Business Insider reported employees said multiple departments — customer service, marketing support and engineering roles within Amazon’s retail business — were affected, with cuts also hitting operations in India and the UK. A person familiar with the situation said fewer than 1,000 staff were impacted. An Amazon spokesperson told Business Insider the company cut a "small number" of roles on Tuesday, primarily in its stores business.

Houthi militants said they fired multiple ballistic missiles at Saudi troop concentrations and reinforcements at the Kawa'a camp in Ras al-Ar, causing casualties and sparking fires at some weapons depots. They also said strikes hit assembly points south of the Bab al-Mandeb and in Suqayya and Ras al-Ar, causing dozens of casualties. The group claimed it struck Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport and issued a final warning to all international carriers, saying continued operations in Saudi airspace — excluding Mecca and Medina — will face serious consequences because the airspace has become a military operations zone.

US EIA total motor gasoline implied demand for week to Oct. 2: 9.5996 mln b/d, prior 9.6199 mln b/d.