible oils, as it competes for a share of the global vegetable oils market. * Oil prices rose slightly after four straight sessions of declines but were on track for their steepest weekly decline since late June due to market expectations that the OPEC+ group could hike output further despite oversupply concerns. * Stronger crude oil futures make palm a more attractive option for biodiesel feedstock. * The ringgit, palm's currency of trade, weakened 0.19% against the dollar, making the commodity cheaper for buyers holding foreign currencies. * Indonesia's state palm oil company Agrinas Palma Nusantara plans to develop a biofuel production complex in the Papua region, aiming to produce biodiesel entirely from palm oil, a company director said in an interview with CNBC Indonesia. * The Indonesian trade ministry urged the European Union to adopt the World Trade Organization's panel ruling to remove countervailing duties on Indonesian biodiesel imports and regretted the block's move to appeal the WTO ruling. * There will be no daily reports from Reuters markets analyst Wang Tao from October 3 to 10. Routine reports will resume on Oct. 13. MARKET NEWS * Asian stocks were poised for solid weekly gains on Friday as rising odds of the Federal Reserve cutting rates in the near-term helped cushion jitters around a U.S. government shutdown that have pushed gold to record highs and weighed on the dollar. DATA/EVENTS 0750 France HCOB Services, Composite PMI Sep 0755 Germany HCOB Services, Composite Final PMI Sep 0800 EU HCOB Services Final, Composite Final PMI Sep 0830 UK S&P GLOBAL PMI: COMPOSITE – OUTPUT Sep 0830 UK Reserve Assets Total Sep 1345 US S&P Global Comp, Svcs PMI Final Sep 1400 US ISM N-Mfg PMI Sep ($1 = 4.2100 ringgit) (Reporting by Ashley Tang; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)

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Oct 3 (Reuters) – Eildon Capital Ltd: * INDEPENDENT BOARD COMMITTEE INTENDS TO RECOMMEND ACCEPTING SAMUEL TERRY TAKEOVER OFFER * OFFER PRICE INCREASED TO A$0.875 PER STAPLED SECURITY * BIDDER, TERRY ABSOLUTE RETURN ACTIVE FUND, INTENDS TO REMOVE EDC FROM ASX Further company coverage:

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(Updates with further detail from paragraph 2 onwards) Oct 3 (Reuters) – Telstra, Australia's no.1 telecom firm, has been fined A$18 million ($11.87 million) by the Federal Court for lowering internet speed plans for about 9,000 customers without informing them, the country's competition watchdog said on Friday. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Telstra migrated 8,897 customers of its low-cost value brand, Belong, to a lower-speed plan without notifying them that their maximum upload speed had been halved. The migration occurred during October-November 2020, the regulator said. "Telstra's failure to inform customers that their broadband service had been changed denied them the opportunity to decide whether the changed service was suitable for their needs," ACCC Commissioner Anna Brakey said in a statement. Australian telecom firms currently face heightened scrutiny over governance, particularly after Optus' two back-to-back emergency call outages last month affected thousands of customers, with the first outage linked to four deaths. In addition to the penalty, Telstra has either already compensated or will compensate all affected customers with a credit or payment of A$15 for each month they were on the lower upload speed plan, the regulator said on Friday. Telstra did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment. ($1 = 1.5161 Australian dollars) (Reporting by Nikita Maria Jino in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)

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