Morning News: March 2, 2026

Middle East Conflict Imposes Another Stress Test on Global Resilience

Trump’s Iran Strikes Usher In an Era of Unrestrained American Power

Decades of Presidents Ignoring the War Powers Act Led Us Here

Iran Strikes Won’t Succeed Without a Real Strategy

China Showing Few Signs It Will Directly Supply Arms to Iran

The Big Bet on European Defense Stocks Is Getting Expensive

Oil Prices Jump After Iran Attack, Pointing to Economic Risks

Iran Conflict Puts Oil Shock Back on Asian Central Banks’ Radar

Oil Spikes as Middle East War All But Halts Hormuz Ship Strait

Any Chance of a Fed Interest-Rate Cut In 2026 Is ‘Evaporating Before Our Very Eyes’ with Iran War Set to Stoke Oil Prices

Traders Trim BOE, Fed Rate-Cut Bets as War Spurs Price Fears

Swiss National Bank Reports Annual Profit of $34 Billion

A Guide to the Fault Lines in the Credit Market

Want to Boost U.S. Affordability? Get Rid of Tariffs

Stock Investors Brace for Iran War’s Economic Repercussions

Trump’s SEC Gave Companies More Power Over Investors. Lawsuits Pushed Them Back

Berkshire’s New CEO Lays Out How He Will Pick Up Where the Buffett Era Left Off

Will Stablecoins Strengthen the Dollar, and Stall the Rise of Gold?

Rio Tinto Approves $473 Million South Africa Mine Expansion

Why California is Reconsidering Nuclear Energy After 50-Year Ban

Anthropic’s Claude Chatbot Goes Down For Thousands of Users

OpenAI Steps Over a Red Line Anthropic Refused to Cross

Mobile Chiefs Reckon With AI Boom and Geopolitics at MWC 2026

BlackRock’s GIP and EQT to Buy AES Corp in $33.4 Billion Deal

The Obscure Fee Costing You More to Buy a Car

Asian Manufacturers Show Resilience as Demand Rises

Toyota Bumps Offer for Supplier to $30 Billion, in a Victory for Activist Fund Elliott

Netflix’s Co-CEO Explains Why He Quit the Warner Bros. Fight

China Spent Big on an African Media Empire, But No One’s Watching

In Alysa Liu and Eileen Gu, China and America See a Mirror Image

What to Know About the Live Nation Antitrust Trial

The Third-Largest Coffee Chain in the U.S. Actually Sells Very Little Hot Coffee

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