Saturday's News Links

[Reuters] Wall St Week Ahead: Midterm US elections, earnings, jobs data loom for AI-wary stock market

[AP] Iranian leader threatens response to potential attack as fears of war mount, and other Mideast news

[Axios] Iran's supreme leader orders "maximum" response to any U.S. attack

[Axios] The AI trade's trick-or-treat earnings season

[Yahoo/Reuters] China's factory activity shrinks in October, third contraction in four months

[Bloomberg] AI Enthusiasm Is Collapsing and Tech Earnings Just Made It Worse

[Bloomberg] Inflation, Inequality and Debt: The Charts Scaring Wall Street

[Bloomberg] Over Sleepless Nights, Binance War Room Fought to Contain Hack

[Bloomberg] El Niño Storms Bring Flooding and Golf-Ball Hail to US Southwest

[WSJ] Why Did All the Fiscal Hawks Go Extinct?

[WSJ] Wall Street Is Starting to Call the Shots in America’s AI Build-Out

[WSJ] OpenAI Raises Less Than Half of $30 Billion Target in Latest Round

[WSJ] How Iran Battered U.S. Bases and Caused Billions in Damage

[WSJ] Chinese Executive Close to Nvidia CEO Suspected of Giving China Information

[WSJ] Fitch Cuts France’s Outlook to Negative on Weaker Growth, Widening Deficit

[FT] Iran warns it will retaliate without ‘geographical limitations’ if attacked

[FT] Investors trim growth bets over fears of US economy’s AI exposure