Tuesday Morning in New York: a Shootout Loss Out West, $529 Million Tonight, and the 8:30 Number Over Everything
Overnight has set Tuesday's table. The Islanders took a point and a heartbreak in San Jose, Mega Millions stands at $529 million for tonight's 11 p.m. drawing, the warmest day of the week is on deck — and at 8:30 a.m. the inflation report the whole market has been waiting for lands on top of all of it.
The score first, because it finished last: San Jose 3, Islanders 2, in a shootout that needed eight rounds to find one goal. Ivar Stenberg scored it, glove-side past Ilya Sorokin, after Sorokin had stopped 37 shots in the game and six more in the shootout itself. Ben Hutton and Victor Eklund scored for New York; the losing streak is four, the road trip moves to Los Angeles on Thursday, and the full final is in this station's sports file.
The day's hinge is a number, at 8:30 a.m.: October inflation, expected up 0.3% with core up 0.2%, in the first CPI in modern history to arrive without a year-over-year comparison. Traders price an 84% chance the Federal Reserve raises rates in December. Around that hinge the world has already moved — Asian stocks surged overnight, the KOSPI up 4% and the Nikkei 2.5% on cheaper oil — and the AI trade has its own morning drama, from Nvidia's board investigation to an Anthropic IPO filing that went out to banks on Monday and was promptly retracted.
The weather could not be simpler, or better timed: Tuesday's high is 61.5, the warmest of the week, and dry; Wednesday stays dry for the Veterans Day Parade on Fifth Avenue; and only then does the week's turn arrive — rain at 76% Thursday and 79% Friday, with Saturday's forecast code having flipped overnight to snow showers at a high of 45. Tonight at the Garden, the Knicks host Milwaukee; tonight at 11, Mega Millions draws for $529 million, cash value $224.2 million, with Friday's numbers — 27, 34, 44, 53, 64, Mega Ball 1 — the ones to check the old tickets against.
Coffee, the 8:30 print, the warm day, the Garden tonight and a half-billion-dollar drum at 11: Tuesday in New York is fully loaded before sunrise.
