Tuesday's News Links

[CNBC] U.S. stocks are little changed after tech rally boosts stocks: Live updates

[CNBC] Nvidia shares fall 3% on report Meta will use Google AI chips

[Yahoo/Reuters] Rising energy costs lift US producer prices in September

[CNBC] Consumer confidence hits lowest point since April as job worries grow

[CNBC] Private payroll losses accelerated in the past four weeks, ADP reports

[Yahoo/Reuters] US retail sales miss expectations in September

[CNBC] Bessent says there’s a ‘very good chance’ Trump names new Fed chair before Christmas

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Alphabet’s AI Chips, Gemini Model Position It to Rival Nvidia

[Reuters] How a US home insurance fix is becoming a problem

[MSN/WP] More Americans are Getting Their Power Turned Off, As Unpaid Bills Pile Up

[Axios] U.S. meets Russia in UAE after "understanding" reached with Ukraine

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Xi Puts Biggest US-China Flashpoint Back on Agenda in Trump Call

[MSN/WP] China Sees Trump Calls as a Win in Spat with Japan Over Taiwan 

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Moves to Preserve Xi Truce While Reassuring Ally Japan

[MSN/WP] U.S. and Ukraine are Finalizing Peace Deal but Russia Likely to Reject Changes

[AP] Russian attacks kill at least 7 in Ukraine as talks on peace plan continue

[Bloomberg] Private Credit’s Sketchy Marks Get Warning Shot From Wall Street’s Top Cop

[Bloomberg] Private Debt Defaults Set to Climb as Middle-Market Firms Wobble

[Bloomberg] US Homesellers Pull Stale Listings Off Market as Interest Fades

[Bloomberg] Chinese Developer Vanke’s Bonds Plunge as Debt Concerns Grow

[Bloomberg] Russia Bombards Kyiv Hours After Trump Voices Hope for Ukraine Deal

[Bloomberg] Japan Slams China Letter to UN as ‘Erroneous’ in Its Own Missive

[NYT] $10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms

[NYT] Britain’s Most Unpopular Chancellor in Decades Faces Another Big Test

[NYT] China and Japan, With Trump in the Middle, Stoke an Existential Showdown

[WSJ] Fed Chair Powell’s Allies Provide Opening for December Rate Cut

[WSJ] Speaker Johnson Warns White House GOP Is Wary of Trump’s Healthcare Push

[WSJ] When Home Sellers Set Prices Too High, They’re Paying for It

[WSJ] ‘Sovereign AI’ Takes Off as Countries Seek to Avoid Overdependence on Superpowers

[WSJ] China’s Xi Calls Trump in Unusual Move to Discuss Taiwan, Ukraine

[WSJ] How the U.S. Drafted a Russia-Friendly Peace Plan for Ukraine

[FT] ‘Scraping for crumbs’: Americans squeezed by affordability crisis

[FT] Russia signals it could reject modified US peace plan for Ukraine

[FT] Britain’s Budget woes illustrate the threat to Europe’s social contract

[FT] Currency traders bet against sterling ahead of Budget

Monday Evening Links

[CNBC] U.S. stock futures are little changed after tech rally boosts stocks: Live updates

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] High-Priced Turkeys Strain Food Banks Ahead of Thanksgiving

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Administration Fights Bid to Get Musk to Testify on DOGE

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Still Working on Health-Care Proposal, White House Says

[AP] Pentagon says it’s investigating Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy ‘illegal orders’

[NYT] Xi Presses Trump on Taiwan as They Agree to Meet in China in April

[WSJ] Ukraine Peace-Plan Negotiators Leave Thorniest Issues to Trump and Zelensky

[WSJ] China’s Xi Calls Trump in Unusual Move to Discuss Taiwan, Ukraine

Monday Afternoon Links

[Reuters] Wall Street rallies on tech rebound, rising rate cut bets

[Yahoo/Reuters] Waller says he had 'nice, great' meeting with Bessent as Fed chair decision looms

[Yahoo Finance] Amazon to invest $50 billion in data centers to power US government AI efforts

[Reuters] China's Xi tells Trump Taiwan's 'return' key to post-war order, Xinhua reports

[Bloomberg] US Leveraged Loans Under Strain as Buyers Yank Cash From Funds

[Bloomberg] Why Fears of a Trillion-Dollar AI Bubble Are Growing

[Bloomberg] How the K-Shaped Economy Is Hurting Everyone But the Rich

[Bloomberg] US-Canada Trade Talks Frozen as Carney Weighs DC Trip Next Week

[Bloomberg] How US-Russia Peace Plan Would Carve Up Ukraine’s Territory