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How many federal contract opportunities were posted on SAM.gov in the week to October 26, 2026, and which agencies and awards led?
U.S. federal agencies posted 5,312 contract opportunity notices on SAM.gov October 20–October 26, 2026 (2,983 solicitations); Department of Defense led with 2,858; 1,152 award notices stated $4.56 billion — every figure linked to its record.
What is the U.S. job openings rate in August 2026, and which states and industries are hiring most (JOLTS)?
U.S. job openings rate 4.3 percent in August 2026 with 7,079,000 openings; quits rate 1.9 percent, layoffs rate 1.0 percent; highest state West Virginia (5.5 percent, December 2025), highest industry Health care and social assistance (5.4 percent) — BLS JOLTS, every figure linked to its record.
Who is hiring today? Services-Prepackaged Software vs. Pharmaceutical Preparations: open positions at 294 tracked U.S. employers on October 26, 2026
On October 26, 2026, 294 employers tracked by FACTANKER list 66,412 open positions on their own careers systems. The 226 employers observed for a full week list -64 positions against seven days earlier (44,851 against 44,915); 2,170 positions are new and 2,730 ended, the rest reappeared after a pause; 72 newly added employers are not counted as new.
Who is hiring this week? FACTANKER Hiring Monitor, October 19–25, 2026: open positions at 223 employers
44,883 open positions at 223 tracked employers at the end of the week of October 19–25, 2026; 2,303 new and 2,730 ended. Revolution Medicines, Inc. added the most. Counted as positions, not ads.
How many research awards does the National Science Foundation make? New NSF awards by university, state and county, 2015–2026
NSF made 8,504 new awards worth $5.50 billion in 2025, after 11,626 worth $8.06 billion in 2024. California received the most of any state; every organization, county and state has its own page with the record behind each figure.
What is the inflation rate in Europe, and where is unemployment highest? Eurostat figures by country, September 2026
Euro area inflation rose to 3.8% in September 2026, with energy prices up 18.9% on a year earlier and core inflation at 2.5%. Türkiye has the highest inflation in Europe, Bosnia and Herzegovina the highest unemployment. Every country with its Eurostat record.
What are the ECB interest rates today, and how has the euro moved? Every ECB rate decision since 1999 and euro exchange rates
The ECB deposit facility rate is 2.50% since September 16, 2026, after a peak of 4.00% in 2023; it was negative from 2014 to 2022. One euro bought 1.1193 dollars on October 23, 2026. Every decision, business day and currency with its ECB record.
Which U.S. universities, states and counties get the most NIH funding? NIH awards by fiscal year 2015–2026
NIH awarded $36.71 billion to U.S. organizations in fiscal year 2025, after a peak of $37.99 billion in 2023. Johns Hopkins University received the most ($859.5 million), California the most of any state ($5.25 billion); with pages for every organization, county and state.
How much of Germany's electricity comes from renewables, coal and gas? Generation and prices 2015–2026 from the Bundesnetzagentur
Renewables produced 58.9 percent of German electricity in 2025, up from 33.8 percent in 2015; coal generation fell 56%. The day-ahead price averaged €89.32/MWh in 2025 after €235.45/MWh in 2022. Every day, month and year with its SMARD record.
How many U.S. facilities violate EPA rules, and how much were they fined? EPA compliance records by state, county and facility, 2026
1,689,470 active EPA-regulated sites: 76,269 with an identified violation, 21,896 in significant violation, $5.02 billion in penalties over five years (EPA ECHO, October 18, 2026). Washington and Louisiana have the most sites in significant violation; with pages for every state, county and large facility.
How much greenhouse gas do large U.S. facilities emit? EPA records 2010–2023 by facility, state and county
Large U.S. facilities reported 2.59 billion t of direct greenhouse gas emissions in 2023, 19 percent less than in 2010 and the lowest since EPA reporting began. Power plants fell 37 percent; Texas alone accounts for 19 percent. Every facility, county and state with its EPA record.
How many House votes and seats does the president's party lose in U.S. midterms? 2006–2022 results against unemployment, inflation, fuel and energy prices and interest rates, and what they imply for 2026
In every U.S. midterm since 2006 the president's party lost House vote share (2.9 to 9.0 points) and seats (9 to 63). Of sixteen indicators, unemployment tracked the loss most closely; inflation and fuel prices went the other way, since in these years they rose while unemployment fell. Analysis, not a forecast: current data imply a Republican loss of 4.4 to 6.8 points and about 230 to 245 Democratic seats (±10).
The Federal Register shrank by a quarter: 30,830 documents in 2024, 23,690 in 2025 — and the SEC files more than the EPA
Every Federal Register document since January 2024, counted by agency and day: 30,830 in 2024, 23,690 in 2025 and 21,198 in the first 204 publication days of 2026. Final rules fell from 3,248 to 2,441; the busiest single day was December 30, 2024 with 344 documents. Health and Human Services, the SEC and the Transportation Department lead the count.
The yield curve was inverted every trading day of 2023 and not once in 2025. The 10-year yield is 4.96 percent — here is every day since 1990
All 9,005 trading days of Treasury par yields since 1990, one record each. On October 22, 2026 the 10-year yield stood at 4.96 percent, the 2-year at 4.65; the curve is not inverted. It was inverted on all 250 trading days of 2023, 166 days of 2024 and zero days of 2025 and 2026, after the deepest inversion of the record, minus 108 basis points on July 3, 2023.
Big Tech's capital spending rose fivefold since 2019. US electricity demand rose 6.5 percent — and Virginia's commercial load 55 percent
Seven questions analysts ask about AI and the grid, each answered from filed records. Four companies — Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta — spent $357 billion on property and equipment in their last fiscal years, against $69 billion in 2019, as filed with the SEC. Over the same years US retail electricity sales grew from 3,811 to 4,058 terawatt-hours. The growth is not evenly spread: Texas added 90 TWh, Virginia 26, and thirteen states sold less electricity in 2025 than in 2019.
How many bank holding companies are there in the U.S.? 349 filers with $25 trillion — the ten largest hold 62 percent (2021)
Thirty-five years of FR Y-9C filings, 1986 to 2021: the consolidated balance sheets of every bank holding company above the Federal Reserve's reporting threshold. In the last quarter on record the median filer had $7.7 billion in assets and a Tier 1 capital ratio of 13.2 percent; not one was below the regulatory minimum. Four threshold changes explain why the filer count fell from 2,310 to 349.
How many companies, ships and aircraft are under sanctions? 14,843 on the OFAC, UK and UN lists — 112 on all three (October 2026)
The OFAC, UK and UN lists name 14,843 organisations, vessels and aircraft as of 21 October 2026. Russia accounts for 38 percent of OFAC entries and two thirds of the UK list; 1,120 listed entities have a Chinese address. Only 112 names appear on all three lists, and OFAC adds about a hundred entries a month while removing a few dozen.
How many months of reserves do U.S. nonprofits have? The median 12.6 — one in five under three months (fiscal year 2023)
Form 990 filings of 539,974 tax-exempt organisations for fiscal year 2023: the median nonprofit could run for 12.6 months on its net assets, but 102,786 could not last a quarter and 24,944 have negative net assets. Reserves fall as organisations grow; officer pay takes 12 percent of spending at small charities and under 1 percent at the largest.
How many credit unions are left in the U.S.? A third fewer than in 2015 with twice the assets — and 52 below the capital line
Eleven years of NCUA Call Reports for every federally insured credit union: 6,284 institutions in 2015 became 4,299 by mid-2026 while assets grew from $1.18 trillion to $2.52 trillion. The median credit union is better capitalised than ever. Fifty-two are not.
Are MCP servers dying? The registry grew 77% in seven weeks — but tool contracts break 111 times a day (2026)
We probed the official registry 2,998,187 times over 48 days. It grew 77 percent, and 95.8 percent of the servers that ever worked are still working. The widely cited "half of them are dead" counts registry entries with no address. What actually breaks is the tool contract: 5,335 breaking changes across 1,706 servers.
Did half of American occupations lose ground since 2015? 372 of 717 earn less after inflation (May 2015–May 2024)
In 372 of 717 occupations the median wage grew slower than prices between May 2015 and May 2024. That is 54.5 million workers. The occupations that gained are the ones that pay least.
Are U.S. county childcare prices really county prices? In 1,322 counties the figure copies another county in the same state
The Labor Department publishes childcare prices for 2,995 counties. In 1,322 of them the number is identical, to the cent and across every year, to another county in the same state.
Did rents outpace incomes in U.S. counties? Rents rose 15%, incomes 17%, house prices 31% (2021–2024 Census releases)
Across 3,200 US counties between 2021 and 2024, renters roughly kept pace with their landlords. Buyers did not.
How many U.S. office buildings with securitised mortgages cannot pay? The median is fine — one in fourteen is not
Debt service coverage across 13,652 commercial buildings — and why the average hides exactly what you are looking for.
How much of family income does childcare cost in the Bronx? 47% — the same price as Manhattan at half the income
The Bronx and Manhattan pay within $32 of each other for infant care. The Bronx median family earns less than half as much. FACTANKER put the two numbers side by side for all 2,818 US counties that report a price.
How many job ads mention AI, and how many are AI jobs? 18% versus 2% across 224 employers (September 2026)
FACTANKER read 25,967 complete job descriptions from 224 employers across four hiring platforms. The gap between what companies say about AI and what they hire for is measurable — and every number below links to the postings it came from.
Which U.S.-listed software companies haven't lost money in a decade? 32 did not — and Check Point is the steadiest
FACTANKER ranked every US-listed software filer by ten years of as-filed results. No survey, no sentiment — just the numbers companies reported to the SEC, each one a click away.
Which U.S. companies depend most on federal money? At least 84 cents of every Lockheed dollar comes from Washington
FACTANKER crossed every U.S. federal contract with every SEC revenue filing for 251 public companies. The result is a lower-bound map of who really lives on government money — from defense primes to private prisons.
Which companies block AI crawlers in robots.txt? 760 sites say: don't train on me — but cite me (September 2026)
Across 9,016 corporate and publisher domains observed by FACTANKER, AI training bots are blocked roughly ten times more often than AI search bots — and 760 domains draw exactly that line in a single file.
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