Sunday's News Links

[Reuters] Wall St Week Ahead Investors watching US economic signs as market pulls back, tech teeters

[AP] Government shutdown reaches its 40th day as senators work through a crucial weekend

[Yahoo/Reuters] Fear Is Coming Back to the Junk Bond Market

[Yahoo Finance] Hiring has dramatically slowed': What private data says about America's job engine

[CNBC] China consumer prices return to growth in October, producer price slump extends to three years

[AP] Ukrainian strikes disrupt power and heating to 2 major cities in Russia

[AP] Landmark Paris Agreement set a path to slow warming. The world hasn’t stayed on it

[NYT] Airport Disruptions May Get Worse This Week

[NYT] China Suspends Export Controls on More Critical Minerals

[WSJ] Americans See a Government That Can’t Solve Their Problems

[WSJ] The Year’s Hottest Crypto Trade Is Crumbling

[WSJ] In America’s Suburbs, Frustrated Middle-Class Voters Are Up for Grabs

[WSJ] Inside Trump’s ‘Guns-a-Blazing’ Threat and Nigeria’s Race to Head It Off

[FT] Gulf between rich and poor risks US downturn, Fed official warns

Saturday's News Links

[Politico] Trump clings to filibuster demand as shutdown drags on

[AP] What to know about the flight cancellations at US airports caused by the government shutdown

[AP] Republicans swat down Democratic offer to end shutdown as impasse continues into 38th day

[Axios] Trump scrambles for minerals to break dependence on China

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Orders DOJ to Probe Meatpackers as Beef Prices Soar

[Reuters] Trump says no US government official will attend G20 summit in South Africa

[Yahoo/Telegraph] Britain faces worst decade of growth in a century

[Bloomberg] How Affordability Became the Year’s Defining Political Issue

[Bloomberg] What Will Trump Buy Next? Hunt Is On for White House Stock Picks

[NYT] Debt Has Entered the A.I. Boom

[NYT] A.I. Isn’t the Only Thing Pushing Up Electricity Bills. (But It’s Mostly A.I.)

[WSJ] The Week the AI Boom Got a Reality Check on Wall Street

[FT] ‘A perfect storm’: how New York’s affordability crisis reshaped its politics

[FT] BlackRock to wind down fund that invested in failed car lender Tricolor

[FT] Non-bank lenders may be fair-weather friends

[FT] Corporate America posts best earnings in 4 years despite tariffs

[FT] The AI boom comes to America’s loneliest place