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WHITE HOUSE: CHICAGO NEEDS MORE LAW ENFORCEMENT

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(Adds share price reaction, background on dispute, Halkbank statement, paragraphs 2 and 6-8) * Halkbank's shares drop 8.5% after Supreme Court decision * State-owned Turkish bank accused of helping Iran evade US sanctions * Case has caused diplomatic tension between US and Turkey By Luc Cohen Oct 6 (Reuters) – The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear another bid by Turkey's state-owned lender Halkbank to avoid fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges in the United States for allegedly helping Iran evade American economic sanctions. The justices turned away Halkbank's appeal of a lower court's ruling that let the criminal case brought by the U.S. government proceed, allowing that decision to stand. Halkbank shares closed 10% lower in Istanbul on the news. The Supreme Court in 2023 threw out a previous decision by the same lower court that had permitted the case to move forward but at that time rejected a key defense mounted by the bank. Brought by U.S. federal prosecutors in 2019, the case has been a thorn in U.S.-Turkey relations, with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan calling it an "unlawful, ugly" step. Halkbank has pleaded not guilty. The Supreme Court decision not to hear Halkbank's appeal clears the way for a possible trial unless both sides settle. In a statement, Halkbank said it would continue asserting all its legal rights. "Initiatives to find a legal ground of conciliation within the framework of the understandings between the United States and Turkey are also ongoing in a positive direction," the bank added. Prosecutors with the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office accused Halkbank of using money servicers and front companies in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions. The bank secretly transferred $20 billion of restricted funds, converted oil revenue into gold and cash to benefit Iranian interests and documented fake food shipments to justify transfers of oil proceeds, according to prosecutors. In asking the Supreme Court to take up the case, Halkbank argued that as a Turkish state-owned entity it should be immune from legal actions in another country's courts. In 2023, when the Supreme Court rejected Halkbank's contention that it was protected under the federal Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, it directed the Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to consider whether common law provided immunity. Common law refers to legal principles developed over centuries by judges, not by specific statutes. The 2nd Circuit considered that issue and last year rejected Halkbank's argument that common law principles immunized it from prosecution related to commercial, nongovernmental activities. President Donald Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court to turn away Halkbank's appeal of that 2nd Circuit decision. The Justice Department told the Supreme Court on August 6 that "common law" principles do not shield foreign state-owned companies from criminal prosecution. (Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Will Dunham and Matthew Lewis)

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WHITE HOUSE: OMB IS CONTINUING TO WORK WITH AGENCIES ON LAYOFFS OF FEDERAL WORKERS

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Amanda Anisimova withdrew from this week's Wuhan Open because of a left calf injury after a winning the China Open last week while playing through multiple ailments. Anisimova not only had a wisdom tooth extracted before the China Open began, she aggravated a left foot and calf injury after her first-round victory at Beijing. An ankle injury forced her to withdraw from last month's Korea Open. Despite her injuries, Anisimova captured her fourth career win with a 6-0, 2-6, 6-2 victory over Czech Linda Noskova on Sunday. It was her second career WTA 1000 title, winning both this season. Anisimova, 24, who had been lined up as the No. 4 seed at the Wuhan Open, also was the runner-up at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open this year. "I think it was obvious in one of the matches where I was in pain," Anisimova said after her victory Sunday. I was just hurting all day when I was walking. I'm still having a bit of pain, but it's nothing series. It's just annoying aches and pains." –Field Level Media

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Following is a summary of current sports news briefs. Ex-NFL QB Mark Sanchez charged with felony battery Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is now facing a felony charge in addition to three previously announced misdemeanors in connection with a weekend altercation in Indianapolis that led to his stabbing, officials in Marion County, Ind., announced Monday. Prosecutor Ryan Mears said Sanchez, a Fox Sports analyst, has been charged with felony battery involving serious bodily injury, which, if convicted, could lead to a prison sentence of one to six years. Trey Yesavage's brilliance, Blue Jays' power rout Yankees for 2-0 ALDS lead TORONTO — The plan has worked to perfection so far and the Toronto Blue Jays are one win away from disposing of the New York Yankees in the American League Division Series. The Blue Jays decided to start rookie Trey Yesavage at home Sunday in Game 2 of the series and save eight-year veteran Shane Bieber for Game 3 on Tuesday in the hostile environment of New York's Yankee Stadium. Julio Rodriguez's RBI double lifts Mariners past Tigers to even series Julio Rodriguez's run-scoring double with one out in the bottom of the eighth broke a tie as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Sunday night to even their best-of-five American League Division Series at one game apiece. Jorge Polanco hit a pair of solo homers for the Mariners, both off Tigers ace Tarik Skubal. UFC fights to take place at White House on June 14, Trump says U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that a previously announced Ultimate Fighting Championship event at the White House will take place on June 14 next year, which will be the president's 80th birthday. He made the announcement during a speech at Naval Station Norfolk to mark the upcoming 250th anniversary of the U.S. Navy. Baseball-Ohtani's pitching focus may have led to struggles at plate, Roberts says Shohei Ohtani dug deep after falling behind early in his first postseason start as a pitcher to earn the win against the Phillies, and the effort may have dulled his bat, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said on Sunday. Ohtani uncharacteristically allowed three runs on the mound and struck out four times, but Los Angeles rallied to beat Philadelphia 5-3 in Game One of the best-of-five NL Division Series. Golf-Woods to make TGL Season 2 debut in mid-January Tiger Woods, sidelined from competitive golf for 15 months because of injury, will make his TGL Season 2 debut in mid-January, the tech-infused indoor team golf league he co-founded with Rory McIlroy announced on Monday. Woods will lead Jupiter Links Golf Club in a January 13 match against Season 1 runners-up New York Golf Club, TGL said along with the release of its 15-match regular season schedule. Motor racing-Mercedes boss Wolff wants F1 back in Korea Mercedes will take Formula One back to South Korea for the first time in 12 years with a show run in Yongin next week and team principal Toto Wolff thinks it is high time the sport again made an annual visit to the country. The team will head to Korea on a high after George Russell gave them a second win of the season at Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix, one of only three East Asian stops on the current 24-race calendar, along with Japan and China. Wayne Gretzky to remain NHL analyst for Turner Sports Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky has reached agreement on a multi-year contract extension to remain as an NHL analyst with Turner Sports. The news was announced Monday on the NHL on TNT official account on X. No contract details were provided. NFL roundup: Broncos knock Eagles from unbeatens with furious comeback Bo Nix and the visiting Denver Broncos wiped out a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit and snapped Philadelphia's 10-game winning streak with a 21-17 victory on Sunday. After punting on seven of their first eight drives, the Broncos (3-2) scored touchdowns on back-to-back possessions to seize the lead. J.K. Dobbins made it 17-10 with a 2-yard TD run with 13:11 remaining, and Nix put Denver ahead with an 11-yard TD pass to Evan Engram and a gutsy two-point conversion toss to Troy Franklin with 7:36 left. Bruins to retire former captain Zdeno Chara's No. 33 The Boston Bruins will retire the number of longtime captain Zdeno Chara on Jan. 15 before their game against the Seattle Kraken. Chara wore No. 33 from 2006-20 after he was signed as a free agent on July 1, 2006. He was named captain that fall and held the role for 14 seasons, second in team history to only Ray Bourque's 15.

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TUNIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Algeria will invest $60 billion in energy projects between 2025 and 2029 as part of a large-scale strategy to boost oil, gas and hydrogen development, Energy and Mines Minister Mohamed Arkab said on Monday. Speaking at an energy forum in Algiers, Arkab said 80% of the investment will be directed toward upstream exploration and production, while the remaining funds will support refining and petrochemical projects. The minister also highlighted Algeria’s push towards cleaner energy sources, saying Algeria has launched projects to generate 3,200 megawatts of renewable energy as part of the country's broader energy diversification efforts. The North African country aims to strengthen its role as a key supplier of energy to international markets while meeting domestic demand and making a transition to more sustainable sources. (Reporting by Tarek Amara Editing by Tomasz Janowski)

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(Adds Teradata declines comment in paragraph 5) * Lower court let Teradata pursue claims against SAP * Teradata filed its lawsuit in California in 2018 By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by Europe's largest software maker SAP to avoid a lawsuit by U.S. data technology company Teradata that accused it of violating American antitrust law. The justices turned away SAP's appeal of a lower court's decision that let Teradata pursue claims that its larger German rival violated U.S. antitrust law by tying sales of business-planning applications to the purchase of a key SAP database that can perform transactional and analytical functions. San Diego-based Teradata makes a rival analytics database. Teradata filed its lawsuit against SAP in federal court in California in 2018. SAP has denied any wrongdoing. A judge has scheduled an April 2026 trial on Teradata's claims, as well as on a counterclaim that SAP lodged against Teradata accusing it of patent infringement. "We are disappointed the Supreme Court has declined to review these important legal issues. We remain confident in our position, reject Teradata's claims and look forward to resolving the matter in the trial court," SAP said in a statement. Teradata declined to comment. SAP sells "enterprise resource planning" software to companies that lets them manage data used in daily activities such as finance and supply-chain operations. Teradata makes a database that can provide analytics on such a substantial amount of data. The company said SAP customers relied on other tech companies like Teradata to handle the data that SAP's applications produced. The lawsuit accused SAP of illegally tying sales of its business operations software to a new product that was developed to compete with Teradata's database. Two key legal standards guide how judges resolve whether conduct restrains competition: the "per se rule," under which alleged conduct is presumed illegal; and the "rule of reason," under which judges balance between anticompetitive effects and a defendant's procompetitive justification. SAP won in the district court, but the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived Teradata's case in 2024. The 9th Circuit said there was a material dispute between the companies that a jury could take up and decide. The 9th Circuit, using a version of the "per se rule," applied too stringent a standard in evaluating Teradata's claims, SAP told the Supreme Court in a filing. SAP said the 9th Circuit's ruling clashed with how another federal appeals court in Washington in 2001 resolved a landmark antitrust case against Microsoft. In its filing at the Supreme Court, SAP said its two products were integrated, and that such integration benefits consumers and allows companies to compete effectively. Teradata urged the justices to reject SAP's appeal. It disputed that SAP's two products were integrated and also denied there was any divide among the federal appeals courts about which rules judges should use to evaluate antitrust lawsuits. Meta Platforms and Microsoft jointly submitted a friend-of-the-court brief backing SAP at the Supreme Court. (Reporting by Mike Scarcella; Editing by Will Dunham)

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(Updates to midday) * S&P 500, Nasdaq higher; Dow dips * New French prime minister resigns; euro down * Japan ruling party elects new leader; yen weakens By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Major stock indexes edged higher on Monday, with technology shares getting a boost after news that AMD signed an AI chip-supply deal with OpenAI, while the Japanese yen and euro weakened against the dollar after Japan's ruling party elected a new leader and France's new government quit. Bitcoin stayed near its record high on Monday, with investors increasingly turning to alternative assets as a store of value as the U.S. government shutdown kept investors uncertain. The cryptocurrency was last up 1.61% at $124,755.87. The euro was down 0.2% at $1.1717. New French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned on Monday, barely 14 hours after appointing his cabinet. The yen also declined after Japan's ruling party picked conservative Sanae Takaichi, putting her on course to become the nation's first female prime minister. She is an advocate of late premier Shinzo Abe's "Abenomics" strategy to boost the economy with aggressive spending and easy monetary policy. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose while the Dow was slightly lower, as the U.S. federal government shutdown, which began last week, dragged on. The S&P 500 finished last week at a record closing high. "The market is extending its momentum bias. It's shrugging off the (U.S.) government shutdown and, because of that, there's a belief that perhaps the Fed is going to be more generous than the market previously expected," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut rates again by 25 basis points at its October 28-29 meeting, following data that shows a weakening labor market. In addition, Cardillo said, "we're not far away from third-quarter earnings, and it looks as though it'll be another good earnings season." Shares of AMD were up more than 28% and other chip companies' stocks also rose amid optimism around artificial intelligence deals. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 76.88 points, or 0.17%, to 46,681.40, the S&P 500 rose 18.94 points, or 0.28%, to 6,734.64 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 113.40 points, or 0.50%, to 22,893.90. MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe rose 2.57 points, or 0.26%, to 995.78. The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.02%. French political instability has ramped up since Emmanuel Macron's re-election in 2022, with no party or grouping holding a parliamentary majority. "The bigger concern for the market is really what comes next, because if Macron decides to appoint another prime minister that’s going to be the sixth PM in two years," said Michael Brown, senior research strategist at Pepperstone. Any newcomer would face the same challenging parliamentary arithmetic and problems when trying to pass the budget, said Brown. In Japan, the Nikkei soared above 48,000 for the first time after Takaichi beat the more moderate Shinjiro Koizumi in the Liberal Democratic Party's leadership vote. Short-dated Japanese government bond yields slid to a two-week low as traders pared bets on when the Bank of Japan will resume raising interest rates. Most other major share markets around the region were closed for holidays, including mainland China, South Korea and Taiwan. Gold surged to an all-time high above $3,900 per ounce, helped in part by the economic and political uncertainty in the U.S., France and Japan. Spot gold rose 1.83% to $3,957.25 an ounce. U.S. crude rose 1.3% to $61.67 a barrel and Brent rose to $65.47 per barrel, up 1.46% on the day. (Additional reporting by Kevin Buckland in Tokyo and Lucy Raitano in London; editing by Alison Williams and Nick Zieminski)

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Oct 6 (Reuters) – DPM Metals Inc: * DPM METALS INC – CONFIRMS REVOCATION OF LOMA LARGA ENVIRONMENTAL LICENCE * DPM METALS INC – ASSESSING OPTIONS TO PRESERVE SHAREHOLDER VALUE * DPM METALS: CONFIDENT OUR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN, ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION MEASURES FOR LOMA LARGA IN COMPLIANCE WITH ECUADORIAN STANDARDS Source text: Further company coverage:

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(Adds background in paragraphs 3, 7-9) Oct 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. CDC on Monday pulled broad support for COVID-19 shots, saying they should be administered through shared decision-making with a healthcare provider in accordance with recommendations from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s hand-picked vaccine advisory panel. The new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation maintains access for the shot through health insurance. The recommendations come at a turbulent time for the CDC, which recently saw the ouster of its former Director Susan Monarez after resisting changes to vaccine policy advanced by Kennedy. Monarez said she was told to rubber-stamp the committee's recommendations without reviewing the scientific evidence. The acting director of the CDC, Jim O'Neill, also signed off on the advisers' recommendations against use of the combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine before the age of 4 years. Instead, shots will be given for measles-mumps-rubella with a separate vaccine for varicella, commonly known as chickenpox. The immunization schedules will be updated on the CDC website by Tuesday, the agency said. Kennedy, a long-time anti-vaccine crusader before taking on the nation's top health post, has sought to rewrite the country's immunization policies through a series of far-reaching actions. They included dismantling the national vaccine advisory board of outside experts and reconstituting it with hand-picked members, many of whom shared his opposition to the widely used COVID vaccines. The panel made its recommendations at a two-day meeting in September that highlighted deep divisions over the future of the U.S. immunization schedules under Kennedy. Several medical experts warned that presentations at the meeting that cast doubt on vaccine safety could lower immunization rates, even though they felt the recommendation itself had not restricted — and perhaps even expanded — access for some people. The American Academy of Pediatrics, an influential U.S. medical group, has already broken from federal policy and pushed its own vaccine recommendations, suggesting all young children get vaccinated against COVID-19. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in August cleared updated COVID-19 vaccines for everyone over age 65, but limited its approval for younger people to those with health risks. The three approved COVID shots are made by Pfizer with German partner BioNTech, Moderna, and Novavax with Sanofi. (Reporting by Mariam Sunny in Bengaluru and Michael Erman in New York; Editing by Leroy Leo and Bill Berkrot)

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