Thursday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Waver After Record; Bitcoin Tops $100,000: Markets Wrap

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Holds Loss as OPEC+ Plans to Return Barrels From April

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] OPEC+ Delays Revival of Its Oil Production by Three Months=

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] French Bonds Gain as Investors Wait for New PM to Follow Barnier

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Macron Is Still Banking On Socialists to Break France’s Gridlock

[Reuters] Morning Bid: The 'Trump trade' one month on

[AP] US applications for jobless benefits rise last week but remain at low levels

[MarketWatch] US Trade Deficit Narrows Sharply in October as Worries About Port Strike Disippated

[AP] Why Trump and the Federal Reserve could clash in the coming years

[Politico] Republicans (Quietly) Disagree With Trump on the Fed

[AP] Yoon replaces the defense minister as South Korea’s parliament moves to vote on their impeachments

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Hedge Funds Make MicroStrategy Wall Street’s Hottest Trade

[Reuters] Syrian rebels capture key city of Hama in fresh blow to Assad

[Bloomberg] Wall Street’s Go-Go Era Builds With Levered Stock-Crypto Gambit

[Bloomberg] Le Pen Takes France and Europe Into the Unknown

[Bloomberg] A $105 Trillion Inheritance Windfall Is On the Way for US Heirs

[Bloomberg] China Warns Against ‘Worship’ of Chasing Faster Economic Growth

[WSJ] French Government’s Collapse Lands Macron in a Minefield

[WSJ] How Trump Is Rethinking Economic Power

[WSJ] Natural-Catastrophes Insured Losses to Top $135 billion in 2024, Swiss Re Institute Says

[FT] How Syria’s rebels became makers of drones and guided missiles