Sunday, October 5, 2025

Monday's News Links

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Powers Toward $4,000 as US Government Shutdown Drags On

[CNBC] Stocks rise to kick off new week after big bank deal, AMD OpenAI partnership: Live updates

[Yahoo/Reuters] Japan's stocks zoom, yen slumps as Takaichi win dims BOJ hike bets

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] French Markets Sink Amid Growing Fears of Political Paralysis

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Threatens Job Cuts If Democrats Don’t End Shutdown Monday

[Yahoo/Reuters] Factbox-US government shutdown: How it affects key economic data publishing

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Online Holiday Spending Expected to Rise 5.3%, Fueled by Debt

[AP] OpenAI and chipmaker AMD sign chip supply partnership for AI infrastructure

[Yahoo/Reuters] AI venture funding continued to surge in third quarter, data shows

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump’s Contradiction: Demanding Steep Rate Cuts for a ‘Booming’ Economy

[Axios] Trump, tariffs and trans rights: The Supreme Court's history-making term

[Yahoo/Reuters] Factbox-Foreign companies eye US expansion to lessen fallout from tariffs

[Politico] Macron’s crisis deepens as new French PM and government quit

[AP] French PM resigns hours after naming government, plunging France further into political chaos

[Bloomberg] Goldman Sees Japan Bond ‘Shocks’ Spilling Over to Treasuries

[Bloomberg] Lame-Duck Macron Is Now a Sitting Duck Too

[Bloomberg] Takaichi Adviser Says October Too Early for BOJ Rate Hike

[WSJ] Government Shutdown Drags On With Little Pressure to Break Impasse

[WSJ] Nasdaq Has Become the Market of Choice for Dubious Penny-Stock IPOs

[WSJ] The Coming Trump Tariff Bailout

[WSJ] Japan’s Next Prime Minister Could Make Rate Increases Tricky for Bank of Japan

[WSJ] Why Insurers Are Taking Your Money to the Cayman Islands

[FT] America is now one big bet on AI

[FT] The damaging twilight of the Macron presidency

[FT] IMF vs SRT: Let’s get systemic

[FT] ‘Enormous fear’: Trump’s threats against George Soros chill US non-profits

[FT] The dangers of war in the grey zone