Last month's top news was the US election results, the polls indicated a close call, but it was more in line with the bookies' predictions.

October's themes has been discussions around inflation and interest rates, the war in the Middle East and Ukraine, and the US elections.

In a surprise move, the Bank of Japan raised rates for only the second time since 2007 to 0.25 %, the highest level in 15 years.

What an eventful month it was. An assassination attempt (the first of its kind in 43 years) was made on Donald Trump.

The outlook for inflation and consequently interest rates drove markets sharply higher after the latest US economic data.