Rise and shine, it’s Tuesday, October 27, 2026 · Updated Oct. 27, 2026 5:09 a.m. MT
OpenSnow forecaster Evan Thayer expects typical fall weather this week, then another moisture-laden southwesterly flow that could bring abundant precipitation from this weekend into early next week. Whether it piles up as snow at resort elevations depends on enough cold air arriving with it. For the season, OpenSnow favors above-normal snow for the Wasatch as a strong El Niño builds, with the best odds January–March.
NWS Salt Lake City has Snowbasin mostly sunny today near 50, with a chance of showers and a thunderstorm tonight, then sunny Wednesday and Thursday. Rain and storms become likely Friday night through Saturday night (75–83%), changing to rain and snow on the upper mountain Sunday and a chance of light snow Monday, with under half an inch expected. Snowbasin is still bare ahead of its Nov 27 opening.
UPS posted third-quarter revenue of $22.9 billion, up 6.7% and above the roughly $22.3 billion analysts expected, with adjusted earnings of $1.69 a share, as higher-paying international air shipments more than offset its planned cut in Amazon volume. It lifted its 2026 outlook to about $92.6 billion in revenue and $7.28 a share. Stock futures barely moved as the Fed began its two-day meeting, with Microsoft and Alphabet reporting Wednesday.
Read the earnings story →DoorDash is in advanced talks to buy Instacart for about $17 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, well above Instacart's roughly $13 billion market value at Friday's close; a deal could be signed as soon as Wednesday, and Instacart's talks with Uber are no longer active. Instacart shares rose about 8% Monday while DoorDash fell about 6% as investors weighed the price of combining the two biggest US grocery-delivery networks.
Read the report →Brent slipped about 1% to $114.81 a barrel early Tuesday after Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan met Iranian officials in Tehran and agreed to keep talking about regional security, but renewed Houthi missile and drone attacks on the kingdom kept a floor under prices near six-month highs. Gulf crude exports have fallen four weeks running and Strait of Hormuz flows are near 60% of normal, keeping fuel and petrochemical costs elevated.
Read the Reuters report →A study of more than 600 US public companies found about three-quarters have moved AI beyond pilots, yet none has earned a shareholder-return premium over industry peers because adoption has plateaued. The authors say the winners pick a path — doing existing work more efficiently, improving current products or creating new offerings — and build the capability it needs: redesigned workflows, broad AI fluency or specialist talent.
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Repair pricing still holds up, but fewer claims, more total losses and LKQ's guidance pull point to softer repairable volume into year-end.
Lumber and cabinet tariffs keep stacking up while remodeling growth slows — a soft backdrop for cabinet, millwork and furniture finishers.
Boat retail remains soft, but regulation is pushing hull coatings toward biocide-free and low-VOC systems — a mix-shift opportunity for distributors.
OEM output is ramping on both sides of the Atlantic and suppliers keep adding capacity, keeping aerospace the strongest finishes end-market.
Pfizer's PARP inhibitor combination is now approved for metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer with HRR gene mutations. In the 599-patient TALAPRO-3 trial it cut the risk of progression or death by 52%, and Pfizer estimates 77% of patients were progression-free at three years; severe anemia was common (51% vs. 3%).
In the DeLLphi-305 trial presented at ESMO, adding Amgen's tarlatamab to durvalumab maintenance lifted median survival to 21.1 months from 12.7, with 79% of patients alive at one year vs. 53%. Progression-free survival also more than tripled, to 7.4 months from 1.9.
AbbVie's risankizumab can now be started with an on-body injector instead of an IV drip. In the 274-patient AFFIRM trial, 56% reached clinical remission at week 12 vs. 30% on placebo, and 43% showed an endoscopic response vs. 15%.
At ESMO, Merck and Moderna's intismeran plus Keytruda kept 82.2% of patients relapse-free at two years vs. 70.0% on Keytruda alone, and cut distant spread by 38%. A survival edge (HR 0.77) is not yet statistically significant at this interim look.
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The filing shows $16.3 billion of revenue in the first half of 2026 against $9 billion spent on AI infrastructure, with about a fifth of revenue from two customers and a reported $80.7 billion net loss driven mostly by accounting charges. It also lists tighter AI regulation as a business risk; no price range or offer size has been set.
The Bank of England and FCA's latest survey found 86% of firms use AI, up from 75% in 2024, and 80% have agents in production for decision support. Vendors now supply 53% of high-materiality systems, up from 35%, and the three largest cloud providers hold 79% of reported relationships, a concentration risk regulators are watching.
Microsoft's AI ERP lead says posting and allocations should stay in the system of record, with agents aimed at reconciliation exceptions and invoices. Pamarco says about 40% of its close tasks are now automated; Adecco cut two days from its Japan close.
Meta launched $35 billion of underwritten stock offerings Monday, with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom expected as anchor buyers, plus a $60 billion at-the-market program to fund capital spending of up to $145 billion this year. It told investors the AI build-out will need "hundreds of billions" more over several years; META fell about 1.9% on the day.
“It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
Writing from prison in 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer observed that gratitude is what makes a life rich, and Paul, chained for the gospel, opens his letter to Timothy with thanks (2 Timothy 1:1–3, 6–10). Neither man was spared hardship, yet both leaned on a God whose grace gives far more than we could ever repay, which invites us to notice and thank those whose care has shaped us.
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.2 Timothy 1:9 (KJV)
Our Daily Bread →“Treasure up these faithful sayings.”
Spurgeon notes that Paul marks four statements in his letters as “faithful sayings” and reads them as a progression: salvation rests on God’s free grace, godliness carries promise for this life and the next, those who suffer with Christ will reign with Him, and believers are to show their faith in steady good works. He urges us to keep them close as a guide, a comfort and a daily instruction.
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him.2 Timothy 2:11 (KJV)
Spurgeon, Morning →| Model | Who runs it | Range | Best for | Where to look |
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| ECMWF (Euro) | European Centre | 0–15 days | Usually the most accurate global model for storm track and timing 3–10 days out. | Tropical Tidbits |
| GFS | NOAA / NWS | 0–16 days | Free, updated four times a day; good for spotting storms early, but tends to overdo snow totals. | Tropical Tidbits |
| Canadian (GEM) | Environment Canada | 0–10 days | A useful tiebreaker when the Euro and GFS disagree on a northwest-flow storm. | Tropical Tidbits |
| HRRR / NAM 3km | NOAA | 0–2 days | High resolution for terrain — the best guide to lake-effect bands and exact snow levels in the Wasatch. | Tropical Tidbits |
| NBM / NWS forecast | NWS Salt Lake City | 0–7 days | The official blend of many models, adjusted by forecasters — the number to plan around. | NWS point forecast |
| CPC outlooks | NOAA Climate Prediction Center | 1–4 weeks, seasonal | Odds of wetter or colder than normal; not storm-specific. | CPC |