On the evening of Oct 30 local time, Yemeni government forces said Houthi militants fired ballistic missiles at Aden International Airport and Ma'ashiq Palace in Aden, the president's residence and the government's offices in the temporary capital.

Axios reports a Democratic Senate super PAC privately told major donors Texas is the best pickup opportunity in a deep-red state, followed by Ohio, where races remain tightly contested. The Senate GOP political action committee says Democrats could also win Iowa and Alaska, though results in those races may take longer to resolve. With voting next Tuesday, Democrats are increasingly cautiously confident; to retake the Senate they must win two of those four seats, flip North Carolina and Maine, and avoid an upset loss in Michigan.

State Street Global Advisors chief fixed-income strategist Masahiko Loo said the BOJ’s decision was unremarkable but the economic outlook represents an important shift. The BOJ now acknowledges potential inflation near 2%, bringing its assessment closer to reality and noting that conventional inflation measures have been at or above target for much of the past four years. Mirroring the Fed and ECB, the BOJ has little reason to move urgently—especially with US midterms likely to increase FX and bond volatility—so Governor Ueda can remain data-dependent, keep a rate-hike option at each meeting and likely defer the next hike to around the turn of the year. Policy tilt is hawkish; State Street’s baseline expectation for the terminal rate is about 1.75% as Japan joins the global synchronized tightening cycle.