Friday Evening Links

[AP] Wall Street drops to its worst day since April after Trump’s threats of tariffs shatter its calm

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Extends Decline As US-China Trade Tensions Flare Again

[AP] Trump suggests canceling Xi meeting and threatens more tariffs after China restricts key exports

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Federal Workers Fired From Agencies Amid Government Shutdown

[AP] Firings of federal workers begin as White House seeks to pressure Democrats in government shutdown

[Bloomberg] Trump Returns China Trade Tensions to the Front Burner

[Bloomberg] Trump Threatens China Tariffs, Sees ‘No Reason’ to Meet Xi

[NYT] Trump Threatens to Cancel Meeting With China’s Xi and Impose New Tariffs

[NYT] Billions of Dollars ‘Vanished’: Low-Profile Bankruptcy Rings Alarms on Wall Street

[WSJ] Trump Threatens Higher Tariffs on China, Citing Restrictions on Rare-Earth Elements

[WSJ] White House Starts Mass Layoffs of Government Workers

[FT] Donald Trump threatens ‘massive’ tariffs on China amid critical minerals dispute

[FT] Trump administration starts firing workers laid off in government shutdown

[FT] How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

[FT] Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister