GM is delaying the opening of a large electric-pickup-truck factory in Michigan. https://ift.tt/otcuCyO

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts rejected a $7.8 billion takeover offer from Choice Hotels as too risky and too low after Choice made the offer public. https://ift.tt/Sa8WIko

GM’s driverless-car unit Cruise faces a new NHTSA investigation after reports of its autonomous vehicles exhibiting risky behavior around pedestrians. https://ift.tt/BKdG5hD

Ticket prices for live entertainment events and theme parks rose at a startling rate this year, triggering a phenomenon that analysts have dubbed “funflation.” https://ift.tt/GQpdmjl

Spending at stores, online and at restaurants rose a stronger-than-expected 0.7% in September from a month earlier, the latest retail-sales report shows. https://ift.tt/0dgxwKW

U.S. stocks ended mixed, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq falling less than one tenth of a percent and 0.3%, respectively, while the Dow gained less than a tenth of a percent. U.S. government bond yields hit fresh multiyear highs. https://ift.tt/B4pm2ni

Goldman Sachs reported a 33% decline in profit for the third quarter, hurt by losses from selling pieces of its consumer-lending business and a big drop in revenue in its asset-and-wealth-management division. https://ift.tt/p6uaNyY

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