Morning News: November 3, 2025

The Arctic’s Main Carbon Sink Is Increasingly Unstable in a Warming World

OPEC and Allies Agree to Boost Oil Production, Then Pause

OPEC+ Shows Its Pursuit of Oil Market Share Has Limits

Big Oil CEOs Warn Trump’s Russia Sanctions Will Hit Supplies

Singapore’s Top Real-Estate Asset Managers Mull Merger That Could Create $150 Billion Entity

Europe’s Role Reversal: The Problem Economies Are Now Further North

Swiss Inflation Declines as SNB Mulls Negative Rates

Stablecoin ‘Rewards’ Threaten Nascent Financial Instruments

Banks Shouldn’t Have to Answer to the Reputation Cops

SEC Aim to End Shareholder Proposals Won’t Depoliticize Corporations

Will Trump’s Tariff Deal Tilt the Playing Field Back Toward China?

Treasuries Rally Is Proving Trump’s ‘Sell America’ Critics Wrong

How the U.S. Economy Has Defied Doomsday Predictions on Tariffs

The Complex Role of Slavery in Building America’s Wealth

Builders Find Hardship in Trump’s Tariffs and Deportations

Supreme Court Confronts Trump and His Tariffs in Test of Presidential Power

Toymaker Gears Up for Supreme Court Fight Over Trump’s Tariffs

We Are a Republic, Which Means SCOTUS Should Rule Against Trump Tariffs

The ‘Peace President’ Is Driving a Defense Stock Bonanza

Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda

Don’t Be Ridiculous, No One Will Starve Without SNAP

‘A Big Positive’: How One Company Plans to Profit From Medicaid Cuts

Surging Power Costs Are Putting the Squeeze on Customers

A Wave of US Layoffs Flash Early Warning Sign for Job Market

Why Companies Are No Longer Hanging On to Employees

Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads.

Microsoft Vows to Spend $8 Billion in UAE Through 2029 on Cloud, Chips

Chip Startup Substrate Draws Skepticism in Quest to Take On TSMC

BlackRock Manager Says an AI Bust Wouldn’t End Clean-Tech Rise

Eaton to Buy Boyd Thermal for $9.5 Billion in Data Center Play

Former Honeywell CEO’s Firm Strikes Deal for Machinery Maker Husky

Driverless Freight Trucks Are Off to a Bumpy Start

Control of Tesla Is at Stake in Vote on Elon Musk’s Pay Plan

Kimberly-Clark Strikes $40 Billion Deal for Tylenol Maker Kenvue

Chipotle’s Big Bet on Younger Consumers Is Unraveling

Why the Future of Coffee Doesn’t Belong to Starbucks

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Posted by on November 3rd, 2025 at 7:03 am


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