Washington changes, markets tremble, Italy awaits the budget law
The Democratic victory in the midterm elections opens the edition; in the background, a black session on Wall Street and Tokyo, pressure on the Italian budget law and a wave of false bomb threats over European skies.
We open with the United States because the result of the midterm elections redraws the balance of power in Washington for the next two years: Democrats regain both the House and the Senate, according to projections from NBC News and CBS News, in a reversal that also touches Southern states considered stably Republican. It is the news with the highest political weight of the day, and it is so regardless of this newspaper’s geographic boundaries.
Right behind it we place the markets: the black session on Wall Street on November 5 spread to Tokyo, where the Nikkei lost over three thousand points in a few hours. Two different economies, the same nervousness over tech stocks: we report it as a matter of global scale, not as an isolated episode.
In Italy, the 2027 budget law remains the hottest ground: unions convened on November 13, strikes already announced for the 11th and the 20th, and a gap of several billion between what the Regions are requesting for healthcare and what the text provides. These are figures we publish because they are verifiable, not because they are convenient to one side or the other.
On European skies, we chose to report the wave of bomb threats by openly stating that sources do not agree on the number of flights involved — between 18 and 27, depending on the outlet. We did not arbitrate between the figures: we placed them side by side, with the uncertainty stated in the text rather than hidden.
Among the other analyses: the EU-Canada agreement, for now based on a single institutional source and declared as such; a study in Nature that uses ancient DNA to address the origin of the Celtic languages; the WHO data on one in four adolescents who never plays sport worldwide; Google’s progress on its own quantum processor; the opening of the Marrakech festival. Closing out the day are Istat’s Bes 2026 in Lunga durata, the WHO report on climate and health in Ordine di grandezza, and the Lusail weekend that could hand the MotoGP title to Marc Marquez — the latter published with a single source declared at the top of the piece.
A clarification on the editorial work: a second piece on the MotoGP World Championship, written in parallel, was discarded because the Sports section was already covered by the article on Lusail — not a gap, just a choice to avoid a duplicate.
According to today’s inventory, no planned piece is missing: thirteen articles, from the lead to the Briefs, were published as scheduled.
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