Business & Markets — October 3, 2026

Tesla EV sales beat expectations. Tesla posted its best three-month sales period of the year, beating Wall Street estimates, and shares rose on the report.

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Lyft settles driver classification suit. Lyft agreed to pay $272.5 million to settle California's 2020 lawsuit alleging it misclassified drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.

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Holiday sales to top $1 trillion. Bain forecasts holiday retail sales will top $1 trillion this year, with shoppers increasingly starting gift searches on AI platforms instead of traditional search engines.

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September job growth falls short. U.S. employers added 29,000 jobs in September, well below the 84,000 forecast, as unemployment rose to 4.2%, cooling bets on an October Fed rate hike.

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