Nov 2 News Today

HONG KONG (AFP): Asian stocks were mixed Wednesday (Nov 2) following losses on Wall Street as forecast-beating US data jolted hopes the Federal Reserve could soon tone down its hawkish pace of interest rate hikes.

It may be an odd-numbered year, but Tuesday’s elections aren’t sleepy, local contests.

Barely two years after Independence voters passed a use tax to help pay for the city to hire more officers, the department hasn’t been able to increase the number of officers and now will ask voters Tuesday to allow it to use the money for other needs.

In a little more than a week, Ohio voters will head to the polls—casting their ballot in races for mayor, school board, and all sorts of positions and issues in this non-presidential election.

PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong reiterated that he has agreed with TV3 on Nov 2 as the date to debate Lim Guan Eng over the national cabotage policy.