Visa Business and Economic Insights expects U.S. retail sales in November and December to rise 4.5% year over year. That would be the strongest holiday sales growth since 2021.
EFAMA says catastrophe bonds can diversify portfolios and transfer natural disaster risks to capital-market investors. The European Commission is considering a review of the rules on assets eligible for UCITS funds.
A federal court in Texas entered a default judgment against Walter Dunning Larrick III and Cambridge Financial Advisors LLC over a commodities fraud scheme. The defendants must pay more than $13 million in penalties and restitution.
Trading in foreign currencies closed on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange. The dollar’s weighted average rate was 451.16 tenge, down 1.56 tenge from the previous trading day.
Microfinance organization Shinhan Finance placed KZT 10 billion in three-year bonds on KASE on November 5, with a 16.15% annual coupon. Demand exceeded supply by 10%.
The board of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange approved the National Bank of Kazakhstan’s admission to its digital financial assets platform. The list of platform participants is available on KASE’s website.
The KASE Index fell 60.26 points to 7,856.23 at the close on November 5. Trading volume in shares included in the index rose 2.1 times from the previous session.
China’s Ministry of Finance has issued a notice on the 72nd book-entry discount government bond issue of 2026. The notice covers arrangements for the offering.
Pension savings in Kazakhstan grew by 2.60 trillion tenge, or 10%, over the past 12 months to reach 28.30 trillion tenge. Employer-mandated pension contributions increased 2.4-fold.
Prescription drug prices in the United States fell 4.5% over the year, the largest annual decline since 1963. The White House credits the trend to TrumpRx discounts and agreements with drugmakers.
Assets of Kazakhstan’s insurance companies rose 4% in September to 4.8 trillion tenge. Insurance premiums have increased 16.8% since the start of 2026.