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Here's your midday brief for Thursday, October 2nd. I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal.

Two people were killed and three others seriously injured in a ramming and stabbing attack

outside of Manchester synagogue in the UK. On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.

Police are treating the attack as a terrorist incident. According to theoor, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Police are treating the attack as a terrorist

incident. According to the mayor, the attacker drove into people outside the temple before getting out

and stabbing a member of the public, with armed officers later killing the suspect. Tesla surprised Wall

Street by delivering about 497,000 cars worldwide in the third quarter. The total

was a 7.4% increase from a year ago in a record high, the company said. It also exceeded analysts'

estimates of 456,000 deliveries. The growth was partially aided by U.S. customers rushing to use

the $7,500 federal EV credit that expired at the end of September.

And Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway said it will buy Occidental Petroleum's petrochemical business, OxyChem, for $9.7 billion in cash,

marking the largest deal for the company since 2022. The move confirms an earlier report from the

Wall Street Journal. Occidental said it plans to use $6.5 billion of the proceeds to pay down debt,

and that the deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter. Heads up, an artificial intelligence

tool helped us make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting,

and then reviewed and adapted by an editor.

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