October 23, 2025 Crossing Wall Street
Morning News: October 23, 2025
Turkey’s Central Bank Slows Pace of Interest-Rate Cuts After Inflation Uptick
Oil Prices Dropped 18%, Helping Drivers, but Squeezing the Industry
Oil Price Jumps on Trump’s Russia Sanctions
Russians Awake to Trump’s New Oil Sanctions and Largely Shrug
Trump’s New Sanctions on Russian Oil Threaten to Push Barrels Off Market
Rosneft German Unit May Be Cut Off From Customers Amid Sanctions
How China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power
We Finally Know How to Get the One Renewable Energy Source Loved by Both Parties
Addressing the Gold Price From An Iran/China Barter Angle
QE Revisionism in a World Drowning in Debt
Wall Street Bonuses Expected to Hit Record as Bank Profits Surge
‘I, Sharpie’ As An Antidote to ‘I, Pencil’ Is Truly Ridiculous
The Disaster Industrial Complex Is Driving US Economic Growth
Trump Bypasses Shutdown Fight to Focus on Ceasefires, Ballroom
Trump Wants the American People to Pay Him $230 Million
The US Is Courting Disaster in Venezuela
America’s Two-Tier Racial System Is Making a Comeback
Chicago Needs to Fix Its Spending Problem
The China and U.S. Birthrate “Crisis” Is Much Ado About Nothing
China’s Consumers Are in a Years-Long Funk. Will Anything Get Them to Spend?
China Vows to Double Down on Tech Self-Reliance as U.S. Rivalry Heats Up
DeepSeek’s Push Into Africa Reveals China’s AI Power Grab
Trump Administration in Talks to Take Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms
Meta Investors Watch Zuckerberg Keep His Promise of Big AI Spending
Nokia Reports Sharp Rise in Demand From AI and Cloud Customers
Hoping to Grow in Europe, but Bogged Down by Red Tape
Tesla Profit Plunges as Musk Turns Focus to ‘Robot Army’
Elon Musk Raises the Stakes for Vote on His Pay
Three Offers in One Month: Paramount’s Secret Pursuit of Warner Bros. Discovery
Drug With a 30-Year Monopoly Is Target of State-Level Push to Curb Prices
ChatGPT Is a Bad Personal Shopper — But It’s Learning
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Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on October 23rd, 2025 at 7:05 am
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