Major business events and economic events scheduled for Friday:
WASHINGTON — Commerce Department releases international trade for September, 8:30 a.m.
SINGAPORE — President Obama arrives in Singapore for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.
BRUSSELS — The EU releases its first estimate of third quarter gross domestic product.
NEW ALBANY, Ohio — Abercrombie & Fitch Co. releases third-quarter financial results.
PLANO, Texas — J.C. Penney Co. releases third-quarter financial results.
BERLIN — Germany releases preliminary data on the country's third-quarter economic performance.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong government announces third-quarter gross domestic product data.
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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