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WTO director-general says calling the trade wars the greatest disruption since the 1930s is ‘the understatement of the century’—but it’s not a repeat

"I think that a lot of the criticisms made by the U.S. of the system are valid," Dr.  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said at the Fortune Global Forum.

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Syria’s only female minister on what she says to her new president about hiring women: ‘Quotas are so important’

“Syria is a mosaic,” H.E. Hind Kabawat told Fortune, herself a member of the Christian minority and an exile from the country for some 14 years.

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Nobel prize winner says Venezuela has a ‘unique’ $1.7 trillion opportunity to privatize its companies and reverse socialist ‘disaster’

Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, but "our people don't even have gas even to cook. That's a disaster," María Corina Machado told...

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Delta CEO predicts Americans will soon be ready to travel to Riyadh as he launches first-ever direct flights from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia

Acknowledging that "Americans aren't quite sure" about visiting, Delta CEO Ed Bastian told Fortune that the route will be popular—eventually.

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Barclays’ re-entry into Saudia Arabia highlights the kingdom’s strategy to become the new global hub for regional headquarters

Investment Minister Khalid Al-Falih said at the Fortune Global Forum: "People have seen that the kingdom is a long-term partner. We're not...

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Google President Ruth Porat: ‘We should be able to cure cancer in our lifetime’ with AI

Porat said it's great that "people are playing" with AI through chatbots, but we're living through a much bigger change than that.

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Saudi Arabia’s minister of investment on Vision 2030 and the world’s search for reliable partners

In conversation with Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell, H.E. Khalid Al-Falih described a world where "everyone is concerned" about supply...

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Miami’s outgoing mayor warns about what he sees happening in New York and the 2 cities’ different approaches to next summer’s World Cup

Although Suarez is proud of his tenure, "we used to be a lot more affordable than New York, until all the New Yorkers came and now we're close in...

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The S&P 500 is close to market peak based on how many ‘bear market signposts’ it’s hitting, BofA says: a whopping 60%

The index is "statistically expensive on everything" and is trading above Tech Bubble levels on nine different metrics, according to Bank of America.

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As national debt accelerates to $38 trillion, watchdog warns it’s ‘no way for a great nation like America to run its finances’

In just a little over two months, the national debt swelled by $1 trillion. This is twice as fast as the rate of growth since 2000, Michael Peterson...

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General Motors surges nearly 15% on earnings beat, raises full-year guidance

Even as GM beat estimates on key metrics, net income saw a sharp year-over-year decline to $1.32 billion, less than half of the previous year’s $3...

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Warner Bros. confirms it’s considering a sale after ‘unsolicited interest from multiple parties,’ stock soars over 11%

“It’s no surprise that the significant value of our portfolio is receiving increased recognition by others in the market,” CEO David Zaslav said.

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Gen Z wishes it were the year 2000—they’re emulating the fashion, undoing millennial-era ‘woke’ rules, and uncorking something dark in themselves

The dark side to Gen Z's pro-Y2K, anti-millennial backlash: "anti-woke" slurs are that show the leaked Young Republican chat isn't an anomaly.

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‘He was very proud, but never said it’: One of the greatest soccer managers alive on how his dad motivated him to work harder

Jurgen Klopp admitted it was "not nice" that his father would never let him win at anything, but it inspired him to play "like a heavy metal band.”

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Top analyst still thinks we’re on the cusp of a new boom for the economy, but investors aren’t with him: ‘Markets remain choppy’

Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson says he needs to see more before giving the "all-clear" on chances of a further near-term correction.

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Meet the Gen Z whiz kids maniacally working ‘996’ hours with AI to help governments repave your roads: ‘I’m sure we got close to burning ourselves out’

"I don't think anyone starting their own company that expects it to be a high-growth startup should expect to work 40 hours or less."

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The cure for Gen Z’s apathy as high school kids ask ‘why bother?’ in the age of AI: a really useful new AP course on business and personal finance

"In elementary school, they'll take what we give them. In middle school, they become suspicious. And in high school, many of them are done."

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Top investment bank CEO says he was ‘defrauded’ by the bankruptcy that’s rattling Wall Street. Famous short-seller sees an Enron moment

“My antenna goes up when things like that happen,” Jamie Dimon said of First Brands. “When you see one cockroach, there are probably more.”

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Wealthy millennial, Gen Z Platinum members drive American Express to record revenue: ‘very comfortable paying for its exceptional value’

Platinum is morphing into "the premium lifestyle card," CEO Steve Squeri says. The market sent shares up more than 7% on the strength of the status...

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Jamie Dimon calls Zohran Mamdani’s movement ‘more Marxist than socialist,’ but he’s offering his help: ‘Get involved and grow up’

The JPMorgan CEO Said "it is odd to have the bastion of American capitalism with a socialist" looking likely to govern, but "capitalism has a lot to...

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Starbucks CEO reveals a ‘secret AI barista’ that assists with making coffee in real time—and may one day predict your order

Brian Niccol wants to make Starbucks the "world's greatest customer service company again" and he wants AI to help solve the "chaos" of ordering.

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Gen Z’s misery is real: Most workers in this economy lack a voice and are stuck in low-quality jobs, a massive Gates-backed study finds

"We've seen, really, a rising tide of unhappiness, loneliness, isolation, anxiety, stress, and worry," Stephanie Marken of Gallup told Fortune.

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MacKenzie Scott triples down on DEI with $40 million donation to African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

In 2021, the billionaire donated $20 million to the same organization, dedicated to preserving U.S. sites associated with Black history.

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Morgan Stanley posts biggest earnings beat in nearly 5 years with record quarterly revenue of $18.2 billion, shares up 4.7%

In a strong week for Wall Street banks, CEO Ted Pick said "the capital markets flywheel is taking hold."

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The ‘upskilling tsunami’ is coming—and these professors think an AI-generated professor is a big part of the answer

What if your professor was AI-generated? Georgia Tech's David Joyner and MIT's Anant Agarwal have a course for you from the online learning platform...

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Jamie Dimon gets real on AI, sees stocks ‘in some form of bubble territory’

The JPMorgan CEO told Fortune "You can’t look at AI as a bubble, though some of these things may be in the bubble." And AI is different from...

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Goldman economists on the Gen Z hiring nightmare: ‘jobless growth’ is probably the new normal

"History also suggests that the full consequences of AI for the labor market might not become apparent until a recession hits."

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Top defense CEO on America’s ‘anachronistic’ aging infrastructure: ‘Our adversary can use their entire industrial base’

Speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, SAIC CEO Toni Townes-Whitley talked about how war is less about conventional theaters of conflict.

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Top analyst warns that ‘larger than expected correction is likely’ if Trump and China don’t kiss and make up

If the truce in the trade war doesn’t resume by early November, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson writes, brace for a 10% to 15% haircut.

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The rare Taylor Swift backlash, explained: Why some fans feel jilted by the star’s tradwife, almost MAGA-coded turn

Earlier this month, Swift told the BBC it was "shockingly offensive" to ask whether she was dropping her last album before getting married and having...

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Goldman’s chief information officer has 4 tips on how to AI-proof your career, including ‘posing provocative, non-obvious questions’

“While AI excels at refurbishing existing knowledge,” according to Marco Argenti, “its true creative potential is unlocked by human curiosity.”

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Fed’s Chris Waller says he had a ‘great interview’ to succeed Jerome Powell and the labor market is ‘weak’ and ‘not doing great’

"There was nothing political about it," the Fed governor told CNBC. "Just serious economic discussion."

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Trump just celebrated the bull market’s third birthday by wiping 2% off the S&P 500, lashing out at China over the great rare earths tug-of-war

“Some very strange things are happening in China!” Trump posted, hinting that he’ll cancel his upcoming talk with Xi Jinping.

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The bull market is turning 3 years old and top analysts are wondering, is AI actually good for economic growth?

UBS global chief economist Paul Donovan has a question: "Is AI hurting growth?"

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From ‘fear factor’ to ‘cognitive fatigue’: KPMG principal on the quarter when everyone started thinking about AI differently

Rahsaan Shears says we’re seeing the rise of “Renaissance skills,” but that doesn’t mean the workforce will be full of poetry majors.

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$1.8 trillion deficit revealed during ‘pointless and wasteful government shutdown,’ budget watchdog says

The U.S. is on track to borrow nearly $2 trillion per year for the next decade, the CRBF notes. "How can anyone think this is sustainable?"

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Delta’s bet on wealthy Americans driving the economy is working: Premium seats are set to overtake main cabin for the first time in history

Premium is on track to overtake main cabin in 2026, a year ahead of schedule, per the third-quarter earnings call from America’s most profitable...

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Bank of England on AI mania: ‘Stretched’ stock valuations ‘comparable to the peak of the dotcom bubble’

The top five members of the S&P 500 command nearly 30% of market share, a record high for any point over the past 50 years.

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Bloodthirsty activist investors are set to take down a record number of CEOs this year, Barclays says. The record is only a year old

Challenger, Gray & Christmas called "the rise of the CEO gig economy" earlier this year. The circling sharks of activists are part of the reason why.

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Trust funds that finance Medicare and Social Security are at risk of insolvency within 7 years, cutting benefits up to 24%, a new report warns

A couple turning 60 this year would face an $18,400 Social Security cut, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

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A world without data centers (404: your life not found)

You are always using a data center, even if you don't know it.

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American Eagle CEO defends Sydney Sweeney campaign: ‘You can’t run from fear. We stand behind what we did’

"Sydney Sweeney is worth every single dollar that we invested,” according to American Eagle Chief Marketing Officer Craig Brommers.

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Top analyst ‘very concerned’ about Nvidia fueling an AI bubble and a ‘Cisco moment’ like the dotcom crash: ‘We’re a lot closer to the seventh inning than the first or second inning’

"The guy at the epicenter [is] basically starting to do what all ultimate bad actors do in the final inning," Morgan Stanley's Lisa Shalett tells...

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All-cash offers are still a third of all home purchases, dominated by ‘investors and second-home buyers,’ data shows

All-cash deals were 27.5% of the market in 2019. It's a different world now, according to Realtor.com's Hannah Jones.

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Hedge fund billionaire says 2025 is ‘so much more potentially explosive than 1999’ because of the way bull markets always end

Paul Tudor Jones also got far out and sci-fi, talking to CNBC. “We’re kind of boldly going where no man has ever gone before.”

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Nearly 70% of Americans think the economy is on the ‘wrong track’ and even more think it’s a bad time to buy a home, Fannie Mae survey shows

Americans are short on hope about the housing market.

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KPMG chief on CEO uncertainty about tariffs, the AI ‘hourglass’ org shape and the fear ‘that honestly keeps me up at night’

The 2025 edition of the KPMG CEO Outlook survey reveals business leaders full of uncertainty, but they know tariffs and AI are here to stay.

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‘Risk of correction elevated’: BofA rings alarm bells on gold as price nears $4,000 an ounce

A “variety of multiple time frame technical signals and conditions warn of uptrend exhaustion,” writes BofA’s Paul Ciana.

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Trump’s message to ‘the young people of TikTok’ and Gen Z: ‘You owe me big’

Trump endorsed the idea of a TikTok ban all the way back in 2020.

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Trump’s tariffs may be bringing in a lot of revenue but they’ve also been a ‘tax on capital, so far,’ top economist says

The "mystery" of the 2025 economy is vastly different from the record profit margins of 2021 and 2022, Morgan Stanley's Michael Gapen says.

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