Morning News: October 30, 2026

Trump’s Venezuela Strategy Needs More Than Oil Deals

American Oil Giants See Profits Soar as Wars Crimp Energy Supplies

U.S. Oil Industry Earned Over $130 Billion in Profit During Iran War

US Natural Gas Drillers Scale Up as Demand Grows

India Funds Leave Investors Clueless on Climate Risk

The Daylight Savings Debate Isn’t About Energy Anymore

Why the Markets Don’t Care About the Midterms

Tech Tumult Rocks Wall Street

Binance Suspends Withdrawals After Crypto Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion

Gone in 20 Minutes: How the Biggest Heist in Crypto History Unfolded

To Thwart Socialism, We Need More Capitalism

Cost-of-Living Crises Don’t Need to Cost So Much

Tax-the-Rich Masterminds Bet Their Moment Has Finally Arrived

There’s a Much Better Way to Make Rich People Pay Their Share

Jack Dorsey’s Cash App Wants More Than Your Occasional Payments

The Fast-Cash Advances Draining America’s Small Businesses

Headcount Is an Antiquated Measuring Stick of Business Size

Sam Bankman-Fried Reveals ‘Hindsight’ As Wildly Sight-Impairing

Trump’s New AI Czar Should Answer to Voters, Not Investors

How One Country Became the Unlikely Crossroads of the Global A.I. Boom

Anthropic’s $100 Billion Mission Is the Whole Market Now

Big Tech’s Data Center Blitz Is Burning Through Cash and Scaring Wall St.

Chinese Executive Close to Nvidia CEO Suspected of Giving China Information

In China, the War on Mosquitoes Has Entered the A.I. Era

BASF’s $12.5 Billion Takeover Bid for Evonik Rebuffed

Volkswagen Pauses Work on ID.Golf Model to Preserve Cash Flow

Polaris’s CFO Wants to Restart Buybacks After a Tough Couple of Years

New York Bought an Electric Ferry. The City Can’t Charge It.

AbbVie Revenue Rises on Strength in Immunology, Neuroscience

How Bristol Myers’s CEO Challenged the Company’s Managers

The Real Reason DoorDash Is Buying Instacart

World Series Audience Shrinks, Despite Brewers’ Historic Win

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