US Q3 nonfarm business productivity preliminary +3.6% vs. 2.8% expected; prior revised from 1.40% to 2.1%.

Ukrainian President Zelenskiy said he held a 90-minute in-depth meeting with U.S. Middle East special envoys Witkoff and Kushner and that Ukraine, the U.S. and Russia are preparing team-level trilateral talks expected within a week.

Nov. 1-5 — Liu Haixing, minister of the CCP Central Committee’s International Liaison Department, led a party delegation to Pakistan and Bangladesh. In Islamabad he met Pakistan’s prime minister, the chief of the armed forces and a deputy prime minister/foreign minister; attended party-building exchanges and helped inaugurate a Pakistan–China party and governance research center. In Dhaka he met Bangladesh’s president and prime minister, chaired a China–Bangladesh “party+” roundtable, helped establish a Bangladesh–China party and governance research center and took part in a “Light Up the Future” livelihood donation event. The delegation promoted the spirit of the CCP’s 20th Central Committee Fifth Plenum and exchanged views on issues of mutual concern.