Today’s mortgage and refinance rates: November 1, 2022 | Rates remain below 7% as the Fed discusses inflation

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Saudi Aramco profits soar 39% in the third quarter to $42 billion, fueled by higher global crude prices

Saudi Aramco. Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters Saudi Aramco posted a 39% jump in third-quarter profit to $42.4 billion in its earnings Tuesday.  Higher oil prices driven by the Ukraine war and OPEC+ cuts have helped lift energy majors’ profits.  Saudi Aramco expects oil demand to keep growing for the rest of the decade, its CEO said. …

From Elon Musk and Donald Trump to Taylor Swift and Tim Cook, here’s how celebrities are dodging jet-tracking Twitter accounts

Elon Musk and the Gulfstream G650ER. Patrick Pleul/picture alliance/Getty Images/Courtesy of Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation 20-year-old Jack Sweeney has created myriad Twitter accounts that track private jets, like Elon Musk’s. To dodge Sweeney and other trackers, many celebrities have signed up for free federal programs that help them fly incognito. The programs are not foolproof, and…

Elon Musk tells Stephen King that Twitter needs to pay the bills somehow after the novelist said he’d quit the site if he was charged $20 for verification

Stephen King said he’d quit Twitter if the company charges $20 to be verified. Leigh Vogel/WireImage/JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk said Twitter has bills to pay after Stephen King threatened to leave the site over a $20 verification fee. Musk suggested to King that verified Twitter users could be charged $8 a month….

Tightening oil supply will drive crude oil prices to $115 a barrel by April, Goldman Sachs strategist says

Felix Cesare/Getty Images Oil benchmarks could pass $115 a barrel by the end of the first quarter of 2023, according to Goldman Sachs’ Jeff Currie. Tightening supply will drive crude prices higher, the bank’s head of commodities research said. Currie added that OPEC+ members have given themselves “optionality” to raise oil production if demand climbs….

SpaceX may send Starship on its first orbital flight in December

Starship’s first orbital test flight could finally take place next month. Mark Kirasich, a senior NASA official overseeing the development of the Artemis moon program, has revealed the information during a livestreamed NASA Advisory Council meeting. According to Reuters, Kirasich said that NASA tracks four major Starship flights and that the first one is coming…