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ARGENTINE LAWMAKERS OVERTURN MILEI VETO TO INCREASE FUNDING FOR UNIVERSITIES

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* Justice Department proceeds with largest restructuring in two decades * Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces to be closed * ATF-DEA merger not included amid bipartisan backlash * (Updates with responses from DOJ) By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is closing a task force that took on drug cartels and an office that aimed to ease racial tensions, in a reorganization that drops a plan to merge the nation's top drug and gun law enforcement agencies, documents seen by Reuters show. The most sweeping reorganization of the DOJ in two decades, which Attorney General Pam Bondi approved in September, will cut about 275 positions, leading to the elimination of or involuntary re-assignment of about 140 employees, the documents show. "Reduction in force" letters to employees whose roles will be affected in the units that are to be closed were due to be sent out earlier this week, other government documents seen by Reuters showed. The DOJ said the changes are designed to "promote efficiencies and effective governance," the documents show. The plan has drawn criticism from congressional Democrats and from former department employees, who say it could hurt critical work. In a statement, the Justice Department said the reductions in force "will save the Department over $11 million and further President Trump’s mission of having a federal government that’s more efficient and effective for the American people." President Donald Trump's administration has embarked on a sweeping campaign to remake the federal government, sharply cutting back international aid and environmental regulation, while redirecting a wide range of federal resources towards an immigration crackdown. The documents do not include a plan, first reported in March, to merge the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. That idea faced a bipartisan backlash in Congress, as well as resistance from DEA and ATF employees and opposition from both gun control and gun rights organizations. It was not clear whether the merger could be reconsidered at a future time. A department official said the proposed merger is part of the fiscal 2026 budget, which has not yet been approved by Congress. The plan approves closing the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, a prosecutor-led inter-agency office created in the 1980s during Ronald Reagan's presidency to tackle major drug cartels. It also shutters the Community Relations Service, an office that for 60 years has helped mediate racial and ethnic tensions across the United States, and a unit that helps ensure Americans have access to legal aid known as the Office for Access to Justice, the documents show. In addition, it merges the Tax Division into the department's Criminal and Civil divisions, in a move that will cost at least $3.1 million, the records seen by Reuters show. Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat who sits on the appropriations panel that helps set the Justice Department's budget, told the department in a September 24 letter he objected to all of the changes and accused the department of carrying out the changes without congressional approval. "Despite the clear lack of approval, the Department executed many controversial spend plan proposals anyway," he wrote. "This is not normal." Stacey Young, a former department attorney who founded the non-profit advocacy group Justice Connection, says the changes could impede the department's law-enforcement mission, including drug prosecutions. "Americans will feel the harm of this administration's slash-and-burn approach to governing," she said. "This isn't a reorganization — it's a decimation of some of DOJ's most vital work." The effort to close the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces surprised current and former officials, since the types of cases it oversees fall in line with the Trump administration's priorities to pursue major drug-trafficking organizations such as the Sinaloa Cartel, according to sources familiar with the matter. A Justice Department official noted that the task force's ongoing criminal cases have since been transferred to a newly created Homeland Security Task Force, and said the structural changes will eliminate "more than $41 million in bureaucratic spending." Other changes in the reorganization plan include merging the DOJ office that serves as the United States representative for the international law enforcement alliance INTERPOL into the U.S. Marshals Service, the documents show. In the Criminal Division, meanwhile, the DOJ is merging its two sections that handle drug cases and money-laundering cases. Offices that handle criminal consumer protection cases and human-trafficking prosecutions will also be merged into the Criminal Division. (Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; editing by Scott Malone and Alistair Bell)

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(Corrects typo in headline, no change in text) ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Aston Villa made it two wins from two in the Europa League with a 2-0 victory away to Feyenoord on Thursday, where second half goals from Emiliano Buendia and John McGinn earned the visitors three hard earned points in Rotterdam. Unai Emery's side followed up their 1-0 success over Bologna with another win, but Villa needed to weather a first half storm from the hosts before coming out on top. Villa were forced into a change before kick-off, with Marco Bizot replacing keeper Emi Martinez, and the late call-up was a busy man in the opening half. Bizot twice denied Anis Hadj Moussa and pulled off an impressive save from Luciano Valente, with Villa's Ian Maatsen making a goal-line clearance. Villa came close early in the second half, with Evann Guessand's strike coming off the post and they took the lead in the 61st minute. Boubacar Kamara layed the ball off to Buendia at the edge of the area who took one touch to control and made no mistake as his shot flew into the bottom corner, and 11 minutes from time Villa wrapped up the win. Donyell Malen raced into the box before losing possession but McGinn was there to pounce and smash the ball to the net and Villa are on maximum points after two games. (Reporting by Trevor Stynes, editing by Pritha Sarkar)

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* Rule required disclosing fees during booking process * Airlines said Transportation Department lacked authority * Biden administration-era rule yet to be implemented (Adds background from case and airlines, attempts to obtain comment) By Jonathan Stempel Oct 2 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Thursday said it will reconsider its recent holding that the U.S. Department of Transportation had authority to require airlines to fully disclose fees upfront when passengers book flights. In a brief order, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said its 17 active judges will sit "en banc" to review the January 28 decision by a three-judge panel. Several major airlines are challenging a consumer-friendly rule issued in April 2024 during the Biden administration, which required airlines and ticket agents to disclose "ancillary fees" such as baggage charges during the booking process. Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue, United Airlines and three trade groups including Airlines for America objected, saying federal law gave the Transportation Department no power to issue such rules. The appeals court put the rule on hold in July 2024. In its January decision, the court said the Transportation Department had authority to write fee disclosure rules that address "unfair or deceptive practices" by airlines. It nonetheless said the agency should have let airlines comment on a study it used to assess the fee rule's potential impact. The appeals court returned the matter to the Transportation Department, instead of vacating the rule. In seeking en banc review, the airlines said adopting the rule would "upend the way airlines interact with their customers, at great cost, and with no demonstrated benefit." The Transportation Department opposed a rehearing, saying the appeals court "properly exercised its discretion" in remanding the rule. Lawyers for the airlines did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Airlines for America declined to comment. Neither the Transportation Department nor the U.S. Department of Justice immediately responded to requests for comment. The 5th Circuit is one of the most conservative federal appeals courts. It did not say when it will hear oral arguments. The case is Airlines for America et al v Department of Transportation, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 24-60231. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Jamie Freed)

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* Bessent says US 'not putting money' in Argentina * US government shutdown, GOP pushback, raise concerns * Peso currency down 6.7% this week vs US dollar (Recasts first paragraph, adds peso in paragraph two, updates prices throughout) By Rodrigo Campos and Libby George NEW YORK/LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Argentina's international dollar bonds rose in a volatile session on Thursday after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. is "not putting money into Argentina" shortly after saying that upcoming in-person discussions in Washington would "meaningfully advance" the country's pledge of financial support for President Javier Milei's government. The peso was little changed throughout the day at about 1,424 per dollar, hinting at intervention from the Argentine treasury. Local stocks rose 2.5%. Bonds, which rose roughly two cents after Bessent's initial comments, traded negative shortly after his "no money" statement, but crawled higher to end up over one cent on the day. Milei, a right-wing leader whose reforms have made him a darling of the Trump administration, had said Wednesday night that part of the negotiations with the U.S. included purchases of bonds in the secondary market and "profit-sharing." Bessent said last week the U.S. is in negotiations over a $20 billion swap line with Argentina's central bank and stands ready to do what is needed to support the South American country. The 2030 maturity was trading up over a cent by 2030 GMT, after rising more than 2 cents earlier and paring all its gains. Argentina's bonds are down 15% this year to Wednesday at the index level after having risen over 100% in 2024. The peso is down almost 30% to the dollar year-to-date, even as the government has stepped in to defend it in the spot market and retains some FX controls. Analysts consider it overvalued, and a Reuters poll this week shows it is expected to devalue further after the October 26 midterm election. The IMF, a big supporter of Milei's economic reform program, said Thursday Argentina needs to commit to a fiscal anchor and a consistent monetary policy and foreign exchange framework, and build "broad political support to secure the implementation of the authorities' ambitious reform agenda." MARKET IS TESTING TREASURY RESOLVE Argentina's financial markets, which rallied strongly after Bessent's initial support pledge last month, have fallen in recent days amid uncertainty over U.S. backing and concerns over the fate of Milei's reformist agenda after mid-term legislative elections later this month. The local peso, which last week strengthened close to 11% against the U.S. dollar, is down 6.7% so far this week. "The market is testing the U.S.'s resolve to help Argentina," said Aaron Gifford, senior emerging market sovereign analyst at T. Rowe Price, adding that the lack of details – and uncertainty caused by the U.S. government shutdown – were weighing on bond prices. The U.S. government shutdown, in its second day, added to worries over the country's plans for Argentina, while pushback from some U.S. Republicans also raised red flags. Last month, in an effort to secure foreign currency, Argentina's government temporarily suspended export taxes on grains, enabling $7 billion in sales in just a few days. The sales calmed markets temporarily, but also rankled some U.S. Republicans, such as powerful Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who in a post on X questioned why the U.S. would "bail out" Argentina "while they take American soybean producers' biggest market." "Washington is highly polarized, and the last thing anybody wants to hear in the White House is someone saying that you're using U.S. taxpayer money to bail out that hedge funds the bought the Argentine debt," said Joydeep Mukherji, managing director of sovereign ratings for S&P Global. And while many thought the U.S. support would buy Milei time to make it to the election, markets have proven more fickle. "The short tax break on commodity exports – it worked for a few days, but not anymore," said Viktor Szabo, portfolio manager with Aberdeen. "Now the expectation is that they will have to devalue after the midterms, so everyone is frontrunning it." (Reporting by Libby George and Rodrigo Campos, additional reporting by Marc Jones in London; Editing by Amanda Cooper, Chizu Nomiyama, Marguerita Choy and Diane Craft)

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Oct 2 (Reuters) – * ORACLE INVESTIGATING HACKS OF ITS CUSTOMERS' E-BUSINESS SUITE – BLOOMBERG NEWS Source text: https://tinyurl.com/4zy38y4d Further company coverage:

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By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida, Oct 2 (Reuters) – TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist Stock markets around the world leaped to new highs on Thursday, propelled by optimism around the AI boom and hopes for further U.S. interest rate cuts, as investors shrugged off the U.S. government shutdown which entered its second day. More on that below. In my column today I look at why the U.S. government shutdown is the last thing the Federal Reserve needs right now – visibility around the labor market and inflation for data-dependent policymakers was already limited, and this just reduces it even more. If you have more time to read, here are a few articles I recommend to help you make sense of what happened in markets today. 1. With the U.S. government dark, alternate sources show a sluggish September for jobs 2. Prolonged U.S. government shutdown could raise market risks 3. Sign of the times as Swiss buy euros not dollars: Mike Dolan 4. OpenAI hits $500 billion valuation after share sale to SoftBank, others, source says 5. China's 'new economy' shines through cloudy growth outlook: Raychaudhuri Today's Key Market Moves * STOCKS: Record highs for S&P 500, Nasdaq, world stocks, Europe, euro zone, Britain, South Korea, Taiwan. MSCI All Country index is now up 18 of the last 22 trading sessions. * SHARES/SECTORS: Biggest S&P 500 sector gainer is materials, +1%; biggest decliner energy, -1%. Broader semiconductor index +2% to new high. Coinbase shares +7%, Tesla -5%. * FX: Dollar snaps 4-day losing streak, gains most vs NOK as oil price slides. Bitcoin at 10-week high above $121,000. * BONDS: U.S. Treasury yields drift to 2-week lows in thin, shutdown-dominated trade. Curve bull flattens a couple of basis points. * COMMODITIES: Oil down another 2% to new 4-month lows, gold and silver hit fresh peaks. Today's Talking Points: * The AI Emperor – clothes or no clothes? OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has reached a valuation of $500 billion following a recent share sale, making it the most valuable private company in the world. That's up sharply from its current valuation of $300 billion. Where next? $1 trillion? It's a landmark moment but raises familiar questions about whether the AI boom is a bubble. AI-related capex spending in the U.S. is soaring but a lot is on imports, so is actually an offset to GDP growth. And the bar for future returns is high. But as long as the music is playing, investors will keep dancing. * What's going on with oil? Oil prices are sliding. Fast. Brent and WTI crude futures are down nearly 10% in the last week, scraping four-month lows of $64.00 and $60.40 a barrel, respectively, as oversupply concerns grip the market. OPEC+ countries meet this weekend and could agree to raise oil production by up to 500,000 barrels per day in November, sources tell Reuters. That would be triple the increase for October. Oil's disinflationary momentum is building. * De-dollarization – a bit of a myth? IMF figures this week showed that the dollar's share of global foreign exchange reserves in Q2 dipped to 56.3% – the lowest since at least the euro's launch in 1999 – from 57.7% in Q1. But adjusted for exchange rates, the dollar's share held steady, the IMF said. According to Goldman Sachs, it actually rose for the second quarter in a row, and as capital flows expert Brad Setser notes, the official sector's nominal dollar holdings in recent years have been "basically constant". So no de-dollarization then, at least from central banks. U.S. government shutdown gives Fed last thing it needs – even less visibility After the Federal Reserve resumed its interest rate-cutting cycle last month, Chair Jerome Powell signaled that incoming U.S. economic data would play an even more critical role than usual in determining the central bank's next steps. But the government shutdown means the Fed may now be walking blind. "We're in a meeting-by-meeting situation, and we're going to be looking at the data," Powell told reporters after the 25-basis-point cut on September 17, adding: "There are no risk-free paths now." Those paths have just gotten a whole lot riskier. The government shutdown that began on Wednesday could delay the release of a large chunk of economic data, meaning the Fed's ability to accurately assess the labor market and inflation situation – which was already limited – will now be much worse. That, in turn, could make the market rethink its own conviction about the near-term rate outlook. Key employment and inflation data are set to be delayed, namely weekly jobless claims from the Labor Department, and all-important monthly non-farm payrolls and CPI inflation reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The September payrolls and CPI inflation reports are due for release this Friday and October 15, respectively. They would probably be the biggest single influences in rate setters' decisions at the October 28-29 Federal Open Market Committee policy meeting. As Rabobank analysts note, thick with understatement, this is "very inconvenient" for the Fed as these two data points could potentially tilt the balance between the hawks and the doves on the FOMC. The FOMC's September 'dot plot' showed a median estimate of two more rate cuts this year, but it wouldn't take much to change that. The split of views showed that nine of the FOMC's 19 members expect only one more cut – or none – by December. There is a clear polarization of views. Does a shutdown strengthen the doves' hand? DATA QUALITY DOUBTS GROW A quarter-point cut in October is already fully priced into rates futures markets. Another "insurance" cut, as Powell described September's move, would make sense – better to avoid the risk of falling behind the curve and being forced to ease more aggressively later. This is particularly true in the event of a prolonged shutdown, which could put a 50-basis-point cut on the table in October or December. Oxford Economics chief U.S. economist Ryan Sweet estimates that even a partial shutdown reduces GDP growth by 0.1-0.2 percentage points per week. To put that into context, the longest shutdown on record of over 35 days in President Donald Trump's first term would reduce fourth-quarter real GDP growth by 0.5-1.0 percentage points. But there's also a compelling case for not easing at all, never mind pouring fuel on the fire with cuts made in a haze of uncertainty rather than on data-led evidence, as Powell has insisted upcoming decisions will be based. The hawks' base case appears to be strengthening – GDP growth is running close to 4% on an annualized basis, inflation is nearly a percentage point above target and showing few signs of cooling, and Wall Street is at record highs. It's unclear whether a government shutdown of a few days, or even weeks, would weaken the hawks' narrative. One thing that most policymakers and economists do agree on is that the quality and reliability of U.S. economic data are deteriorating, in no small part due to falling response rates to surveys. This leads to skewed or inaccurate results, and more and bigger revisions. Economists at Goldman Sachs estimate that standard errors are 26% higher on average today than in 2015-2019, and have increased for eight out of 10 government surveys they review. Labor market data appear to have been affected most by falling survey response rates, they note. "This is an old problem, and old solutions continue to be relevant today: gather more data," Anna Kovner, director of research at the Richmond Fed, concludes in an article published on Wednesday. That, of course, will have to wait, probably until long after the shutdown is over. Is patchy data preferable to no data at all? We could be about to find out. What could move markets tomorrow? * Australia PMI (September) * Japan PMI (September) * Japan unemployment (August) * Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda speaks * UK PMI (September) * Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey and …

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Oct 2 (OPTA) – Results and fixtures for the UEFA Europa League on Thursday (start times are CET) League Stage ———————————————————— Roma (0) 0 Lille (1) 1 Bologna (1) 1 Freiburg (0) 1 Celtic (0) 0 Sporting Braga (1) 2 Viktoria Plzeň (2) 3 Malmö FF (0) 0 Fenerbahçe (2) 2 Nice (1) 1 FCSB (0) 0 Young Boys (2) 2 Panathinaikos (0) 1 Go Ahead Eagles (0) 2 Ludogorets Razgrad (0) 0 Real Betis (1) 2 Brann (1) 1 Utrecht (0) 0 Basel v Stuttgart in play Porto v Crvena zvezda in play Feyenoord (0) 0 Aston Villa (0) 2 Genk (0) 0 Ferencváros (1) 1 Maccabi Tel Aviv (1) 1 Dinamo Zagreb (2) 3 Nottingham Forest v Midtjylland in play Olympique Lyonnais (1) 2 Salzburg (0) 0 Celta de Vigo v PAOK in play Sturm Graz (2) 2 Rangers (0) 1

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By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures fell on profit-taking on Thursday, though hopes for the border reopening to Mexican cattle imports have also put a damper on prices. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it had approved Dectomax-CA1, an injectable anti-parasitic medication, to prevent and treat screwworm in cattle. However, Mexico saw a nearly 32% increase in confirmed screwworm cases, according to the latest monthly government data, as a concentration of cases moves north. "It's starting to weigh on feeder cattle," Karl Setzer, partner at Consus Ag, said. CME December live cattle fell 1.025 cents to end at 233.475 cents per pound. CME November feeder cattle fell 5.2 cents to end at 352.40 cents per pound. CME December hogs closed 0.225 cent lower to end at 86.675 cents per pound. A lack of buying interest has weighed on lean hog futures. Wholesale beef prices have mostly continued a seasonal decline. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported choice cuts of beef fell by $5.37 to end at $363.10 per hundredweight as of Thursday morning. Select cuts fell by $2.36 to $344.53. Commodity markets may be left without further USDA data in the coming days after a U.S. government shutdown started on Wednesday, amid political deadlock over short-term funding measures. (Reporting by Heather Schlitz. Editing by Alan Barona)

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