While President Donald Trump hailed a partial end to the trade war, on Capitol Hill his pledge to stonewall the impeachment inquiry into his effort to have Ukraine dig up dirt on ex-Vice President Joseph Biden wavered. On Friday, three House panels heard testimony damaging to Trump from former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who said she was removed from her post “under pressure” from Trump. Another State Department official, who Republicans consider friendly to the White House, is scheduled to appear Oct. 17. —David E. Rovella

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Yovanovitch told investigators she was pushed out in part by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who is under increasing scrutiny over his role in the widening scandal. Yovanovitch delivered scathing criticism of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, warning that the State Department is being “hollowed out from within.”

After enabling Turkey to attack areas of northern Syria held by its erstwhile Kurdish allies, the U.S. said Friday that it’s ramping up deployment of forces to other parts of the Middle East to protect Saudi Arabia. Almost a dozen civilians have reportedly been killed in the Turkish assault.

Iran said missiles struck one of its tankers in the Red Sea. The incident, which caused a spill and a jump of as much as 2.6% in crude prices, comes weeks after an attack on major Saudi oil facilities.

Don’t call it quantitative easing, but the Federal Reserve’s current strategy is having pretty much the same effect. Find out why.

Here’s what happens when a vacuum company tries to make an electric car. Alex Webb writes in Bloomberg Opinion that James Dyson’s project probably failed because they’re simply too easy to make.

Can women’s wellness lounges merge health care with self-care and still survive? Tia Clinic in New York City is having a rough time of it.

What’s Luke Kawa thinking about? The Bloomberg cross-asset reporter is talking about Jerome Powell again. Support has emerged for the Fed chair’s argument last month that the spike in repurchase rates “surprised market participants.” That support, Luke says, was seen in the New York Fed’s just-released surveys of market participants and primary dealers.

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