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The Wall Street Journal - November 03, 2025

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November 03, 2025

Fountain Pens Are More Popular Than Ever. Purists Are Fuming.

Chinese knockoffs are flooding the market, shaking up a devoted community

3 mins

Shutdown Reaches Key Week As Parties Seek Edge

Democrats call for Trump to engage as impasse is felt in food aid, airports

3 mins

Home Buyers Return To Risky Loan Type

The unaffordable housing market is causing a growing number of home buyers to take on a type of riskier loan to cut their borrowing costs.

3 mins

Ukraine Drones Draw Western Tech Money

Ukraine has pioneered the use of drones in battle. Now Western investors are trying to get a piece of the action.

4 mins

The Amazonification of Whole Foods Is Finally Here

Grocer gets robots in the backroom, Pepsi outside the exit

7 mins

U.S. Employers Are Becoming More Comfortable With Layoffs

Corporate America has ended its firing freeze.

3 mins

Employers End Freeze On Firing

Back then, “we used to reward companies for letting people go,” he said

3 mins

Risky Type Of Mortgage Comes Back

Oct. 3, the highest rate since 2023, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. In early 2021, when mortgage rates were near historic lows, less than 3% of purchase applications were for ARMs.

3 mins

FDA Official Steps Down, Accused by Drugmaker of Seeking Bribe

A top Food and Drug Administration official who resigned on Sunday was sued by a Canadian pharmaceutical company, which accused him of soliciting a bribe and tanking its stock with false statements as part of a revenge campaign against a former colleague.

3 mins

New Jersey, Ciattarelli Sees Path to Win as Race Tightens

Four years ago, Republican Jack Ciattarelli shocked New Jerseyans when he came within 3 percentage points of knocking off incumbent Gov. Phil Murphy.

3 mins

Munger Jr. Fights Gerrymandering In Lonely Mission

Son of famed investor spends millions in bid to defeat ballot measure.

2 mins

Shutdown Reaches Key Week

Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.) said Sunday that senators are talking across the aisle about a possible deal that addresses healthcare and halts White House efforts to pressure Democrats.

2 mins

Canadian Leader Says He Apologized Over Ad

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he apologized to President Trump over an antitariff television ad that had angered Trump and sent the two countries’ trade talks into a tailspin.

1 mins

Win or Lose Tuesday, Democrats Are Divided

Central question of going more moderate or progressive likely won't be answered

4 mins

White House Asserts Boat Strikes Are Legal

Administration says Caribbean campaign doesn't need to get Congress's approval

2 mins

Trump Threatens Nigeria Military Action

U.S. could go in ‘guns-a-blazing, to halt alleged targeting of Christians there

3 mins

Xi’s Role in Fentanyl Fight Questioned

For years, the U.S. and China have been locked in a pattern on the deadly issue of fentanyl.

3 mins

Who Polices Gaza Is Major Question In Peace Efforts

A fresh obstacle to President Trump’s Gaza peace plan is taking shape: how to bring in an international security force to police the enclave without either Hamas or Israel abandoning the process.

3 mins

Odd Argentine Export Tax Resists Repeal

Export levy hurts agriculture, but Milei hasn't delivered on a promise to end it

3 mins

Shake-Up At Whole Foods

Eight years after it bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion. And after years of failing to meaningfully increase its sliver of the grocery business, the retail giant is throwing its considerable weight into the effort.

6 mins

Allen Hints About Lies and Deceit in Her New Album

IF THERE IS ONE LYRIC that sums up Lily Allen's new album, it's \"You moved the goal posts, you've broken the rules/ I tried to accommodate, but you took me for a fool.\"

3 mins

Too Much Experience Hurts In Today’s Tough Job Market

Overqualified job applicants are scaring off picky employers and cost-conscious businesses

4 mins

Fountain Pen Purists Fume At Knockoffs

That growth is also striking a nerve.

3 mins

How Five Gen Z-ers Are Playing This Year’s Volatile Market

Motivated by long-term financial goals, younger investors are rushing into markets with strategies as varied as those of older generations

4 mins

An Inventive Designing Duo

The work of the Dutch fashion house Viktor&Rolf is the deserving focus of a major retrospective

3 mins

Dodgers Win World Series

Baseball’s $350 million superteam outlasted the relentlessly spirited Toronto Blue Jays

3 mins

Eight Outs on Zero Days Rest: Dodgers Ace Makes History

Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s arm had barely cooled down from perhaps the most important start of his life, but his mind was already turning to what was next.

2 mins

The Road To MAGA

Furious Minds

4 mins

The Unmaking of a Prince

Buckingham Palace strips Andrew of his titles and his home.

2 mins

The ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ Market

It’s often said that stock markets climb a wall of worry. Trump.

3 mins

How to Strike at Maduro

The wellspring of repression is the directorate of military counterintelligence.

3 mins

Beware the Nov. 4 Tax Hike Bonanza in Texas

I'm afraid your fine editorial “The Yall Street Tax Plan” (Oct. 27) only scratches the surface of what's at stake on Election Day in the Lone Star State.

1 mins

Galston vs. Lincoln on What Defines America

Is America a “creedal nation,” defined by its founding, earthshaking pronouncement that “all men are created equal”? Or is it primarily the 400-year lived experience of a people who built the most free, equal and prosperous nation known to history?

1 mins

A Rare Victory for Property Rights

Unfair government seizure of private property is all too common, so a victory by the Henry family in New Jersey is cause for satisfaction.

2 mins

The New Right’s New Antisemites

Kevin Roberts flounders in the Carlson- Fuentes fever swamps.

3 mins

A U.S. Troop Exit From Eastern Europe?

Pulling back a combat brigade from Romania is a bad message for Putin.

1 mins

The ObamaCare Blue-City Bailout

Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago was scrambling to close a $369 million deficit in 2013. The inception of ObamaCare offered an enticing target for cost shaving: retiree health coverage.

3 mins

Notable & Quotable: Harvard

Harvard students pushed back forcefully against a new University report condemning grade inflation, arguing that it misrepresented their academic experience and would add pressure to an already demanding campus environment. . . .

1 mins

AI Revolution Will Bring Prosperity

Most speculation about artificial intelligence has focused on its potential to kill jobs and on the policies that government might implement to control AI and cushion workers against temporary or permanent unemployment.

4 mins

Lawmakers And MMA Threaten Boxing

When I fought, I did my talking in the ring. Once the bell rang, it was all on me—my training, my choices, my courage. That’s the way of boxing. You control your destiny.

3 mins

A Sign of Market Sanity in AI Boom

Amid the wild surge in AI spending, investors in listed companies are making the same demand they have for years: Show me the money.

3 mins

Insurance Arm Lifts Profit for Buffett's Berkshire

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway reported a 17% increase in quarterly earnings after its insurance business picked up from a year ago.

3 mins

Tech Results Hold Investor Lessons

Big Tech is driving big swings in the stock market.

2 mins

BDO Audit Of First Brands Scrutinized

The auditor of beleaguered auto-parts giant First Brands signed off on its financials this year months before the emergence of an accounting scandal that sent the company into bankruptcy and triggered a criminal investigation.

3 mins

OPEC+ to Boost Oil Production

Members signal they would pause increases in 2026's first three months

2 mins

Insurance Lifts Profit At Berkshire

overhead fell. Berkshire said some of the spending was aimed at helping bring in policyholders.

1 mins

BDO’s Audit Scrutinized

Auditors look at off-balance-sheet obligations to ensure the company is in compliance with accounting rules and assess the financial risk.

3 mins

First Brands Creditors Fight Hedge Funds’ Bankruptcy Loan

Amid allegations of fraud, value of the auto-parts supplier's assets is uncertain

2 mins

Carlyle's Profit Drops on Slow Asset Sales

Private-equity firm highlights some pending exits, notes unpredictability

2 mins

Blue Owl Tries to Soothe Investors' Nerves

Blue Owl Capital Co-Chief Executive Marc Lipschultz sought to reassure investors that recent bankruptcies tied to borrowings are idiosyncratic and stem from suspected fraud that hasn't affected his credit-focused operation.

2 mins

Crocs Posts Lower Quarterly Results

Crocs is making progress with its turnaround strategy, Chief Executive Andrew Rees said on a call with analysts Thursday, having scaled back promotions and reduced inventory to better align supply with demand in the latest quarter.

1 mins

Hormel Cuts View, Parts Ways With CFO

Hormel Foods, the parent of pantry staples including Planters, Skippy and Spam, warned earnings in the latest quarter were squeezed by price pressures, bird flu and a fire that damaged its Arkansas peanut-butter production facility.

1 mins

Tech Results Contain Lessons

Rising profits

1 mins

A Sign of Investor Sanity

Sure, performance for indexes of “dividend aristocrats” and high dividend payers has been abysmal—and it is because of AI. But it isn’t because of capital spending.

1 mins

Is OpenAI Becoming Too Big to Fail?

Slowly then all at once, OpenAl became something of a juggernaut that’s hard to fully fathom.

4 mins

Google's First AI Ad Skirts Uncanny Valley By Casting a Turkey

Al-generated ads have flooded social media and television in the months since the release of tools like Google’s Veo 3 and OpenAl’s Sora, which can generate high-quality videos from text prompts.

2 mins

Board Seats Are Battleground in Puerto Rico

Utility's bondholders push to remake territory's financial oversight board

3 mins

AI Is Playing a Bigger Role In Writing Financial Reports

Companies are increasingly relying on generative AI to help draft their financial reports, aiming to save time and money, but also raising questions on trust and transparency in executives’ efforts to communicate with their investors and regulators.

4 mins

Firm Sees Promise in Gas-Fired Power

Partners Group is looking to old natural gas-fired power plants to overcome one of the biggest hurdles facing renewable-energy developers today—how to connect new projects to the grid.

2 mins

OPEC+ Set To Boost Production

OPEC started curtailing production in 2023 in a bid to stabilize prices when economic growth was slowing.

1 mins

November Effect Could Lift These Stocks

Tricks can turn into treats this time of year.

2 mins

Pfizer Can Still Prevail In the Obesity-Drug Fight

The gloves are off in the obesity-drug fight. But Novo Nordisk might be swinging so hard it risks losing its balance.

2 mins

Cities Are Putting Robots to Work

Robots are starting to do jobs like firefighting, lawn mowing and beach cleaning, among other things

5 mins

I LOVED BEING SOCIAL.THEN I STARTED TALKING TO A CHATBOT.

It was so much easier to have a conversation with a chatbot than a human being. But the more I talked to AI, the less I talked to everybody else.

4 mins

Why It Seems Your Chatbot Really, Really Hates to See You Go

Artificial-intelligence companions are designed to keep you talking as long as possible

3 mins

Here Come the Robot Swarms!

Machines, acting collectively, can accomplish tasks that are difficult for individual robots

3 mins

How Are Companies Using Al? A New Survey Has Answers

The short answer: a lot. And at least the top executives say it is paying off.

3 mins

Does This Investment Fit the Company’s Mission? Let’s Ask AI

Artificial intelligence could flag disconnects that leaders are missing

2 mins

MY PHYSICIAN IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE—AND REALLY GETS ME. MEET DR. GROK.

My human doctors rarely have time to talk for long, or see to the big picture. Chatbots are different.

4 mins

It's Easier to Cheat When You Can Blame AI

A study finds that people are more willing to ask a chatbot to behave unethically than to do it themselves

2 mins

6 CHATGPT SETTINGS YOU SHOULD CONSIDER CHANGING

A few tweaks can improve your conversations with the chatbot, as well as protect your privacy

5 mins

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